Commentaries on Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine

this ePub file may be read with most eReader APPs on computer or tablet, and can be loaded on a Kindle device using the Mail to Kindle option or the Send to Kindle APP. The completed project works out to ~320 pages, including text from the public domain Wheeler, Devrient, and Dudgeon/Boericke translations of Hahnemann's work and my commentaries.

I’ve made it a habit, over the past 32 years, to read through and digest the Organon at the rate of 1 aphorism daily, completing a read in roughly the course of a year, in addition to consulting it in the course of my practice and in my teaching of homeopathic medicine. I’d highly recommend adopting that strategy with this work, in which I’ve elaborated on Hahnemann’s classic work with clarifications, where necessary, revisions of the English translations, and at times, critique of Hahnemann’s assertions from the unique perspective of living & practicing 2 centuries later; reflecting my collected notes from those many re-readings over 32 years. My goal is foremost to represent Hahnemann’s thoughts clearly, but to exercise his advice to aude sapere (dare to taste knowledge for oneself), under the clear understanding that Hahnemann’s intent was to dismantle the dogma that impaired physicians in their quest to serve suffering humanity, and not to merely replace this with a newly constructed system of dogma.

Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon of Medicine is the seminal work of our profession, intended not to birth an “alternative” system of medicine, but to revise medical care in general; to free medicine from constraining dogma and to bring it in line with the other natural sciences embracing Emmanuel Kant’s vision of the Age of Enlightenment. He first published the Organon in 1810 at the age of 55 as Organon der rationellen Heilkunde nach homöopathischen Gesetzen, (Organon of rational medicine according to homeopathic laws), and revised this in subsequent editions as Organon der Heilkunst (Organon of Medicine) in 1819, 1824, 1829, 1833 and 1843 (the year of Hahnemann’s death at 88) with this final (6th) edition held up from publication until 1921, when the manuscript was purchased from Hahnemann’s heirs by William Boericke and published both in German and in English translation. 

For this next generation of homeopathic practitioners. 

aude sapere.