Aphorism 273
§ 273 Fifth Edition It is not conceivable how the slightest dubiety could exist as to whether it was more…
§ 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…
§ 211 This holds good to such an extent, that the state of the disposition of the patient often chiefly…
§ 210 Of psoric origin are almost all those diseases that I have above termed one-sided, which appear to be…
§ 21 Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as…
§ 209 After this is done, the physician should endeavor in repeated conversations with the patient to trace the picture…
§ 208 The age of the patient, his mode of living and diet, his occupation, his domestic position, his social…
§ 207 When the above information has been gained, it still remains for the homoeopathic physician to ascertain what kinds…
Aphorism 206 § 206 § 206 Fifth Edition Before commencing the treatment of a chronic disease, it is necessary to…
§ 205 § 205 Fifth Edition The homoeopathic physician never treats one of these primary symptoms of chronic miasms, nor…
§ 204 § 204 Fifth Edition If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent…
§ 203 Every external treatment of such local symptoms, the object of which is to remove them from the surface…
§ 202 If the old-school physician should now destroy the local symptom by the topical application of external remedies, under…
§ 201 § 201 Fifth Edition It is evident that man’s vital force, when encumbered with a chronic disease which…
§ 200 § 200 Fifth Edition Had it still been present to guide the internal treatment, the homoeopathic remedy for…
§ 20 Fifth edition This spirit-like power to alter man’s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies…
§ 2 The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation…
§ 199 If the remedy perfectly homoeopathic to the disease had not yet been discovered 1 at the time when…
§ 198 The mere topical employment of medicines, that are powerful for cure when given internally, to the local symptoms…
§ 197 § 197 Fifth Edition This treatment, however, is quite inadmissible, not only for the local symptoms arising from…
§ 196 It might, indeed, seen as though the cure of such diseases would be hastened by employing the medicinal…
§ 195 In order to effect a radical cure in such cases, which are by no means rare, after the…
§ 194 It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in local affections that have…
§ 193 By means of this medicine, employed only internally (and, if the disease be but of recent origin, often…
§ 192 This is best effected when, in the investigation of the case of disease, along with the exact character…
§ 191 This is confirmed in the most unambiguous manner by experience, which shows in all cases that every powerful…
§ 190 All true medical treatment of a disease on the external parts of the body that has occurred from…
§ 19 Now, as diseases are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which…
§ 189 And yet very little reflection will suffice to convince us that no external malady (not occasioned by some…
§ 188 These affections were considered to be merely topical, and were therefore called local diseases, as if they were…
§ 187 But those affections, alterations and ailments appearing on the external parts, that do not arise from any external…
§ 186 § 186 Fifth Edition Those so-called local maladies which have been produced a short time previously, solely by…
§ 185 Among the one-sided disease an important place is occupied by the so-called local maladies, by which term is…
§ 184 § 184 Fifth Edition In like manner, after each new dose of medicine has exhausted its action, the…