Aphorism 54
Faulty allopathy honoured itself with the name of rational medicine.
Although it is shown that allopathy is faulty mode of treatment, which employs heterogeneous substances against diseases to be cured. Daily response of allopathic therapeutics witnesses its fault but, allopathic physician ruling field of therapeutics for ages called itself by name of rational medicine, during time of Dr. Hahnemann.
Further he says that allopathic physician thought that they could penetrate the inner nature of life of healthy as well as sick and accordingly give prescription to remove so called noxious matter from the body to restore it to health; basing on their thought without paying heed to nature and experience. Not only this, but they gave different names to diseases and classified it according to similarity of their basic symptomatology and built various texts on materia medica to practice medicine accordingly.
In first footnote Dr. Hahnemann comments on so called rationality of allopathic physician as if science can be based on idle speculation and scholastic vapourings (thoughts of pretended scholars which evaporates like vapours.) leaving aside pure experimentation and true observation of nature.
In second footnote Dr. Hahnemann says regarding concept of therapeutics of his time that diseases were thought to be due to some material cause which if removed, diseases could be cured, whereas the dynamic effect of medicines on organism was unconceivable.
In third footnote Dr. Hahnemann points out the content of materia medica of old school that to boast off their own speculations; physician very learnedly prescribes combination of different medicines in frequent and large doses, endangering life. Danger to life increases by many folds by use of-
a) Seton,
c) Emetics,
b) Venesection,
d) Purgatives,
e) Plasters,
f) Fontanelles and
g) Cauterization etc.
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