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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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 {{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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 {{anchor:​s26}}In this paragraph we are told to clearly study in each medicine that which particularly demonstrates its curative power. {{anchor:​s27}}This implies that we must also individualize the effects of drugs; that we must know the particular actions of drugs. {{anchor:​s28}}In each and every case of disease we must individualize,​ first, in our diagnosis, to ascertain what is to be cured, and next, in our therapeutics,​ to find the simillimum remedy. {{anchor:​s26}}In this paragraph we are told to clearly study in each medicine that which particularly demonstrates its curative power. {{anchor:​s27}}This implies that we must also individualize the effects of drugs; that we must know the particular actions of drugs. {{anchor:​s28}}In each and every case of disease we must individualize,​ first, in our diagnosis, to ascertain what is to be cured, and next, in our therapeutics,​ to find the simillimum remedy.
  
-{{anchor:​s29}}After clearly perceiving in each individual case the symptoms to be cured, and perceiving also the individual curative powers of each medicine, the healer must also know the law of cure. {{anchor:​s30}}Here we are for the first time informed that there exists a law of cure. //​{{anchor:​s31}}One law//, which must be followed in order to be a true healer. {{anchor:​s32}}In the later paragraphs, fifty-three to fifty-six, we are further enlightened on the indisputable point that we, as an exclusive school, have but //one// solitary law of cure. {{anchor:​s33}}On the contrary, it has never been shown that there are, or may be, auxiliary and supplementary laws applicable at the option of the physician; men have babbled such absurdities,​ but when asked to explain, have, under various pretexts, kept aloof from “explanations.”+{{anchor:​s29}}After clearly perceiving in each individual case the symptoms to be cured, and perceiving also the individual curative powers of each medicine, the healer must also know the law of cure. {{anchor:​s30}}Here we are for the first time informed that there exists a law of cure. //​{{anchor:​s31}}One law//, which must be followed in order to be a true healer. {{anchor:​s32}}In the later paragraphs, ​[[en:​hahnemann:​organon:​start#​th_ed25|fifty-three]] to fifty-six, we are further enlightened on the indisputable point that we, as an exclusive school, have but //one// solitary law of cure. {{anchor:​s33}}On the contrary, it has never been shown that there are, or may be, auxiliary and supplementary laws applicable at the option of the physician; men have babbled such absurdities,​ but when asked to explain, have, under various pretexts, kept aloof from “explanations.”
  
 {{anchor:​s34}}Again,​ after knowing all this and after he has found the appropriate—the homoeopathic—remedy,​ he must know how to prepare it, in what quantity it is to be given, and when to repeat the dose. {{anchor:​s35}}At the very outset Hahnemann dwells on the mode of preparing medicine, insists on the proper dose, and on the necessity of knowing when to repeat that dose; he leaves none of the essential points, necessary for the certain cure of the sick, to the individual opinion of the physician, but later, he fully instructs him on all these points. {{anchor:​s34}}Again,​ after knowing all this and after he has found the appropriate—the homoeopathic—remedy,​ he must know how to prepare it, in what quantity it is to be given, and when to repeat the dose. {{anchor:​s35}}At the very outset Hahnemann dwells on the mode of preparing medicine, insists on the proper dose, and on the necessity of knowing when to repeat that dose; he leaves none of the essential points, necessary for the certain cure of the sick, to the individual opinion of the physician, but later, he fully instructs him on all these points.
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