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A COMPEND 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Principles of Homoeopattiy 
 
 AS TAUGHT BY HAHNEMANN, 
 
 AND VKRIFIED BY A CENTURY OF CLINICAL 
 
 APPLICATION, 
 
 WIVL. BOKRICKK, M. D. 
 
 Professor of Materia Medica aud Therapeutics, at the Hahnemann Hospital 
 
 College of San Francisco; Associate Author of the Twelve Tissue 
 
 Remedies of Sehuessler; Stepping Stone to Homoeopathy; 
 
 Member of American Institute of Homoeopathy, 
 
 Etc., Etc. 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO: 
 
 B0ERICK:E & RUNYON 
 
 1896. 
 
COPYRIGHTED 1896, 
 
 BY 
 
 BOERICKK & RUNYON 
 
 Jos. WrNTRKBUKN CO., 
 
 Printers and Ei.ectrotypers, 
 San Francisco. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Hahnemann's Organon is the great text-book of the 
 homoeopathic school. It contains philosophical con- 
 ceptions and practical directions for the establishment 
 of a true science of therapeutics, and all genuine pro- 
 gress towards this goal is in the direction pointed out 
 in that work. To fix its principles clearly in the mind 
 of the student, to faithfully apply them in practice, is 
 the special duty and high privilege of Homoeopathy. 
 The more this is done, the^more will this masterly book 
 become a veritable mountain of therapeutic light to the 
 practitioner. 
 
 Hahnemann's teachings, and the therapeutic edifice 
 erected by the homoeopathic school, are based upon 
 two distinct factors. On the one hand, upon facts of 
 observation and experiment obtained by strict adher- 
 ence to the inductive methods of research, facts that 
 can thus be verified at all times; and, on the other 
 hand, upon new ideas resulting from the exercise of 
 deductive reasoning, ideas belonging possibly to a 
 larger and higher realm, and to some extent beyond 
 the acceptance of modern scientific thought, but never- 
 theless capable of great power in achieving curative 
 results. 
 
 Until quite recently, the tendency of modern homoe- 
 opathy was to bend its energies perhaps too exclusively 
 upon the acquisition of the facts yielding immediate 
 results, while neglecting to some extent the study of 
 
iv Preface. 
 
 the underlying principles. With neglect of the study 
 of homoeopathic institutes came coquetry with old- 
 school methods, and the alluring adoption of modern 
 palliative and mechanical therapeutics, leading un- 
 questionably to deterioration of our distinctive prac- 
 tice. The reaction had to come. We are in the midst 
 of it. A homoeopathic renaissance is upon us. Teach 
 and study the Organon is its watchword. This little 
 book is intended to be an introduction and an aid to a 
 fuller study and wider acceptance of Hahnemann's 
 doctrines. It does not pretend to be more than an 
 attempt to elucidate the salient and vital points often 
 abstrusely and always metaphorically treated by Hah- 
 nemann, and thus to familiarize the student with the 
 fundamental groundwork of our school. These essen- 
 tial doctrines do not include the necessary acceptance 
 of every statement of Hahnemann as of equal and ab- 
 solute importance. Indeed, a wise discrimination is 
 necessary, for the minor things may be instructive or 
 obstructive, or even destructive, according to the way 
 they are held; they may, therefore, be useful or other- 
 wise for the mental development of the physician or 
 the scientific evolution of the school. 
 
 The author has gladly availed himself of everything 
 published that furthered the end in view, and he hopes 
 that the little volume will be used by the student and 
 young practitioner as a first stepping-stone to the rich 
 mine of deep philosophy and practical suggestion con- 
 tained in the writings of Samuel Hahnemann. 
 
 WM. BOERICKE, M. D. 
 San Francisco, September, 1896. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THK THERAPEUTIC FIEI.D. Pages. 
 
 Three methods of combating disease : Preventive medi- 
 cine; Palliative medicine; Curative medicine Medic- 
 inal therapeutics Empiricism Practice according 
 
 to some pathological theory: i. Allopathy. 2. Anti- 
 pathy, or Eantiopathy. 3. Organo-Therapy Objec- 
 tions to Antipathetic treatment Practice based upon 
 
 the Law of Cure The first promulgation of this prin- 
 ciple The development of the homoeopathic princi- 
 ple Homoeopathy, the science of therapeutics 
 
 The great central truths of Homoeopathy Isopathic 
 
 medication and its modern form of serum-therapy 1-13 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 PRINCIPIvES OF PHARMACOI.OGY. 
 
 Materia Medica Drugs and drug-action Medicinal 
 
 force is a distinct property of drugs Doctrine of Sig- 
 natures Other methods of determining the medicinal 
 
 virtues of drugs Experimental Pharmacology 
 
 Physiological action of drugs The homoeopathic 
 
 method by means of drug experimentation on the 
 
 healthy— drug-proving Drug Pathogenesy The 
 
 value of Toxicology as illustrating drug action Dif- 
 ferent applications of drug action 14-22 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE HOMCEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 The first book on drug effects Hahnemann's Materia 
 
 Medica Pura Publication of the "Chronic Diseases," 
 
 Sources of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica The 
 
 comparative value of the three sources of symptoms. 
 
 The Hahnemannian Schema The repertory or index 
 
 of symptoms How to learn drug pathogenesy 23-30 
 
vi Contents. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 D R U G-P ROVING. Pages. 
 The proving of medicines General rules for drug-prov- 
 ing Directions for provers Dosage required for 
 
 proving Female provers Repetition of doses 
 
 Age and sex Temperament Re-provings Her- 
 
 ing's rules lor provers How to describe symptoms 
 
 obtained from a proving The three essential features 
 
 of every complete symptom Primary and secondary 
 
 drug effects Hahnemann's method of conducting 
 
 provings 31-37 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 INTERPRKTATION OF DRUG PATHOGENESIS. 
 Of general symptoms Of peculiar or characteristic symp- 
 toms Of certain elective affinities to special organs 
 
 or functions Locality, or seat, of action vSensa- 
 
 tions, or kind, of action Modalities and concomi- 
 tants Boeninghausen's method of interpreting symp- 
 tomatology 38-44 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 DRUG RKI.ATIONSHIP. 
 
 Family relation, or collateral, side relation Antidotal 
 
 relation Concordant, or compatible, relationship 
 
 Complementary relation Inimical relation 45-48 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE APPIylCATlON OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
 
 The examination of the patient The selection of the 
 
 remedy The administration of the single remedy. 
 
