ORGANON OF MEDICINE
Only for natural diseases has the beneficent
deity granted us, in Homeopathy, the means of affording relief; but those
devastation and maiming of the human organism exteriorly and interiorly,
effected by years, frequently, of the unsparing exercise of a false art with
its hurtful drugs and treatment, must be remedied by the vital force itself
(appropriate aid being given for the eradication of any chronic miasm that may
happen to be lurking in the background) , if it has not already been too much
weakened by such mischievous acts, and can devote several years to this huge
operation undisturbed. A human healing art, for the restoration to the normal
state of those innumerable abnormal conditions so often produced by the
allopathic non-healing art, there is not and cannot be.
The physician’s high and only mission is to
restore the risk to health, to cure, as it is termed.
The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle
and permanent restoration of the, or removal and annihilation of the disease in
its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on
easily comprehensible principles.
The unprejudiced observer – well aware of
the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation
from experience – be his powers of penetration ever so great, takes note of
nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the health of the
body and of the mind (morbid phenomena, accidents, symptoms) which can be
perceived externally by means of the senses; that is to say, he notices only
the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased. Individual,
which are felt by the patient himself, remarked by those around him and
observed by the physician. All these perceptible signs represent the disease in
its whole extent that is together they form the true and only conceivable
portrait of the disease.
As every disease (not strictly belonging to
the domain of surgery) depends only on a peculiar morbid derangement of our
vital force in sensations and functions, when a homeopathic cure of the vital
force deranged by natural disease is accomplished by the administration of a
medical agent selected on account of an accurate similarity of symptoms, a
somewhat stronger, similar, artificial morbid affection is brought into contact
with and , as it were, pushed into the place of the weaker , similar, natural
morbid irritation, against which the instinctive vital force, now merely
(though in a stronger degree) medicinally diseased, is then compelled to direct
an increased amount of energy, but, on account of the shorter duration of the
action of the medicinal agent that now morbidly affects it, the vital force
soon overcomes this, and as it was in the first instance relieved from the
natural morbid affection, so it is now at last freed from the substituted
artificial (medicinal) one, and hence is enabled again to carry on healthily
the vital operations of the organism.
In order to illustrate this, we shall
consider in three different cases, as well what happens in nature when two
dissimilar natural diseases meet together in one person, as also the result of
the ordinary medical treatment of diseases with unsuitable allopathic drugs,
which are incapable of producing an artificial morbid condition similar to the
disease to be cured, whereby it will appear that even nature herself is unable
to remove a dissimilar disease already present by one that is unhomeopathic,
even though it be stronger, and just as little is the unhomeopathic employment
of even the strongest medicines ever capable of curing any disease whatsoever.
For these experiments every medicinal
substance must be employed quite alone and perfectly pure, without the
admixture of any foreign substance, and without taking anything else of a
medicinal nature the same day, nor yet on the subsequent days, nor during all
the time we wish to observe the effects of the medicine.
When the suitable homeopathic remedy has
been thus selected and rightly employed, the acute disease we wish to cure,
even though it be of a grave character and attended by many sufferings,
subsides insensibly, in a few hours if it be of recent date, if it be of a somewhat
longer standing, along with all traces of indisposition, and nothing or almost
nothing more of the artificial medicinal disease is perceived; there occurs, by
rapid, imperceptible transitions, nothing but restored health, recovery. Diseases of long standing (and especially such
as are of a complicated character) require for their cure a proportionately longer
time. More especially do the chronic medicinal dyscrasia so often produced by
allopathic bungling, along with the natural disease left uncured by it, require
a much longer time for their recovery; often, indeed, are they incurable, in
consequence of the shameful robbery of the patient’s strength and juices, the
principal feat performed by allopathy in its so-called methods of treatment.
Mental Symptom is nothing but corporeal
symptom. Almost all the so-called mental and emotional disease are nothing more
than corporeal diseases in which the symptom of derangement of the mind and
disposition peculiar to each of them is increased, whilst the corporeal symptoms
decline (more or less rapidly), till it at length attains the most striking
one-sidedness, almost as though it were a local disease in the visible subtle
organ of the mind or disposition.
It is not conceivable, nor can it be proved
by any experience in the world, that, after removal of all the symptoms of the
disease and of the entire collection of the perceptible phenomena, there should
or could remain anything else besides health, or that the morbid alteration in
the interior could remain uneradicated.
An old chronic disease remains uncured and
unaltered if it is treated according to the common allopathic method, that is
to say, with medicines that are incapable of producing in healthy individuals a
state of health similar to the disease, even though the treatment should last
for years and is not of too violent character. This is daily witnessed in
practice, it is therefore unnecessary to give any illustrative examples.
Much more frequent than the natural
diseases association with and complicating one another in the same body is the
morbid complication resulting from the art of the ordinary practitioner, which
the inappropriate medical treatment (the allopathic method) is apt to produce
by the long-continued employment of unsuitable drugs. To the natural disease,
which it is proposed to cure, there are then added, by the constant repetition
of the unsuitable medicinal agent, the new, often very tedious, morbid
conditions which might be anticipated from the peculiar powers of the drug;
these gradually coalesce with and complicate the chronic malady which is
dissimilar to them, adding to the old disease a new, dissimilar, artificial
malady of a chronic nature, and thus give the patient a double in place of a
single disease, that is to say, render him much worse and more difficult to
cure, often quite incurable.