1st Edition

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Published in : 1810
Published by : Samuel Hahnemann
Whereabouts of Hahnemann: Leipzig
Published from : Dresden
Language: German
Aphorisms : 271
Title – German : Organon der rationellen Heilkunde

English Edition:
Title – English : Organon of the Rational Art of Healing
Translated in English : C. E. Wheeler
Published in : 1913
Published by : Everyman’s Library
Published from : London.

Below the title of the book there was a small couplet from Gallert’s poem –

The Truth We Mortals Need
Us Blest To make And Keep
The All-Wise Slightly Covered Over
But Did Not Bury Deep.

Just above the first aphorism was written ‘Organon of The Healing Art’. The first edition had no table of contents.


PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

ACCORDING to the testimony of all ages, no occupation is more unanimously declared to be a conjectural art than medicine; consequently none has less right to refuse a searching enquiry as to whether it is well founded than it, on which man’s health, his most precious possession on earth, depends.

I consider that it redounds to my honour that I am the only one in recent times who has subjected it to a serious honest investigation, and has communicated to the world the results of his convictions in writings published, some with, some without my name.

In this investigation I found the way to the truth, but I had to tread it alone, very far from the common highway of medical routine. The farther I advanced from truth to truth, the more my conclusions (none of which I accepted unless confirmed by experience) led me away from the old edifice, which, being built up of opinions, was only maintained by opinions.

The results of my convictions are set forth in this book.

It remains to be seen whether physicians, who mean to act honestly by their conscience and by their fellow-creatures, will continue to stick to the pernicious tissue of conjectures and caprice, or can open their eyes to the salutary truth.

I must warn the reader that indolence, love of ease and obstinacy preclude effective service at the altar of truth, and only freedom from prejudice and untiring zeal qualify for the most sacred of all human occupations, the practice of the true system of medicine. The physician who enters on his work in this spirit becomes directly assimilated to the Divine Creator of the world, whose human creatures he helps to preserve, and whose approval renders him thrice blessed.

SAMUEL HAHNEMANN
LEIPZIG, 1810


Why did Hahnemann title his Organon – the Medical Art – instead of the Medical Science?

Susan Sonz, CCH, Director of the New York School of Homeopathy gives a brief overview of Samuel Hahnemann’s, Organon of the Medical Art:

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  1. Thank you so much sir for sharing the wonderful knowledge with us. It is very helpful for student of hom. like me & for all homoeopaths

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