Aphorism 159 § 159 Aphorism 159 :  Fifth Edition The smaller the dose of the homoeopathic remedy is, so much the slighter and shorter is the apparent increase of the disease during the first hours. Sixth Edition The smaller the dose of the homoeopathic remedy is in the treatment of…

Aphorism 158 § 158 Aphorism 158 : This slight homoeopathic aggravation during the first hours – a very good prognostic that the acute disease will most probably yield to the first dose – is quite as it ought to be, as the medicinal disease must naturally be somewhat stronger than…

Aphorism 156 § 156 Aphorism 156 : There is, however, almost no homoeopathic medicine, be it ever so suitably chosen, that, § 157 § 157 Fifth Edition But though it is certain that a homoeopathically selected remedy does, by reason of its appropriateness and the minuteness of the dose, gently…

Aphorism 156 § 156 Aphorism 156 : There is, however, almost no homoeopathic medicine, be it ever so suitably chosen, that, especially if it should be given in an insufficiently minute dose, will not produce, in very irritable and sensitive patients, at least one trifling, unusual disturbance, some slight new…

Aphorism 155 § 155 Aphorism 155 : Fifth Edition I say without any considerable disturbance. For in the employment of this most appropriate homoeopathic remedy it is only the symptoms of the medicine that correspond to the symptoms of the disease that are called into play, the former occupying the…

Aphorism 154 § 154 Aphorism 154 : If the antitype constructed from the list of symptoms of the most suitable medicine contain those peculiar, uncommon, singular and distinguishing (characteristic) symptoms, which are to be met with in the disease to be cured in the greatest number and in the greatest…

Aphorism 153 § 153 Aphorism 153 :  Fifth Edition In this search for a homoeopathic specific remedy, that is to say, in this comparison of the collective symptoms of the natural disease with the list of symptoms of known medicines, in order to find among these an artificial morbific agent…

Aphorism 152 § 152 Aphorism 152 : The worse of the acute disease is, of so much the more numerous and striking symptoms is it generally composed, but with so much the more certainly may a suitable remedy for it be found, if there be a sufficient number of medicines…

Aphorism 151 § 151 Aphorism 151 : But if the patient complain of a few violent sufferings, the physician will usually find, on investigation, several other symptoms besides, although of a slighter character, which furnish a complete picture of the disease.

Aphorism 150 § 150 Aphorism 150 : If a patient complain of one or more trivial symptoms, that have been only observed a short time previously, the physician should not regard this as a fully developed disease but requires serious medical aid. A slight alteration in the diet and regimen…