 The dose and its repetition The totality of the symp- 
 toms Special precautions to be observed Object- 
 ive symptoms The totality in acute diseases The 
 
 collective totality of epidemic diseases Interpretation 
 
 of the totality Characteristic, or peculiar, symp- 
 toms Mental symptoms First, or oldest, symp- 
 toms Etiological factors Late symptoms 
 
 Functional symptoms Need of pathology General, 
 
Contents. vii 
 
 Pages. 
 
 or absolute, symptoms Totality of equality Path- 
 ological similarity Method of treating slight ail- 
 ments Absence of characteristic symptoms in the 
 
 totality Partial, or one-sided, diseases .....49-62 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE SIMir^IMUM. 
 
 The indicated remedy The single remedy Alterna- 
 tion, or rotation, of remedies 63-65 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE SECOND PRESCRIPTION. 
 
 Rules governing the second prescription Three precau- 
 tionary rules of Hahnemann Diet and regimen dur- 
 ing homoeopathic treatment Regimen in acute dis- 
 eases 66-72 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 HAHNEMANN'S NOSOI^OGY. 
 
 Acute diseases Chronic diseases Drug diseases 
 
 The evolution of Hannemann's doctrine of chronic 
 
 diseases Cause of recurrence of chronic diseases 
 
 The skin phase of chronic diseases The underlying 
 
 facts of the Psoric theory Anti-psoric remedies 
 
 Hahnemann's suggestions in regard to administering 
 
 anti-psoric remedies Other miasms recognized by 
 
 Hahnemann Sycosis Eradicative possibilities of 
 
 anti-psoric treatment Pre-natal treatment by means 
 
 of anti-psoric remedies Suggestions for the treatment 
 
 of chronic diseases Partial diseases and local affec- 
 tions Objections to local application of a medicine 
 
 simultaneously with its internal use The local appli- 
 cation of non-homoeopathic remedies The local dis- 
 ease is nature's efforts to relieve by derivation The 
 
 mental state and temperament of the patient Mental 
 
 diseases and their treatment Acute insanity Inter- 
 mittent and alternating diseases 73-89 
 
\iii Contents. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 POSOI.OGY. Pages. 
 
 Different effects between large and small doses Reasons 
 
 for the difference in dosage between drugs chosen homoe- 
 
 opathically and anti-pathically Reason why the 
 
 honiceopathic dose is necessarily smaller Aggrava- 
 tion follows sometimes even a minute homoeopathic dose. 
 
 Historical development of the homcEpathic dose 
 
 Repetition of doses The theory of Dynamization. 
 
 Hahnemann's reasons why the skeptic ridicules these 
 homoeopathic attenuations 90-98 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE PREPARATION OF HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICINES. 
 
 Pharmacopoeia Essential conditions for preparing homoe- 
 
 pathic medicines The menstrua used in homoeopathic 
 
 pharmacy Alcohol Sugar of milk Distilled 
 
 water The unit of ' medicinal strength Prepara- 
 tions of drugs Aqueous solutions Tinctures 
 
 Dilutions or liquid attenuations Centesimal and 
 
 Decimal scale Triturations To convert tritura- 
 tions into liquid potencies Pellets, disks, cones, 
 
 tablets, etc 99-108 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 Hahnemann's Philosophy 109-116 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A Catechism on Samuel Hahnemann's "Organon," and 
 "Chronic Diseases," by the late Professor Samuel 
 Lilienthal 117-152 
 

 A COMPEND 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PRINCIPLES OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE THERAPEUTIC FIELD. 
 
 The aim of the art of medicine is to cure disease, and 
 the physician's highest ideal of a cure, as Hahnemann 
 says, Organon § 2, is the rapid, gentle and permanent 
 restoration of health, or the removal and annihilation 
 of disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reli- 
 able and most harmless manner, and on easily com- 
 prehensible principles, that is, with the least possible 
 expenditure of time, money, vitality and suffering. 
 
 In pursuance of this object, the physician presses 
 into his service all agencies which tend to health. This 
 is the part of 
 
 Therapeutics [therapeuein, to attend upon]. It in- 
 cludes all that relates to the science and art of healing, 
 includes all agents, medicines among them, which may 
 aid this purpose. It embraces dietetics, climate, cloth- 
 ing, bathing, nursing, application of heat, cold, elec- 
 tricity and all other means used by the physician for 
 restoring health, when that is possible, or in palliating 
 violent conditions or incurable diseases, or in prevent- 
 ing their development. Hence there are 
 
 Three methods of combating disease, of which 
 every physician is bound to avail himself. They are: 
 
2 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 1. Preventive medicine. 
 
 2. Palliative medicine. 
 
 3. Curative medicine. 
 
 These cover the whole field of possible therapeutic 
 activity.* 
 
 . Preventive Medicine includes the application of 
 everything that physiology, hygiene, sanitary science, 
 etc., can teach to lessen the development of disease 
 according to the teaching in § 4 of the Organon. 
 
 '' The physician is at the same time a preserver of 
 health, when he knows the causes that disturb health, 
 that produce and maintain disease, and when he knows 
 how to remove them from healthy persons." 
 
 It includes much of bacteriological knowledge, anti- 
 septic medication, subjects that have made enormous 
 strides in recent years. It includes as well the judi- 
 cious use of homoeopathic remedies in preventing or 
 modifying the development of epidemic and hereditary 
 diseases. 
 
 Palliative Medicine. Palliative medicines are of 
 two kinds: 
 
 (1) The use of drugs in their physiological dosage 
 for their direct effects, as the use of Opium and Mor- 
 phine for pain. This is the common method of the 
 old school. 
 
 (2) By the carefully selected Homoeopathic remedy 
 given in minute dosage. This frequently yields bril- 
 liant results in palliating where a cure is impossible. 
 This latter method is to be tried in every case before 
 drug palliation- is used. 
 
 This is almost the sole resource of the old school, 
 and consequently much abused, but in the hands of the 
 
 *This was aptly and perfectly expressed by Dr. Bering to the 
 author in the German words Rindern, Lindern, Mindern, embodying 
 every possibility of a physician's distinctive sphere of usefulness. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 3 
 
 true physician who knows its subordinate place, it 
 constitutes a legitimate method in incurable diseases, 
 beyond the operation of the law of cure, where we can 
 only alleviate, not radically cure. While Homoeopathy 
 reduces the need and occasions for the use of mere pal- 
 liatives to a small limit, yet palliation has its use in 
 the practice of medicine, but it is always the expression 
 on the part of the physician of his impotence to cure 
 radically. 
 
 Curative Medicine is almost exclusively occupied by 
 Homoeopathy, for this method alone cures without 
 subjecting the patient to new pains and discomforts; 
 it alone fulfills the highest aim of the physician — to 
 heal quickly, gently, radically, according to scientific 
 and rational methods. 
 
