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 ===== § 68 (5th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1023}}In //homoeopathic// cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine ([[#section275|§ 275]] - [[#2279|§ 287]]) required in this method of treatment, which are just sufficient, by the similarity of their symptoms, to overpower and remove the similar nature disease, there certainly remains, after the destruction of the latter, at first a certain amount of medicinal disease alone in the organism, but, on account of the extraordinary minuteness of the dose, it is so transient, so slight, and disappears so rapidly of its own accord, that the vital force has no need to employ, against this small artificial derangement of its health, any more considerable reaction than will suffice to elevate its present state of health up to the healthy point -- that is, than will suffice to effect complete recovery, for which after the extinction of the previous morbid derangement but little effort is required ([[#section64|§ 64]], B).
+{{anchor:s1023}}In //homoeopathic// cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine ([[#section275|§ 275]] - [[#s2279|§ 287]]) required in this method of treatment, which are just sufficient, by the similarity of their symptoms, to overpower and remove the similar nature disease, there certainly remains, after the destruction of the latter, at first a certain amount of medicinal disease alone in the organism, but, on account of the extraordinary minuteness of the dose, it is so transient, so slight, and disappears so rapidly of its own accord, that the vital force has no need to employ, against this small artificial derangement of its health, any more considerable reaction than will suffice to elevate its present state of health up to the healthy point -- that is, than will suffice to effect complete recovery, for which after the extinction of the previous morbid derangement but little effort is required ([[#section64|§ 64]], B).
 ===== § 68 (6th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1028}}In //homoeopathic// cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine ([[#section275|§ 275]] - [[#section287|§ 287]]) required in this method of treatment, which are just sufficient, by the similarity of their symptoms, to overpower and remove <wrap hi>from the sensation of the life principle</wrap> the similar natural disease there certainly remains, after the destruction of the latter, at first a certain amount of medicinal disease alone in the organism, but, on account of the extraordinary minuteness of the dose, it is so transient, so slight, and disappears so rapidly of its own accord, that the vital force has no need to employ, against this small artificial derangement of its health, any more considerable reaction than will suffice to elevate its present state of health up to the healthy point -- that is, than will suffice to effect complete recovery, for which after the extinction of the previous morbid derangement but little effort is required ([[#section64|§ 64]], B).
+{{anchor:s1028}}In //homoeopathic// cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine ([[#section275|§ 275]] - [[#s2286|§ 287]]) required in this method of treatment, which are just sufficient, by the similarity of their symptoms, to overpower and remove <wrap hi>from the sensation of the life principle</wrap> the similar natural disease there certainly remains, after the destruction of the latter, at first a certain amount of medicinal disease alone in the organism, but, on account of the extraordinary minuteness of the dose, it is so transient, so slight, and disappears so rapidly of its own accord, that the vital force has no need to employ, against this small artificial derangement of its health, any more considerable reaction than will suffice to elevate its present state of health up to the healthy point -- that is, than will suffice to effect complete recovery, for which after the extinction of the previous morbid derangement but little effort is required ([[#section64|§ 64]], B).
 ===== § 69 (5th Ed.) =====
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 ===== § 78 (6th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1133}}The true natural //chronic// diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, which when left to themselves, and unchecked by the employment of those remedies that are specific for them, always go on increasing and growing worse, notwithstanding the best mental and corporeal regimen, and torment the patient to the end of his life with ever aggravated sufferings. {{anchor:s1137}}These, <wrap hi>excepting those produced by medical malpractice</wrap> ([[#th_ed39|§ 74]]), are the most numerous and greatest scourges of the human race; for the most robust constitution, the best regulated mode of living and the most vigorous energy of the vital force are insufficient for their eradication.[({{anchor:s1138}}During the flourishing years of youth and with the commencement of regular menstruation joined to a mode of life beneficial to soul, heart and body, they remain unrecognised for years. {{anchor:s1139}}Those afflicted appeal in perfect health to their relatives and acquaintances and the disease that was received by infection or inheritance seems to have wholly disappeared. {{anchor:s1140}}But in later years, after adverse events and conditions of life, they are sure to appear anew and develop the more rapidly and assume a more serious character in proportion as the vital principle has become disturbed by debilitating passions, worry and care, but especially when disordered by inappropriate medicinal treatment.)]
