[Omeo33] Art 0001 - Homeopathy, 2006, 95 (3), 171-181

[Gino Santini]

Hahnemann's experiments with 50 millesimal potencies: a further review  
of his casebooks
U.C. Adler and M.S. Adler

Background - A review of Hahnemann's clinical records at the Institute  
for History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart  
shows that until the end of his life, Hahnemann continued to refine  
his clinical method, based on clinical cases. His “most perfected  
method” motivated him to write the sixth edition of the The Organon of  
the Healing Art, proposing solutions controlling the side effects he  
observed with repeated doses of homeopathic medicines. Unfortunately,  
this was published many years posthumously. The sixth edition of The  
Organon introduced the fifty-millesimal scale.
Objectives - To identify the clinical cases treated with fifty- 
millesimal potencies and analyze Hahnemann's use of them.
Results - 1836 prescriptions of fifty-millesimal potencies were found,  
between 1837 and 1843 in three phases: initially sporadic; later  
compared regularly to centesimal dynamizations; and finally  
systematically. Thirty five medicines were identified in fifty- 
millesimal prescriptions, seven in potencies higher than 10 and only 3  
(Sulphur, Mercurius solubilis and Rhus toxicodendron) used in the 30th  
degree. This accords with Haehl's information about the remedies in  
Hahnemann's case of fifty-millesimal potencies.
Conclusions - Hahnemann probably decided to write the sixth edition,  
in 1840, to incorporate his latest experience with the repetition of  
potentized doses and periodically modified potencies. He must have  
revised it after February 1842 to include his latest findings with  
fifty-millesimal potencies in ascending degrees. Hahnemann's  
conception about the superiority of the fifty-millesimal in comparison  
with the centesimal dynamization was based on a significant number of  
experiments with the two scales.

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