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.
Aphorism 3 § 3 Aphorism 3 : If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every individual case of disease (knowledge of disease, indication), if he clearly perceives what is curative in medicines, that is to say, in each individual medicine…
Aphorism 2 § 2 Aphorism 2 : The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles
Aphorism 1: Mission of the physician. The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.
