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Organon of the Medical Art By Wenda O'Reilly ( Birdcage Press )
Release Date: 1996-06-25
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Book Description
Based on treating the whole patient rather than isolated symptoms, homeopathy uses minute doses of naturally derived medicine to stimulate the patient’s own life force. Physician Samuel Hahnemann’s pioneering text Organon of the Medical Art, first published in 1810, remains the foundation for all study in this field. Wenda O’Reilly worked with translator Stephen Decker to produce a version of the book that would preserve Hahnemann’s insights while adapting it to the needs of the modern general reader. The book is restructured as a series of chapters and sections, and newly added side notes and footnotes, a contextual glossary, and an index vastly increase the book’s usefulness.
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 The ultimate homeopathic HOW TO book from the source
As a graduate of a four year homeopathic post graduate school I can tell you no other book is more often reread by the well trained homeopath than the Organon of Medicine by homeopathy's founder and furturistic thinker: Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. MANY are the translations I have struggled through. Organon of the Medical Arts is THE translation to place between your hands in order to practice classical homeopathy as it was intended. This book is so well translated from German, so thorough, so DIGESTABLE that there is much to apply with much less struggle to Understand.
Every serious student of homeopathy and every practioner will come to own this translation. Every mind, healthy enough to be Open will too!
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Excellent translation, wonderful annotations! ( leaping_lemur )
Like many, I've read The Organon before, but usually came away from each aphorism with some befuddlement. The Decker translation, with Dr. O'Reilly's editing and annotations, really opens the door for me to a deeper understanding of Hahnemann and homeopathy itself. The introduction, notes, glosses, and other aids make this the best English version, in my opinion. As Dr. Hahnemann was reported to have said, this book should be read twice a year for the first fifty years, and then once annually thereafter!
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 Interesting from a historical perspective ( calvinnme )
I've had numerous health problems over the years that are somewhat off the beaten track, and as a result I ran across a practitioner of Heilkunst. This is their clinical bible. When I found this practitioner unwilling to reveal exactly what it was they were supplying in the way of a remedy, unlike other practitioners of natural medicine who will tell you what supplements to take and what you are doing wrong, I got this book and decided to see what was going on. After going through it, I am glad I decided not to pursue this form of treatment.
The book is interesting from a historical perspective. The real author of the contents of the Organon, Samuel Hahnemann, had some real points of contention with traditional (allopathic) medicine as it was practiced in 1800, and rightly so. Medicine was more likely to harm you than help you as the germ theory of infectious disease had not even yet developed. Hospitals were a place of supervised death rather than a place where scientifically proven diagnostic methods were used to determine treatments and actually cure people. Hahnemann's resulting methods look very odd today in the face of much improved scientific knowledge, but in 1800 they made as much sense as what traditional doctors were doing. Probably the most interesting of Hahnemann's theories is that on the miasm. Hahnemann believed, and taught in this book that there are three "miasms" that are the cause of disease in all people and thus must be rooted out to make an ill person well.
In the last one hundred years, science has caused great strides in modern medicine, and doctors can now adequately explain and treat diseases in ways that were impossible with the crude information and techniques available before. Thus, there was a oorresponding decline in th popularity of the homeopathic method. Homeopathy still exists, though, and probably always will in some form, because Hahnemann's approach requires the practitioner to get close to the patient, to listen to him/her, and to design custom mysterious "remedies". This warm friendly approach to healing seems appealing, especially if you have an oddball combination of symptoms that can't be solved in 10 minutes by an HMO physician who pretends to listen to you as he/she scribbles out a prescription and hastily goes on to the next patient. Even if the homeopathic practitioner can't fix you, at least they listen! Thus, I enjoyed reading this book to see what state medical science was in 200 years ago, but I see no scientific method worthy of giving the methods described in this book a try if you want reliable, real results.
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S. Williams ( sawrshom )
After years of struggling with other translations of the Organon finally one that is a pleasure to read! The ability of Mr Decker to illuminate Hahnemann's brilliance is genius in and of itself! Thank you Wenda Brewster O'Reilly....Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!
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A "must" for any student of homeopathy! ( rlranchpress )
The Organon is essentially the "bible" of homeopathy. Although it was written nearly 200 years ago, it still defines what homeopathy is and what homeopathic practice is all about. That's why the Organon is required reading for all serious students of homeopathy, and most practitioners refer to it on a regular basis as well.
O'Reilly's translation of the Organon is the best and most accessible of them all. It brings the book to life! All of the older translations have pretty much been relegated to the backburner since this one came out. If you are seriously interested in homeopathy, this book is a must-have. I refer to it on a regular basis in my own work.
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