§ 129 If the effects that result from such a dose are but slight, a few more globules may be…

§ 128 § 128 Fifth Edition The most recent observations have shown that medicinal substances, when taken in their crude…

§ 127 The medicines must be tested on both males and females, in order also to reveal the alterations of…

§ 126 § 126 Fifth Edition The person who is proving the medicine must during the whole time of the…

§ 125 During all the time the experiment lasts the diet must be strictly regulated; it should be as much…

§ 124 For these experiments every medicinal substance must be employed quite alone and perfectly pure, without the admixture of…

§ 123 Each of these medicines must be taken in a perfectly simple, unadulterated form; the indigenous plants in the…

§ 122 In these experiments – on which depends the exactitude of the whole medical art, and the weal of…

§ 121 In proving medicines to ascertain their effects on the healthy body, it must be borne in mind that…

§ 120 Therefore medicines, on which depend man’s life and death, disease and health, must be thoroughly and most carefully…

§ 119 As certainly as every species of plant differs in its external form, mode of life and growth, in…

§ 118 Every medicine exhibits peculiar actions on the human frame, which are not produced in exactly the same manner…

§ 117 To the latter category belong the so-called idiosyncrasies, by which are meant peculiar corporeal constitutions which, although otherwise…

§ 116 Some symptoms are produced by the medicines more frequently – that is to say, in many individuals, others…

§ 115 Among these symptoms, there occur in the case of some medicines not a few which are partially, or…

§ 114 With the exception of these narcotic substances, in experiments with moderate doses of medicine on healthy bodies, we…

§ 113 The only exceptions to this are the narcotic medicines. As they, in their primary action, take away sometimes…

§ 112 In those older prescriptions of the often dangerous effects of medicines ingested in excessively large doses we notice…

§ 111 The agreement of my observations on the pure effects of medicines with these older ones – although they…

§ 110 I saw, moreover, that the morbid lesions which previous authors had observed to result from medicinal substances when…

§ 109 I was the first that opened up this path, which I have pursued with a perseverance that could…

§ 108 There is, therefore, no other possible way in which the peculiar effects of medicines on the health of…

§ 107 If, in order to ascertain this, medicines be given to sick persons only, even though they be administered…

§ 106 The whole pathogenetic effect of the several medicines must be known; that is to say, all the morbid…

§ 105 The second point of the business of a true physician related to acquiring a knowledge of the instruments…

§ 104 When the totality of the symptoms that specially mark and distinguish the case of disease or, in other…

§ 103 In the same manner as has here been taught relative to the epidemic disease, which are generally of…

§ 102 In the course of writing down the symptoms of several cases of this kind the sketch of the…

§ 101 It may easily happen that in the first case of an epidemic disease that presents itself to the…

§ 100 In investigating the totality of the symptoms of epidemic and sporadic diseases it is quite immaterial whether or…

§ 99 On the whole, the investigation of acute diseases, or of such as have existed but a short time,…

§ 98 Now, as certainly as we should listen particularly to the patient’s description of his sufferings and sensations, and…

§ 97 Other individuals of an opposite character, however, partly from indolence, partly from false modesty, partly from a kind…

§ 96 Besides this, patients themselves differ so much in their dispositions, that some, especially the so-called hypochondriacs and other…

§ 95 In chronic disease the investigation of the signs of disease above mentioned, and of all others, must be…

§ 94 While inquiring into the state of chronic disease, the particular circumstances of the patient with regard to his…

§ 93 If the disease has been brought on a short time or, in the case of a chronic affection,…

§ 92 But if it be a disease of a rapid course, and if its serious character admit of no…

§ 91 The symptoms and feelings of the patient during a previous course of medicine do not furnish the pure…

§ 90 When the physician has finished writing down these particulars, he then makes a note of what he himself…

§ 89 When the patient (for it is on him we have chiefly to rely for a description of his…

§ 88 If in these voluntary details nothing has been mentioned respecting several parts or functions of the body or…

§ 87 And thus the physician obtains more precise information respecting each particular detail, but without ever framing his questions…

§ 86 When the narrators have finished what they would say of their own accord, the physician then reverts to…

§ 85 He begins a fresh line with every new circumstance mentioned by the patient or his friends, so that…

