Aphorismes de Kent – Robert Séror

Dr
Séror

J’ai cru bon
également d’ajouter un portrait de Kent dans la force de l’âge ainsi
qu’un résumé biographique de Swedenborg que j’ai pris dans l’encyclopédie
Microsoft Encarta. (une des meilleures avec
celle de Larousse, Hachette et Universalis, il faut avoir les 4, chacune a
ses faiblesses et ses points forts).

Pour ceux d’entre vous qui
voudrait lire une très bonne biographie de Swedenborg, elle existe en
Français, écrite par un homme que j’admire beaucoup, en voici la
référence :

Jean Prieur : Swedenborg, Biographie, Anthologie, Edtions Sorlot
et Lanore, Paris, avec une bibliographie très complète de l’œuvre de
Swedenborg, par Claude Bruley. Un ouvrage de 240 pages que l’on a très
facilement.

En le lisant, vous serez
très étonné de retrouver la loi des séries et des degrès de Kent, la
loi des correspondances que l’on retrouve énoncées comme des lois
hahnemanniennes dans la l’Art et la Science de l’homéopathie de Kent.

• Je ne saurais
  ternminer cette introduction sans signaler que mon Ami le Docteur Jacques Baur, de
  Lyon, a publié une traduction commentée des Aphorismes, en 1955 et
  dont voici la référence : Actes de la Société Rhodanienne d’homéopathie,
  fascicules II et III.

Cette édition date de 1926,
elle représente la 4 ème partie des Lesser Wrintings de Kent et dont voici
les références exactes :

New remedies, clinical cases,
Lesser Writings, aphorisms and precepts, Ehrhart and Karl, Chicago, 1926.

Kent’s Aphorisms and Precepts
from extemporaneous lectures

1. Truth, on every plane, is
   a sword, that wounds deeply ; and blood flows freely.
2. The more idols a man has
   the less able is he to receive truth. He is sick.
3. You cannot divorce
   Medicine and Theology. Man exists all the way down, from his innermost
   Spiritual, to his outermost Natural.
4. A truth, on any plane,
   presented to different men, is accepted or rejected by each according to
   the good or evil of his mind.
5. The external man is but an
   outward expression of the internal ; so the results of disease
   (symptoms) are but the outward expression of the internal sickness.
6. Everything is harmoniously
   working in the well man. Consider the man, heal the sick.
7. Hahnemann’s was an unusual
   life. He was as circumspect as a woman, and that is saying a great deal.
   He had a duty to perform, and could do it. Clean, honorable, noble ; a
   man of integrity to himself and his family.
8. The person who loves crime
   lives in it. It becomes a part of his nature, and shows itself in the
   external man. The man who loves truth and humanity, lives in that idea,
   and it becomes a part of his nature, and can be seen in his looks and
   his life.
9. An immense amount of
   hardness of heart and lack of charity is engendered by trying to
   accumulate a large number of “Grand Operations” without
   asking, “Is this for the good of the patient ?”
10. If you lose the attitude
    of mind which seeks the good of the patient you will lose your
    Homoeopathy.
11. If Homoeopathy does not
    cure sick people you are to despise it.
12. Those who say they have
    tested Homoeopathy and it is a failure have only exposed their own
    ignorance.
13. So long as a man relies
    upon the senses to settle what is scientific and what is not, and does
    not use his understanding, so long will he be in confusion, and Sciences
    will oppose each other.
14. The Old School must know
    Pathology before they can treat disease, and they must have a post
    mortem before they can know pathology.
15. So long as man is capable
    of believing that Diabetes is disease, and that Bright’s Disease is a
    disease, so long will man be insane in Medicine. His mind is only
    directed toward the results of disease.
16. It is not Homoeopathic to
    say “Can you cure a cancer?” or “Can you cure
    Epilepsy?”
17. Technicalities are
    condemned in Homeopathy. Only frame in your mind that you have seen a
    species of Scarlet Fever, a species of Measles, or a species of
    Tuberculosis, or Diabetes, and speak of them as such ; that the speech
    may be a true outward representation of the internal thought.
18. A physician’s attitude in
    performing his duty to the sick, is different from that of any other
    person. He has a different sphere from that of the ordinary man. This is
    a thousand times amplified in Homoeopathy. One who has entertained that
    peculiar “circumcision of the heart,” always looking to the
    good of his patient, never thinking of the criticism of man, acquires an
    ability to say what is right to do. He establishes a garment of
    righteousness.
19. There is a state of
    insanity in the Sciences of the present day. They put all laws aside, in
    order to accept, for instance, the Molecular theory, because they want
    something that in its aggregate will be large enough to be felt with the
    fingers.
20. If there were no
    Idiosyncrasy there would be no Homoeopathy. Every individual is
    susceptible to certain things ; is susceptible to sickness and equally
    susceptible to cure.
21. Cure rests in the degree
    of susceptibiliness.
22. Remedies operate as by
    contagion. He caught the disease, and catches the cure.
23. Dynamic wrongs are
    corrected from the interior by dynamic agencies.
24. Principle teaches you to
    avoid suppression. A Homoeopath cannot temporize. Those sufferings are
    necessary sometimes to show forth sickness in order that a remedy may be
    found.
25. The affections make the
    man.
26. You must see and feel the
    internal nature of your patient as the artist sees and feels the picture
    he is painting. He feels it. Study to feel the economy, the life, the
    soul.
27. You cannot depend on lucky
    shots and guess work, everything depends on long study of each
    individual case.
28. This opens a field of
    tedious labor, and many failures, but if once in awhile you succeed in
    curing one of these lost ones it is well.
29. Memorizers have no
    perception ; they can only remember what they see, and they see only the
    surface.
30. Memory is not knowledge
    until it is comprehended and used ; then grows the ability to perceive.
31. Understand the remedy
    first, the keynotes last.
32. Every ignorant man thinks
    that what he knows is the end of knowledge.
33. The physician who violates
    his conscience, destroys his ability to perceive.
34. What appears to be
    intuition comes from using that which is in the understanding.
35. It is the imperfect
    machine that causes death. The Vital Force is of the Soul, and cannot be
    destroyed or weakened. It can be disordered, but it is all there.
36. Man cannot be made sick or
    be cured except by some substance as etherial in quality as the Vital
    Force.
37. It is unthinkable to speak
    of Motion or Force without a simple, primitive substance. Force, or
    action of a nothing is unthinkable.
38. It is a serious matter to
    allow the mind to drift into thinking of anything but quality when
    speaking of force.
39. There is nothing in the
    world which does not exist by something prior to itself. With the
    grossest materialistic ideas man can demonstrate this.
40. There is at the present
    time, a continual discussion of Force as an energy having nothing prior
    to it. This is confusion.
41. There is an Innermost to
    everything that is, or else the outermost could not be.
42. The Simple Substance is
    the substance of substances, and all things are from it. It is really
    first, in which rests all power.
43. Weight cannot be
    predicated of the Simple Substance, neither time, nor space.
44. No power known to man
    exists in the concrete substance, but all power exists in the Primitive
    Substance.
45. The Primitive Substance,
    or Radiant form of matter, is just as much matter as matter in its
    aggregate form.
46. The real holding together
    of the things in this world is by Simple Substance.
47. Every individual with whom
    you converse, has his own ideas and theories. When he questions you
    about Homoeopathy, you hesitate because he has not the beginnings.
48. When he questions you
    about Homoeopathic facts, if you tell him what your opinion about it is
    he will listen to you ; but when you say it is so and so, he looks at
    you in wonder and doubt.
49. Your enemy on the ground
    of common sense can say so much more than you can that many
    individuals can be reasoned away from you.
50. Anything which looks away
    from exactitude is unscientific. The physician must be classical ;
    everything must be methodical. Science ceases to be scientific when
    disorderly application of law is made.
