Aphorism 94
§ 94 While inquiring into the state of chronic disease, the particular circumstances of the patient with regard to his…
§ 94 While inquiring into the state of chronic disease, the particular circumstances of the patient with regard to his…
§ 93 If the disease has been brought on a short time or, in the case of a chronic affection,…
§ 92 But if it be a disease of a rapid course, and if its serious character admit of no…
§ 91 The symptoms and feelings of the patient during a previous course of medicine do not furnish the pure…
§ 90 When the physician has finished writing down these particulars, he then makes a note of what he himself…
§ 89 When the patient (for it is on him we have chiefly to rely for a description of his…
§ 88 If in these voluntary details nothing has been mentioned respecting several parts or functions of the body or…
§ 87 And thus the physician obtains more precise information respecting each particular detail, but without ever framing his questions…
§ 86 When the narrators have finished what they would say of their own accord, the physician then reverts to…
§ 85 He begins a fresh line with every new circumstance mentioned by the patient or his friends, so that…
§ 84 The patient details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what they heard him complain of,…
§ 83 This individualizing examination of a case of disease, for which I shall only give in this place general…
§ 82 Although, by the discovery of that great source of chronic diseases, as also by the discovery of the…
§ 81 The fact that this extremely ancient infecting agent has gradually passed, in some hundreds of generations, through many…
§ 80 Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasms just named, however, is the chronic miasm of…
§ 79 Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic miasmatic disease, which when uncured…
§ 78 § 78 Fifth Edition The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, which…
§ 77 Those diseases are inappropriately named chronic, which persons incur who expose themselves continually to avoidable noxious influences, who…
§ 76 § 76 Fifth Edition Only for natural diseases has the beneficent Deity granted us, in Homoeopathy, the means…
§ 75 These inroads on human health effected by the allopathic non-healing art (more particularly in recent times) are of…
§ 74 § 74 Fifth Edition Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon those so commonly met with, artificially…
§ 73 As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting…
§ 72 With respect to the first point, the following will serve as a general preliminary view. The disease to…
§ 71 As it is now no longer a matter of doubt that the diseases of mankind consist merely of…
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§ 70 § 70 Fifth Edition From what has been already adduced we cannot fail to draw the following inferences:…
§ 69 § 69 Fifth Edition In the antipathic (palliative) mode of treatment, however precisely the reverse of this takes…
§ 68 § 68 Fifth Edition In homoeopathic cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine…
§ 67 § 67 Fifth Edition These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously offer themselves to our notice and experience, explain to…
§ 66 An obvious antagonistic secondary action, however, is, as may readily be conceived, not to be noticed from the…
§ 65 Examples of (A) are familiar to all. A hand bathed in hot water is at first much warmer…
§ 64 During the primary action of the artificial morbific agents (medicines) on our healthy body, as seen in the…
§ 63 Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine, deranges more or less the vital force, and causes…
§ 62 But on what this pernicious result of the palliative, antipathic treatment and the efficacy of the reverse, the…
§ 61 Had physicians been capable of reflecting on the sad results of the antagonistic employment of medicines, they had…
§ 60 § 60 Fifth Edition If these ill-effects are produced, as may very naturally be expected from the antipathic…
§ 59 Important symptoms of persistent diseases have never yet been treated with such palliative, antagonistic remedies, without the opposite…
§ 58 If, in estimating the value of this mode of employing medicines, we should even pass over the circumstance…
§ 57 In order to carry into practice this antipathic method, the ordinary physician gives, for a single troublesome symptom…
§ 56 § 56 Fifth Edition The third and only remaining method1 of employing medicines in diseases, which, besides the…
§ 55 § 55 Fifth Edition The second mode of employing medicines in diseases, the allopathic or homoeopathic, which, without any pathological relation to what…
§ 54 § 54 Fifth Edition This, the homoeopathic way, must, moreover, as observed above (§§ 43-49) be the only…
§ 53 § 53 Fifth Edition True, mild cures take place, as we see, only in a homoeopathic way –…
§ 52 § 52 Fifth Edition Surely no intelligent physician, after these examples as clear as daylight, can still go…
§ 51 This therapeutic law is rendered obvious to all intelligent minds by these instances, and they are amply sufficient…
