Organon of Medicine - Softcover

Samuel Hahnemann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8131903117 ISBN 13: 9788131903117

Publisher: Gazelle Distribution Trade, 2009

Synopsis

This is a combination of the 5th edition by Dudgeon (the 1893 revision) with the 6th edition by Boericke. Essentially, one can see the changes that Hahnemann made to the text of the 5th edition. An appendix outlines all the changes made from the first edition to 6th edition. It is a valuable study guide. Of all the published editions this remains the favourite, since it clearly shows the changes in Hahnemann's thinking as some paragraphs in the fifth edition were modified and others completely rewritten. This edition offers both versions interposed ('This paragraph was completely rewritten in the sixth...'). The combined fifth and sixth edition of "Organon" was typesetted around 100 years back. The modern reader finds it difficult to read and go through the book. For the past few years we were constantly requested by our beloved readers to redo this treasure in a manner which is consistent with modern books. To make the book user-friendly we have refurnished it. The positive changes we made are as follows: a new font has been used which is bigger in size and is a pleasure to read, and footnotes which were earlier given at the bottom and spread over different aphorisms were difficult to find and read. In this new book, we have incorporated them under the appropriate aphorisms at one place - this makes the reading and understanding of "Organon" more easy. A Word index has been added at the end of the book which makes it very easy to find the required portion of the text.

About this title

From the Publisher

The sixth edition of the "Organon" as left by Hahnemann ready for publication was found to be an interleaved copy of the fifth, the last German Edition, published in 1833. In his eighty-sixth year, while in active practice in Paris, he completed the thorough revision of it by carefully going over paragraph by paragraph, making changes, erasures, annotations and additions.

The book in this sixth edition is of the greatest interest and importance, completing as it does the marvelous array of Hahnemann's philosophic insight into the practice of medicine. Hahnemann's "Organon" is the high water mark of medical philosophy, the practical interpretation of which produces a veritable mountains of light and will guide the physician by means of the Law of Cure to a new world of therapeutics.

About the Author

Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann was born in 1755 in Meissen. A German physician, he discovered what he believed to be the key to curing the sick whilst translating a Scottish medical book in the early 1800s. His writings still remain the ultimate authority on the doctrines and practice of homoeopathic medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gazelle Distribution Trade
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 8131903117
• ISBN 13: 9788131903117
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 412