51. Eternal Principles,
    themselves, are authority. The Law of Similars is a Divine Law. So soon
    as you have accepted the Law of Similars, so soon have you accepted
    Providence, which is law and order.
52. If you do not use your
    Homoeopathy you will lose it. This is a responsibility so great that
    where one has gone into the Truth and does not make use of his
    knowledge, he will become like Egypt of old.
53. The sick are entitled to
    exact knowledge, not to guess work.
54. Leave names oat when
    prescribing. They are only for the foolish and for the boards of health.
55. The disease is not to be
    named but to be perceived ; not to be classified but to be viewed, that
    the very nature of it may be discovered.
56. Throw aside all theories,
    and matters of belief and opinion, and dwell in simple fact.
57. The human mind should not
    be burdened with technicalities. They destroy description, and close the
    understanding.
58. You must be able to
    recognize every ambassador of the internal man.
59. A profane man can have no
    more idea of the sentiments of a gentle, highly religious woman, than
    can a lobster.
60. The physician must see and
    feel, as the artist does his picture. He must perceive, by his knowledge
    of the human heart, that good woman’s state whose religious melancholy
    he could not otherwise understand.
61. Every scientific man
    to-day is trying to find some thing he can claim as his own. Such a man
    cannot understand Homceopathy. He worships himself. Has dwelt on the
    externals so long that it is impossible for him to think rationally.
62. Whenever a man settles all
    things by his eyes, and fingers, pseudo-science and theories, he reasons
    from lasts to firsts ; in other words, from himself, and is insane.
63. Man’s unbelief and opinion
    do not effect truth. The experience which the Homoeopath has, is
    experience under law and confirms the law and by this order is
    maintained.
64. What matters it what
    people think of a just man ? His reputation will take care of itself.
65. A man, whose services are
    worth having, can starve in the gutter, in order that he may do good,
    for the love of his neighbor ; and he will acquire this power, this
    perception. Such a physician may realize what it is to have a duty to
    perform.
66. Materia Medica never
    inspires perception. The physician must have the love of its use, and he
    becomes wise in proportion as he loves his use, and in proportion as he
    lives uprightly with his patients ; that is, desires to heal them ;
    beautify their souls. Can the physician, who does not love his neighbor
    as himself, get into this position ?
67. One can never look from
    the toxic, to see what is in harmony with the dynamic, but may look from
    the dynamic to see what is in harmony with the toxic.
68. Toxicology shows the
    ability, or the extent of the effects of a drug.
69. All human beings have like
    possibilities of degradation ; so we cannot look down on any member of
    the human race. We sometimes find the lowest, characteristics that are
    the noblest.
70. You cannot meditate on
    even the extreme of the human race. It becomes your solemn duty to heal
    the good, bad, and indifferent.
71. Does any one know what
    Chemical Affinity is, except that certain substances seek to take a
    liking to each other?
72. If it were not for the
    Simple Substance, such states as antipathy, sympathy, or affinity, could
    not be. It is the sphere of Homoeopathy to deal with these things ; to
    glean what is the real Esse and existence.
73. There are two worlds ; the
    world of thought, or immaterial substance, and the world of matter or
    material substance.
74. What reason has man to say
    that Energy or Force is first ? Energy is not energy per se, but a
    powerful substance. The very Esse of God is a scientific study.
75. Bodies are not drawn
    together by means of their bodies, but by means of their Primitive
    Substance.
76. The Simple Substance is
    the means of identification in nature. The mineral, the oak, the wheat,
    are all identified by their Primitive Substance, and exist, only,
    because of their Primitive Substance, which makes them what they are.
77. Name everything that is,
    or moves ; it is sustained from, and by power of this Primitive
    Substance. We do not argue that it is first power, but this is first
    substance.
78. Susceptibility is only a
    name for a state that underlies all possible sickness and all possible
    cure.
79. Now when a person becomes
    sick, he becomes susceptible to a certain remedy, which will affect him
    in its highest potency ; while upon a healthy person it will have no
    effect.
80. When the dose is too large
    to cure, man receives it as a sickness.
81. Susceptibility exists in
    the Vital Force, and not in the tissues.
82. Measles and Smallpox are
    not on the outside. Man is protected on the outside, and is attacked
    from the inside when there is susceptibility.
83. There are degrees in
    susceptibility. The Old School calls a certain kind of susceptibility
    “Idiosyncrasy,” though they have failed to find out what this
    is.
84. Think how susceptible a
    man is to sickness, when the Rhus vine will poison him when he is on the
    windward side, half a mile away.
85. An individual may be
    susceptible to nothing else ; gross, coarse, vigorous in constitution ;
    yet there is one thing he is susceptible to, and that is what he needs.
86. The signs are visible, but
    the Esse is invisible.
87. The tendency of the human
    mind to run after things visible, that can be felt with the fingers,
    leads one to adopt foolish theories like the Bacteria doctrine and the
    Molecular theory.
88. A physician above all men
    if not innocent should be anything else but a Doctor. A bad man has only
    coarse, vicious ideas of the human heart.
89. When a man thinks from the
    microscope, and his neighbor’s opinion, he thinks falsely. Nothing good
    can come from this. Evil must take place, and changes, which are the
    ultimates of his internal thought, will take place in the body.
90. The time may come when
    Homeopathy of the purer kind will be popular, but it is a very long time
    ahead.
91. Some have been confused by
    primary and secondary effects of medicine. You need not worry over this.
    You only need to know that certain symptoms follow each other. Primary
    and secondary action reverse themselves in different individuals.
92. The sharper the edge of
    the tool you fool with the more harm you can do ; so it is with high
    potencies in unskilled hands.
93. A remedy is not known
    simply because it has been used upon the sick. That is a confirmation
    only, and gives more ripened knowledge.
94. The rational mind can go
    far beyond the idea of a molecule.
95. The Homoeopathic physician
    who thinks in quantities only, has such a crude mind that he cannot
    realize true Homceopathy.
96. The old Philosophers were
    engaged in constant controversy, here converging, there diverging. If
    they had only known something of Simple Substance, as does the
    Homoeopath, they would have had confirmation.
97. In chemistry one color
    obliterates another. This is an illustration of the outermost changes.
    The causes of such change lie in the primitive substance and not in the
    external form ; so it is with the causes of cure.
98. Homoeopaths have a
    consciousness of what life is, what the life force is, what the nature
    of disease is, and can apply to all theories of the world our measure
    and test them. They can realize the philosophies.
99. There is nothing in the
    outer world but what is representative.
100. The song that is within
     the heart is a million times more intense, more beautiful, than can be
     produced by the larynx. Everything that is, or appears as real before
     the eyes, or to the ear in sound, is only representation of the real
     world ; because everything of this character is perishable.
101. All Art has its Internal
     and External. If music is in the soul it will give the outward reflected
     image of the delight which is song.
102. The world to-day accepts
     things perfectly incongruous and calls them science. Modern science
     accepts nothing which cannot be heard, felt, or seen.
103. Take a body of scientific
     men : after a lengthy discussion the conclusion is, that “we have
     concluded so and so,” by the majority, after a general average is
     taken, and the conclusion is Science.
104. The microscopist has
     failed to show that there is no Vital Force, no Simple Substance, no
     Dynamis in drugs seen, and how can we expect him to foretell when the
     substance cannot be seen ?
105. The different Philosophies
     do not agree about the Simple Substance, upon which they all touch in
     theory. They have no confirmation which could be had in the Homoeopathic
     potencies, and in their action upon the sick.
106. The personal stamp is upon
     every disease and upon every proving, and the individual must be
     permitted to stamp himself upon the disease as well as upon the proving.
107. There are no two things
     alike in the universe. This is so of diseases and of sick people, of
     thousands of crystals of the same salt. No two stars are alike. When
     this thought presents itself to the mind of the physician, he can see
     that no remedy can be substituted for another.
108. A disease may be
     suppressed by a medicine as well as by a stronger dissimilar disease.
