Aphorism 38
§ 38 II. Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger. In this case the disease under which the patient…
§ 38 II. Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger. In this case the disease under which the patient…
§ 37 § 37 Fifth Edition So, also under ordinary medical treatment, an old chronic disease remains uncured and unaltered…
§ 36 I. If the two dissimilar diseases meeting together in the human being be of equal strength, or still…
§ 35 In order to illustrate this, we shall consider in three different cases, as well what happens in nature…
§ 34 § 34 Fifth Edition The greater strength of the artificial diseases producible by medicines is, however, not the…
§ 33 In accordance with this fact, it is undeniably shown by all experience 1 that the living organism is…
§ 32 But it is quite otherwise with the artificial morbific agents which we term medicines. Every real medicine, namely,…
§ 31 The inimical forces, partly psychical, partly physical, to which our terrestrial existence is exposed, which are termed morbific…
§ 30 § 30 Fifth Edition The human body appears to admit of being much more powerfully affected in its…
§ 3 If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every…
§ 293 I find it necessary to allude here to animal magnetism, as it is termed, or rather mesmerism (as…
§ 292 Even the external surface of the body, covered as it is with skin and epidermis, is not insusceptible…
§ 291 Fifth Edition* Even those organs which have lost their peculiar sense, e.g., a tongue and palate that have…
§ 290 Fifth Edition* Besides the stomach, the tongue and the mouth are the parts most susceptible to the medicinal…
§ 29 § 29 Fifth Edition As every disease (not strictly belonging to the domain of surgery) depends only on…
§ 289 Fifth Edition* Every part of our body that possesses the sense of touch is also capable of receiving…
§ 288 Fifth Edition* The action of medicines in the liquid from 1 upon the living human body takes place…
§ 287 Fifth Edition But in this increase of action by the mixture of the dose of medicine with a…
§ 286 Fifth Edition For the same reason the effect of a homoeopathic dose of medicine increases, the greater the…
§ 285 Fifth Edition The diminution of the dose essential for homoeopathic use, will also be promoted by diminishing its…
§ 284 Fifth Edition The action of a dose, moreover, dose not diminish in the direct ratio of the quantity…
§ 283 Fifth Edition Now, in order to act really in conformity with nature, the true physician will prescribe his…
§ 282 Fifth Edition The smallest possible dose of homoeopathic medicine capable of producing only the very slightest homoeopathic aggravation,…
§ 281 Fifth Edition Every patient is, especially in his diseased point, capable of being influenced in an incredible degree…
§ 280 Fifth Edition This incontrovertible axiom of experience is the standard of measurement by which the doses of all…
§ 28 As this natural law of cure manifests itself in every pure experiment and every true observation in the…
§ 279 Fifth Edition This pure experience shows UNIVERSALLY, that if the disease do not manifestly depend on a considerable…
§ 278 Fifth Edition Here the question arises, what is this most suitable degree of minuteness for sure and gentle…
§ 277 For the same reason, and because a medicine, provided the dose of it was sufficiently small, is all…
§ 276 Fifth Edition For this reason, a medicine, even though it may be homoeopathically suited to the case of…
§ 275 The suitableness of a medicine for any given case of disease does not depend on its accurate homoeopathic…
§ 274 As the true physician finds in simple medicines, administered singly and uncombined, all that he can possibly desire…
§ 273 Fifth Edition It is not conceivable how the slightest dubiety could exist as to whether it was more…
§ 272 Fifth Edition In no case is it requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicinal substance at…
§ 271 Fifth Edition All other substances adapted for medicinal use – except sulphur, which has of late years been…
§ 270 Fifth Edition Thus two drops of the fresh vegetable juice mingled with equal parts of alcohol are diluted…
§ 27 The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on their symptoms, similar to the disease but superior to it…
§ 269 Fifth Edition The homoeopathic system of medicine develops for its use, to a hitherto unheard-of degree, the spirit-like…
§ 268 The other exotic plants, barks, seeds and roots that cannot be obtained in the fresh state the sensible…
§ 267 We gain possession of the powers of indigenous plants and of such as may be had in a…
§ 266 Substances belonging to the animal and vegetable kingdoms possess their medicinal qualities most perfectly in their raw state.1…
§ 265 Fifth Edition It should be a matter of conscience with him to be thoroughly convinced in every case…
§ 264 The true physician must be provided with genuine medicines of unimpaired strength, so that he may be able…
§ 263 The desire of the patient affected by an acute disease with regard to food and drink is certainly…
§ 262 In acute diseases, on the other hand – except in cases of mental alienation – the subtle, unerring…
§ 261 The most appropriate regimen during the employment of medicine in chronic diseases consists in the removal of such…
§ 260 Fifth Edition Hence the careful investigation into such obstacles to cure is so much the more necessary in…
§ 26 This depends on the following homoeopathic law of nature which was sometimes, indeed, vaguely surmised but not hitherto…
§ 259 Considering the minuteness of the doses necessary and proper in homoeopathic treatment, we can easily understand that during…
