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Aphorism 8

§ 8


 It is not conceivable, not  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.1


 1  When a patient has been cured of his disease by  a true physician, in such a manner that no trace of the disease,  no morbid symptom,  remains, and all the signs of health have permanently returned,  how can anyone, without offering an insult to common sense, affirm  in such an individual the whole bodily  disease still remains interior? And yet the chief of the old school, Hufeland, asserts this in the following words: “Homoeopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease remains.” (Vide Homoopathie, p.27, 1, 19.) This he maintains partly from  mortification at the  progress made by homoeopathy to the benefits of mankind, partly because he still holds thoroughly material notions respecting disease, which he is  still unable  to regard as a state of being of the organism  wherein  it is dynamically altered by the morbidly deranged vital  force, as an altered  state of health, but he views the  disease as a  something material, which after the cure is completed, may still remain lurking in some  corner  in the interior of the body, in  order, some  day during the most vigorous health, to burst forth at its pleasure  with its material presence! So dreadful is still the blindness of the  old pathology! No wonder that  it could only produce a system of therapeutics which is solely occupied with scouring out the poor patient. 

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