109. In Epilepsy, so long as
     Bromides suppress, nature is paying more attention to the disease of
     Bromides than to the disease of Epilepsy.
110. Epilepsy is not a disease
     ; you cannot prescribe for Epilepsy. The symptoms which represent the
     nature of the sickness are not in the fit, but those which the patient
     has had in infancy up to the time of the fit.
111. The Homoeopathic remedy
     only becomes Homoeopathic when it has established its curative relation
     ; the relation between two dynamic influences.
112. Homoeopathicity is the
     relation between the symptoms of the patient and the remedy which will
     cure,
113. Homoeopathy is in applied
     science not a theory.
114. It is an injustice to
     Science to practice without exact knowledge and reasons for what you do.
     The whole world is but a swirl of this round-about inheritance instead
     of knowledge,
115. If we could accept opinion
     we should have to go back to Allopathy, because we find there only a
     record of man’s experiments ; a mass of heterogeneous opinions.
116. Experience teaches the
     Allopath to give Muriatic acid in Germany for Typhoid Fever, Nitric acid
     in England, cold bathing in Paris for the same. This is the doctrine of
     the Old School by “experience.”
117. It is an injustice to
     one’s self to remain in bigotry, intolerance and hatred.
118. When you have discovered
     that this Life Force resides in a simple substance you see at once that
     death is not an entity. The body has no life of its own and therefore it
     cannot die.
119. Therefore there is no
     death, but we do observe and perceive that there is a separation, of one
     that is alive from another that never was alive ; a disjunction of that
     which lives from that which never lived.
120. That changes in the body
     correspond to wrong thinking is true. The fault of the world to-day, is
     reasoning from externals. Man elected in the early part of his history
     to think from lasts to firsts, and thereby lost his ability to know.
121. One sick man is to be
     treated, not the disease.
122. Man must be studied as he
     is, as he was, everything of man and of the human race in general, in
     order to understand disease.
123. In proportion as man
     thinks against everything, his country, his God, his neighbor, he wills
     in favor of himself. Therefore this forms man into the nature of his
     affections.
124. Thus man wills against
     everything but himself. In proportion as he does this he becomes a form
     of hatred, or a form of self love ; he is that. Allow this to proceed
     and ultimates are inevitable.
125. Thus man is what he wills.
     As his love is, so is his life. When man thinks about the neighbor, he
     wills one of two things, he wills good to his neighbor or the opposite.
126. Psora is the evolution of
     the state of man’s will, the ultimate of his sin.
127. This outgrowth, which has
     come upon man from living a life of evil willing, is Psora, is the life
     of Psora.
128. Now in proportion as a man
     falsifies truth or mixes or perverts truth ; in proportion as he mixes
     willing well with willing evil, so does he adulterate his interiors
     until that state is present.
129. When Psora had become a
     complete, ultimation of causes, it became contagious.
130. Everything that is a
     thing, has its aura or atmosphere. So as a race or class, the entire
     human race has its atmosphere or aura also. Each individual has his
     aura, or atmosphere.
131. This aura becomes
     intensified with the growth of evil in the interior of man.
132. Thinking, willing, and
     doing, are the three things in life from which finally proceed the
     chronic miasms.
133. The whole Miasm in a
     chronic disease, does not come out in an individual, but in the human
     race.
134. The human race exists as a
     changed Esse.




135. The Homoeopathic
     principles, when known, are plain, simple and easily comprehended. They
     are in harmony with all things known to be true.
136. It is not a matter of
     theory, or belief, or opinion ; we must have something more substantial.
     Homoeopathy must rest upon facts.
137. When a microscopist can
     examine a grain of wheat, and tell whether it will grow if planted in
     favorable soil, he may be of use to Homoeopathy. When he can examine a
     smallpox crust and tell whether it is still contagious, or whether its
     power has been destroyed by heat, then he may be of use. When he can
     examine the Aconite root and tell how it will affect man, we can do away
     with provings, but we have to enter by a different door.
138. One cannot afford to be
     liberal with principle.
139. When you make failures you
     may be sure that they are within yourself. If you think the failure is
     in Homceopathy you will begin your corrections on the wrong side of the
     ledger.
140. All quick prescribing
     depends upon the ability to grasp comparatively the symptoms.
141. If you do not know
     sickness you are apt to think all things strange and unique.
142. Sharp prescribing is
     attended with immediate results. If you do sharp work you will see
     frequent aggravations of the remedy. When you do poor work you never see
     them.
143. True pathology is entirely
     unknown to the medical profession outside of Homoeopathy. It is morbid
     anatomy alone that is known.
144. If you love Homceopathy it
     will love you ; such is natural charity.
145. One who is vicious in his
     real life, may preserve a placid exterior for a time, but will be
     shunned by good people ere long.
146. We owe no obedience to
     man, not even to our parents, after we are old enough to think for
     ourselves. We owe obedience only to Truth.
147. When old symptoms return,
     there is hope. That is the road to cure and there is none other.
148. The physician spoils his
     case when he prescribes for the local symptoms and neglects the patient,
149. It is an entirely
     different business to comfort from what it is to cure.
150. What is man ? Is he a body
     ? If so we are justified in thinking of his parts, his liver, and lungs,
     and skin, and extremities, and his body as a whole. But we are to
     consider man as from the life to the body.
151. Man is made up of what he
     is. The very is, or being, or Esse of man is his will. The
     difference between two human beings would scarcely be more than the
     will.
152. The will is expressed in
     the face ; hence the difference of countenance of people. Has the
     murderer and evil-doer a placid face.
153. What a man wills to do is
     his life and character.
154. Proceeding from the will
     is man’s understanding. If the will is good to obey the commandments, he
     selects his very education in accordance with it.
155. Memory is the gateway to
     man. The outermost envelope of this Esse is formed to be a
     receptacle for the will, the understanding, and the memory.
156. The upright man whose
     desires are good, wants the truth. His perceptions are intensified.
157. A prejudiced mind, decides
     without wisdom the way be wants to have it.
158. Every man has his
     affections, his pet theory to subdue.
159. These things enter into
     the symptomatology. Hence know the human heart.
160. Man, to-day, is destroyed
     as to his interiors, so that truth looks as black as smoke, and false
     philosophy as bright as the sun.
161. The outer world is the
     world of results. The inner world not discoverable by the senses, but by
     the understanding.
162. When we conceive that
     innumerable causes may give rise to the same pathological conditions we
     see that the pathological condition in itself, cannot furnish us with
     the slightest idea of the remedy.
163. Under Homoeopathic
     treatment progress of chronic disease the highest degree of
     susceptibility must be present, until a cure sometimes becomes possible.
164. When you look at morbid
     anatomy from the symptomatology you are looking at it from the interior.
     Morbid anatomy must not be studied as a basis for prescription making.
165. Irregular action expressed
     in signs and symptoms is the disease. The disturbance in the Vital
     Substance has no other means by which it can make itself known to the
     intelligent physician. This is in accordance with law. This leaves
     morbid anatomy out of the question.
166. You need not expect great
     things when you have only pathological symptoms.
167. When pathological changes
     have gone on extensively the symptoms withdraw, seemingly discouraged
     that there is no physician. So soon as a patient falls into the hands of
     a real physician the symptoms become orderly.
168. Unit of action in health,
     unit of action in sickness, unit of action in cure, all are one.
169. The Old School Materia
     Medica is known only to the Homeopath. To the Allopath it is really
     unknown.
170. It would seem as if the
     Old School would have asked long ago ” What are the effects of
     drugs upon healthy people ? ” Their experiments on animals do not
     answer this.
171. ” This remedy has
     proved useful in such and such conditions,” they say. Homoeopaths
     know that such medicine has produced such and such effects on provers.
172. Man is more susceptible to
     drugs than to a disease, because their action may be forced upon the
     economy.
173. In disease the highest
     degree of susceptibility must be present.
