SELECTED APHORISMS OF HIPPOCRATES

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APHORISM 77. If the urine contains thick, bran-like particles, it means an exanthem of the bladder.

COMMENT: This should hardly be accepted generally, because this symptom is found, aside from Antimonium tartaricum, Mercurius and Phosphorus especially in Valeriana, where it seems to be connected with hysterical pelvic symptoms, which it will cure quickly, as we have experienced.

APHORISM 78. Sudden blood with urine indicates rupture of a blood vessel in the kidneys.

COMMENT: It is questionable whether or not this is correct in all cases because we are not able to apply styptics directly to the kidneys. Furthermore this symptom is present in several exanthematic fevers (measles, scarlatina, small-pox) as well as from external injuries (Arnica) and from the abuse of alcohol (Nux vomica). Very common is this condition in cattle, especially when first turned into pasture, and in the fall, possibly due to noxious feed.

Here Ipecacuanha always helps within a few hours when given in the 200th centesimal potency, dissolved in water and poured in, usually in a single dose, provided the choice was correct; and we also mention this in order to induce colleagues who have theoretical doubts, and who often, without experience, gainsay, to make a trial. (Hering says: A doctor who considers it beneath his dignity to treat animals occasionally is a most miserable snob, and certainly not a real physician.).

APHORISM 83. Frequent nocturnal urination indicates scanty bowel discharge.

COMMENT: Extraordinarily frequent nocturnal urination we find prominently in: Alumina, Bryonia, Causticum, Graphites, Hepar, Kali carbonicum, Kreosotum, Lycopodium, Natrum carbonicum, Nux vomica, Rhus toxicodendron, Sabina, Squilla, Spigelia, Sepia and Sulphur; and even these are the very ones which have scanty, difficult and insufficient stool in the proving. This again proves that in homoeopathy harmony prevails, and that everywhere the results are the same when one compares the action of nature with the homoeopathic teaching. Hence we believe from experience, which is the best teacher, such concord to be the strongest proof of the inner truth of the homoeopathic healing art.

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C. V Boenninghausen
Dr. Boenninghausen was born to one of the oldest noble families of Westphalia, Germany. His full name was Clemens Maria Franz Baron Von Boenninghausen. He was Baron by inheritance, a lawyer by profession, and an agriculturist by natural inclination. After his successful treatment with homeopathy, Boenninghausen took deep interest in studying homoeopathy and devoted his remaining years to the cause of homeopathy. Most of his systematic works concerning homoeopathy were published between 1828 and 1846. Boenninghausen died at the ripe age of 79 in 1864.
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