SHORT NOTE OF ORGANON OF MEDICINE

Aphorisms and footnotes in Organon of Medicine – at a glance
AUDE SAPERE
These Latin words appeared on the title page of 2nd edition of Organon of medicine, the meaning of which is “dare to be wise” or “Bold and sensible”. After observing the poisonous remarks made by allopathic physician on his system, Hahnemann realize that truth is not the current coin of the world.
                Even in history Socrates was made to drink the hemlock poison, Christ was crucified only because they preached the truth. Hence, Hahnemann continued to work to improve what he found to be truth. He encouraged his fellow physician to “Dare to be wise”.
                After publication of the 1st edition, allopathy strongly criticized, ridiculed and abused Hahnemann.
                Hahnemann was aware of the danger of being a wise man. His father’s moral teaching gave him courage to face the adverse conditions. Hence, Hahnemann used the word “Aude sapere”. He got these words from the old church of St.Afra, near the Prince’s school of missen. The quotation of the roman poet Horace’s book ”Odes” was used by Hahnemann for the first time on the title page of “Medicine of experience”.
                These words pleased Hahnemann so much that he retained these words up to the 6th edition.

NEGATIVE GENERAL SYMPTOM

If a common or general symptom of a nosological disease is not present in a case, it becomes Negative General symptom. Example: hunger without appetite, coldness with aversion to being covered, fever without thirst etc.
Rational Medicine = (a) well proved, (b) Unadulterated; (c) universally truth; (d) prepare by trituration & succession (potentised medicine)
Specific Medicine= well selected medicine depends upon totality of symptoms for particular patient.
Cognate= the medicine which are too closely related to each other that symptoms of one medicine lead to one of it’s cognate.
Analogus medicine=  Means similar medicine. (Ss=180)
Schein symptom= the apparent symptoms caused by excess of homoeopathic medicine will soon disappear and leave undisturbed health in its wake.(ss-248)
Intercurrent remedy= sometimes in a chronic case we find that the action of a well indicated constitutional remedy gets blocked and the patient refuse to make further progress. Under this circumstances we should make a detailed study of the symptomatology and the circumstances of occurance. Analysis from miasmatic standpoint might indicate the type of miasm responsible for this block and a suitable anti-miasmatic remedy will help to remove it and restore the constitutional remedy.
Eg. With a family history of tuberculosis a few doses of tuberculinum might prove helpful.
Intermediate remedy=
Anti-miasamatic treatment= Remove the constitutional state.
Miasamatic Treatment= Remove the disease state.
Instrument of cure= (a)  Patient; (b) Medicine; (c)Management
Antitype= Every constitutional homoeopathic medicine is known as antitype.
Masked venereal disease=
Moral malady= ss17 foot  note
Vague symptoms= Undefined symptoms (ss-153)
Sign of improvement= ss-253 (a)a greater degree of comfort, (b) increase calmness; (c) freedom of mind; (d) higher spirit—a kind of return of natural state.
Derivatives= Evacuating mode of treatment. Through vomiting,  stool, urine, sweat by the use of emetic, purgatives etc.
Duce nature= follow the nature.

Minister nature= serve the nature; assist the nature or servants of nature.

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