Local Maladies

Organon Aphorism §185

Among the one-sided disease an important place is occupied by the so-called local maladies, by which term is signified those changes and ailments that appear on the external parts of the body. Till now the idea prevalent in the schools was that these parts were alone morbidly affected, and that the rest of the body did not participate in the disease – a theoretical, absurd doctrine, which has led to the most disastrous medical treatment.

Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th edition (Boericke translation, public domain).

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