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| It is admitted that success must be followed by the full acknowledgment of the superiority of Homeopathic practice over all other modes of practice, and that this success is invariably coming to us if we are true to the principles of our school... Why dare, I ask, do men professing and presuming to be homeopathists, venture upon 'new departures'? It is that they found the laws and practical rules when applied practically leading to failures?" [(Adolph Lippe. Clinical reflections—Pneumonia. Medical Investigator 1874; 11: 439-443)] | It is admitted that success must be followed by the full acknowledgment of the superiority of Homeopathic practice over all other modes of practice, and that this success is invariably coming to us if we are true to the principles of our school... Why dare, I ask, do men professing and presuming to be homeopathists, venture upon 'new departures'? It is that they found the laws and practical rules when applied practically leading to failures?" [(Adolph Lippe. Clinical reflections—Pneumonia. Medical Investigator 1874; 11: 439-443)] | ||
| - | 2. The second principle, which is a corollary to the first one, consists of conducting a thorough examination of the patient in full detail as described specifically in paragraphs 82-104 of the Organon. Today modern teachers who teach how to know patients and their sicknesses through the most fanciful and delusive exercises of their imagination are grossly ridiculing this art. Didn’t Hahnemann consistently teach that "the true and thorough physician never replaces observation with guesswork" but rather "examines the patient in all its expression"? [(Samuel Hahnemann. Organon of medicine. 6th ed. Translated by William Boericke. Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, 1921, paragraph 100.)] | + | 2. The second principle, which is a corollary to the first one, consists of conducting a thorough examination of the patient in full detail as described specifically in paragraphs 82-104 of the Organon. Today modern teachers who teach how to know patients and their sicknesses through the most fanciful and delusive exercises of their imagination are grossly ridiculing this art. Didn’t Hahnemann consistently teach that "the true and thorough physician never replaces observation with guesswork" but rather "examines the patient in all its expression"? [(Samuel Hahnemann. Organon of medicine. 6th ed. Translated by William Boericke. Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, 1921, paragraph 100 [[http://www.legatum.sk/en:hahnemann:organon:start#section100]] .)] |
| 3. To search only through the reliable materia medica for the remedy which is the most similar to the totality of the characteristic symptoms of the disease. | 3. To search only through the reliable materia medica for the remedy which is the most similar to the totality of the characteristic symptoms of the disease. | ||
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| The circumstances in the homeopathic world of today are very similar to 1833 when Hahnemann said how necessary it had become to gather his "true pupils" around him "in order to separate the sheep from the goats" and to 1844 when, following Hahnemann’s death, Bœnninghausen wrote that "unless the signs deceive me, we are now at the commencement of a new epoch, marked by the death of our master, whose genius hovers around us, an epoch when the unity of the school shall be restored, when the excrescences shall have been chopped off, and the genuine metal separated from the dross. | The circumstances in the homeopathic world of today are very similar to 1833 when Hahnemann said how necessary it had become to gather his "true pupils" around him "in order to separate the sheep from the goats" and to 1844 when, following Hahnemann’s death, Bœnninghausen wrote that "unless the signs deceive me, we are now at the commencement of a new epoch, marked by the death of our master, whose genius hovers around us, an epoch when the unity of the school shall be restored, when the excrescences shall have been chopped off, and the genuine metal separated from the dross. | ||
| - | Let us henceforth be more firmly united, all of us who desire the good, but let us exclude from our ranks with unrelenting severity anyone who sneers at the good cause, schismatics and all those who attempt to substitute opinions and hypotheses for careful observations. But let us at the same time honor the memory of the great reformer in medicine, by subjecting his doctrines, results of fifty years observation, to repeated and comprehensive examinations and trials, and by candidly communicating our experience one to another. This would be the best mode of preparing the monument which the great man has merited by the services he has rendered to suffering humanity." [(Clemens von Bœnninghausen. Three precautionary rules of Hahnemann. Homœopathic Examiner 1845; 1: 195-196.)] | + | Let us henceforth be more firmly united, all of us who desire the good, but let us exclude from our ranks with unrelenting severity anyone who sneers at the good cause, schismatics and all those who attempt to substitute opinions and hypotheses for careful observations. But let us at the same time honor the memory of the great reformer in medicine, by subjecting his doctrines, results of fifty years observation, to repeated and comprehensive examinations and trials, and by candidly communicating our experience one to another. This would be the best mode of preparing the monument which the great man has merited by the services he has rendered to suffering humanity." [(Clemens von Bœnninghausen. Three precautionary rules of Hahnemann. Homœopathic Examiner 1845; 1: 195-196. http://www.legatum.sk/en:ahr:boenninghausen-c-hahnemanns-three-precautions-158-10359)] |
| The same year, in 1844, the pioneers of homeopathy in America founded the American Institute of Homœopathy (AIH) for the following two purposes: "1st. The reformation and augmentation of the Materia Medica" because the state of the materia medica was "such as imperatively to demand a more satisfactory arrangement and greater purity of observation which could only be obtained by associate action on the part of those who diligently seek for truth alone. 2nd. The restraining of Physicians from pretending to be competent to practice homeopathy who have not studied it in a careful and skillful manner" because "the state of public information respecting the principles and practice of Homœopathy is so defective as to make it easy for mere pretenders to this very difficult branch of the healing art to acquire credit as proficient in the same." [(Minutes of the sessions of 1844 and 1845. Transactions of the American Institute of Homœopathy. 1846; 1: 3-4.)] | The same year, in 1844, the pioneers of homeopathy in America founded the American Institute of Homœopathy (AIH) for the following two purposes: "1st. The reformation and augmentation of the Materia Medica" because the state of the materia medica was "such as imperatively to demand a more satisfactory arrangement and greater purity of observation which could only be obtained by associate action on the part of those who diligently seek for truth alone. 2nd. The restraining of Physicians from pretending to be competent to practice homeopathy who have not studied it in a careful and skillful manner" because "the state of public information respecting the principles and practice of Homœopathy is so defective as to make it easy for mere pretenders to this very difficult branch of the healing art to acquire credit as proficient in the same." [(Minutes of the sessions of 1844 and 1845. Transactions of the American Institute of Homœopathy. 1846; 1: 3-4.)] | ||
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