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Contents of Organon:
The doctor’s sole object is to make the sick man well and this word is called healing.
( After the 1st edition this 1st para was headed: the doctor’s highest and only calling is to make sick man well , to cure , as it is called)
The highest ideal of the healing art is a speedy gentle and lasting restoration of health , or the removal and annihilation of the malady in its entirety in the shortest, most dependable , least harmful way , on easily understandable principles (rational healing)
- As far as the doctor is concerned disease means the totality of their symptoms. The cause, which gives rise to the illness is to be removed. A palliative treatment centered round one single symptom should not be considered.

- Once all the symptoms have been eradicated,the malady is cured in it’s interior.
- Totality of symptoms is the only guide in the selection of the medicine.
- This medicine should be capable of producing similar changes in man.
- This power of medicines can only be observed in their effect on healthy men.
- Human body is more inclined to change it’s condition by the forces of medicine than by natural disease
- Two natural maladies occurring in the body together, do not cancel one another when they are dissimilar. But if they are similar, the stronger one extinguishes the weaker one.

These are the possible ways of applying medicines for diseases:
1 .Homoeopathic.
2 .Allopathic or heteropathic
3 .Antipathic or enantiopathic. (palliative)

Maladies are either a/c or c/c
Acute diseases are divided into- sporadic
epidemic, - those arising from acute miasms ,those produced by excessive cold or heat, by violent impressions on the mind, etc.
 
Chronic diseases- all arise from c/c miasms .Most basic cause of c/c disease is psora ,the rest by syphilis and sycosis ( figwart disease).

1. The first requisite. for the true physician is accurate case taking.
2. The second requisite is the investigation of the pure effects of medicines on healthy individuals, with special regard to primary effect, secondary effect, alternating effect & idiosyncrasies.

- Every medicine differs from others in its action.
- Physician is the best prover . It should be proved on both sexes.
- True M.M. can only be formed from proving drugs on healthy human beings.
- Judicious application of the medicines.
- The most efficacious medicine is the most suitable one -it is the specific remedy.

Cure of a/c disease s is speedy, whereas in c/c it will take sufficient time
-The more striking the symptoms are, more certainly the e medicine can suit them.
- Cure takes place without much difficulties. The homoeopathic aggravation is nothing more than a very similar medicinal malady slightly more severe than the original.
- The external treatment of diseases having purely local symptoms is always injurious.
- Mental diseases, intermittent diseases and intermittent fever can be treated by homoeopathy.
- Methods of use and the instructions to the preparations and preservations of homoeopathic remedies.
- Size of homoeopathic dose and ways of increasing potencies.
- The different parts of the body are more or less appropriate for the reception of the remedy.
- Positive and negative employment of animal magnetism (Mesmerism).
- Diet and regimen.
- For chronic diseases everything should be avoided that might in anyway operate medicinally.
- Innocent stimulations of mind and body, exercise in open air, suitable nutrition, on-medicinal food and drinks etc.
-In acute diseases palliatives with a soothing effect, if desired by the patient should be permitted in moderation .The temperature of the room should be arranged to the patient’s likings. All mental efforts and disturbances of his spirit should be withheld.

Six editions of Organon were completed by the author himself. Five appeared during his life, out which fourth is considered to be the best,for too much space is taken up in the fifth edition with the disputations with the”half—homoeopaths”.
 
COMPARISON of various editions of Organon:
1 .First edition included an introduction’ of 48pages, which contains a review of the medical practice. Allopathy and palliative cures of the old medical school up to that time and detailed examples of’ spontaneous homoeopathic cures’ from the 4 edition this has grown to 104 pages.
2. First edition has 271 paragraphs on 222 pages.Fourth edition has 292 paragraphs on 307 pages .Many paragraphs were completely revised.
3. Two new paragraph about mesmerism in 4th edn
 
COMPARISON of fifth and sixth editions of Organon:
1. Aphrn.11 undergone alterations .Footnote answering “What is dynamic influence and what is dynamic power?
2. Aphs .52-56 entirely re-modelled.
4 .56-57---Palliative treatment of individual symptoms.
5 .Aphs .60 & 74-- in footnotes explains his attitude towards Broussas cure.
6.Aphs.148- diseases are always cured by a spirit like, hostile agency.So we should administer an artificial potency as similarly harmful to life as possible.
7,246-248---Abandoris single dose and wait method and recommends to give medicines daily till the completion of cure from lower degrees of potencies to higher in chronic diseases .Chronic diseases yield more quickly under the effect of different gradations of potencies than with repeated doses of the same dilution.
8.248---How the individual doses are to be applied, diluted with water for daily use in chronic diseases.
9 .265—-—Physicians should prepare and dispense medicines themselves -
10 .269--- Footnote--seeks to explain dynamisation with reference to other processes in the nature.
11 270---Techniques of preparations of triturations and delusions ,according to centesimal system & globules preparations.
12 .271-272---Preparations of potencies further described.
13 .273-—Use of double remedies-absolutely inadmissible.
14.276--Danger of too large or too frequently repeated doses is described.
15.280—282——--Enlarge upon 247.
16 .282-Footnote-Requires large doses of medicines in the treatment of psora, syphilis doses of their specific remedy is to be taken daily,and. in case of need, several times a day and the degree of dynamism should continually ascend.
17 284-Foot note importance of giving medicine for pregnant women or during the suckling period in preventing the chronic disease in infants, by inheritance. 