§ 258 The true practitioner, moreover, will not in his practice with mistrustful weakness neglect the employment of those remedies…
§ 257 The true physician will take care to avoid making favorite remedies of medicines, the employment of which he…
§ 256 Fifth Edition On the other hand, if the patient mention the occurrence of some fresh accidents and symptoms…
§ 255 Fifth Edition But even with such individuals we may convince ourselves on this point by going with them…
§ 254 The other new or increased symptoms or, on the contrary, the diminution of the original ones without any…
§ 253 Among the signs that, in all diseases, especially in such as are of an acute nature, inform us…
§ 252 But should we find, during the employment of the other medicines in chronic (psoric) diseases, that the best…
§ 251 There are some medicines (e.g., ignatia, also bryonia and rhus, and sometimes belladonna) whose power of altering man’s…
§ 250 When, to the observant practitioner who accurately investigates the state of the disease, it is evident, in urgent…
§ 25 Now, however, in all careful trials, pure experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the healing art, teaches…
§ 249 Every medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its action, produces new and…
§ 248 § 248 Fifth Edition The dose of the same medicine may be repeated several times according to circumstances,…
§ 247 § 247 Fifth Edition Under these conditions, the smallest doses of the best selected homoeopathic medicine may be…
§ 246 § 246 Fifth Edition On the other hand, the slowly progressive amelioration consequent on a very minute dose,…
§ 245 § 245 Fifth Edition Having thus seen what attention should, in the homoeopathic treatment, be paid to the…
§ 244 The intermittent fevers endemic in marshy districts and tracts of country frequently exposed to inundations, give a great…
§ 243 In those often very pernicious intermittent fevers which attack a single person, not residing in a marshy district,…
§ 242 If, however, in such an epidemic intermittent fever the first paroxysms have been left uncured, or if the…
§ 241 Epidemics of intermittent fever, in situations where none are endemic, are of the nature of chronic diseases, composed…
§ 240 But if the remedy found to be the homoeopathic specific for a prevalent epidemic of intermittent fever do…
§ 24 There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besides…
§ 239 As almost every medicine causes in its pure action a special, peculiar fever and even a kind of…
§ 238 Fifth Edition It is only when the suitable medicine has with a single dose destroyed several fits and…
§ 237 But if the stage of apyrexia be very short, as happens in some very bad fevers, or if…
§ 236 The most appropriate and efficacious time for administering the medicine in these cases is immediately or very soon…
§ 235 With regard to the intermittent fevers, 1 that prevail sporadically or epidemically (not those endemically located in marshy…
§ 234 Those apparently non-febrile, typical, periodically recurring morbid states just alluded to observed in one single patient at a…
§ 233 The typical intermittent disease are those where a morbid state of unvarying character returns at a tolerably fixed…
§ 232 These latter, alternating diseases, are also very numerous,1 but all belong to the class of chronic diseases; they…
§ 231 The intermittent disease deserve a special consideration, as well those that recur at certain periods – like the…
Aphorism 230 § 230 If the antipsoric remedies selected for each particular case of mental or emotional disease (there are…
§ 23 All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are far from…
§ 229 On the other hand, contradiction, eager explanations, rude corrections and invectives, as also weak, timorous yielding, are quite…
§ 228 In mental and emotional diseases resulting from corporeal maladies, which can only be cured by homoeopathic antipsoric medicine…
§ 227 But the fundamental cause in these cases also is a psoric miasm, which was only not yet quite…
§ 226 It is only such emotional diseases as these, which were first engendered and subsequently kept up by the…
§ 225 There are, however, as has just been stated, certainly a few emotional diseases which have not merely been…
§ 224 If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really…
§ 223 But if the antipsoric treatment be omitted, then we may almost assuredly expect, from a much slighter cause…
§ 222 But such a patient, who has recovered from an acute mental or emotional disease by the use of…
§ 221 If, however, insanity or mania (caused by fright, vexation, the abuse of spirituous liquors, etc.) have suddenly broken…
§ 220 By adding to this the state of the mind and disposition accurately observed by the patient’s friends and…
§ 22 Fifth Edition But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to…
§ 219 A comparison of these previous symptoms of the corporeal disease with the traces of them that still remain,…
§ 218 To this collection of symptoms belongs in the first place to accurate description of all the phenomena of…
§ 217 In these diseases we must be very careful to make ourselves acquainted with the whole of the phenomena,…
§ 216 The cases are not rare in which a so-called corporeal disease that threatens to be fatal – a…
§ 215 Almost all the so-called mental and emotional diseases are nothing more than corporeal diseases in which the symptom…
§ 214 The instructions I have to give relative to the cure of mental diseases may be confined to a…
§ 213 We shall, therefore, never be able to cure conformably to nature – that is to say, homoeopathically –…
§ 212 The Creator of therapeutic agents has also had particular regard to this main feature of all diseases, the…