Aphorism 176 § 176 Aphorism 176 : There are, however, still a few diseases, which, after the most careful initial examination (§ 84 – § 98), present but one or two severe, violent symptoms, while all the others are but indistinctly perceptible.

Aphorism 175 § 175 Aphorism 175 : In one-sided diseases of the first kind it is often to be attributed to the medical observer’s want of discernment that he does not fully discover the symptoms actually present which would enable him to complete the sketch of the portrait of the disease.

Aphorism 174 § 174 Aphorism 174 : Their principal symptom may be either an internal complaint (e.g. a headache of many years’ duration, a diarrhoea of long standing, an ancient cardialgia, etc.), or it may be an affection more of an external kind. Diseases of the latter character are generally distinguished by the name of…

Aphorism 173 § 173 Aphorism 173 : The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms, and on that account to be less amenable to cure, are those which may be termed one-sided, because they display only one or two principal symptoms which obscure almost all the others. They belong chiefly to the class…

Aphorism 172 § 172 Aphorism 172 : A similar difficulty in the way of the cure occurs from the symptoms of the disease being too few – a circumstances that deserves our careful attention, for by its removal almost all the difficulties that can lie in the way of this most perfect of all possible…

Aphorism 171 § 171 Aphorism 171 : Fifth Edition In non-venereal chronic disease, those, therefore, that arise from psora, we often require, in order to effect a cure, to give several antipsoric remedies in succession, every successive one being homoeopathically chosen in consonance with the group of symptoms remaining after the expiry of the action…

Aphorism 170 § 170 Aphorism 170 : Hence in this as in every case where a change of the morbid state has occurred, the remaining set of symptoms now present must be inquired into, and (without paying any attention to the medicine which at first appeared to be the next in point of suitableness) another…

Aphorism 169 § 169 Aphorism 169 : Fifth Edition If, on the first examination of a disease and the first selection of a medicine, we should find that the totality of the symptoms of the disease would not be effectually covered by the disease elements of a single medicine – owing to the insufficient number…

Aphorism 168 § 168 Aphorism 168 : We shall then be able much more readily to discover, among the known medicines, an analogue to the morbid state before us, a single dose of which, if it do not entirely destroy the disease, will advance it considerably on the way to be cured. And thus we…

Aphorism 167 § 167 Aphorism 167 : Thus if there occur, during the use of this imperfectly homoeopathic remedy first employed, accessory symptoms of some moment, then, in the case of acute diseases, we do not allow this first dose to exhaust its action, nor leave the patient to the full duration of the action…