Aphorism 40
§ 40 III. Or the new disease, after having long acted on the organism, at length joins the old one…
§ 40 III. Or the new disease, after having long acted on the organism, at length joins the old one…
§ 39 Now the adherents of the ordinary school of medicine saw all this for so many centuries; they saw…
§ 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…
§ 29 § 29 Fifth Edition As every disease (not strictly belonging to the domain of surgery) depends only on…
§ 28 As this natural law of cure manifests itself in every pure experiment and every true observation in the…
§ 27 The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on their symptoms, similar to the disease but superior to it…
§ 26 This depends on the following homoeopathic law of nature which was sometimes, indeed, vaguely surmised but not hitherto…
§ 25 Now, however, in all careful trials, pure experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the healing art, teaches…
§ 24 There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besides…
§ 23 All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are far from…
§ 22 Fifth Edition But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to…
§ 21 Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as…
§ 20 Fifth edition This spirit-like power to alter man’s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies…
§ 19 Now, as diseases are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which…
§ 18 Fifth Edition From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms nothing can by any means…
§ 17 Fifth Edition Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the perceptible signs…
§ 16 Fifth Edition Our vital force, as a spirit-like dynamis, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences on…
§ 15 Fifth Edition The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the…
§ 14 There is, in the interior of man, nothing morbid that is curable and no invisible morbid alteration that…
§ 13 Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by the…
§ 12 Fifth Edition It is the morbidly affected vital force alone that produces disease1, so that the morbid phenomena…
§ 11 Fifth Edition When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere…
§ 10 Fifth Edition The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation1,…
§ 9 In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body…
§ 8 It is not conceivable, not can it be proved by any experience in the world, that, after removal…
§ 7 Now, as in a disease, from which no manifest exciting or maintaining cause (causa occasionalis) has to be…
§ 6 Fifth Edition The unprejudiced observer – well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no…
§ 5 Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are the particulars of the most probable exciting cause…
§ 4 He is likewise a preserver of health if he knows the things that derange health and cause disease,…
§ 3 If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every…
§ 2 The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation…
§ 1 The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is…