174. One who is not acute in
     observation, goes through life, seeing only indifferent similarity. Most
     men only know the toxic power of a drug.
175. Man is susceptible to all
     things capable of producing similar symptoms to those which he already
     has.
176. The record of symptoms
     derived from cases of poisoning, is the poorest kind of evidence for the
     Homoeopathic Materia Medica. They are useful only as collateral
     evidence.
177. Individualization is
     blocked by this inability to distinguish between the finer features of
     sickness and of medicines.
178. With the true physician,
     discrimination is not with the eye alone ; the consciousness of
     discrimination seems to occupy his entire economy.
179. No two remedies are
     absolutely equal in their similitude.
180. The whole aim of
     Homoeopathy is to cure.
181. He who sees not in
     Bright’s Disease the deep Miasm back of it, sees not the whole disease,
     but only the finishing of a long course of symptoms which have been
     developing for years.
182. The law of sickness, is
     the law of sickness, whether produced by drug or disease. It is the law
     of influx.
183. It is inconsistent and
     irrational to think that there are several active diseases in the body
     at the same time.
184. Take the simplest form of
     substance known to have life. If we subject it to physical and chemical
     forces it is killed ; it no longer moves, feeds, propagates, or can be
     killed. There is then, something that can be withdrawn by physical
     force. Can we not perceive that ’tis a something added to these forces
     that makes it alive ? It is not merely a motion of this substance, for
     move as you will, it is dead. Something is withdrawn, which can only
     come within the perception of the understanding.
185. These simple substances
     are the primitive powers of the earth. Gravitation must be something or
     we could not predicate anything of it.
186. Only quality can be
     predicated of the Simple Substance.
187. What things can we
     predicate of the Simple Substance ? It cannot be found by Chemistry, nor
     seen with the eye, nor felt with the fingers. It must have a medium of
     operation, in order that it may become manifest to the sensorium.
188. For example, Electricity
     and the machine. Electricity is a simple substance, and needs the
     conductor to make it manifest. Until Electricity was discovered through
     a medium, it was unknown.
189. Cohesion is a primitive
     substance, and will obey all the laws that govern primitive substance ;
     so also is the Vital Force.
190. Light also is a simple
     substance, and will obey all the laws laid down for Vital Force.
191. This Primitive Substance
     abides in everything that grows, or has individuality or identity. It is
     the Vicegerent of the Soul.
192. If the Primitive Substance
     is normal, that which it creates is normal. Disease, which flows into
     the body, comes from within by influx through this Primitive Substance.
193. All motion, harmony and
     order, are due to Simple Substance. It not only operates all things, but
     is the cause of operation of all substances that are material. The very
     sounds of the forest have harmony and co-operation.
194. All matter is capable of
     reduction to its “radiant or primitive form”.
195. Contagion does not come by
     quantity but by quality.
196. The quality of contagion
     is similar in its nature to the cure.
197. The symptoms, themselves,
     point to the thing which the individual is sensitive to, and every one
     is susceptible in just this way to the remedy that will cure. That which
     he most wants, is that which Nature has provided him with the means of
     reaching out after by the symptoms.
198. A patient may be poisoned
     by a crude drug, when the substance potentized would have cured him. The
     individual comes in contact with too much of something he is sensitive
     to, and gets sick.
199. If a man were in perfect
     health he would not be susceptible.
200. The same susceptibility is
     necessary to prove a drug, as to take a disease. That is the
     Homoeopathic relation. Hence we see what contagion is.
201. We now see that we have
     something substantial ; that something is disturbed by something as
     invisible and substantial, as itself. These two, coming together,
     disturb each other under fixed laws relating to Primitive Substance.
202. That which we call
     disease, is but a change in the Vital Force expressed by the totality of
     the symptoms.
203. Never amuse the patient
     with things that will injure him.
204. All prescriptions that
     change the image of a case cause suppression.
205. It is just as dangerous to
     suppress symptoms by drugs, as it is to remove them with the knife.
206. It is better to do nothing
     at all than to do something useless ; it is better to watch and wait
     than to do wrong.
207. The idea that you must
     relieve a patient of his chills at all hazards, that you must give him
     Quinine, and Arsenic afterwards, if that does not work, is all wrong.
     You will be tempted to do these things, unless you have grown up within
     yourself a new conscience, and realize that it is criminal.
208. Diseases, themselves,
     cannot be suppressed, but symptoms call. The totality of the symptoms
     must disappear in ail orderly manner in order to constitute a cure.
209. All physicians recognize
     that suppressing an acute rash is dangerous, but all are not far-sighted
     enough to see that such is the case with chronic eruptions, excepting
     that the resulting symptoms come more slowly.
210. The value of the service
     is nothing, your use is first, and so long as you have this in mind, you
     will grow.
211. Man must continue in his
     uses in order to continue to understand.
212. The physician who ceases
     to study a case before he sees what the patient needs, is neglecting
     that case. He falls into a habit and it becomes second nature to
     prescribe without reflection.
213. You see Homoeopathy in a
     superficial way only when you see the similarity of the symptoms to the
     remedy, the mere outward manifestation. You must see that the interiors
     are related to each other.
214. When the Materia Medica is
     fully learned you see at a glance the image of the remedy. It looms up
     before you. You know it as a physician of experience knows measles or
     scarlet fever.
215. Only a few drugs will be
     similar enough to cure, and there will be only one simillimum.
216. We cannot educate a
     patient until after he is cured. We have to let him think about it in
     his own way. But steal in and cure him. Do him good. This is the all
     important thing.
217. A memorizer applies the
     exact sentence of the proving to the exact sentence of the patient and
     Homoeopathy never becomes alive in him.
218. Man must keep on plodding
     as long as he lives. He must be patient and toil on ; candid, kind, and
     gentle as a lamb, ready and willing.
219. Perception comes with use.
220. There is plenty of room
     for lazy doctors the other side of the gulf of knowledge. They can
     render a night’s sleep and open the bowels.
221. The quiet, silent manner
     of perception is to be cultivated.
222. The physician must be
     sober, candid and able to receive.
223. The more ignorant the
     physician the more he will do.
224. Most doctors have gone
     crazy over the “vicious microbe” as being the cause of
     disease, and think the little fellows are exceedingly dangerous.
225. As a matter of fact, the
     microbes are scavengers. I wonder if scientists reflect when they make
     statements about bacteria. Naturally they would say that the more
     bacteria the more danger, but this is not so. It is well known that
     shortly after death a prick from a scalpel is a serious matter. This is
     due to ptomaines of the corpse ; but when the cadaver has become green
     and filled with bacteria it is comparatively harmless.
226. The microbe is not the
     cause of disease. We should not be carried away by these idle Allopathic
     dreams and vain imaginations but should correct the Vital Force.
227. Save the life of the
     patient first and don’t worry about the bacteria. They are useless
     things.
228. The Bacterium is an
     innocent feller, and if he carries disease he carries the Simple
     Substance which causes disease, just as an elephant would.
229. It would seem that with
     only the occasional cures from Bromine, and Secale, and Hellebore, that
     the Old School might have long since discovered the Law. But their books
     say “No Law.” All their books say “No Principle, only
     Experience.” Therefore their students are debarred from looking for
     law or expecting law.
230. It is easy enough to find
     something different, but one may look a long time to find a similar. It
     is more natural to suppose that the curative remedy would be found in
     the similar which is so rare and requires so much labor to find.
231. That man may enter and
     look from within upon all things in the physical world is possible. He
     can then account for laws and perceive the operation of laws.
232. The record of symptoms on
     the healthy human family then, is the first thing to be known. We store
     up our Materia Medica in this way. On the other hand the Old School
     physician stores up his diagnosis of diseases. It is out of comparing
     these great storehouses with each other that we may ascertain whether
     there is such a thing as law.
233. It is a law that if man
     does not think from firsts to lasts, he becomes disposed to sickness by
     doing evil through thinking wrong. This state precedes susceptibility.