First edition of Organon when published(1810),is followed by serious discussions. All criticisms are mainly against Hahnemanns descriptions about the mode of allopathic practice that is with mixtures, over dosage etc, of which Professor AF.Hecks was important. Hahnernann gave a reply and published it in the name of his son (pg-89)
 
CHAPTER 10
As Napoleon raised fortresses in Torgue, Hahnemann decided to leave the place. He moved to Leipziec again- the third time(1811). First time was 36 years earlier(1775) as a 20 year old student. Second time was 14 years later (1789) as Doctor and head of a family, 34 years old and searching for knowledge. Now at 56 much admired, not merely a learner hut pre-eminently a teacher.
Fourth December 1811, Hahnemann wrote in Reichsanzeiger,” study of Homoeopathy should not be theoretical but a practical verification at the same time is necessary. 

Hahnemann decided to start a medical institute for graduate physicians to teach Homoeopathy as a six months course .But nobody had applied and the project failed.

He decided to give up lectures in the Leipzeic University. For this he has to obtain recognition from the upper chair of the University by defending a dissertation- Disseratio Histerico medica de Helleborisrmo Veterem” contain mainly historical, medical provinces and a section of his Essay on a new principle for ascertaining the curative power of drugs. It was a great success. Hahnemann qualified and he started lectures in 1812 September 29th onwards. At first there was a full audience- medical students, doctors, Professors etc. as his lectures were mainly abuses against old school arid practitioners, audience gradually began to shrink day by day until only a few were remaining.
Hahnemann had not been able to gather any number of persons as disciples through lectures so he formed a young school himself.

He finally succeeded in this by two means.
1. He encouraged the closest personal intercourse between the students, himself and his family.
2. He found a group of collaborators for proving drugs.

The selected persons were invited into his family and so attached them to himself in a personal and family way.
But soon , hatred and jealousy of the professors and students were transferred to his pupils and gradually his students were compelled to attend classes in old school medicine . So }{Hahnemann decided to make them much more faithful through drug proving.
Provers have to collect plants and prepare medicine themselves
Dr. Rieke, from Tubingen— The theory of medicinal diseases, research as to the duration of the effects of every single drug,the knowledge of the specifically verified primary and secondary effects etc are the unique features of Homoeopathy.
Prof. Jon — formerly an opponent of Hahnemann later conducted drug proving and published his results Material for further therapeutics, obtained and collected from experiments on healthy subjects in 1825
At the same time Hahnemann became more and more popular as a physician especially through the treatment of Typhoid fever - published as” Treatment of Typhus fever at present , prevailing “(1814).
Among the diseases , in which Hahnemann made good results were drug maladies because he was sure about its antidotes.
Hahnemann published all his proving works as Materia medica pura’ in 6 parts during the period 1811 to 1821. Hahnemann included at the beginning of the book , from second edition onwards, an essay - ‘Spirit of the new doctrine of Healing’. It contains descriptions about different modes of treatment . He says “Living organisms are less affected by natural diseases than by the drugs. So the latter extinguishes the former provided it is similar .Since the organism is already stimulated by the disease, only small doses of the drug are necessary to do this. Large doses will replace the malady with a complicated medicinal malady.
Hahnemann published these ideas in “Allz - Anz .d. Deutshen” - 1813.
 
CHAPTER 11.
Literary feud with Professor Dzondi. 
According to Dr.Dzondi,cold water should be applied to the burnt part for a speedy cure .But according to Hahnemann warm water should be applied.
Eg.l.In the case of burns a cook never uses cold water.Instead of that he holds his burnt part near to the glow of hot coals.
Eg.2 Varnishers and artisans are also doing the same.
In this connection he refers to Heister and Benjamin Bell.Dr challenged Hahnemann in this respect but he did not accept it.
 