 All physicians are compelled to avail themselves of 
 all three methods at times. As sanitarians and hygi- 
 enists, physicians can do much to prevent zymotic and 
 epidemic diseases; as homoeopathists, much can be 
 done in the eradication of inherited disease tendencies 
 and preventing their development; and as the laws that 
 govern curative medicine are applied more fully, the 
 need for mere palliation will correspondingly grow less. 
 
 Leaving aside the large field of General Therapeutics, 
 common to all physicians, of whatever school of medi- 
 cine, we restrict ourselves to the consideration of the 
 different uses of drugs as therapeutic agents. 
 
 Medicinal Tlierapeutics is the application of drugs 
 as medicines for the purpose of modifying or curing 
 disease. Drugs are employed in the medicinal thera- 
 peutic field either empirically, or according to the Law 
 of Similars — i. e., scientifically, because according to 
 fixed law. 
 
 Empiricism is based upon mere experience and is 
 practice without regard to any theory or scientific 
 
4 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 deduction or investigation. A remedy is given which 
 experience has shown to be effective in a similar case. 
 It is the rule of authority and leads to mechanical 
 routinism in practice. Certain remedies have, how- 
 ever, obtained a permanent place in medicine that 
 have been discovered empirically, and whose mode of 
 action cannot be readily explained. It has been found 
 that certain drugs act curatively against certain defi- 
 nite diseases when given in material dosage. They are 
 known as specifics. There are not many, but such are 
 Quinine in malaria, Mercury in syphilis. Iodine in 
 glandular affections. Salicylic acid in rheumatism, etc. 
 These occupy a rather unique position, though it can 
 be claimed that the relationship is a homoeopathic one, 
 although it differs from the usual homoeopathic rela- 
 tionship between remedies to disease in requiring 
 material dosage. 
 
 Practice according to some pathological theory is 
 
 characteristic of the old school of medicine. It is con- 
 stantly changing, as different views on physiology and 
 pathology lead to corresponding therapeutic changes. 
 It is therefore one of the most unstable of methods* 
 At present, pathology being dominated by bacterio- 
 logical views, the corresponding therapeutic measures 
 are largely germicidal, anti-septic or anti-toxical. But 
 already bacterial pathology, and as a consequence its 
 therapeutics show signs of the inevitable displace- 
 ment.* 
 
 The use of medicines when administered according 
 to some pathological theory is either according to allo- 
 pathic or antipathic method. 
 
 *Says Lawson Tait, that during his professional life he has 
 learned and unlearned some four or tive theories of inflammation, 
 and he predicts that the present prevalent theory, coccophobia he 
 calls it, will soon go the way of the other theories. 
 
Phinciples of Homceopathy. 6 
 
 Allopathy (from Alios, other and Pathos, a disease), 
 where the symptoms are different, the same organs and 
 tissues being affected in a different manner, or other 
 organs and tissues being affected in some manner; the 
 relationship being one of indefinite diversity* 
 
 Allopathy usually attacks the parts most exempt 
 from the disease, in order to draw away the disease 
 through them and thus to expel it, as is imagined. 
 § 55 Organon. 
 
 Antipathy, or Eailtiopathy (from Eanthios, contrary, 
 and Pathos, disease) — where the symptoms, or condi- 
 tions indicated by them, are opposites; the relationship 
 being one of direct antagonism. It is a palliative 
 method, pure and simple, wherewith the physician can 
 appear to be most useful and can usually gain the 
 patient's confidence by deluding him with momentary 
 amelioration. 
 
 The inefficacy and danger of this method as applied 
 in diseases of a chronic nature is easily verified by 
 clinical observation. Study § 56-71 Organon. 
 
 '^All pure experience and exact experiment will con- 
 vince us that persistent symptoms of disease are so 
 imperfectly alleviated or exterminated by contrary 
 symptoms of a drug, used according to antipathic or 
 palliative method, that after a brief period of apparent 
 relief, they will break forth again in a more marked 
 degree, and visibly aggravated." Organon § 23. 
 
 In this category of allopathic treatment belong the 
 therapeutic method of Biochemistry, introduced by Dr. 
 Schuessler of Germany, and the various forms of chem- 
 ical treatment, such as Hensel's, etc. The former 
 adopted from Homoeopathy its method of diminishing 
 dosage and some of its distinctive remedies, but other- 
 
 *Dake, Pathogenetic Therapeutics. 
 
6 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 wise it has no relationship to Homoeopathy, since its 
 therapeutic procedures are based upon a pathological 
 theory and not upon the symptoms of the individual 
 patient, which alone constitute the basis of homoeo- 
 pathic therapeutics. Here also belongs 
 
 Orgauo-Therapy, which is that therapeutic method 
 which aims to supply deficiencies in the functional 
 activity of human organs by the administration of 
 substances derived from similar organs in animals. 
 
 It has been found that the extract of Thyroid gland 
 of animals, administered to the human organism, 
 causes a rapid disappearance of the morbid symptoms 
 of myxedema — a form of disease or atrophy of the 
 thyroid, interfering with the performance of its 
 function. 
 
 The doctrine that sound organs of certain animals 
 are useful in diseases of those organs in man so lately 
 revived in the old school, was clearly taught by Oswald 
 Croll, a disciple of Paracelsus. Its modern extension 
 is unreasonable and unscientific, and a passing thera- 
 peutic fad. 
 
 Besides these special and modern tendencies of old 
 school practice, there are certain perennial features 
 characteristic of it. In place of the former hypothet- 
 ical assumptions of the hidden causes of disease that 
 proved delusive and deceptive as a basis for treatment, 
 material causes of disease were next assumed to exist, 
 and hence the treatment, based upon such hypotheses, 
 consisted mostly in eliminating from the organism the 
 supposed offending cause, therefore the list of purga- 
 tives, emetics, sudorifics counter-irritants, surgical pro- 
 cedures, local medication of all kinds. But though a 
 temporary relief is frequently obtained thereby, no 
 permanent cure is established, rather an increase in 
 the very condition, in the case of chronic disease; or 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 7 
 
 metastases appear sooner or later, which, however, are 
 then looked upon as new diseases, and not as direct re- 
 sults of ill-adapted treatment. 
 
 " But in by far the greatest proportion of cases of 
 disease, known as chronic, these impetuous, weakening, 
 and indirect therapeutie measures of the old school 
 scarcely ever prove to be of the least benefit. For a 
 few days at most they suspend one or another of those 
 troublesome manifestations of disease which return, 
 however, as soon as nature has become inured to that 
 counter-stimulus; and the disease will re-appear with 
 more violence, because the vital powers have been re- 
 duced by the pain of counter-irritation and improper 
 evacuations." * 
 
 Objections to Antipathic Treatment. 
 