234. Susceptibility is prior to
     all contagion. If an individual is not susceptible to Smallpox he cannot
     take it, and will not receive it though he goes near the worse cases, or
     eats a smallpox crust.
235. A piano tuner has restored
     harmony to a piano ; has added nothing and taken nothing from it, yet
     has restored it to harmony. A change that is unknown to one who does not
     think is visible to the internal eye.
236. If man has no chronic
     Miasm he would not have acute disease. It is because he is susceptible
     to these outside influences.
237. All diseases exist in a
     Simple Substance, which can penetrate when resistance is lost. This lack
     of resistance constitutes susceptibility.
238. When an individual is made
     sick by the crude substance, and even by the lower forms of Simple
     Substance, as in Rhus poisoning, it shows that he needs that substance
     on some plane. The dose has been yet too large to cure.
239. Much belongs to man and
     the outer world which the microscope has not yet revealed.
240. The Outermost has all,
     within in to the Infinite in degree.
241. This Primitive Substance
     abides in everything that forms, grows, feeds, or has individuality, or
     identity. It is that which ultimates an exterior form suitable to its
     own existence. That causes the Aconite plant to be Aconite, and nothing
     else to the end of the world.
242. Simple Substance is
     continuously endowed with intelligence from first to last, mineral,
     plant, and animal kingdom.
243. Radiate substances have
     degrees within degrees, in series too numerous for the finite mind to
     grasp.
244. Arsenic, for example, is
     capable of identification from its Outermost to its Innermost. In the
     external form the degrees are limited. When it has passed to simple
     substance, the Radiant form of matter, it has infinite degrees,
245. To express the degrees
     from the Outermost to the Innermost, we might say a grain of Silica is
     the Outermost ; the Innermost is the Creator.
246. It is from this primitive
     Substance that man is created, his intellect made, his body formed. It
     is subject to all the laws of influx.
247. How describe a condition
     of affinity ? When you see the attracting correspondence between spheres
     by which they are drawn together, you wonder. What a world it is in
     which we don’t live or only partly live !
248. Every body has its
     atmosphere, just as the earth has its atmosphere. It is not the Smallpox
     crust that is so dangerous, it is the Aura which emanates from it.
249. Aura is a means by which
     warning is given between spheres ; between plants and objects, between
     animals and persons. Objects are related to each other and give out. We
     find affinity and repulsion by this aura.
250. The aura of crude
     substances increases in intensity and breadth by the elimination from
     the lower to the higher. This is the order of things in relation to
     auras, that is, Simple Substance.
251. If you have an idea of the
     nature of sickness, you will know about the action of remedies.
252. Everywhere this Simple
     Substance is a bond of order. The Vital Force, like Electricity, is a
     bond of order. It builds in accordance with its necessities because of
     that which was prior to it.
253. Disease comes from within
     through this Primitive Substance. It is subject to disturbance, and
     creates a form corresponding to its own sick self,
254. Antipathic medicine
     produces opposite effect, singles out the region. It is in this way, in
     a general sense, with similars, and would, if given in small doses, be
     Homoeopathic.
255. Bromides in minute
     potencies are capable of relieving congestion to the brain in a most
     wonderful manner, but in using them in doses large enough to force
     contraction of blood vessels, the Allopath shows that he is only in a
     shadow of the truth.
256. Mongrel cures are by this
     method, and their cures are not permanent. It is antipathy and
     suppresses all symptoms that disappear.
257. The old definition used to
     say that anything capable of extinguishing the Vital Force was a poison.
     This cannot be denied to-day, but we may say now, that anything capable
     of engrafting itself upon the economy so as to produce incurable injury,
     is a poison. The tincture or third potency of China, if Homoeopathically
     indicated, may establish another disease very quickly in a strong
     constitution.
258. The man who thinks it
     rests in the size of the dose does not know Homoeopathy. One who lives
     in his sensorium thinks that way, from without inward. He operates
     because he has seen others do so.
259. The physician will never
     grow stronger and wiser, so long as he thinks there can be a substitute
     for the remedy.
260. In regard to alternation,
     if the remedy is found which is similar to the condition, you do not
     need two remedies, and if neither are similar of course you do not.
261. When two remedies antidote
     each other, it cannot be said that one is more powerful than the other.
     It is like an alkali neutralizing an acid, the one added last seems more
     powerful, but this is only in appearance.
262. Power, then, is due to
     degrees in similitude. It is true that as it is more similar the remedy
     is more powerful and vice versa. Nature never cures except by
     similars. Year by year you will gain respect for this similar.
263. Every accidental cure that
     has ever occurred is founded on this law.
264. The Homoeopathicity cannot
     be increased by increasing the dose. If it is right at all, you increase
     its Homoeopathicity by elevating its quality toward its interior nature
     so that it corresponds more perfectly to the Vital Force.
265. We do not take disease
     through our bodies but through the Vital Force.
266. When a man takes a remedy
     in too large a dose, he feels worse and his symptom’s are worse ;
     with a higher potency, he feels better, though his
     symptoms may be aggravated.
267. It is all important to see
     the remedy in its nature as a sick being.
268. Disease is a proving of
     the morbific substance. It is not true that there is one law for disease
     and another for drug effects, but the degree of susceptibility governs.
269. Whatever man is
     susceptible to, such he is, such is his quality.
270. One who thinks from the
     material, thinks disease is drawn in from without, but it is drawn out
     from within.
271. When a child takes Scarlet
     Fever it doesn’t get the dose exactly adapted to it, so it has the
     disease.
272. The one who has had
     Smallpox is no different so far as his character would reveal, or the
     microscope, yet he has no susceptibility. It has been satisfied in that
     particular direction.
273. When we think of
     susceptibility we think of a state of the Vital Force in which it can be
     easily made sick by certain other simple substances.
274. Now, when a person
     susceptible to Rhus gets a whiff of air from a vine, he at once has the
     disease fastened upon him, and is not subject to further poisoning
     though he lie under the tree from which he was poisoned until he
     recovers.
275. It is the same with
     Scarlatina. If he were not fortified against the poison, at the instant
     he took it then it would continue to affect his system, and poison him
     more and more until it killed him.
276. If you think names you
     will think remedies, you cannot help it.
277. Any physician with
     pathological notions in his head, if he find no organic disease, is apt
     to think his patient is sick only in the imagination.
278. The prejudiced mind is not
     content to write down simple facts and symptoms but says “I will
     examine the organs and parts, and see if congested or inflamed, and then
     I shall know what to do.”
279. All causes are external
     which flow from exterior to interior.
280. Organic changes constitute
     the same as external causes, because it is the external man. It is like
     the influence of the atmosphere, or like a splinter in the tissues.
281. The results of disease
     never form the image of the nature of the disease, the symptoms alone do
     this.
282. We must think what makes
     the patient sick ; not what causes changes in his liver, his kidneys and
     his other organs.
283. When the ignorant reason
     about pathology, they should correct pathology by the patient, instead
     of trying to correct the patient from a pathological standpoint.
284. There is no cell or tissue
     so small that it does not keep its soul and life force in it.
285. Would you think of curing
     a tumor ? If you would you misunderstand this grand philosophy. You may
     administer a medicine which cures that which is wrong with the patient,
     and as a result the tumor disappears.
286. The physician is not
     called upon to cure the results of disease, but the disease itself. All
     pathological changes must be regarded as the results of disease since
     all disease is dynamic.
287. Homoeopathy causes
     aggravations ; it touches the very secret. It relates to the patient.
     All disease causes exist in this realm.
288. Note the difference
     between the aggravation of the disease, and that belonging to the
     remedy. Large doses really aggravate the disease, high potencies
     aggravate the symptoms of the disease.
289. Avoid unnecessary
     aggravation of symptoms by adjusting the potency to the patient.
290. The action of the remedy
     is mild. The medicine does not act violently, but the reaction of the
     economy in throwing off the disease may be violent. As soon as order is
     restored a tumultuous action may begin.
