KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSICIAN

Dr. V. Siju,

Dept. Organon and Homoeopathic Philosophy

Aphorism 3.

Knowledge of disease. Knowledge of medicine. Knowledge of Choice of the remedy. Knowledge of Preparation of medicine. Knowledge of Proper dose. Knowledge of Repetition of the dose. Knowledge of Obstacles to recover and Knowledge of aware how to remove them.

Judicious- having or done with good

judgement,

Rational- based on or in accordance with

reason or logic, able to think sensibly or

logically.

True practitioner of the healing art.

Knowledge of Disease:

Aphorism 71, he explained the operation of curing

is comprised in the three points. The first is “ How

is the physician to ascertain what is necessary to be

known in order to cure the disease?”

Aphorism 72-104 he explains about the disease and

how to understand the disease.

In Aph.72- Acute and chronic diseases.

Aph.73- Acute individual, Sporadic, Epidemic diseases.

Aph.74- artificial chronic disease produced in allopathic

treatment.

Aph.77- inappropriately named chronic disease.

Aph.78- true chronic disease- chronic miasm.

Aph.83- case taking. Freedom from prejudice, sound senses,

attention in observing and fidelity in tracing the picture of

the diseases.

Aph.84- physician writes down accurately all that the

patient and his friends have told him in the very

expressions used by them.

Aph.90- he then makes a note of what he himself

observes in the patient.

Aph.95- lesser accessory symptoms.

Aph-96- Hypochondriacs. Exaggerated expressions.

Aph-97- false modesty, mildness, describe symptoms

in vague terms.

Knowledge of medicine:

In aph.105. the second point of the business of a true

physician relates to acquiring a knowledge of the

instruments intended for the cure of the natural diseases,

investigating the pathogenetic power of the medicines.

Aph.105-145 explain this knowledge of medicines.

Aph.108- administer the medicine in moderate doses to

healthy persons, in order to ascertain what changes,

symptoms and signs of their influence each individually

produces on the health of the body and of the mind.

Aph.143. Tested on the healthy individual a considerable

number of simple medicines and carefully and faithfully

registered all the disease elements and symptoms they are

capable of developing as artificial disease-producers- true

materia medica.

Aph.144. From such a materia medica everything that is

conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary should be

strictly excluded; everything should be the pure language of

nature carefully and honestely interrogated.

Knowledge of Choice of the remedy:

In aph.146. the third point of the business of a true physician

relates to the judicious employment of the artificial morbific agents

that have been proved on healthy individuals to ascertain their pure

action, in order to effect the homoeopathic cure of natural diseases.

Aph.147- medicines that have been investigated as to their power

of altering man’s health we find to contain in symptoms observed

from its use the greatest similarity to the totality of the symptoms

of a given natural disease, this medicine will and must be the most

suitable, the most certain homoeopathic remedy for the disease.

Knowledge of Preparation of medicine:

Aph.264. the true physician must be provided with genuine

medicines of unimpaired strength, so that he may be able to

rely upon their therapeutic powers; he must be able, himself,

to judge of their genuineness.

Aph.265. thoroughly convinced in every case that the patient

always takes the right medicine and therefore he must give

the patient the correctly chosen medicine prepared,

moreover, by himself.

Aph.270. In order to best obtain the development of power, a

small part of the substance to be dynamized.

Aph.271. If the physician prepares his homoeopathic

medicines himself, he may use the fresh plant itself, as but

little of the crude article is required.

Knowledge of Proper dose:

Aph.272. a globule, placed dry upon the tongue, is one of the

smallest doses for a moderate recent case of illness. Here but

few nerves are touched by the medicine. A similar globule,

crushed with some sugar of milk and dissolved in a good

deal of water and stirred well before every administration

will produce a far more powerful medicine for the use of

several days. Every dose, no matter how minute, touches, on

the contrary many nerves.

In Aph.247. if the succeeding dose is changed slightly every

time, namely some potentized somewhat higher then the

vital principle may be altered without difficulty by the

medicine and thus the cure brought nearer.

In Aph.273. in no case under treatment is it necessary and

therefore not permissible to administer to a patient more than

one single, simple medicinal substance at one time.

Knowledge of Repetition of the dose: In Aph.276. a medicine, even though it may be

homoeopathically suited to the case of disease, thus harm in

every dose that is too large and in strong doses it does more

harm the greater its homoeopathicity and the higher the

potency selected, and it does much more injury than any

equally large dose of a medicine that is unhomoeopathic.

Too large doses of an accurately chosen homoeopathic

medicine, and especially when frequently repeated, bring

about much trouble as a rule. This too strong dose of the

homoeopathic medicine acted upon him but he is in

consequence more ill with the similar but more violent

medicinal disease which is most difficult to destroy.

In Aph.246. every perceptibly progressive and strikingly

increasing amelioration during treatment is a condition

which, as long as it lasts, completely precludes every

repetition of the administration of any medicine whatsoever,

because all the good the medicine taken continues to effect is

now hastening towards its completion.

Knowledge of Obstacles to recover:

In Aph.260. the careful investigation into obstacles to cure so

much the more necessary in the case of patients affected by

chronic diseases, as their diseases are usually aggravated by

such noxious influences and other disease causing errors in

the diet and regimen, which often pass unnoticed.

Foot note of Aph.260. – examples are given

Knowledge of Aware how to remove them:

In Aph.261. the most appropriate regimen during the

employment of medicine in chronic diseases consists in the

removal of such obstacles to recovery, and in supplying where

necessary the reverse; innocent moral and intellectual

recreation, active exercise in the open air in almost all kinds of

weather, suitable nutritious, unmedicinal food and drink etc.

In Aph.262. in acute diseases that the physician only requires

to counsel the friends and attendants to foot no obstacles in the

way of voice of nature by refusing anything the patient

urgently desires.

In Aph.262. The desire of the patient affected by an acute

disease with regard to food and drink is certainly chiefly for

things that give palliative relief. The slightest hindrances that

the gratification of this desire, within moderate bounds could

oppose to the radical removal of the disease.

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