§ 50 Mighty Nature herself has, as we see, at her command, as instruments for effecting homoeopathic cures, little besides…
§ 49 We should have been able to meet with many more real, natural homoeopathic cures of this kind if,…
§ 48 Neither in the course of nature, as we see from all the above examples, nor by the physician’s…
§ 47 Nothing could teach the physician in a plainer and more convincing manner than the above what kind of…
§ 46 Many examples might be adduced of disease which, in the course of nature, have been homoeopathically cured by…
§ 45 § 45 Fifth Edition No! Two diseases, differing, it is true, in kind1 but very similar in their phenomena…
§ 44 § 44 Fifth Edition Two diseases similar to each other can neither (as is asserted of dissimilar disease…
§ 43 Totally different, however, is the result when two similar disease meet together in the organism, that is to…
§ 42 Nature herself permits, as has been stated, in some cases, the simultaneous occurrence of two (indeed, of three)…
§ 41 § 41 Fifth Edition Much more frequent than the natural diseases associating with and complicating one another in…
§ 40 III. Or the new disease, after having long acted on the organism, at length joins the old one…
§ 39 Now the adherents of the ordinary school of medicine saw all this for so many centuries; they saw…
§ 38 II. Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger. In this case the disease under which the patient…
§ 37 § 37 Fifth Edition So, also under ordinary medical treatment, an old chronic disease remains uncured and unaltered…
§ 36 I. If the two dissimilar diseases meeting together in the human being be of equal strength, or still…
§ 35 In order to illustrate this, we shall consider in three different cases, as well what happens in nature…
§ 34 § 34 Fifth Edition The greater strength of the artificial diseases producible by medicines is, however, not the…
§ 33 In accordance with this fact, it is undeniably shown by all experience 1 that the living organism is…
§ 32 But it is quite otherwise with the artificial morbific agents which we term medicines. Every real medicine, namely,…
§ 31 The inimical forces, partly psychical, partly physical, to which our terrestrial existence is exposed, which are termed morbific…
§ 30 § 30 Fifth Edition The human body appears to admit of being much more powerfully affected in its…
§ 29 § 29 Fifth Edition As every disease (not strictly belonging to the domain of surgery) depends only on…
§ 28 As this natural law of cure manifests itself in every pure experiment and every true observation in the…
§ 27 The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on their symptoms, similar to the disease but superior to it…
§ 26 This depends on the following homoeopathic law of nature which was sometimes, indeed, vaguely surmised but not hitherto…
§ 25 Now, however, in all careful trials, pure experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the healing art, teaches…
§ 24 There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besides…
§ 23 All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are far from…
§ 22 Fifth Edition But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to…
§ 21 Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as…
§ 20 Fifth edition This spirit-like power to alter man’s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies…
§ 19 Now, as diseases are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which…
§ 18 Fifth Edition From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms nothing can by any means…
§ 17 Fifth Edition Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the perceptible signs…
§ 16 Fifth Edition Our vital force, as a spirit-like dynamis, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences on…
§ 15 Fifth Edition The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the…
§ 14 There is, in the interior of man, nothing morbid that is curable and no invisible morbid alteration that…
§ 13 Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by the…
§ 12 Fifth Edition It is the morbidly affected vital force alone that produces disease1, so that the morbid phenomena…
§ 11 Fifth Edition When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere…
§ 10 Fifth Edition The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation1,…
§ 9 In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body…
§ 8 It is not conceivable, not can it be proved by any experience in the world, that, after removal…
§ 7 Now, as in a disease, from which no manifest exciting or maintaining cause (causa occasionalis) has to be…
§ 6 Fifth Edition The unprejudiced observer – well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no…
§ 5 Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are the particulars of the most probable exciting cause…
§ 4 He is likewise a preserver of health if he knows the things that derange health and cause disease,…
§ 3 If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every…
§ 2 The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation…
§ 1 The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is…