Homeopathy - Principles and Practice of the New Medicine Volumes 1 & 2 - Dr Edouard Broussalian

Description

In this new 2025 edition, Dr. Edouard Broussalian re-translates and comments, in two volumes, the two hundred and ninety-one aphorisms of the sixth edition of theOrganon, written by the famous Samuel Hahnemann, discoverer of homeopathy.

True to its etymology, the Organon de l'art de guérir is intended to be the tool of all homeopaths. Since its first edition in 1810, generations of practitioners have neglected this luminous, unloved work tool. Yet Hahnemann never stopped reworking and perfecting it, right up to the posthumous 6th edition published in 1920. Hahnemann was a scientist of the Age of Enlightenment, with an incredible literary and scientific culture, convinced that medicine was scientifically based and needed to be reformed. Based on scrupulous observations constantly repeated throughout his life, he made it possible to apply the law of similars through a set of coherent theorems governing therapeutic prescription. In short, without knowledge of the Organon, there can be no lasting success in homeopathic prescribing, nor in curing acute and chronic illnesses. Examination of the patient, miasmas, pathogenesis, dissimilar diseases... all the fundamental notions are explained with the extreme rigor and conciseness of the founder.

Volume 1 contains paragraphs 1 to 70 of the Organon, the fundamental theoretical principles that form the first part of this work of pedagogical adaptation. By bringing it up to date and explaining its historical context, with commentaries and additions of practical and clinical notes, this work aims to help all lovers of homeopathy rediscover this marvellous text that has not aged a day!

After defining the General Principles of the New Medicine in Volume One, Hahnemann goes on to describe the practical application of the medical art in paragraphs 71 to 291, defining three main lines of development:

1. Establishing pathological criteria
2. Therapeutic study of drugs
3. Therapeutic application of drugs and individualization,

This represents nothing less than the application of the medical art as a physician should know it.

We're not talking about scientific subjects such as immunology, pathology, histology and so on. Our focus here is on the essentials: diagnosis and treatment.

It will not escape the notice of any doctor capable of observing that, unfortunately, the classic diagnoses as we have been taught them are increasingly unlikely to be made, and that they are being replaced by syndromes that are less and less comprehensible, with pictures that are as vague as they are diffuse. This is, of course, a reflection of the decline in the population's level of health.
The physician must have studied these different illnesses and their attendant signs and symptoms. But the ideal, and indeed our duty, is to keep abreast of the latest discoveries in this field.