 (1) It is merely symptomatic treatment attacking 
 some prominent single condition, instead of the disease 
 as a whole, and neccosarily leads to polypharmacy in the 
 endeavor to meet different conditions at the same time. 
 
 (2) The transient amelioration is followed by an 
 increased aggravation of the very condition to be re- 
 moved, necessitating increasing dosage. 
 
 (3) Drug diseases are established that complicate 
 hopelessly the original disease of the patient; the pos- 
 sibility of harm by the introduction of the necessary 
 large dosage of drugs and foreign substances always 
 being very evident. 
 
 None of these therapeutic methods are curative in 
 the true sense by directly modifying the vital activities 
 of the organism. In the cases where such treatment is 
 ultimately successful (and certain temporary beneficial 
 results cannot be denied), the homoeopathic method is 
 more direct, safer, more radical, and with no possible 
 harm to the patient. 
 
 * "Organon,'" Introduction. 
 
8 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 Practice based upon the Law of Cure is the only 
 truly scientific therapeutic method, since it alone 
 fulfills the conditions of science and offers a medical 
 practice true for all time and applicable to all forms of 
 disease in men and animals. 
 
 Homoeopathy is the only therapeutic method based . 
 upon law. 
 
 Siniilia Siniilibus Curantur.* Like affections are 
 cured by their similars, expresses the law for drug 
 selection in all curable forms of disease. By its 
 application, the curative remedy is found in curable 
 cases; and in incurable cases, the same law usually 
 points to a remedy that will act palliatively in most 
 conditions. By Law of Cure is meant the definite path 
 along which a drug force moves to cure a diseased con- 
 dition. This law forms the basis of Homoeopathy 
 [from the Greek words homiios and pathos, meaning 
 similar affections], the therapeutic method that applies 
 the principle that any drug which is capable of pro- 
 
 * There exists a misconception concerning the phraseology em- 
 ploy ed by Hahnemann in the expression of the Law of Similars. 
 Dr. K. E. Dudgeon, the recognized authority concerning the works 
 of Hahnemann, writes in the appendix to his translation of the 
 Organon, " Hahnemann always wrote the formula Similia Simili- 
 bus Curentur, thereby giving an imperative or mandatory turn to 
 the phrase." The translation must evidently be "Let likes be 
 treated by likes." " Darch Beobachtung, Nachdenken und Erfahrung 
 fand ich, dass im Gegentheile von leiztern [Erleichterungsmittel und 
 Palliative durch die Curart contraria contrariis] die wahre, 7'khtige, 
 hesie Heilung zufindensei in dem Satze Similia Similibua Curentur. 
 Wr'ihle, um sanft, schnell, gerwiss und dauerhaft zu heilen, in jedem 
 Kratikheilsfalle e'lne Argnei, welche ein aehnliches Leiden fur sich 
 erregen kann, als sie heilen soil!" Nevertheless, Similia Simiiibus 
 Curantur has been almost universally adopted by the homoeopathic 
 school, and the belief and conviction have been unconsciously ex- 
 pressed thereby that it is a laic of nature — S. S. Curantur — Likes 
 are cured by likes; rather than a rule of art, S. S. Curentur— Let 
 likes be treated by likes. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 9 
 
 ducing symptoms of disease in the healthy will remove 
 similar symptoms, and thus cure the disease when found 
 in the sick. 
 
 The first promulgation of tliis principle was made 
 by Hahnemann in 1796, in an essay published in 
 Hufeland's Journal, entitled " On a new principle for 
 ascertaining the curative properties of drugs." In this 
 essay Hahnemann formulated his conclusions thus: 
 " Every powerful medicinal substance produces in the 
 human body a peculiar kind of disease, the more 
 powerful the medicine, the more peculiar, marked and 
 violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which 
 sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding 
 another and employ in the disease we wish to cure that 
 medicine which is able to produce another very similar 
 artificial disease, and the former will be cured — Similia 
 Similibus." 
 
 This was six years after his first experiments with 
 Cinchona bark, which was the first drug experimented 
 with and which gave striking evidences of the simi- 
 larity between the effects it is capable of producing, and 
 those for which it had ever been employed, and which 
 was the beginning of a rational, scientific, Materia 
 Medica, and of a scientific therapeutics based thereon. 
 The most characteristic feature about the development of 
 Homoeopathy is the strict observance of the inductive 
 method of research that Hahnemann adopted. Care- 
 ful expeiiments were instituted, all preconceived theo- 
 ries were ostracized, and the results and rigid deduc- 
 tion from them were not published until years had 
 elapsed in which to verify all the statements. 
 
 The development of the homoeopathic principle 
 
 began in the mind of Hahnemann with his experiments 
 with Cinchona, which in turn led him to other experi- 
 ments with other drugs and patient search of recorded 
 
10 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 action and uses of drugs throughout the medical liter- 
 ature. His first suggestions fell unheeded by the pro- 
 fession; but he continued his experiments, and nine 
 years later published a work in Latin ''On the Positive 
 Effects of Medicines," and at the same time declared 
 the principle of Similars as a law of general applica- 
 tion. Five years more of further reflection and experi- 
 ment enabled him to perfect his system and embody 
 its principles in his great book, the "Organon of 
 Rational Medicine." The following year, while a 
 teacher at the University of Leipsic, he published vol- 
 ume I of his "Materia Medica Pura," containing original 
 provings made by himself and members of his family, 
 and assisted later by some enthusiastic disciples that 
 gathered around him at the University; and in 1821 
 he published the final sixth volume, containing the 
 positive effects of sixty-four medicines. With the pub- 
 lication of these two great works, Hahnemann provided 
 both the theoretical and practical requirements of 
 Homoeopathy as a distinct method of therapeutics. 
 He was the first to apply the inductive method of 
 research to therapeutics. He says, in the preface to 
 the second edition of the Organon, published in 1818: 
 " The true healing art is in its nature a pure science of 
 experience, and can and must rest on clear facts and 
 on the sensible phenomena pertaining to their sphere 
 of action. Its subjects can only be derived from pure 
 experience and observation, and it dares not take a 
 single step out of the sphere of pure, well-observed 
 experience and experiment." And, again, " Every 
 one of its conclusions about the actual must always be 
 based on sensible perceptions, facts and experiences, if 
 it would elicit the truth." 
 
 Homoeopathy, the Science of Therapeutics. Such 
 a healing art conformable to nature and experience, a 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 11 
 
 science of therapeutics, therefore, did not exist hefore 
 Hahnemann. 
 
