Organon Of Medicine
Introduction to the Boericke's Translation of the 6th Edition.
The excellence of the Dudgeon translation into English of the fifth German edition of Hahnemann's "Organon" is thoroughly maintained throughout this English translation of the sixth German edition by Doctor William Boericke, to whom the medical profession is under a double debt for rescuing this last authentic work of Hahnemann from possible loss and for putting it into good, clear, unparaphrased English. Twice this manuscript of Hahnemann was in danger of being lost, once during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian Was of 18-71, and once in the military overrunning of Westphalia during the World War of 1914-18 . Doctor Boericke was the main instrument for procuring this last medical manuscript of Hahnemann for the medical world.Everything that hahnemann ever
wrote is of historic medical interest, for notwithstanding all attempts
of ignorant, prejudiced, time serving so called medical historians to
detract from Hahnemann's
historic importance for medicine, Hahnemann remains one of the four
epochal
figures in the history of the practice of medicine.
Hippocrates the Observer, introduced the art of
clinical
observation as the necessary basis for pathologic diagnosis.
Galen
the Disseminator, spread with powerful authority the
teaching
of Hippocrates over the medical world.
Paracelsus the Assailer, introduced chemical
as
well as physical analysis into the practice of medicine.
Hahnemann the Experimenter, discovered the symptomatic source of both pathologic and therapeutic diagnosis and thereby made the practice of medicine scientific.
In the scientific practice of medicine, we examine every patient suffering from any of the topic, plastic, trophic or toxic diseases to which man is subject, in order to obtain all the signs and symptoms of his disease, together with all his disease effects for pathologic and therapeutic diagnosis, and thereby made the practice of medicine scientific.
We examine by observing the
pathologic and comparing it with the physiologic for diagnostic
interpretation, prognostic prediction, and therapeutic application.
We diagnose by classifying the pathologic condition with similar pathologic conditions. We diagnose the anatomic seat, the where, that is, of the organs and the parts of the organs affected.
We diagnose the physiologic
process, the what, that is, the course of inflammations, exudations,
degeneration's,
necroses, atrophies, , hypertrophies aplasias, hyperplasias.
We diagnose the etiologic factor, the how, that is , developmental, traumatic, infectious antecedents of predisposition and excitation. We diagnose the therapeutic application, the end, that is, the remedial treatment for cure and palliation, and the prophylactic treatment for hygiene and sanitation. TO BE CONTINUED.