+{{anchor:s1133}}The true natural //chronic// diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, which when left to themselves, and unchecked by the employment of those remedies that are specific for them, always go on increasing and growing worse, notwithstanding the best mental and corporeal regimen, and torment the patient to the end of his life with ever aggravated sufferings. {{anchor:s1137}}These, <wrap hi>excepting those produced by medical malpractice</wrap> ([[#s1094|§ 74]]), are the most numerous and greatest scourges of the human race; for the most robust constitution, the best regulated mode of living and the most vigorous energy of the vital force are insufficient for their eradication.[({{anchor:s1138}}During the flourishing years of youth and with the commencement of regular menstruation joined to a mode of life beneficial to soul, heart and body, they remain unrecognised for years. {{anchor:s1139}}Those afflicted appeal in perfect health to their relatives and acquaintances and the disease that was received by infection or inheritance seems to have wholly disappeared. {{anchor:s1140}}But in later years, after adverse events and conditions of life, they are sure to appear anew and develop the more rapidly and assume a more serious character in proportion as the vital principle has become disturbed by debilitating passions, worry and care, but especially when disordered by inappropriate medicinal treatment.)]
 ===== § 79 =====
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 ===== § 160 =====
-{{anchor:s1542}}But as the dose of a homoeopathic remedy can scarcely ever be made so small that it shall not be able to relieve, overpower, indeed completely cure and annihilate the uncomplicated natural disease of not long standing that is analogous to it ([[#section249|§ 249]], note), we can understand why a dose of an appropriate homoeopathic medicine, not the very smallest possible, does always, during the first hour after its ingestion, produce a perceptible homoeopathic aggravation of this kind.[({{anchor:s1543}}This exaltation of the medicinal symptoms over those disease symptoms analogous to them, which looks like an aggravation, has been observed by other physicians also, when by accident they employed a homoeopathic remedy. {{anchor:s1544}}When a patient suffering from itch complains of an increase of the eruption after sulphur, his physician who knows not the cause of this, consoles him with the assurance that the itch must first come out properly before it can be cured; he knows not, however, that this is a sulphur eruption, that assumes the appearance of an increase of the itch. {{anchor:s1545}}"The facial eruption which the viola tricolor cured was aggravated by it at the commencement of its action," Leroy tells us (Heilk. für Mütter, p.406), but he knew not that the apparent aggravation was owing to the somewhat too large dose of the remedy, which in this instance was to a certain extent homoeopathic. {{anchor:s1546}}Lysons says (Med. Transact., vol ii, London, 1772), "The bark of the elm cures most certainly those skin diseases which it increases at the beginning of its action.{{anchor:s1547}}" Had he not given the bark in the monstrous doses usual in the allopathic system, but in the quite small doses requisite when the medicine shows similarity of symptoms, that is to say, when it is used homoeopathically, he would have effected a cure without, or almost without, seeing this apparent increase of the disease (homoeopathic aggravation).)]
+{{anchor:s1542}}But as the dose of a homoeopathic remedy can scarcely ever be made so small that it shall not be able to relieve, overpower, indeed completely cure and annihilate the uncomplicated natural disease of not long standing that is analogous to it ([[#section249|§ 249]], [[#s1949|note]]), we can understand why a dose of an appropriate homoeopathic medicine, not the very smallest possible, does always, during the first hour after its ingestion, produce a perceptible homoeopathic aggravation of this kind.[({{anchor:s1543}}This exaltation of the medicinal symptoms over those disease symptoms analogous to them, which looks like an aggravation, has been observed by other physicians also, when by accident they employed a homoeopathic remedy. {{anchor:s1544}}When a patient suffering from itch complains of an increase of the eruption after sulphur, his physician who knows not the cause of this, consoles him with the assurance that the itch must first come out properly before it can be cured; he knows not, however, that this is a sulphur eruption, that assumes the appearance of an increase of the itch. {{anchor:s1545}}"The facial eruption which the viola tricolor cured was aggravated by it at the commencement of its action," Leroy tells us (Heilk. für Mütter, p.406), but he knew not that the apparent aggravation was owing to the somewhat too large dose of the remedy, which in this instance was to a certain extent homoeopathic. {{anchor:s1546}}Lysons says (Med. Transact., vol ii, London, 1772), "The bark of the elm cures most certainly those skin diseases which it increases at the beginning of its action.{{anchor:s1547}}" Had he not given the bark in the monstrous doses usual in the allopathic system, but in the quite small doses requisite when the medicine shows similarity of symptoms, that is to say, when it is used homoeopathically, he would have effected a cure without, or almost without, seeing this apparent increase of the disease (homoeopathic aggravation).)]
