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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. |
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| + | ^ 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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