291. Crude drugs aggravate the
     disease, while high potencies aggravate the symptoms of the disease, and
     do not engraft upon the economy a drug disease, provided the remedy is
     not repeated.
292. We have in the image of
     the disease an exact representation of the image of a remedy. Do all
     things come by chance ? Can man meditate and become an Atheist ? A man
     who cannot believe in God cannot become a Homoeopath.
293. We cannot even see all the
     symptoms in disease. We can see the expression of the face but cannot
     know what that represents. There is nothing in the outer man that does
     not have its beginning in the inner man.
294. Don’t change the slightest
     symptom, observe everything. Receive the message undisturbed and get it
     on paper, there is no other way for a physician to perform his function
     and do his duty.
295. How dare you meddle with
     that image? How dare you meddle with those symptoms ? There is an
     intelligence at the other end of the wire.
296. The questions of
     palliation will annoy you, especially in early years. You will be
     pressed upon all sides by women who wring their hands and by men who
     hear the cries of women. But what authority have you to hush the cries
     of the patient, if by palliating you do away with the ability to heal
     him.
297. When symptoms are removed
     by the reaction of the economy they are more likely to stay away than
     when removed by the action of drugs. Crude drugs given on theory only
     suppress symptoms.
298. If a remedy whose
     superficial symptoms agree with the superficial symptoms of a disease,
     but whose nature is different be given, it will cause a suppression if
     it acts at all.
299. An inappropriate
     prescription may be the steppingstone to breaking down.
300. It is the same if the
     physician prescribes for this and that group of symptoms. Avoid this,
     for it is not healing the sick.
301. The more violence you see,
     and the more necessity for haste, and the more severe and the greater
     suffering of the patient, the more harm you can do by a false and
     foolish prescription.
302. A man who prescribes from
     a keynote for everything mixes the case up, and has to wait a long time
     to see the sickness as it really is.
303. When you give a remedy be
     sure that the nature of the remedy and the nature of the disease (as
     well as the symptoms) agree.
304. Can you not see that it is
     not another disease simply because this or that organ is affected.
305. An inflamed liver is not
     the disease. The liver is not the cause of itself. It is under the
     control of the Vital Force, and it is what the Vital Force makes it.
306. We can never be good
     homoeopaths if we think of tissue changes as diseases. They are but the
     results of disease. We must think from within outward.
307. A cure is not a cure
     unless it destroys the internal or dynamie cause of disease. A tumor, if
     removed, does not cure the patient, because its cause still continues to
     exist.
308. Irregular sensations are
     the evidence of disease. The Vital Force undisturbed gives naturai
     sensations. Only a sick Simple Substance (Vital Force) can give abnormal
     sensations.
309. Power comes in the
     direction of similitude, not of intensity, and gains power only in
     proportion as it is similar.
310. It does not take any
     enormous quantity to cure people any more than to make them sick.
311. It is only by sustaining
     the sharpest kind of work that you will keep up your reputation, and be
     able to cure sick people.
312. How is it that bread and
     meat nourish the human body ? We cannot say. How the Homoeopathic remedy
     cures the disease will never be known, but the direction in which life
     flows into the body and the direction of cure can be known.
313. If the quality in the
     medicine is changed into quantity this is not a similar. It is
     antipathie and becomes dissimilar in its nature. The dose may be too
     large to cure, yet large enough to produce an effect.
314. When crude drugs are used
     for proving on those not susceptible to potentized doses, one or another
     organ is affected. These are fragmeritary provings; are not true
     provings. They do not give the image of the remedy. Do not touch the man
     himself, or if you get the whole image it must be from hundreds of such
     provers.
315. The Soul, which is the
     most interior of man, cannot be affected by drugs. This can only be
     affected by man’s own will.
316. When the third potency
     cures there is something higher in it. No substance permeates the Vital
     Force when it is coarse enough to be seen.
317. You cannot demonstrate any
     vital problem by the microscope.
318. Drug effects when carried
     to pathological conditions are too much alike. It is the same with
     disease.
319. So far as there is morbid
     anatomy to account for symptoms, so far is it unimportant as a symptom,
     for if no other symptoms are present you can find no remedy.
320. The dynamic plane is more
     interior or above the nutritive plane ; it presides over it and commands
     it. This is the plane of provings.
321. The lower potency
     corresponds to a series of outer degrees, less fine and less interior
     than the higher.
322. The word disease really
     means the signs or symptoms before organic disease has taken place.
323. If you go at it like a
     common tinker you may cure acute sickness, but, on your life do not
     tamper with these chronic diseases.
324. In the infant we see the
     father’s history ; in old age the history of youth. This enables us to
     look into the future to see whether a patient will recover, or die, or
     be palliated.
325. Sickness exists on varying
     planes. Acute diseases occupy an outer plane and do not take so great a
     hold upon the life. The chronic diseases reach what we may call the
     innermost potency of man.
326. The Acarus, then, is the
     ultimate of an internal condition, and indicates that the conditions are
     such in the economy as are suitable to ultimate an Acarus.
327. In acute miasms the whole
     disease is found in one individual, in chronic miasms this is not so.
328. How is it that the
     allopaths can cauterize the chancre and sore throat and send the
     manifestations of the disease to the internal organs ? There is a vital
     ulcer ten times greater than the external one. Just so sure as ulcers
     are removed from the throat, will the Vital Force suffer, and the
     ultimates come in the form of organic changes.
329. The physician must
     penetrate the inner recesses of symptomatology. The very life of the
     patient must be opened. Learn the fears, instincts, desires, and the
     aversions of the patient. The remedy often crops out through the
     affections.
330. If you can get your
     patient to talking you can find out how he is sick. It requires a good
     deal of experience to keep a patient talking to the line.
331. It is not an easy matter
     to keep your mouth shut and let the patient tell his own story. It has
     to be acquired.
332. This flopping about, and
     not waiting for the remedy to cure is abominable. There are periods of
     improvement and periods of failure. Let the Life Force go on as long as
     it can, and repeat only when the original symptoms come back to stay.
333. We do not have to go into
     a plane called the other world to find a place where spirits dwell.
     Spirits are no longer unthinkable.
334. The consciousness between
     two substances is that atmosphere by which they know each other ; a
     correspondence of spheres. They are in harmony, or antagonistic.
335. Every person and animal
     has an atmosphere.
336. You may potentize
     tubercles so high that there is not a shred of a microbe left in the
     liquid, yet if given to a susceptible person it will produce its own
     disease because of its Simple Substance.
337. You must see that the
     Vital Force may take on, or permit to flow with it, another Simple
     Substance (disease cause, or remedy that will cure). This occurs when
     electricity and sound are conveyed at the same time over a wire as in
     the telephone.
338. All disease causes are in
     Simple Substance. We must enter the realm of causes in order to see the
     nature of disease.
339. We potentize so as to
     render the remedy simple enough to be drawn in by influx by the Vital
     Force.
340. The direction in which
     sickness flows is from the within to the without.
341. Homoeopathy exists as law
     and doctrine, and operates in the world of its causes. If this were not
     so it could not exist in the world of ultimates.
342. As soon as the vital
     powers are turned into confusion there is no order ; confusion reigns as
     in a mob. In Old School treatment the confusion is made worse.
343. Low potencies can cure
     acute diseases because acute diseases act upon the outermost degree of
     the Simple Substance and the body. In chronic disease the trouble is
     deeper seated, and the degrees are finer, hence the remedy must be
     reduced to finer or higher degrees so as to be similar to the degrees of
     chronic disease.
344. The Vital Force dominates,
     rules and co-ordinates the human body.
345. The Simple Substance is
     again dominated by still another higher substance which is the Soul.
346. The Clairvoyant has an
     intensity in her nature, she is highly electrical, sensitive to spheres,
     is annoyed by everything. This is sickness. These things show the nature
     of susceptibility and sympathy.