 ===== § 161 (5th Ed.) =====
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 ===== § 161 (6th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1550}}When I here limit the so-called homoeopathic aggravation, or rather the primary action of the homoeopathic medicine that seems to increase somewhat the symptoms of the original disease, to the first or few hours, this is certainly true with respect to diseases of a more acute character and of recent origin, but where medicines of long action have to combat a malady of, //considerable// or of //very long standing//, where <wrap hi>no such apparent increase of the original disease ought to appear during treatment and it does not so appear if the accurately chosen medicine was given in proper small, gradually higher doses, each somewhat modified with renewed dynamization</wrap>[({{anchor:s1550b}}If the doses of the best dynamized medicine § 270) are small enough and if the dose was modified anew each time by succussion, then even medicines of long active duration can be repeated in short time periods even in chronic diseases.)] <wrap hi>([[#s1919|§ 247]]). {{anchor:s1553}}Such increase of the original symptoms of a chronic disease can appear only at the end of treatment when the cure is almost or quite finished.</wrap>
+{{anchor:s1550}}When I here limit the so-called homoeopathic aggravation, or rather the primary action of the homoeopathic medicine that seems to increase somewhat the symptoms of the original disease, to the first or few hours, this is certainly true with respect to diseases of a more acute character and of recent origin, but where medicines of long action have to combat a malady of, //considerable// or of //very long standing//, where <wrap hi>no such apparent increase of the original disease ought to appear during treatment and it does not so appear if the accurately chosen medicine was given in proper small, gradually higher doses, each somewhat modified with renewed dynamization</wrap>[({{anchor:s1550b}}If the doses of the best dynamized medicine [[#s2085|§ 270]]) are small enough and if the dose was modified anew each time by succussion, then even medicines of long active duration can be repeated in short time periods even in chronic diseases.)] <wrap hi>([[#s1919|§ 247]]). {{anchor:s1553}}Such increase of the original symptoms of a chronic disease can appear only at the end of treatment when the cure is almost or quite finished.</wrap>
 ===== § 162 =====
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 ===== § 169 =====
-{{anchor:s1571}}If, on the first examination of a disease and the first selection of a medicine, we should find that the totality of the symptoms of the disease would not be effectually covered by the disease elements of a single medicine -- owing to the insufficient number of known medicines, -- but that two medicines contend for the preference in point of appropriateness, one of which is more homoeopathically suitable for one part, the other for another part of the symptoms of the disease, it is not advisable, after the employment of the more suitable of the two medicines, to administer the other without fresh examination[({{anchor:s1571b}}and much less to give both together ([[#section272|§ 272]], note))], for the medicine that seemed to be the next best would not, under the change of circumstances that has in the meantime taken place, be suitable for the rest of the symptoms that then remain; in which case, consequently, a more appropriate homoeopathic remedy must be selected in place of the second medicine for the set of symptoms as they appear on a new inspection.
+{{anchor:s1571}}If, on the first examination of a disease and the first selection of a medicine, we should find that the totality of the symptoms of the disease would not be effectually covered by the disease elements of a single medicine -- owing to the insufficient number of known medicines, -- but that two medicines contend for the preference in point of appropriateness, one of which is more homoeopathically suitable for one part, the other for another part of the symptoms of the disease, it is not advisable, after the employment of the more suitable of the two medicines, to administer the other without fresh examination[({{anchor:s1571b}}and much less to give both together ([[#s2140|§ 272]], [[#s2148|note]]))], for the medicine that seemed to be the next best would not, under the change of circumstances that has in the meantime taken place, be suitable for the rest of the symptoms that then remain; in which case, consequently, a more appropriate homoeopathic remedy must be selected in place of the second medicine for the set of symptoms as they appear on a new inspection.