§ 84 The patient details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what they heard him complain of,…

§ 83 This individualizing examination of a case of disease, for which I shall only give in this place general…

§ 82 Although, by the discovery of that great source of chronic diseases, as also by the discovery of the…

§ 81 The fact that this extremely ancient infecting agent has gradually passed, in some hundreds of generations, through many…

§ 80 Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasms just named, however, is the chronic miasm of…

§ 79 Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic miasmatic disease, which when uncured…

§ 78 § 78 Fifth Edition The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, which…

§ 77 Those diseases are inappropriately named chronic, which persons incur who expose themselves continually to avoidable noxious influences, who…

§ 76 § 76 Fifth Edition Only for natural diseases has the beneficent Deity granted us, in Homoeopathy, the means…

§ 75 These inroads on human health effected by the allopathic non-healing art (more particularly in recent times) are of…

§ 74 § 74 Fifth Edition Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon those so commonly met with, artificially…

§ 73 As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting…

§ 72 With respect to the first point, the following will serve as a general preliminary view. The disease to…

§ 71 As it is now no longer a matter of doubt that the diseases of mankind consist merely of…

§ 70 § 70 Fifth Edition From what has been already adduced we cannot fail to draw the following inferences:…

§ 69 § 69 Fifth Edition In the antipathic (palliative) mode of treatment, however precisely the reverse of this takes…

§ 68 § 68 Fifth Edition In homoeopathic cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine…

§ 67 § 67 Fifth Edition These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously offer themselves to our notice and experience, explain to…

§ 66 An obvious antagonistic secondary action, however, is, as may readily be conceived, not to be noticed from the…

§ 65 Examples of (A) are familiar to all. A hand bathed in hot water is at first much warmer…

§ 64 During the primary action of the artificial morbific agents (medicines) on our healthy body, as seen in the…

§ 63 Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine, deranges more or less the vital force, and causes…

§ 62 But on what this pernicious result of the palliative, antipathic treatment and the efficacy of the reverse, the…

§ 61 Had physicians been capable of reflecting on the sad results of the antagonistic employment of medicines, they had…

§ 60 § 60 Fifth Edition If these ill-effects are produced, as may very naturally be expected from the antipathic…

§ 59 Important symptoms of persistent diseases have never yet been treated with such palliative, antagonistic remedies, without the opposite…

§ 58 If, in estimating the value of this mode of employing medicines, we should even pass over the circumstance…

§ 57 In order to carry into practice this antipathic method, the ordinary physician gives, for a single troublesome symptom…

§ 56 § 56 Fifth Edition The third and only remaining method1 of employing medicines in diseases, which, besides the…

§ 55 § 55 Fifth Edition The second mode of employing medicines in diseases, the allopathic or homoeopathic, which, without any pathological relation to what…

§ 54 § 54 Fifth Edition This, the homoeopathic way, must, moreover, as observed above (§§ 43-49) be the only…

§ 53 § 53 Fifth Edition True, mild cures take place, as we see, only in a homoeopathic way –…

§ 52 § 52 Fifth Edition Surely no intelligent physician, after these examples as clear as daylight, can still go…

§ 51 This therapeutic law is rendered obvious to all intelligent minds by these instances, and they are amply sufficient…

§ 50 Mighty Nature herself has, as we see, at her command, as instruments for effecting homoeopathic cures, little besides…

§ 49 We should have been able to meet with many more real, natural homoeopathic cures of this kind if,…

§ 48 Neither in the course of nature, as we see from all the above examples, nor by the physician’s…

§ 47 Nothing could teach the physician in a plainer and more convincing manner than the above what kind of…

§ 46 Many examples might be adduced of disease which, in the course of nature, have been homoeopathically cured by…

§ 45 § 45 Fifth Edition No! Two diseases, differing, it is true, in kind1 but very similar in their phenomena…

§ 44 § 44 Fifth Edition Two diseases similar to each other can neither (as is asserted of dissimilar disease…

§ 43 Totally different, however, is the result when two similar disease meet together in the organism, that is to…

§ 42 Nature herself permits, as has been stated, in some cases, the simultaneous occurrence of two (indeed, of three)…

§ 41 § 41 Fifth Edition Much more frequent than the natural diseases associating with and complicating one another in…