347. It is not enough to say
     that people have lost equilibrium, this is a technical way of expressing
     it. Individuals who are too sensitive are sick, repulsed by every one
     they meet. This is due to a deeper sickness than the one from the
     exciting cause.
348. Never look for a cause
     within the thing itself. It must be prior, or within the organism.
349. These chronic skin
     troubles are not local diseases. It is contrary to all science and logic
     (except in Allopathic medicine) to say that anything that exists is
     itself a cause of itself, or that it is capable of working changes in
     itself.
350. The Vital Force holds all
     in harmony, keeps everything in order when in health ; just as
     Electricity in its own natural state is a bond of order.
351. The idea that an organ
     like the liver which is under the control of the Vital Force and whose
     action the Vital Force governs is able to set up a disease itself and
     thereby make the patient sick, is preposterous.
352. As soon as the Vital Force
     is sick or deranged it acts upon the liver in a different manner from
     what it does in health, consequently the liver (its action being
     governed by the Vital Force) must act in a sick or deranged manner.
353. As long as the Vital Force
     is acting harmoniously the organ (being governed by it) cannot act in
     any way other than a harmonious manner.
354. Cure is brought about by
     changing the diseased or sick Vital Force back to its normal (health)
     condition.
355. Hahnemann was always in a
     state of humility, he never attributed anything to himself.
356. Every sensation has its
     correspondence to something that is within.
357. Work must be done from
     within out, in order to be permanent.
358. Two sick people are more
     unlike than two well ones.
359. It would be difficult for
     the Old School to define what their system is. “We are
     regular,” they say. When they relieve pain by anodynes, and
     constipation by laxatives, they do not know that there is a reaction.
     When the Vital Force is sick it is disorderly and they attempt to
     imitate this disorder. A perfect imitation would end in Homoeopathy.
360. Here we have on the one
     hand the action of disease upon the healthy, and there the action of
     drugs upon thc healthy. We find one a duplicate of the other. Is this
     not peculiar ?
361. Every action in
     Homoeopathy must be based on a positive principle.
362. Belief has no place in the
     study of Homoeopathy. The inductive method of Hahnemann is the only way.
363. It requires expert
     judgment to make few blunders. The less you know about the sphere of
     sickness the more blunders.
364. The one who understands
     best the nature of his remedies will remember most about their
     peculiarities.
365. Ten years of practice will
     be a revelation to you, so that you will understand people and their
     minds. You will almost know what they are thinking, and will often take
     in a patient’s constitution at first glance.
366. Now you should never think
     of Measles or Scarlet Fever as a fixed form of disease which you have
     sometimes treated thus and so, and expect to treat again in the same
     way. You must keep your mind from getting into ruts.
367. Anything that exhausts
     makes manifestations internal.
368. Vital Force and Soul are
     in the cell as well as in the body. The same thing rules the remedy and,
     stripped of its grossness and placed upon the tongue, it will be taken
     into the economy instantly. I went a thousand miles once to place a dose
     of Zincum on the tongue of a paralyzed woman who felt its effects in
     less than sixty seconds and in six weeks her paralysis left her.
369. There is not one law for
     contagion and another one for proving. They are both one.
370. The remedy pervades the
     economy silently and completely with its prodromal period ; then comes
     the evolution of the disease which runs its course.
371. If morbid anatomy has
     taken the place of symptoms there is not much chance of cure. When
     organs are destroyed little guiding symptoms seem to pass into the shade
     and the prehistoric (before the pathological changes) symptoms are
     forgotten. The guide has disappeared. There is no other way of making it
     known.
372. If the Vital Force has not
     that extra susceptibility that allows a breath of the similar remedy to
     cure, repeated doses may suppress the symptoms but will not cure ; you
     are getting only the primary action, the curative action is not at work.
     The reactive energy of the Vital Force is not brought into play.
373. You know that the infant
     at the mother’s breast becomes as thoroughly medicated as the mother. Do
     not think, however, that if not indicated in the mother, it will reach
     the infant. It is not done through a funnel. The mother must be
     susceptible to it and thus vitalize it.
374. It is inconsistent to say
     “I gave a Homoeopathic remedy and it did not cure.” The
     administration of homoeopathic remedies is an applied Science.
375. Simple Substances combine
     and help each other to flow in the direction of the least resistance as
     much in things invisible as in things visible.
376. If we were to undertake to
     study with the microscope what susceptibility is or what affinity is, we
     would not succeed.
377. The microscope, then, only
     furnishes us a field of results, and, beautiful as they are, the cause
     is not visible, we see only the results.
378. There is a plane of
     nutrition and a plane of Dynamis. Common salt is appropriated by the
     normal individual who receives it on the plane of nutrition, but the
     sick one who needs it eats it constantly and it does not make him well
     because he needs it on a higher plane.
379. Now when man reasoned
     falsely he created such a change in himself, in his Primitive Substance,
     that the body became changed, then he became susceptible to outer
     influences.
380. The body became corrupt
     because man’s interior will was corrupt.
381. To-day no eruption is
     allowed to show its head. Everything is hushed as soon as it gives
     evidence of being. If this goes on long enough the human race will be
     swept from the earth.
382. Confusion comes from
     losing one’s head, prescribing on few indications and giving medicine
     when no medicine should be given.
383. The increase of conditions
     shows increase of sickness ; the increase of symptoms often shows
     diminution of disease.
384. When Hahnemann speaks of
     disease it would seem to be limited to disease activities.
385. It is worse than useless
     to give a second dose until the effects of the first dose have ceased.
386. Do not apply externally
     the indicated remedy. If it does no good there is no use in using it. If
     it cures it does so by healing up the external disease before the
     internal one is cured and thereby leaving no opportunity for the
     internal disease to come out.
387. Never,

under any circumstances, make use of
local applications for an internal derangement. It is the highest order of
medical profanity !

388. The most natural thing to
     do is to remove external obstruction, but anything that comes from
     within must be treated from within.
389. It is a very superficial
     view to take of Homoeopathy to see that the symptoms correspond.
390. There are general, common,
     and peculiar symptoms. The general is used in the sense of the general
     of an army, and the generals command all other symptoms and really
     control the patient.
391. The modern provers note
     down only the common symptoms and the morbid anatomy which the remedy
     produces, and have left out the generals and peculiar symptoms.
392. Often you may think a
     patient has all the symptoms in the Materia Medica when in reality there
     is not a general or guiding symptom on which to prescribe. Such lack of
     symptoms is due to feeble vitality.
393. If you see that a patient
     must go in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and suffering, it is a
     delightful part of Homoeopathy to administer Euthanasia to arouse vital
     action suddenly and permit the patient to go.
394. If you can feel in your
     old age that the well proved remedies are all your friends, you should
     feel a state of humility that you are an instrument of such service.
395. There is much more to be
     learned about disease from the medicines, because disease is more
     obscured by the culminations.
396. The limit of drug action
     is symptomatology.
397. It is only after a careful
     and complete study of the finer provings of drug and the same of the
     finer features of disease that a law can be demonstrated.
398. The finest degrees of
     sensation are to be perceived for these changes constitute the nature of
     the disease. If drugs could not produce these changes they could not
     cure. This is the foundation. If you would discover whether the law of
     similar is the law of cure you would need to draw Upon this store of
     finer symptoms.
399. Pathology has no place in
     an effort to select a medicine for the sick.
400. The microscope is only
     suitable to demonstrate the most concrete of matter. When the third
     potency of Gold cures it is because some portions of it are finer.
401. There never was a genuine
     Homoeopath who discouraged the real genuine study of anatomy and
     physiology.
402. As soon as you begin to
     prescribe on peculiar symptoms you prescribe on keynotes, and will not
     do good work. When you have three symptoms -keynotes- , it is true you
     may possibly get the right remedy, but what do you know of your patient,
     or of the image ? You will never have the case in hand, or grasp the
     true nature of the case in this way.