 ===== § 170 =====
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 ===== § 204 (5th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1691}}If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent unhealthy mode of living, ([[#section77|§ 77]]) as also those innumerable medicinal maladies (v. [[#th_ed38|§ 74]]) caused by the irrational, persistent, harassing and pernicious treatment of diseases often only of trivial character by physicians of the old school, <wrap hi>all the remainder, without exception</wrap>, result from the development of these three chronic miasms, internal syphilis, internal sycosis, but chiefly and in infinitely greater proportion, internal psora, each of which was already in possession of the whole organism, and had penetrated it in all directions before the appearance of the primary, vicarious local symptom of each of them (in the case of psora the scabious eruption, in syphilis the chancre or the bubo, and in sycosis the condylomata) that prevented their outburst; and these chronic miasmatic diseases, if deprived of their local symptom, are inevitably destined by mighty Nature sooner or later to become developed and to burst forth, and thereby propagate all the nameless misery, the incredible number of chronic diseases which have plagued mankind for hundreds and thousands of years, none of which would so frequently have come into existence had physicians striven in a rational manner to cure radically and to extinguish in the organism these three miasms by the internal homoeopathic medicines suited for each of them, without employing topical remedies for their external symptoms. {{anchor:s1694}}(See note to [[#section282|§ 282]]).
+{{anchor:s1691}}If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent unhealthy mode of living, ([[#section77|§ 77]]) as also those innumerable medicinal maladies (v. [[#s1093|§ 74]]) caused by the irrational, persistent, harassing and pernicious treatment of diseases often only of trivial character by physicians of the old school, <wrap hi>all the remainder, without exception</wrap>, result from the development of these three chronic miasms, internal syphilis, internal sycosis, but chiefly and in infinitely greater proportion, internal psora, each of which was already in possession of the whole organism, and had penetrated it in all directions before the appearance of the primary, vicarious local symptom of each of them (in the case of psora the scabious eruption, in syphilis the chancre or the bubo, and in sycosis the condylomata) that prevented their outburst; and these chronic miasmatic diseases, if deprived of their local symptom, are inevitably destined by mighty Nature sooner or later to become developed and to burst forth, and thereby propagate all the nameless misery, the incredible number of chronic diseases which have plagued mankind for hundreds and thousands of years, none of which would so frequently have come into existence had physicians striven in a rational manner to cure radically and to extinguish in the organism these three miasms by the internal homoeopathic medicines suited for each of them, without employing topical remedies for their external symptoms.
 ===== § 204 (6th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1692}}If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent unhealthy mode of living, ([[#section77|§ 77]]) as also those innumerable medicinal maladies (v. [[#th_ed39|§ 74]]) caused by the irrational, persistent, harassing and pernicious treatment of diseases often only of trivial character by physicians of the old school, <wrap hi>most of the remainder of chronic diseases</wrap> result from the development of these three chronic miasms, internal syphilis, internal sycosis, but chiefly and in infinitely greater proportion, internal psora, each of which was already in possession of the whole organism, and had penetrated it in all directions before the appearance of the primary, vicarious local symptom of each of them (in the case of psora the scabious eruption, in syphilis the chancre or the bubo, and in sycosis the condylomata) that prevented their outburst; and these chronic miasmatic diseases, if deprived of their local symptom, are inevitably destined by mighty Nature sooner or later to become developed and to burst forth, and thereby propagate all the nameless misery, the incredible number of chronic diseases which have plagued mankind for hundreds and thousands of years, none of which would so frequently have come into existence had physicians striven in a rational manner to cure radically and to extinguish in the organism these three miasms by the internal homoeopathic medicines suited for each of them, without employing topical remedies for their external symptoms. {{anchor:s1696}}(See note to [[#section282|§ 282]]).
