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Here is the next Organon aphorism with commentary by the esteemed Dr. Kent:
Paragraph 6: "The unprejudiced observer - well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience - be his powers of penetration ever so great, takes note of nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the health of the body and of the mind (morbid phenomena, accidents, symptoms) which can be perceived externally by means of the senses; that is to say, he notices only the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual, which are felt by the patient himself, remarked by those around him and observed by the physician. All these perceptible signs represent the disease in its whole extent, that is, together they form the true and only conceivable portrait of the disease."
Dr. Kent : "The teaching of this paragraph is that symptoms represent to the intelligent physician all there is to be known of the nature of a sickness, that these symptoms represent the state of disorder, that sickness is only a change of state and all the physician has to do is correct the disordered state. In this paragraph, Hahnemann does not speak about changes of tissues or changes in the organs, but change of state. What is there are changes in tissue present ? There is nothing in the nature of a diseased tissue to point to a remedy ; it is only a result of disease. Tissue changes do not indicate the remedy, so physicians must learn to go back to the very beginning."
Although tissue changes (which are what Kent calls the "ultimates" of dis-ease) do not indicate the remedy they can help inform the choice of the remedy.
Like everything else, pathology must be put into context.
Then interpreted holistically. Using an "unprejudiced" mind.
Dr. Jeff
Paragraph 6: "The unprejudiced observer - well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience - be his powers of penetration ever so great, takes note of nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the health of the body and of the mind (morbid phenomena, accidents, symptoms) which can be perceived externally by means of the senses; that is to say, he notices only the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual, which are felt by the patient himself, remarked by those around him and observed by the physician. All these perceptible signs represent the disease in its whole extent, that is, together they form the true and only conceivable portrait of the disease."
Dr. Kent : "The teaching of this paragraph is that symptoms represent to the intelligent physician all there is to be known of the nature of a sickness, that these symptoms represent the state of disorder, that sickness is only a change of state and all the physician has to do is correct the disordered state. In this paragraph, Hahnemann does not speak about changes of tissues or changes in the organs, but change of state. What is there are changes in tissue present ? There is nothing in the nature of a diseased tissue to point to a remedy ; it is only a result of disease. Tissue changes do not indicate the remedy, so physicians must learn to go back to the very beginning."
Although tissue changes (which are what Kent calls the "ultimates" of dis-ease) do not indicate the remedy they can help inform the choice of the remedy.
Like everything else, pathology must be put into context.
Then interpreted holistically. Using an "unprejudiced" mind.
Dr. Jeff
