Aphorism-30:
The human body appears to admit of being much more powerfully affected by medicines than by natural morbid stimuli. Thus natural diseases are cured and overcome by suitable medicines.
Aphorism-31:
The inimical forces/ morbific noxious agents(disease) partly psychical, partly physical, to which our terrestrial existence is exposed, do not possess the power of morbidly deranging the health of man unconditionally, but we are made ill by them only when our organism is sufficiently disposed and susceptible to the attack of the morbific cause that may be present, and to be altered in its health, deranged and made to undergo abnormal sensations and functions - hence they do not produce disease in every one nor at all times.
Aphorism-32:
Every real medicine(the artificial morbific agents), acts at all times, under all circumstances, on every living human being, and produces in him its peculiar symptoms (distinctly perceptible, if the dose be large enough), so that evidently every living human organism is liable to be affected, and, as it were, inoculated with the medicinal disease at all times, and absolutely (unconditionally), but the natural diseases are always conditional and less powerful than medicinal power.
Aphorism-33:
That the morbific noxious agents possess a power of morbidly deranging man's health that is subordinate and conditional, often very conditional; whilst medicinal agents have an absolute unconditional power, greatly superior to the former.
Aphorism-34:
The greater strength of the artificial diseases producible by medicines is, not the sole cause of their power to cure natural diseases. They also have to capable of producing in the human body an artificial disease as similar as possible to the disease to be cured,
Aphorism-35:
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 unhomoeopathic, even though it be stronger, and just as little is the unhomoeopathic employment of even the strongest medicines ever capable of curing any disease whatsoever.
Aphorism-36: I.
If the two dissimilar diseases meeting together in the human being be of equal strength, or still more if the older one be the stronger, the new disease will be repelled by the old one from the body and not allowed to affect it. A patient suffering from a severe chronic disease will not be infected by a moderate autumnal dysentery or other epidemic disease. The plague of the Levant, according to Larry, (1) does not break out where scurvy is prevalent, and persons suffering from eczema are not infected by it. Rachitis, Jenner alleges, prevents vaccination from taking effect. Those suffering from pulmonary consumption are not liable to be attacked by epidemic fevers of a not very violent character, according to Von Hildenbrand.
(1) Mémoires et Observations, " in the Description de l'Egypte, tom.i.
Aphorism-37:
So, also, under ordinary medical treatment, 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.
Aphorism-38: II.
Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger. In this case the disease under which the patient orginally laboured, being the weaker, will be kept back and suspended by the accession of the stronger one, until the latter shall have run its course or been cured, and then the old one reappears uncured. Two children affected with a kind of epilepsy remained free from epileptic attacks after infection with ringworm (tinea); but as soon as the eruption on the head was gone the epilepsy returned just as before, as Tulpius (1) observed. The itch, as Schöpf (2) saw, disappeared on the occurrence of the scurvy, but after the cure of the latter it again broke out.
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