+{{anchor:s1692}}If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent unhealthy mode of living, ([[#section77|§ 77]]) as also those innumerable medicinal maladies (v. [[#s1094|§ 74]]) caused by the irrational, persistent, harassing and pernicious treatment of diseases often only of trivial character by physicians of the old school, <wrap hi>most of the remainder of chronic diseases</wrap> result from the development of these three chronic miasms, internal syphilis, internal sycosis, but chiefly and in infinitely greater proportion, internal psora, each of which was already in possession of the whole organism, and had penetrated it in all directions before the appearance of the primary, vicarious local symptom of each of them (in the case of psora the scabious eruption, in syphilis the chancre or the bubo, and in sycosis the condylomata) that prevented their outburst; and these chronic miasmatic diseases, if deprived of their local symptom, are inevitably destined by mighty Nature sooner or later to become developed and to burst forth, and thereby propagate all the nameless misery, the incredible number of chronic diseases which have plagued mankind for hundreds and thousands of years, none of which would so frequently have come into existence had physicians striven in a rational manner to cure radically and to extinguish in the organism these three miasms by the internal homoeopathic medicines suited for each of them, without employing topical remedies for their external symptoms. <wrap hi>{{anchor:s1696}}(See [[#s2224|note]] to [[#s2223|§ 282]]).</wrap>
 ===== § 205 (5th Ed.) =====
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 ===== § 238 (6th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s1834}}Not infrequently, the suitable medicine has with a single dose destroyed several attacks and brought about the return of health, but in the majority of cases, another dose must be administered after such attack. {{anchor:s1835}}Better still, however, when the character of the symptoms has not changed, doses of the same medicine given according to the newer discovery of repetition of doses (see note to § 270), may be given without difficulty in dynamizing each successive dose with 10-12 succussions of the vial containing the medicinal substance. {{anchor:s1838}}Nevertheless, there are at times cases, though seldom, where the intermittent fever returns after several days' well being. {{anchor:s1839}}This return of the same fever after a healthy interval is only possible when the noxious principle that first caused the fever, is still acting upon the convalescent, as is the case in marshy regions. {{anchor:s1840}}Here a permanent restoration can often take place only by getting away from this causative factor, as is possible by seeking a mountainous retreat, if the cause was a marshy fever.
+{{anchor:s1834}}Not infrequently, the suitable medicine has with a single dose destroyed several attacks and brought about the return of health, but in the majority of cases, another dose must be administered after such attack. {{anchor:s1835}}Better still, however, when the character of the symptoms has not changed, doses of the same medicine given according to the newer discovery of repetition of doses (see [[#s2122|note]] to [[#s2085|§ 270]]), may be given without difficulty in dynamizing each successive dose with 10-12 succussions of the vial containing the medicinal substance. {{anchor:s1838}}Nevertheless, there are at times cases, though seldom, where the intermittent fever returns after several days' well being. {{anchor:s1839}}This return of the same fever after a healthy interval is only possible when the noxious principle that first caused the fever, is still acting upon the convalescent, as is the case in marshy regions. {{anchor:s1840}}Here a permanent restoration can often take place only by getting away from this causative factor, as is possible by seeking a mountainous retreat, if the cause was a marshy fever.
 ===== § 239 =====
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 ===== § 244 =====
-{{anchor:s1853}}The intermittent fevers endemic in marshy districts and tracts of country frequently exposed to inundations, give a great deal of work to physicians of the old school, and yet a healthy man may in his youth become habituated even to marshy districts and remain in good health, provided he preserves a faultless regimen and his system is not lowered by want, fatigue or pernicious passions. {{anchor:s1855}}The intermittent fevers endemic there would at the most only attack him on his first arrival; but one or two very small doses of a highly potentised solution of cinchona bark would, conjointly with the well-regulated mode of living just alluded to, speedily free him from the disease. {{anchor:s1856}}But persons who, while taking sufficient corporeal exercise and pursuing a healthy system of intellectual occupations and bodily regimen, cannot be cured of marsh intermittent fever by one or a few of such small doses of cinchona -- in such persons psora, striving to develop itself, always lies at the root of their malady, and their intermittent fever cannot be cured in the marshy district without antipsoric treatment[(5<sup>th</sup> Edition footnote:  {{anchor:s1858}}Large, oft-repeated doses of cinchona bark, as also concentrated cinchona remedies, such as the sulphate of quinine, have certainly the power of freeing such patients from the periodical fits of the marsh ague; but those thus deceived into the belief that they are cured remain diseased in another way.)] [(6<sup>th</sup> Edition footnote: {{anchor:s1863}}Large, oft-repeated doses of cinchona bark, as also concentrated cinchona remedies, such as the sulphate of quinine, have certainly the power of freeing such patients from the periodical fits of the marsh ague; but those thus deceived into the belief that they are cured remain diseased in another way, frequently with an incurable Quinin intoxication (see §276 note.))]. {{anchor:s1857}}It sometimes happens that when these patients exchange, without delay, the marshy district for one that is dry and mountainous, recovery apparently ensues (the fever leaves them) if they be not yet deeply sunk in disease, that is to say, if the psora was not completely developed in them and can consequently return to its latent state; but they will never regain perfect health without antipsoric treatment.