 The most marked feature of the early homoeopathy 
 was its entire freedom from all theory and hypothesis; 
 it was a protest against all and any pathological theory 
 as a basis of therapeutics. 
 
 As taught, it was the true science of therapeutics, 
 based upon exact observation of natural phenomena in 
 disease and drug action, and noting the law governing 
 their mutual relationship. 
 
 On this solid ground of scientific observation, all 
 Homoeopathists base their practice, whatever differences 
 have arisen, date from the publication of Hahnemann's 
 theory of chronic diseases and drug dynamization, 
 and in not clearly distinguishing between Hahnemann's 
 discoveries and facts on the one hand and his illustra- 
 tions and mere theories on the other. Whatever 
 Hahnemann published as a fact has never yet been 
 disproved, but his theories are not proven. It is the 
 genuine Hahnemannian spirit, as Hering says, totally 
 to disregard all theories, even those of one's own fabri- 
 cation, when they are in opposition to the results of 
 pure experience. All theories and hypotheses have no 
 positive weight whatever, only so far as they lead to 
 new experiments and afford a better survey of the re- 
 sults of those already made. 
 
 The Great Central Truths of Homoeopathy. 
 
 (1) The totality of symptoms of the patient consti- 
 tutes the disease for the purpose of a cure. 
 
 (2) Drug experimentation on the healthy, so-called 
 drug proving, is the only reliable method to arrive at 
 a knowledge of the effects of drugs. 
 
 (3) The curative relation between these two sets of 
 symptomatic facts is the law of similars, Similia Simil- 
 ibus Curantur. 
 
12 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 (4) The administration of one single remedy at a 
 time. 
 
 (5) The minimum (smallest) dose that will bring 
 about a cure. 
 
 (6) Repetition of the dose should cease when marked 
 improvement sets in. 
 
 Isopathic Medication and its modern form of 
 Serum -Therapy. This means the employment of mor- 
 bid products of a disease for the cure of the same dis- 
 ease [Aequalia aequalibus]. It is of very ancient date, 
 and of late has received renewed attention through the 
 researches of Pasteur, Koch, and others; it necessitates 
 the attenuation of the virus, in order to be used medic- 
 inally; it was taught as early as 400 years b. c. by 
 Xenocrates; it was introduced into Homoeopathy by 
 Dr. Lux in 1823, and in part adopted by Dr. Hering. 
 Lux taught that the toxins formed in the body, prop- 
 erly attenuated, are capable of curing the very diseases 
 that give rise to them — that is, every disease is sup- 
 posed to have within itself its own antidote. 
 
 In 1830 Hering proposed as a remedy for hydropho- 
 bia the saliva of a rabid dog, properly attenuated; the 
 very teaching and practice of Pasteur. He also pro- 
 posed Phthisine as a remedy for tuberculosis, and forty 
 years later it, too, received popular and scientific en- 
 dorsement by Koch and others. As early as 1834, 
 Dr. Stapf, one of the greatest of the early homoeopath- 
 ists,who looked upon the subject dispassionately, says: 
 " I do not doubt that the discovery of the curative ac- 
 tion of morbid matters, in diseases that produced them, 
 to be one of the most important discoveries that has 
 been made since the beginning of our school." 
 
 Nosodes is the homoeopathic designation for such 
 morbid products, which are animal alkaloids [pto- 
 maines], produced by the decomposition of animal sub- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 13 
 
 stances. At first ptomaines were restricted to alkaloids 
 produced by cadaveric decomposition, hence the name 
 (ptomaine, belonging to a dead body), but now they 
 also include alkaloids of animal origin formed during 
 life as a result of chemical changes within the organ- 
 ism. These alkaloids have assumed great importance, 
 by reason of their relation to the causation of disease, 
 and it is probable that most pathogenic bacteria pro- 
 duce their effects through their specific alkaloids. The 
 homoeopathic nosodes are these specific alkaloids atten- 
 uated according to homoeopathic methods and adminis- 
 tered according to the Law of Similars. To obtain a 
 permanent place in the Materia Medica, as Psorinum, 
 the principal of the nosodes, has already achieved, and 
 not be the victim of a passing therapeutic fad, as is the 
 fate of most old-school therapeutic novelties, they must 
 he proved on the healthy, and the pathogenetic effects 
 thus obtained be the only guide for their therapeutic 
 application. To apply them empirically for similar 
 diseases corresponding to their origin as is done by the 
 old-school with tuberculin, antitoxin is disastrous and 
 non-homoeopathic. 
 
 Study in this connection: 
 
 The Organon: The Introduction, called by Hahnemann, "A 
 Keview of Therapeutics; allopathy and palliative treatment, that 
 have hitherto been practiced in the old-school of medicine, " together 
 with historical intimations of Homoeopathy before Hahnemann's 
 time. 
 
 Also, Organon $ 1-6, on the Functions of the Physician. 
 
 Also, Homoeopathy, the Science of Therapeutics, by Carroll 
 Dunham. 
 
 Homoeopathy, the only system of curative medicine, by Charles 
 S. Mack. 
 
 Pathogenic Therapeutics, by J. P. Dake, in his Therapeutic 
 Methods. 
 
 Hahnemann's criticism of Isopathy, in the Organon, Introduc- 
 tion, note 34. 
 
 Dr. Dudgeon's most valuable appendix to his translation and 
 edition of the Organon, page 200. 
 
14 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY. 
 
 Pharmacology {pharmakon, a drug, logos a discourse) 
 is a convenient term for the whole subject of Materia 
 Medica, pharmacy and medicinal therapeutics. Speci- 
 fically, it refers often to drug effects, as evinced from 
 experiments on animals, and as such is the only source 
 of modern old-school knowledge of the physiological 
 action of drugs. 
 
 Materia Medica is the study of drugs in regard to 
 their origin, physical and chemical properties, but 
 especially and chiefly in regard to their effects in modi- 
 fying the health of the body. The latter is the dis- 
 tinctive field of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 
 
 Drugs and Drug Action. Drugs are substances 
 taken from all the kingdoms of nature that are used as 
 medicines. They usually produce deleterious effects 
 upon the body when given in sufficiently large doses in 
 health, and they modify some part, or the whole, of a 
 morbid state when given to the sick. This property is 
 discovered either empirically by observation of cases of 
 poisoning, or by systematic experiments on human 
 beings in health. 
 
