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62.65.168.3 [The Organon of Medicine]
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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]]).)]
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-{{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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+====== 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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