+{{anchor:s1853}}The intermittent fevers endemic in marshy districts and tracts of country frequently exposed to inundations, give a great deal of work to physicians of the old school, and yet a healthy man may in his youth become habituated even to marshy districts and remain in good health, provided he preserves a faultless regimen and his system is not lowered by want, fatigue or pernicious passions. {{anchor:s1855}}The intermittent fevers endemic there would at the most only attack him on his first arrival; but one or two very small doses of a highly potentised solution of cinchona bark would, conjointly with the well-regulated mode of living just alluded to, speedily free him from the disease. {{anchor:s1856}}But persons who, while taking sufficient corporeal exercise and pursuing a healthy system of intellectual occupations and bodily regimen, cannot be cured of marsh intermittent fever by one or a few of such small doses of cinchona -- in such persons psora, striving to develop itself, always lies at the root of their malady, and their intermittent fever cannot be cured in the marshy district without antipsoric treatment[(5<sup>th</sup> Edition footnote:  {{anchor:s1858}}Large, oft-repeated doses of cinchona bark, as also concentrated cinchona remedies, such as the sulphate of quinine, have certainly the power of freeing such patients from the periodical fits of the marsh ague; but those thus deceived into the belief that they are cured remain diseased in another way.)] [(6<sup>th</sup> Edition footnote: {{anchor:s1863}}Large, oft-repeated doses of cinchona bark, as also concentrated cinchona remedies, such as the sulphate of quinine, have certainly the power of freeing such patients from the periodical fits of the marsh ague; but those thus deceived into the belief that they are cured remain diseased in another way, frequently with an incurable Quinin intoxication (see [[#s2169|§ 276]] [[#s2177|note]].))]. {{anchor:s1857}}It sometimes happens that when these patients exchange, without delay, the marshy district for one that is dry and mountainous, recovery apparently ensues (the fever leaves them) if they be not yet deeply sunk in disease, that is to say, if the psora was not completely developed in them and can consequently return to its latent state; but they will never regain perfect health without antipsoric treatment.
 ===== § 245 (5th Ed.) =====
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 ===== § 249 =====
-{{anchor:s1948}}Every medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its action, produces new and troublesome symptoms not appertaining to the disease to be cured, is not capable of effecting real improvement[({{anchor:s1949}}As all experience shows that the dose of the specially suited homoeopathic medicine can scarcely be prepared too small to effect perceptible amelioration in the disease for which it is appropriate (§ 275-278), we should act injudiciously and hurtfully were we when no improvement, or some, though it be even slight, aggravation ensues, to repeat or even increase the dose of the same medicine, as is done in the old system, under the delusion that it was not efficacious on account of its small quantity (its too small dose). {{anchor:s1950}}//Every aggravation by the production of new symptoms// -- when nothing untoward has occurred in the mental or physical regimen -- //invariably proves unsuitability on the part of the medicine formerly given in the case of disease before us, but never indicates that the dose has been too weak//.)], and cannot be considered as homoeopathically selected; it must, therefore, either, if the aggravation be considerable, be first partially neutralized as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more accurately according to similarity of action; or if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to take the place of the improperly selected one.[(6<sup>th</sup> Edition footnote: {{anchor:s1951}}The well informed and conscientiously careful physician will never be in a position to require an antidote in his practice if he will begin, as he should, to give the selected medicine in the smallest possible dose. {{anchor:s1952}}Like minute doses of a better chosen remedy will re-establish order throughout.)]