 Medicinal force is a distinct property of drugs, 
 
 by which they modify vital activity, not by their chem- 
 ical, physical or mechanical properties, but by their 
 specific dynamic property, peculiar, distinctive and 
 different in every drug. And they can be truly cura- 
 tive only by reason of their modifying properties of the 
 vital processes. Each medicinal substance, be it plant, 
 mineral or animal product, has stored within its 
 material particles, and embodies, therefore, its own par- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 15 
 
 ticular medicinal force, which can be brought into 
 activity by breaking up the outward particles. The 
 character of this specific force, or the drug's medicinal 
 properties, can only be discovered by the vital test, 
 made by experimenting with different doses on healthy 
 human organisms, and to some extent on animals. 
 The latter merely to see the ultimate lesions and or- 
 ganic changes drugs are able to produce. 
 
 At one time, and especially during the middle ages, 
 before the introduction of modern, scientific methods, 
 the properties of drugs were based upon the 
 
 Doctrine of Signatures. External characteristics 
 of a substance served to indicate possible therapeutic 
 effects. Fancied or real resemblances between some 
 part of a plant and some particular organ or fluid of 
 the body pointed to therapeutic relationship. Thus, 
 according to this doctrine, Digitalis must be of use in 
 blood diseases, because its flowers are adorned with 
 blood colored dots; Euphrasia was famous as a remedy 
 for the eyes, because it had a black spot in its coralla, 
 which looked like a pupil.* 
 
 The lungs of a fox must be specific against asthma, 
 because this animal has a very vigorous respiration. 
 
 Hypericum having red juice ought therefore to be of 
 use in haemorrhages. 
 
 Euphorbia, having a milky juice, must be good for 
 increasing the flow of milk. 
 
 Sticta, having some likeness to the lungs, was called 
 pulmonarius and esteemed as a remedy for pulmonary 
 complaints. 
 
 Singularly enough, in isolated instances at least, such 
 relationship actually does exist, as has been verified by 
 subsequent clinical application, and it is possible that 
 an intuitively gifted race may see a relationship actu- 
 
 *Grauvogl. 
 
16 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 ally existing between outward forms and structures and 
 inner uses. But for purposes of modern scientific ther- 
 apeutics it is valueless. * 
 
 Other methods of determining the medicinal vir- 
 tues of drugs were by the sense of taste and of smell. 
 Drugs with a bitter taste were held to possess tonic and 
 stomachic virtues, hence the " Bitters " of the ordinary 
 pharmacopoeia. Gentiana, for instance, is such a drug, 
 and unquestionably does exert a tonic influence upon 
 the stomach. But this virtue is probably not because 
 it is bitter, but because it has a distinctive medicinal 
 force wholly independent of its taste. Certain aromatic 
 drugs were deemed to possess anti-spasmodic and stim- 
 ulant properties, etc. 
 
 Experimental Pharmacology. The modern method 
 for arriving at a knowledge of drugs is by experiment- 
 ation on animals, chiefly frogs, rabbits, dogs, cats, etc. 
 But this method is objectionable on account of the 
 difference in structure and physiology of these animals 
 
 * "The soul does not perceive the external or internal physical 
 construction of herbs and roots, but it intuitively perceives their 
 powers and virtues and recognizes at once their signatum. This 
 signature is a certain organic vital activity giving each natural ob- 
 ject (in contra-distinction to artificially made objects) a certain 
 similarity with a certain condition produced by disease, and through 
 which health may be restored in specific diseases in the diseased 
 part. This signatum is often expressed, even in the exterior form 
 of things, and by observing that form we may learn something in 
 regard to their interior qualities, even without using our interior 
 sight. We see that the internal character of a man is often ex- 
 pressed in his exterior appearance, even in the manner of his walk- 
 ing, and in the sound of his voice. Likewise the hidden character 
 of things is to a certain extent expressed in their outward forms. 
 As long as man remained in a natural state, he recognized the sig- 
 natures of things and knew their true character; but the more he 
 diverged from the path of nature and the more his mind became 
 captivated by illusive external appearances, the more this power 
 became lost." — Paracehus. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 17 
 
 and the vast difference in their susceptibility to the 
 action of medicines. Nux is most poisonous to man, 
 yet pigs can eat it freely; Aconite is fatal to man in 
 a small dose, yet dogs and horses can eat it with im- 
 punity. Birds are not susceptible to the action of 
 Opium or Atropin, etc. Again, the dynamic effects of 
 drugs differ among animals. For instance, Ipecac and 
 Tartar Emetic are emetics to men and dogs, but not to 
 rabbits. Such methods of arriving at the crude drug 
 effects may be sufficient to determine the so-called 
 physiological effects of drugs, and the antipathic use 
 of them based thereon, but is wholly inadequate for 
 purposes of Homoeopathy. They have their use, also, 
 in determining the ultimate organic lesions produced 
 by certain drugs, whenever it is desirable to push a 
 proving to such an extent. 
 
 Physiological action of drugs. Drugs produce in 
 the organism, when given in sufficiently large doses, 
 certain disturbances or alterations of function, usually 
 of a correspondingly definite character. The dosage 
 required for this purpose is, as a rule, a fixed one within 
 certain limits. It is the physiological dose — that is, a 
 dose large enough to produce symptoms. Opium con- 
 stipates the bowels, produces insensibility. For these 
 purposes a recognized, fixed quantity is necessary, not 
 less than one-half to one grain. This constitutes its 
 physiological dose. Strychnia increases the reflex 
 excitability of the spinal cord, in doses of one-twelfth 
 to one-thirtieth of a grain. Digitalis slows the heart 
 in ten minim doses. 
 
 Now this direct, absolute action of drugs, which is 
 constant, can be made the basis of treatment of disease, 
 wherever this is possible. Its advantages are imme- 
 diate results and improvement of certain conditions 
 opposed to this direct drug action. It is, therefore, pal- 
 2 
 
18 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 liative where indicated. This use of drugs is based 
 upon the law of contraria contrariis opponenda, when 
 an opposite result is desired, or when it is intended to 
 produce not an opposite, but an entirely different 
 action, as, for instance, a purgative in a case of head- 
 ache. The objections to this direct use of drug effects, 
 by means of physiological dosage, are the limited field 
 to which such action is applicable and the necessity 
 for increasing dosage, and sooner or later opposite re- 
 actionary results that make further use of the drug 
 useless. All physicians may make use of this direct, 
 physiological action of certain drugs for certain condi- 
 tions, but its usefulness is limited. Hahnemann him- 
 self clearly defines it as follows: 
 
 " I do not fail to recognize the great ability *bf palli- 
 atives. They are often not only quite sufficient in 
 cases appearing suddenly and developing rapidly, but 
 they have great advantages, indeed, where aid cannot 
 be postponed for an hour, or even a minute. Here, and 
 here alone, are palliatives of real use." 
 
