PHILOSOPHY- SAMUEL HAHNEMANN

PHILOSOPHY- SAMUEL HAHNEMANN Materia Medica Pura Vol II The Medical observer (a fragment) In order to observ well, the medical doctor, requiers to have, what you will not find in an ordinary doctor, even in a moderate grade, the capacity and the habit to observ, carefully and correctly, the phenomenom that has taken place in the natural illness, and in the what manifest as artificial morbid states produced by medicines, when they are experimented over the healthy body and the ability to discover in the most appropiate natural expressions. In order to perceive exactly, what should be observed in the patients, we should aim our thoughts over the Materia we have on hand, that comes from ourselves, as if this was, if we closed our speaking, ourselves and with all the power to concentrate in it, so that nothing that is present would have to do with the subject, and that could be verified by all sences and could have escaped for us. Poetic fantasy, fantastic judgement and speculations, should be suspended in the mean time, and all forced reasons, forced interpretations and a tendency to set aside things. The work of the OBSERVER is to take note of the phenomenom going on, its attention should be in watching over it not only to watch what is present and that will not escape to its observation, but what he is observing will understand it right like it is. The previous capability of the observer, never is a natural faculty, it has to be adquired by practice essentialy, refyning and regulating the perceptions of its sences, this means, Exercising a severe critic considering the fast impression that we have of the external objects and at the same time the coldness necessary, calm and firmness of judgement, that must be held together with a constant distrustfulness of our power of apprehension. By Beatriz H Hill