Hahnemann, the founder of scientific therapeutics. Being the third Hahnemannian lecture

Dudgeon, R. E.

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Strukturtyp:: Monografie

Sammlung:: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Homöopathie e.V.

Autor:: Dudgeon, R. E.

Titel:: Hahnemann, the founder of scientific therapeutics. Being the third Hahnemannian lecture

Beteiligte Personen:: Dudgeon, R. E.

Publikationsort:: London

Veröffentlichungsjahr:: 1882

Verlag:: E. Gould & son

Physikalischer Standort:: EBH, Köthen

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Titel:: Hahnemann, the founder of scientific therapeutics.

2 Hahnemann, the Founder to fix accurately his place in the history of medicine. In this lecture I shall endeavour to show what that place is. To this end I must cast a retrospective glance over the past. As a preliminary, I will ask, what is the aim and object of medicine ? It is the cure of disease. As Hahnemann expresses it in the first aphorism of his Organon, " The high and only mission of the physician is to restore the sick to health." It is necessary to remember this, for it has often been forgotten by some of the most illustrious names in the history of medicine. Anatomy, phy- siology, pathology, botany, chemistry, and all the other so-called collateral branches of medical science, are but the means to the end—that end being the of Scientific Tlierapeutics. cure of disease. But the means have often been cultivated as though they were the end ; and their cultivators are wont to look down on the therapeutist, as though the cure of disease was but a poor thing in comparison with the study of disease as a branch of natural history, or with physiological or anatomical re- search. It is impossible to say when or to whom the idea first occurred that dis- eases could be cured by drugs. In the first edition of the Organon, § 7, Hahne- mann says : " There must be in medicine a healing principle ; common sense tells us this." But to the common sense of many there is no " must" about the matter. Unless we had been told that medicines have a "healing principle,"

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