 This use of drugs for their direct primary effects by 
 means of a dosage sufficiently large and within certain 
 limits, always definite and precise, has led to a classi- 
 fication of drugs, according to their physiological and 
 some ,of their therapeutic actions, and not differing 
 materially from that introduced by Dioscorides, the 
 father of Materia Medica. Since his time drugs have 
 been classified into three principal classes, evacuants, 
 alteratives and specifics. The evacuants are ag an 
 subdivided with respect to the various routes by which 
 nature expels the morbid matters, such as purgatives, 
 expectorants and diaphoretics. Alteratives comprise 
 drugs which alter the course of morbid conditions, 
 modifying the nutritive processes while promoting 
 waste, and thus indirectly curing some chronic diseases; 
 
Principles of Homoeopath y. 19 
 
 such are Mercury, Iodine and Arsenic. They increase 
 metabolism. 
 
 Other classes are the antipyretics, emmenagogues, 
 styptics, anthelmintics, astringents, etc., etc. 
 
 While such classification is very imperfect, and but 
 a partial designation of the properties of drugs, for every 
 drug may belong to several classes, and its special pro- 
 perties in any class are at best vague and uncertain, 
 still, there is some advantage to those who want to avail 
 themselves of the direct drug effects, of this drug classi- 
 fication, based on some of their more marked pathoge- 
 netic and therapeutic effects. But it is entirely useless 
 for homoeopathic prescribing. 
 
 The homoeopathic method by means of drug ex- 
 perimentation on the healthy, so-called drug proving. 
 
 This is the only scientific and rational method of ascer- 
 taining the action of medicines. All other methods 
 have proved useless and misleading. The credit of 
 first teaching the necessity of proving drugs upon the 
 healthy belongs to Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physi- 
 cian. As early as 1755, in his Swiss pharmacopoeia, he 
 distinctly taught this, but nothing came of it. It was 
 not until Samuel Hahnemann, in 1796, practically 
 went to work and actually experimented with drugs on 
 himself and others that the first pure effects of drugs 
 became known and could be rationally employed in 
 practice. Hahnemann was thus the founder of the 
 science of drug pathogenesy, for it is a fact that up to 
 his tinl^no one had made any physiological experiment 
 with any drug; it is a fact that his experiments with 
 Peruvian Bark were the first ever made in the domain 
 of pharmacology, and are a model to this day. The 
 science of drug proving dates therefore from 1796, and 
 is the beginning of a rational therapeutics. With the 
 adoption of this principle, we have a key to unlock the 
 
20 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 sphere of action of every substance in nature, so far as 
 it can bear any relation to man's constitution in health 
 and disease. It is a creative principle, universal in its 
 application, true for all time. The introduction of it 
 into medicine marks an epoch in the development of 
 the healing art, before which time a science of thera- 
 peutics was impossible. 
 
 In the Organon, §§ 108-9, Hahnemann says: 
 " There is, therefore, no other possible way in which 
 the peculiar effects of medicine on the health of indi- 
 viduals can be accurately ascertained; there is no aure, 
 no more natural way of accomplishing this object than 
 to administer the several medicines experimentally, in 
 moderate doses, to healthy persons, in order to ascer- 
 tain what changes, symptoms and signs of their influ- 
 ence each individual produces on the health of the 
 body and of the mind; that is to say, what disease ele- 
 ments they are able and tend to produce, since, as has 
 been demonstrated, all the curative power of medi- 
 cines lies in the power they possess of changing the 
 state of man's health, and is revealed by observation of 
 the latter." 
 
 Drug Pathogenesy is the record of testing drugs on 
 the human body in varying doses, and on different 
 individuals of both sexes, and observing all the symp- 
 toms, subjective and objective, from the minutest dis- 
 turbed function and mental state to the grossest organic 
 lesion. "Simple drugs," says Hahnemann, "produce in 
 the healthy body symptoms peculiar to themselves, 
 but not all at once, nor in one and the same series, nor 
 all in each experimenter." Such a method of arriving 
 at a knowledge of drugs is universal in its application ; 
 it includes all that can be learned from toxicology also. 
 
 The value of toxicology as illustrating drug action 
 
 is far inferior, however, to that of testing them in 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 21 
 
 health by means of small doses. Still it gives the ulti- 
 mate lesions and organic changes, and in this way- 
 interprets many symptoms of the provings; but when- 
 ever the organism is violently invaded by a foreign 
 destructive agent, no matter what the poison is, there 
 is usually much similarity of action, resulting from 
 nature's efforts to throw it off by all possible routes 
 outward from the body's distinctive vital centers, hence 
 the inevitable nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, nerve dis- 
 turbances, convulsions, paralysis, etc., of most poison- 
 ings. The provings with small doses avoid these crude, 
 extreme effects, and, instead of producing them, rather 
 indicate them by the milder disturbances produced. 
 
 Different Applications of Drug-action. The knowl- 
 edge of what drugs will do when given to a healthy 
 subject can be utilized in two different ways, both legit- 
 imate, and it is a mere matter of experience and obser- 
 vation to determine which is the better. We can use a 
 drug to produce its physiological effects. If this is 
 desired, the drug must be given in a dose large enough 
 to produce symptoms — that is, in a so-called physio- 
 logical dose, differing with each drug and determined 
 by experiment. This is the antipathic use of drugs, 
 and has nothi7ig to do with Homoeopathy, or the law of 
 cure. It is, moreover, very limited in its application, 
 and objectionable on many grounds. 
 
 The other method, the homoeopathic relationship, is 
 universal in its application, and is not confined to any 
 special dosage, provided such always is sub-physiologi- 
 cal — i. e., less than is required to produce symptoms. 
 Hence, drugs can act in tivo different ways when given in 
 disease, and we can have, therefore: 
 
 1. Homoeopathic relationship — when given for con- 
 ditions similar to those they are capable of producing. 
 Applicable to all drugs, and universal in its extent. 
 
22 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 (2) Antipathic or allopathic relationship — when 
 given in physiological dosage to produce their first, 
 direct or physiological effects. This is, as we have 
 stated before, of but very limited application. 
 
 The only difference in the application of drugs to 
 disease with the two schools of medicine is, that the 
 old school gives drugs solely to obtain their direct, 
 physiological effects, and rather favors combination of 
 remedies, while the homoeopathic school depends en- 
 tirely upon the curative results obtained by giving the 
 single remedy in a sub-physiological dose for symp- 
 toms similar to those it is known to produce. 
 
 For reference and further study, see Hahnemann's Essay on a 
 New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs in 
 his Lesser Writings, page 249. 
 
 Hahnemann's Essay on the Sources of the Common Materia 
 Medica, being Preface to Vol. II of the Materia Medica Pura. 
 
