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Aphorism 25

Aphorism 25 § 25 Aphorism 25 : Now, however, in all careful trials, pure experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the healing art, teaches us that actually that medicine which, in its action on the healthy human body, has demonstrated its power of producing the greatest number of symptoms…

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Aphorism 24

Aphorism 24 § 24 Aphorism 24 : There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besides the homoeopathic, by means of which we seek, for the totality of the symptoms of the case of disease, a medicine which among all medicines…

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Aphorism 23

Aphorism 23 § 23 Aphorism 23 : All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are far from being removed and annihilated by opposite symptoms of medicines (as in the antipathic, enantiopathic or palliative method), that, on the contrary, after transient, apparent alleviation,…

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Aphorism 22

Aphorism 22 § 22 Aphorism 22 Fifth Edition Aphorism 22 : But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to change them into health besides the totality of their signs and symptoms, and likewise medicines can show nothing curative besides their tendency to…

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Aphorism 21

Aphorism 21 § 21 Aphorism 21 : Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as in pure experiments with medicines conducted by the most accurate observers, nothing can be observed that can constitute them medicines or remedies except that power…

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Aphorism 18

Aphorism 18 § 18 Aphorism 18 : Fifth Edition From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms nothing can by any means be discovered in disease wherewith they could express their need of aid, it follows undeniably that the sum of all the symptoms in each individual…

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Aphorism 16

Aphorism 16 § 16 Aphorism 16 : Fifth Edition Our vital force, as a spirit-like dynamis, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences on the healthy organism caused by the external inimical forces that disturb the harmonious play of life, otherwise than in a spirit-like (dynamic) way, and in…

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