{"id":36310,"date":"2020-03-03T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeobook.com\/?p=36310"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:43:58","slug":"the-medical-observer-by-dr-samuel-hahnemann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeobook.com\/the-medical-observer-by-dr-samuel-hahnemann\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Observer by Dr Samuel Hahnemann"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dr Pooja\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n It is one of the Lesser Writing of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, this article found in the printed version of Hahnemann\u2019s Reine Arzneimittellehre\/ Materia Medica Pura<\/b> volume 2, 2nd<\/sup> edition 1825. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Observation means notice, watch carefully, make a remnant, and obey law or rule.<\/p>\n So true is that the careful observer alone can become a true healer of diseases.<\/p>\n Dr Hahnemann in his Organon of Medicine<\/b> in 6th<\/sup> aphorism says, a true practitioner of the healing art should be an unprejudiced observer. The unprejudiced observer-well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience. \u00a0 <\/span>Observation is finding a fact. But if we want to be true seekers of truth we must develop strict \u201cintellectual morality\u201d of recording all facts that come to our notice, instead of reading into things of our preconceived notions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our observation is apt to be vitiated by two factors, viz, Non-Observation and Mal-Observation. We undertake observation because we have some purpose in view. It may happen that we have some favorite theory and we observe those facts only which go to support that theory. We may have such an unconscious bias, that facts which do not support our theory are overlooked and escape observations. This is an instance of Non-observation. On the other hand, Mal-observation is the fallacy arising out of the wrong interpretation of sense-perception. Non-observation is a negative fallacy, because in it we do not observe something; Mal-observation is a positive fallacy, because, in it we observe a thing wrongly. Most of the observations are vitiated by mixing observations with unwarranted assumptions and inferences. So, observer must be free from all bias, preconceived notions and be ready to accept facts and truths induced from them, even if these truths be radically opposite to those popularly held.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr Kent in his lectures on Homoeopathic philosophy<\/b>, speaks about Unprejudiced observer is the one who notes only change of state as shown by symptoms. Hahnemann does not speak of changes of tissues or changes in the organs, but changes of state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How can we become unprejudiced observer?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So a true observer is the one who is aware of the uselessness of speculations and take note only of the signs and symptoms of the patient, because the physician cannot see the vital force which produces the disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/span>References:<\/p>\n Dr. Pooja<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> Dr Pooja\u00a0 It is one of the Lesser Writing of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, this article found in the printed version of Hahnemann\u2019s Reine Arzneimittellehre\/ Materia Medica Pura volume 2, 2nd edition 1825. \u00a0 Observation means […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[7673],"class_list":{"0":"post-36310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-organon-and-philosophy","8":"tag-medical-observer-by-dr-samuel-hahnemann"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
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