+{{anchor:s1948}}Every medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its action, produces new and troublesome symptoms not appertaining to the disease to be cured, is not capable of effecting real improvement[({{anchor:s1949}}As all experience shows that the dose of the specially suited homoeopathic medicine can scarcely be prepared too small to effect perceptible amelioration in the disease for which it is appropriate (§ [[#section275|275]]-[[#s2181|278]]), we should act injudiciously and hurtfully were we when no improvement, or some, though it be even slight, aggravation ensues, to repeat or even increase the dose of the same medicine, as is done in the old system, under the delusion that it was not efficacious on account of its small quantity (its too small dose). {{anchor:s1950}}//Every aggravation by the production of new symptoms// -- when nothing untoward has occurred in the mental or physical regimen -- //invariably proves unsuitability on the part of the medicine formerly given in the case of disease before us, but never indicates that the dose has been too weak//.)], and cannot be considered as homoeopathically selected; it must, therefore, either, if the aggravation be considerable, be first partially neutralized as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more accurately according to similarity of action; or if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to take the place of the improperly selected one.[(6<sup>th</sup> Edition footnote: {{anchor:s1951}}The well informed and conscientiously careful physician will never be in a position to require an antidote in his practice if he will begin, as he should, to give the selected medicine in the smallest possible dose. {{anchor:s1952}}Like minute doses of a better chosen remedy will re-establish order throughout.)]
 ===== § 250 =====
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 {{anchor:s2033}}We gain possession of the powers of indigenous plants and of such as may be had in a fresh state in the most complete and certain manner by mixing their freshly expressed juice //immediately// with equal parts of spirits of wine of a strength sufficient to burn in a lamp. {{anchor:s2034}}After this has stood a day and a night in a close stoppered bottle and deposited the fibrinous and albuminous matters, the clear superincumbent fluid is then to be decanted off for medicinal use[({{anchor:s2036}}Buchholz (//Taschenb. f. {{anchor:s2037}}Scheidek. u. Apoth. a. d. J.//, 1815, Weimar, Abth. I, vi) assures his readers (and his reviewer in the Leipziger Literaturzeitung, 1816, No. 82, does not contradict him) that for this excellent mode of operating medicines we have to thank the campaign in Russia, whence it was (in 1812) imported into Germany.
-{{anchor:s2040}}According to the noble practice of many Germans to be unjust towards their own countrymen, he conceals the fact that this discovery and those directions, which he quotes //in my very words// from the first edition of the Organon of Rational Medicine, § 230 and note, proceed from me, and that I //first// published them to the world two years before the Russian campaign (the Organon appeared in 1810). {{anchor:s2041}}Some folks would rather assign the origin of a discovery to the deserts of Asia than to a German to whom the honour belongs. {{anchor:s2042}}O tempora! {{anchor:s2042b}}O mores! {{anchor:s2043}}Alcohol has certainly been sometimes before this used for mixing with vegetable juices, e.g., to preserve them some time before making extracts of them, but never with the view of administering them in this form.)]. {{anchor:s2035}}All fermentation of the vegetable juice will be at once checked by the spirits of wine mixed with it and rendered impossible for the future, and the entire medicinal power of the vegetable juice is thus retained (perfect and uninjured) //for ever// by keeping the preparation in well-corked bottles and excluded from the sun's light.[({{anchor:s2044}}Although equal parts of alcohol and freshly expressed juice are usually the most suitable proportion for affecting the deposition of the fibrinous and albuminous matters, yet for plants that contain much thick mucus (e.g. {{anchor:s2045}}Symphytum officinale, Viola tricolor, etc.), or an excess of albumen (e.g., Aethusa cynapium, Solanum nigrum, etc.), a double proportion of alcohol is generally required for this object. {{anchor:s2046}}Plants that are very deficient in juice, as Oleander, Buxus, Taxus, Ledum, Sabina, etc., must first be pounded up alone into a moist, fine mass and the stirred up with a double quantity of alcohol, in order that the juice may combine with it, and being thus extracted by the alcohol, may be pressed out; these latter may also when dried be brought with milk-sugar to the millionfold trituration, and then be further diluted and potentised (v. § 271).)]
