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APHORISM 3 & 4: KNOWLEDGE OF THE PHYSICIAN The knowledge is indispensable for a true practitioner of healing art, the physician who aspires to treat judiciously and rationally.  Dr Hahnemann has outlined the peculiarities of knowledge that a physician should possess.   APHORISM 3: If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every individual case of disease (knowledge of disease, indication), if he clearly perceives what is curative in medicines, that is to say, in each individual medicine (knowledge of medicinal powers), and if he knows how to adapt, according to clearly defined principles, what is curative in medicines to what he has discovered to be undoubtedly morbid in the patient, so that the recovery must ensue- to adapt it, as well in respect to the suitability of medicine most appropriate according to its mode of action to the case before him (choice of remedy, the medicine indicated), as also in respect to the exact ...
APHORISM 2: WHAT IS THE IDEAL CURE First is to know what is the mission of a physician. Aphorism 1 starts by defining it as to restore the sick to health, to cure. Next is to understand what is meant by cure. In the following aphorism, Dr Hahnemann outlines the gold standard for ideal clinical treatment and patient care by describing the  three pillars  of the ideal cure,  which should be the mission of a physician: 1. Rapid, gentle and permanent Rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health:   Treatment should work efficiently without causing severe side effects or trauma to the body, and resolve the root cause of an illness permanently, rather than simply suppressing symptoms temporarily. 2. Whole person and complete care ...or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent:  Effective treatment should provide  Holistic Care & Complete Pathogenesis Resolution.  This can be done by  treating the whole person and addressi...
APHORISM 1: MISSION OF THE PHYSICIAN Dr Hahnemann's "ORGANON" is the high water-mark of medical philosophy.   This guides a physician on how to practice the art of restoring a sick to health. Hahnemann continuously revised his guidelines in order to refine the treatment for better of his patients. These guidelines are written as aphorisms and will be useful for anyone seeking a sound health. Presented here is the last and the final edition of Organon, which was completed by Dr Hahnemann in 1842 was published in 1921, long after his death. This is comprised of 291 aphorisms.