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Aphorism 21

§ 21

Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in  medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as in pure experiments with medicines conducted by the most accurate observers, nothing can be  observed that can  constitute them  medicines or  remedies except that power of causing distinct  alterations in the state of  health of the human body, and particularly in that of the healthy individual, and of exciting in  him  various definite morbid symptoms; so it follows that when medicines act as remedies, they can only bring their curative property into play  by means of this their power  of altering man’s state of health by the production of peculiar symptoms;  and that, therefore, we have only to rely on the morbid phenomena which the medicines produce in the healthy body as the sole possible revelation of their in-dwelling curative power, in order  to learn what diseaseproducing power, and at the same  time what  disease-curing power, each individual medicine possesses. 

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