Dr. Pauchelt’s criticism:
1. Hahnemann disrespect towards his colleagues and other systems.
2. Favours Hahnemanns theories.
3. Old school treatment is not so bad as described by Hahnemann.
4. Homeopathy has to go hand in hand with allied sciences.

Complaints against Hahnemann by the apothecaries regarding self dispensing of medicines.
Council of the town f Leipzig paseed senence t in favour of apothecaries .But government(Saxon) gave some privi1age for Hahnemann.
Treatment of Prince Schwarzenberg for attacks of strokes and paralysis-at first responded but finally succumbed.
Finally there was the public attack of 13 colleagues in a daily paper .Hahnemann felt himself to be almost excluded from the place of his former activities.So he once more resolved upon migration.

CHAPTER. 12.
Hahnemann removed to Koethen settled down at last inspite of continuous attacks-his home-happy family life daily work-the question of fees.
Hahnemann decided to leave Leipzig because of the continuous opposition towards his system and the governmental decree about self-dispensing.Hahnernann left Leipzic with 11 wagon loads of goods and cattle. Hahnemann says that his practice at Leipzig enabled him to save so much for his eight heirs enough for each of them to live on the interest without working.

 He decided to settle down at Koethen.It, is because of three reasons.
1 .Governor Von Sternegg at the court of Koethen had been cured by him.
2. Duke himself was under his treatment.
3 .Duke was a Freemason.

Hahnemann left Leipzic (for ever) in June 1821.He had settled in Kothern where he got the right to prepare medicine and to dispense medicine by himself. Heynel and Mossdorf were two students who left Leipzic with Hahnernann , of which Mossdorf later became his son in law . Hahnernann was elected as Privy Councilor in the following May. Duke also ordered that an account of Hahnemann recoveries should be published in Koethen newspaper .At this period Hahnemann did not involve in any of the disputes.All were settled by his disciples-Dr.Stapf etc. In 1822 Stapf had published the first periodical of Homoeopathy,the ‘Archive for the Homoeopathic science of healing’.

In 1826 Dr.C.Wilhelm Hufeland sets down the following points against Homoeopathy.
1. Homoeopathic system rests on a symptomatic type of cure and may suppress the causal method.
2. Homoeopathy should give much more importance to the study of medicine.
3. Homoeopathy would create sins of omission’-(phlebotomy,emetics.. .)
4.Homoeopathy stands for self dispensing of medicine which is against the fundamental laws of every good medical practice.
 
Hufeland states the advantages of homoeopathy as follows.
1. It will affect attention to individualisation
2.It will help to bring dietetics back to its own.
3.It will prohibit large doses of medicine.
4.It will lead to simplification of prescription
5.It will lead to testing of medicines on living subjects.
6.It will direct attention more to the preparation of medicines and bring about a stricter supervision of the apothecaries.
7.It will never do positive injury.
8.It will give the sick organism more time for quiet and undisturbed self - help.
9.It will lessen the cost of curing to an extraordinary extent.
 
CHRONIC MIASM “ – Hahnemann’s last work of fundamental importance (1828)--The Psora Theory.
1st edition — 1828.
2nd edition 1835—1839.
 
Origin of PSORA THEORY. 
Homeopathic drugs are more certain, more convenient and less harmful than Allopathy for acute diseases, epidemic diseases, sporadic fevers and venereal diseases. But certain chronic disease of venereal origin otherwise could be alleviated by Homoeopathic remedies but not completely cured. Special conditions such as serious dietary mistakes, cold , wet and stormy weather, temperamental influences etc caused the apparently rectified troubles to appear again frequently with new and stubborn symptoms. New remedies chosen in the best and most careful way, were of no use . In short, the chronic malady was never eradicated , but because worse from year to year often with most varied external symptoms.

At first it was thought that the reason for failure of the Homoeopathic treatment might be found in the insufficient number of proved drugs. But on further investigation Hahnemann came to the conclusion that in the chronic diseases one has always to deal with a segregated part of a deeper lying original evil , the large extent of which is shown by new symptoms arising from time to time. The original evil must also be of a miasmatically chronic nature -- because it could not be eradicated by the mere vigour of a robust constitution, neither could it be overcome by the healthiest diet and order of life but in the course of years it grew worse , with the addition of other more serious symptoms- right up to the end of life.

Hahnemann on further verification came to the conclusion that sub chronic maladies had some connection with a previous outbreak of psora.
Itch - a skin disease , caused by the itch insect was common in those days. External application with ointments, salves etc expelled very quickly the external symptoms, but is followed by a large number of disorders like epilepsy,paralysis, ulcers , tumors etc. Two decades before the appearance Chronic diseases , Autenrieth.

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