The first edition of the Organon in the work of Samuel Hahnemann

The „Organon of Rational Medicine“ represented a major homeopathic publication of Hahnemann. It expressed, in 271 paragraphs, his convictions about medicine in 1810. This work, already well prepared in Hahnemann's former publications, in particular, „The Medicine of Experience“, used an inductive analysis of both the work of earlier writers and of observations of Hahnemann himself. § 1: „The medical practitioner's highest aim is to restore the sick to health, called to cure.“ § 19 described the principle of similarity, § 234 the use of only one single, simple drug at a time in order to cure. The conceptual bases…