Aphorism 13 § 13 Aphorism 13 : Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by the allopathists, as a thing separate from the living whole, from the organism and its animating vital force, and hidden in the interior, be it ever…

Aphorism 12 § 12 Aphorism 12 : Fifth Edition It is the morbidly affected vital force alone that produces disease1, so that the morbid phenomena perceptible to our senses express at the same time all the internal change, that is to say, the whole morbid derangement of the internal dynamis;…

Aphorism 11 § 11 Aphorism 11 : Fifth Edition When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged by the dynamic1 influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life; it is only the…

Aphorism 10 § 10 Aphorism 10 : Fifth Edition The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation1, it derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital force) which animates the material…

Aphorism 9 § 9 Aphorism 9 : In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so…

Aphorism 8 § 8 Aphorism 8 : It is not conceivable, not can it be proved by any experience in the world, that, after removal of all the symptoms of the disease and of the entire collection of the perceptible phenomena, there should or could remain anything else besides health,…

Aphorism 7 § 7 Aphorism 7 : Now, as in a disease, from which no manifest exciting or maintaining cause (causa occasionalis) has to be removed1, we can perceive nothing but the morbid symptoms, it must (regard being had to the possibility of a miasm, and attention paid to the…

Aphorism 6 § 6 Aphorism 6 : Fifth Edition The unprejudiced observer – well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience – be his powers of penetration ever so great, takes note of nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the…

Aphorism 5 § 5 Aphorism 5 : Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are the particulars of the most probable exciting cause of the acute disease, as also the most significant points in the whole history of the chronic disease, to enable him to discover its fundamental…

Aphorism 4 § 4 Aphorism 4 : He is likewise a preserver of health if he knows the things that derange health and cause disease, and how to remove them from persons in health.