Comments on: 39-40: Hahnemann’s Organon of Medicine http://organon.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/39-40-hahnemanns-organon-of-medicine/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Nash http://organon.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/39-40-hahnemanns-organon-of-medicine/#comment-786 Nash Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:57:00 +0000 http://organon.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-786 Next set of verses please. Next set of verses please.

]]> By: mugsandmoney http://organon.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/39-40-hahnemanns-organon-of-medicine/#comment-781 mugsandmoney Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:32:43 +0000 http://organon.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-781 This is getting difficult to follow. § 39 seems to be an extension of his rant about contemporary (c 1810) physicians, but he has inserted an assertion (without justifying it) that they reason they fail to do anything is because the medicine is not <i>similar</i> to the disease. In § 40, I think the simple reason why no-one had observed simultaneous cases of smallpox and measles is because both are lethal and if you get both at once you would just die, rather than display two sets of symptoms. Thank God for modern vaccination programs! The other examples of co-infection are based on observation only and reflect the thinking of his time, although he extends the assertion about similarity as an explanation. H seems to reach the same conclusion about con-infection - <i> I am now firmly convinced that no real amalgamation of the two takes place, but that in such cases the one exists in the organism besides the other only</i> (from footnote 1) - so fair enough This is getting difficult to follow.

§ 39 seems to be an extension of his rant about contemporary (c 1810) physicians, but he has inserted an assertion (without justifying it) that they reason they fail to do anything is because the medicine is not similar to the disease.

In § 40, I think the simple reason why no-one had observed simultaneous cases of smallpox and measles is because both are lethal and if you get both at once you would just die, rather than display two sets of symptoms. Thank God for modern vaccination programs! The other examples of co-infection are based on observation only and reflect the thinking of his time, although he extends the assertion about similarity as an explanation.

H seems to reach the same conclusion about con-infection – I am now firmly convinced that no real amalgamation of the two takes place, but that in such cases the one exists in the organism besides the other only (from footnote 1) – so fair enough

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