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The six editions of the Organon
Edition 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th (Last edition during the
life time of Hahnemann)
6th (posthumous)
Year of
publication
1810, Torgau 1818-9, Leipzig 1824, Koethen 1829, Koethen 1833, Koethen 1921, Leipzig
By Richard Haehl in German
(manuscript completed 1842)
Publisher Arnold of Dresden.
Original
Title
Organon der
Rationellen
Heilkunde
Organon der Heilkunst
English
title
(Organon of the
Rational Art of
Healing /~ of
Rational Medical
Science/ ~ of
Rational Healing /
~of rational
therapeutics)
Organon of the Art of Healing/ ~ of the Healing Art/~of the Medical Art +Organon of medicine
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motto from German poet
Gellert
The Truth We
Mortals Need
Us Blest To make
And Keep
The All-Wise
Slightly Covered
Over
But Did Not Bury
Deep.
Horace's"AUDE SAPERE". (dare to know/~to be wise)
Main
English
translations
Dr C.E. Wheeler
1913;
Dr Mahendra Singh
2003
I st English Translation.Charles H.
Devrient 1833;
Dr Mahendra Singh 2003
North American Academy of
Healing Art of Hering 1836.
R.E. Dudgeon 1849;
C.Wesselhoeft 1876;
B. Fincke 1889
Dr W. Boericke 1922;
Knzli, Naude and Pendleton
1982;
Steven Decker 1996
Other
translations
I st Translation of
Organon in
French: E.G.
Brunnow 1824
French
translations: E.G.
Brunnow 1832
and A.J.L. Jourdan
1832
(French) by Pierre Schimdt.
No. of
aphorisms
271 318(in effect315) 320(317
effectively)
292 294 291
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Significant
concepts
and terms
introduced
Similimum
similia similibus
curentur
introduced the noun
homeopathy
Drug proving
2 extra paras on
Mesmerism
Chronic Diseases- Psora
30c as standard high potency, as a
single dry dose
Repeat prescribing only if
symptoms relapse (watch and wait)
'Tolle causam' was introduced
Doctrine of Vital Force
Doctrine of drug dynamisation
Liquid potencies
Use of higher potencies
posology
Repeated dosing
Remedy
Pharmaconomy
administration by olfaction
Administration in a watery
solution
Isopathy
LM potencies
Repetition with ascending
potencies;
Vital Force gives way to Vital
Principle/energy
Dynamic Influence was replaced
by Dynamis
Aphorism on Massage (290) and
Water baths (291) were
introduced.
Other
points to
remember
the termlife force
appeared only
once(Org 1: 227)
The term
rational, was
omitted except in
one footnote ( 6).
Table of
Contents was
published from
this edition
onwards.
the term
antipsoric here
for the first time
Introduction to Organon proper
was introduced in this edition.
Appendix by R.E.Dudgeon.
Introduction by James Krauss.
For the first time Hahnemann also
included his vision of homeopathic
hospitals and education into the
Organon