403. When a remedy has
     benefited a patient satisfactorily, never on your life, change your
     remedy, but repeat that remedy so long as you can benefit the patient.
     Do not regard the symptoms that have come up.
404. The remedy has actually
     led to a change. Don’t reason that if you had given a certain remedy in
     the beginning you could have cured your patient. The masked symptoms
     come out as a result of the remedy.
405. The more you cultivate
     Homoeopathic methods and the finer you discriminate, the better you see,
     and the more you can understand.
406. Positive principles should
     govern every physician when he goes to the bedside of the sick. The sick
     have a right to this if it can be had.
407. The most villianous
     doctors are always hunting for something strange and peculiar. Those out
     of the way symptoms and strange pains are not what we prescribe on and
     will seldom serve you. The generals are the ruling symptoms and are what
     the patient says, the individual himself.
408. Never prescribe for a
     chronic case when you are in a hurry ; take time. Never give a dose of
     medicine until you have duly considered the whole case.
409. You cannot count
     twenty-five decent provings since Hahnemann. They leave out what they
     call imagination and put in morbid anatomy.
410. Just so sure as you
     prescribe a one-sided remedy for an Hysterical case, just so sure will
     she leave you after a while because you do not cure.
411. The physician must be
     possessed of a knowledge of the human desires, must be a reader of human
     nature, not only as it relates to the sick room but in health.
412. If you place your trust in
     the Vital Force you will not hammer away with remedies. You must have
     confidence enough in the economy so that when you have started a
     commotion you can rest. There is a very quiet change going on.
413. A keynote prescriber is
     but a memory prescriber ; he has memorized only and has not made it a
     part of his understanding. Such prescribers are almost useless and it is
     among them that we find “falling from grace.”
414. The Psoric condition will
     result, in one, in brain disease, in another in organic liver disease,
     or structural change in the kidneys. The symptoms which present
     themselves after organic changes have occurred are far less important
     though not to be ignored.
415. When we recognize the fact
     of the long years of existence of chronic cases, also that they are
     often inherited f or several generations, if a cure is made in the
     course of two or three years it is indeed a speedy cure. It takes from
     two to five years to cure chronic diseases.
416. We must remember that
     Vital Force is Simple Substance, and that which cures must be Simple
     Substance.
417. The greatest comfort on
     earth to man in incurable diseases is Homoeopathy.
418. In incurable cases where
     there are extensive structural changes, use short acting remedies and
     such antipsorics as do not relate to the case as it was in the
     beginning. The remedy that fits the previous condition will tear the
     case down.
419. In old incurable cases
     when we give a remedy that fits the whole condition, the result is one
     of three things : first, aggravation of the symptoms with advance of the
     disease; second, no action, and third, Euthanasia.
420. Unless the inner nature of
     the remedy corresponds with the inner nature of the disease the remedy
     will not cure the disease but simply remove the symptoms which it covers
     ; that is, suppress them.
421. Such antipsorics as do not
     relate to the constitutional condition of the patient are comforting and
     palliative and act as short acting remedies.
422. In advanced Phthisis with
     pathological symptoms, if you prescribe for the old symptoms which
     should have prescribed for some years before, you kill your patient.
423. A Sycotic is never cured
     unless a discharge is brought back.
424. All things that change the
     aspect of a case should be avoided.
425. When a case comes back in
     a few days with all the symptoms changed, unless they are old symptoms,
     the prescription was inaccurate and unfortunate.
426. We are told that the
     afterbirth must be removed, and scraped off if necessary ; these are
     insane acts and jeopardize life.
427. The body is covered on the
     outside and inside by a membrane that protects it from all noxious
     influences except violence. It is the same with the parturient, so long
     as you do not denude the uterus with officious interfering, there is no
     danger of blood poisoning. But if the placenta does not come away by
     gentle traction and abdominal pressure let it alone. Treat the cause and
     not the effects of disease.
428. There are degrees of
     fineness of the Vital Force. We may think of internal man as possessing
     infinite degrees and of external man as possessing finite degrees.
429. We see the difference
     between short and long acting remedies from this. Short acting remedies
     are only capable of corresponding to the outermost degree of man.
430. It is known that old
     fashioned medicine of all sorts fails to recognize that there are
     principles of plain and intelligible governing the practice of medicine.
     They regard it as a mere matter of “experience.”
431. In vaccination when a new
     disease comes on the former is suspended during the time, and comes on
     again even though the crust had not formed. This is related as most
     wonderful, but this the Homoeopath understands. Syphilis makes symptoms
     of Scrofula to disappear in the same way and after Mercury subdues the
     Syphilis, then the Scrofula comes back. One occupies some hidden
     precinct in the economy while the other is active.
432. The knowledge of
     complementary remedies is necessary of the nearest remedy in its nature
     and not in a few symptoms. Thus in a series of complementary remedies,
     the conditions must be there as well as the symptoms.
433. Keep in a series of
     complementary remedies. We can never cure if we select a remedy for a
     part of the symptoms, and as others come up, give a remedy that is not
     the complement.
434. In regard to nosodes, when
     prescribed upon the symptoms which they produce upon the healthy, they
     will cure the same as other remedies. But to use these things
     indiscriminately is an outrage.
435. Structural changes are not
     the basis for a prescription, but the symptoms which existed before the
     structural changes appeared.
436. The mind symptoms, if you
     can know them, are the most important. If the pathological symptoms seem
     to contra-indicate a remedy, and the mental symptoms to indicate it,
     these are to be taken.
437. In cases without symptoms,
     the patient must be kept on Sac-Lac., until you can discern some
     general, such as aggravation of symptoms in the morning, or at midnight.
     If the patient is only “tired,” without guiding symptoms, you
     may know that it is liable to terminate in some grave disorder –
     Consumption, Bright’s Disease, Cancer, or the like.
438. A copious discharge
     protects many an individual from changes in organs.
439. When derangement localizes
     itself upon one particular place it is for the purpose of tearing that
     organ all to pieces. If it sets up a discharge, that is a sort of safety
     valve and the other organs are protected.
440. Hahnemann did not mean
     simply Scabies when he said Itch, but all skin diseases as a class.
441. No applications which are
     capable of doing anything can be used without injury. If so simple that
     they do not change the symptoms they are of course useless.
442. The healthier the patient
     becomes the more likelihood there is for an eruption upon the skin. The
     vital energies must be sufficient for this. A cure progresses from
     within outward.
443. All susceptible provers
     will bring out the image of the remedy. The prover catches the drug
     disease from one or two doses just as people do the Scarlet Fever or the
     Grippe.
444. There are degress within
     degress to infinity. All may be made sensitive or become so to certain
     things and with differing degress of susceptibility ; hence what folly
     to lay down the rule for a fixed dose beyond which the result would be
     fatal, and beyond which if a physician should go he would be responsible
     in case of death.
445. The expressions by which
     we know that he has been sick for a long time we know by our study of
     pathology and anatomy. These are the results of disease, but the
     primitive disease is evidenced by the symptoms, the morbid sensations.
446. Never leave a remedy until
     you have tested it in a higher potency if it has benefited the patient.
447. Higher means interior in
     quality.
448. The interior man is
     superior to the external man. Through this outer instrument everything
     is reflected or rather conducted.
449. The physician cultivates
     his eye for everything that it is possible to pass judgment upon and
     must write down everything that is unnatural, everything that is
     expressive of illness.
450. One remedy must be more
     similar than the other. It is true that one not conversant with the
     subject will be unable to see the finer shades of difference. Some are
     color blind, yet others can pick out colors.
451. The Homoeopathic physician
     must continue to study in the science and in the art before he can
     become expert. This will grow in him until he becomes increasingly
     astute and he will grow stronger and wiser in his selections for sick
     people.
452. The wisest will make
     mistakes in perception, but the aim must ever be to find the most
     similar of any medicines proved, and to recognize that there is one most
     similar of all.

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