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 ====== THE THIRD PARAGRAPH OF HAHNEMANN’S “ORGANON,​” WITH COMMENTS ====== ​ ====== THE THIRD PARAGRAPH OF HAHNEMANN’S “ORGANON,​” WITH COMMENTS ====== ​
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 +{{:​en:​ahr:​lippe.jpg?​nolink&​100 |Ad. Lippe}}
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 {{anchor:​s2}}BY AD. LIPPE, M.D., PHILA {{anchor:​s2}}BY AD. LIPPE, M.D., PHILA
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 {{anchor:​s9}}“//​Then//​ he knows how to proceed judiciously and thoroughly, and deserves the name of—True Healer.” {{anchor:​s9}}“//​Then//​ he knows how to proceed judiciously and thoroughly, and deserves the name of—True Healer.”
  
-{{anchor:​s10}}In this third paragraph, of the “Organon,​” Hahnemann gives us a plain statement of the knowledge he considers necessary to constitute a true healer—a homoeopathic physician. {{anchor:​s11}}In the first paragraph, we were told that the highest duty and only calling of the physician is to cure the sick. {{anchor:​s12}}In the second paragraph, the highest ideal of a cure was described, and in the third, to which we now call attention, we find what might be truly called a Declaration of Principles. {{anchor:​s13}}This declaration of what constitutes a true healer, is made in advance of further advice given in logical order in this work; the strict inductive method which Hahnemann follows fully sustains him in these, his introductory declarations.+{{anchor:​s10}}In this [[en:​hahnemann:​organon:​start#​section3|third paragraph]], of the “Organon,​” Hahnemann gives us a plain statement of the knowledge he considers necessary to constitute a true healer—a homoeopathic physician. {{anchor:​s11}}In the first paragraph, we were told that the highest duty and only calling of the physician is to cure the sick. {{anchor:​s12}}In the second paragraph, the highest ideal of a cure was described, and in the third, to which we now call attention, we find what might be truly called a Declaration of Principles. {{anchor:​s13}}This declaration of what constitutes a true healer, is made in advance of further advice given in logical order in this work; the strict inductive method which Hahnemann follows fully sustains him in these, his introductory declarations.
  
 {{anchor:​s14}}Hahnemann declares the physician should clearly perceive in each individual case of sickness that which is to be cured. {{anchor:​s15}}At the outset he calls attention to the necessity of individualizing in each and every case of sickness. {{anchor:​s16}}That fatal error of the old school of medicine, declaring it to be the duty of the physician to first ascertain the pathological name of the disease to be treated, and then to base therapeutics upon such hypothesis, led Hahnemann to oppose this method of generalization. {{anchor:​s17}}Though some slight progress has been made, since Hahnemann’s day in ascertaining the probable pathological condition of the sick, it would now be just as fatal an error to base therapeutics upon such generalizing methods. {{anchor:​s14}}Hahnemann declares the physician should clearly perceive in each individual case of sickness that which is to be cured. {{anchor:​s15}}At the outset he calls attention to the necessity of individualizing in each and every case of sickness. {{anchor:​s16}}That fatal error of the old school of medicine, declaring it to be the duty of the physician to first ascertain the pathological name of the disease to be treated, and then to base therapeutics upon such hypothesis, led Hahnemann to oppose this method of generalization. {{anchor:​s17}}Though some slight progress has been made, since Hahnemann’s day in ascertaining the probable pathological condition of the sick, it would now be just as fatal an error to base therapeutics upon such generalizing methods.
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