+{{anchor:s2040}}According to the noble practice of many Germans to be unjust towards their own countrymen, he conceals the fact that this discovery and those directions, which he quotes //in my very words// from the first edition of the Organon of Rational Medicine, § 230 and note, proceed from me, and that I //first// published them to the world two years before the Russian campaign (the Organon appeared in 1810). {{anchor:s2041}}Some folks would rather assign the origin of a discovery to the deserts of Asia than to a German to whom the honour belongs. {{anchor:s2042}}O tempora! {{anchor:s2042b}}O mores! {{anchor:s2043}}Alcohol has certainly been sometimes before this used for mixing with vegetable juices, e.g., to preserve them some time before making extracts of them, but never with the view of administering them in this form.)]. {{anchor:s2035}}All fermentation of the vegetable juice will be at once checked by the spirits of wine mixed with it and rendered impossible for the future, and the entire medicinal power of the vegetable juice is thus retained (perfect and uninjured) //for ever// by keeping the preparation in well-corked bottles and excluded from the sun's light.[({{anchor:s2044}}Although equal parts of alcohol and freshly expressed juice are usually the most suitable proportion for affecting the deposition of the fibrinous and albuminous matters, yet for plants that contain much thick mucus (e.g. {{anchor:s2045}}Symphytum officinale, Viola tricolor, etc.), or an excess of albumen (e.g., Aethusa cynapium, Solanum nigrum, etc.), a double proportion of alcohol is generally required for this object. {{anchor:s2046}}Plants that are very deficient in juice, as Oleander, Buxus, Taxus, Ledum, Sabina, etc., must first be pounded up alone into a moist, fine mass and the stirred up with a double quantity of alcohol, in order that the juice may combine with it, and being thus extracted by the alcohol, may be pressed out; these latter may also when dried be brought with milk-sugar to the millionfold trituration, and then be further diluted and potentised (v. [[#s2137|§ 271]]).)]
 ===== § 268 =====
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 ===== § 285 (5th Ed.) =====
-{{anchor:s2256}}The diminution of the dose essential for homoeopathic use, will also be promoted by diminishing its volume, so that, if, instead of a drop of a medicinal dilution, we take but quite a small part[({{anchor:s2257}}For this purpose it is most convenient to employ fine sugar globules of the size of poppy seeds, one of which imbibed with the medicine and put into the dispensing vehicle constitutes a medicinal dose, which contains about the three hundredth part of a drop, for three hundred such small globules will be adequately moistened by one drop of alcohol. {{anchor:s2258}}The dose is vastly diminished by laying one such globule alone upon the tongue and giving nothing to drink. {{anchor:s2259}}If it be necessary, in the case of a very sensitive patient, to employ the smallest possible dose and to bring about the most rapid result, one single olfaction merely will suffice (see note to §288).)] of such a drop for a dose, the object of diminishing the effect still further will be very effectually attained; and that this will be the case may be readily conceived for this reason, because with the smaller volume of the dose but few nerves of the living organism can be touched, whereby the power of the medicine is certainly also communicated to the whole organism, but it is a weaker power.
+{{anchor:s2256}}The diminution of the dose essential for homoeopathic use, will also be promoted by diminishing its volume, so that, if, instead of a drop of a medicinal dilution, we take but quite a small part[({{anchor:s2257}}For this purpose it is most convenient to employ fine sugar globules of the size of poppy seeds, one of which imbibed with the medicine and put into the dispensing vehicle constitutes a medicinal dose, which contains about the three hundredth part of a drop, for three hundred such small globules will be adequately moistened by one drop of alcohol. {{anchor:s2258}}The dose is vastly diminished by laying one such globule alone upon the tongue and giving nothing to drink. {{anchor:s2259}}If it be necessary, in the case of a very sensitive patient, to employ the smallest possible dose and to bring about the most rapid result, one single olfaction merely will suffice (see [[#s2304|note]] to §288).)] of such a drop for a dose, the object of diminishing the effect still further will be very effectually attained; and that this will be the case may be readily conceived for this reason, because with the smaller volume of the dose but few nerves of the living organism can be touched, whereby the power of the medicine is certainly also communicated to the whole organism, but it is a weaker power.
 ===== § 285 (6th Ed.) =====
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-===== TEMPORARY END =====
+====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
+^ Source: | The Organon of Medicine, 1833 (5th Ed. -- translated by R.E. Dudgeon) and 1842 (6th Ed. -- translated by W. Boericke) |
+^ Description: | The Organon of Medicine -- the foundation text of homeopathy. |
+^ Author: | Hahnemann, S. |
+^ Year: | 1833; 1842 |
+^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
+^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}

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