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Aphorism 17 Fifth Edition

§ 17 Fifth Edition

 Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the perceptible signs and symptoms  of  the disease  the internal alteration of  the vital force to which the disease is due - consequently the whole of the disease  - is at  the same  time  removed,1  it follows that the physician has only to remove  the whole of the symptoms in order, at the same  time, to abrogate and annihilate the internal change, that is to say,  the morbid derangement of the vital force  - consequently the totality of  the  disease, the  disease  itself.2  But when  the disease is annihilated the health  is  restored, and this  is  the highest, the sole aim  of the physician who knows the true object of his  mission, which consists not in learned - sounding prating, but in giving aid to the sick.

1  A warning dream, a superstitious fancy, or  a solemn  prediction that death would occur at a certain day or at a certain hour, has  not unfrequently produced all the signs of commencing and increasing disease, of approaching death and death itself at the hour announced, which could not happen without the simultaneous production of the inward change (corresponding to the state observed internally); and hence in such cases all the morbid signs indicative of approaching death have frequently been dissipated by an identical cause, by some cunning deception or  persuasion to a belief in the contrary, and health suddenly restored, which could not have happened without the removal, by means of this mortal remedy, of the internal and external morbid change that threatened death.

2  It is only thus that God the preserver of mankind, could reveal His wisdom and goodness in reference to the cure of the disease to which man is liable here below, by showing to the physician what he had to remove  in disease in order  to annihilate them and thus re-establish health. But what would we think of His wisdom  and goodness if He has shrouded in mysterious obscurity that which was to be cured  in diseases (as is asserted by the dominant school of medicine,  which affects to possess a supernatural insight into the nature of  things), and shut it up in the hidden interior, and thus rendered it impossible for man to know the malady accurately, consequently impossible for him to cure it? 

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