 The Physiological Action of Medicines, by Wm. Sharp, in Es- 
 says on Medicine, page 417. 
 
 General Principles of Drug Action, by K. Hughes, in Pharma- 
 codynamics; lecture IV-V. 
 
 An interesting account and practical application of the Doctrine 
 of Signatures can be found in Grauvogl's Textbook, $ 91-95. 
 
 Samuel A Jones, M.D.: "The Grounds of a Homoeopath's 
 Faith." An inspiring little work. 
 
 Dudgeon. "Lectures on Homoeopathy." Lect. VI, Isopathy. 
 
Pkinciples of Homceopathy. 23 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE EVOLUTION OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC 
 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 The Homoeopathic Materia Medica is a record of 
 the effects of drugs upon the healthy human organism, 
 embodying a knowledge of what drugs actually do 
 when brought in contact with the functional activity 
 of the body. The sources of this knowledge are, 
 
 1. The systematic provings. 
 
 2. Observations of cases of poisoning and over-dos- 
 ings, which Hahnemann and his disciples have gath- 
 ered from general medical literature. 
 
 The First Book on Drug Effects. The first work 
 embodying such record is that of Hahnemann, entitled 
 Fragmenta de ViriMis Medicamentorum Positivis. It 
 is a Latin work, and published in Leipsic in 1805. 
 Twenty-seven drugs are treated of, containing symp- 
 toms Hahnemann himself had observed as effects of 
 poisoning or from excessive dosing, and of provings on 
 himself.* ''I have instituted experiments," he says in 
 the preface, '^ in chief part on my own person, but also 
 on some others whom I knew to be perfectly healthy 
 and free from all perceptible disease." 
 
 "In those experiments which have been made by 
 myself and my disciples, every care has been taken to 
 
 * It is interesting to know the names of the pioneer medicines 
 whose pathogenic effects were first published in this work of Hah- 
 nemann. They are Aconitum, Arnica, Belladonna, Camphora, 
 Cantharis, Capsicum, Causticum, Chamomilla, Cinchona, Coccu- 
 lus, Copaiva, Cuprum, Digitalis, Drosera, Helleborus, Hyoscy- 
 amus, Ignatia, Ipecacuanha, Ledum, Mezereum, Nux vomica, 
 Opium, Pulsatilla, Rheum, Stramonium, Valeriana, Veratrum 
 album. Of these, Cantharis, Copaiva, and Valeriana, Hahnemann 
 did not include in his subsequently published "Materia Medica." 
 
24 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 secure the true and full action of the medicines. Our 
 provings have been made upon persons in perfect 
 health, and living in contentment and comparative 
 ease. When an extraordinary circumstance of any 
 kind — fright, chagrin, external injuries, the excessive 
 enjoyment of any one pleasure, or some event of great 
 importance — supervened during the proving, then no 
 other symptom has been recorded after such an event, 
 in order to prevent spurious symptoms being noted as 
 genuine. When such circumstances were of slight 
 importance, and could hardly be supposed to interfere 
 with the action of the medicine, the symptoms have 
 been placed in brackets, for the purpose of informing 
 the reader that they could not be considered decisively 
 genuine." 
 
 Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura. 
 
 Five years now elapsed before Hahnemann pub- 
 lished anything more in the line of drug pathogenesy. 
 They must have been five years of intense labor and 
 experiment. Then appeared the first volume of that 
 great classical work, the " Materia Medica Pura," con- 
 taining the symptomatology of twelve medicines, six 
 of which had already appeared in the Latin treatise 
 published before. 
 
 Five years later appeared the second volume, con- 
 taining the symptomatology of eight medicines, which 
 was soon succeeded by the four other volumes, contain- 
 ing in all the pathogenic effects of sixty-one drugs. 
 It is a monumental work, the result of Hahnemann's 
 matchless penetration, wonderful insight and accurate 
 observation, of which he was a master. He was most 
 ably assisted in this work by thirty-five fellow-provers, 
 among whom the names of Franz, Gross, Hartmann, 
 Herrmann, Hornburg, Riickert, Stapf, and Friedrich 
 Hahnemann are the most conspicuous and deserve to 
 be remembered by all students of Materia Medica. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 25 
 
 In 1822 appeared a second edition of this great work, 
 with considerable additions to the symptomatology of 
 all the remedies and some new medicines besides. A 
 third and fourth edition were published after some years. 
 
 Publication of the "Chronic Diseases." 
 
 In 1828 Hahnemann published his ''Chronic Dis- 
 eases," containing the symptomatology of a com- 
 pletely new series of medicines, a series of deeply- 
 acting drugs, like Calcarea, Sulphur, etc., the so-called 
 Anti-psoric remedies. The symptomatology of these 
 remedies was not wholly pathogenetic, but included 
 observations at the bedside, so-called clinical symp- 
 toms. 
 
 A second edition, greatly enlarged and now con- 
 taining the symptomatology of twenty-five remedies, 
 besides the twenty-two of the first edition, appeared 
 between 1835 and 1839. A peculiar feature of the 
 provings in this work is that the bulk of them must 
 have been obtained with the thirtieth potency, and 
 often are observations when given to the sick, differing 
 entirely, therefoi-e, from the pathogenetic effects of the 
 Materia Medica Pura. A new English translation of 
 this great work has just appeared in this country. 
 
 Besides Hahnemann and his immediate disciples, 
 Constantine Hering, of Philadelphia, contributed the 
 best provings to the homoeopathic Materia Medica, 
 some of his drugs ranking in importance with Hahne- 
 mann's own. Of these, Lachesis, Glonoine and Apis 
 take first rank. 
 
 Another large contributor to the Materia Medica was 
 Dr. E. M. Hale, not so much by proving as by intro- 
 ducing American remedies that had been in use by 
 botanic physicians, and gathering all that was known 
 as to the therapeutic properties in one volume, called 
 "New Remedies." We have, then, as 
 
26 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 Sources of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 
 
 1. Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura, published 
 in 1811, containing the pathogenesis of the great poly- 
 chrests — i. e., remedies of many uses and wide and fre- 
 quent application. 
 
 2. Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, published in 
 1828, containing the so-called Antipsoric remedies, 
 those especially adapted to the cure of chronic diseases. 
 
 3. Dr. Jorg's Provings — a professor at the Univer- 
 sity of Leipsic and contemporary of Hahnemann, but 
 not one of his followers. He proved, among others. 
 Camphor, Digitalis, Opium, Arnica, Hydrocy. acid, 
 Ignatia. Some of his symptoms are quoted and in- 
 cluded by Hahnemann in the second edition of his 
 works. 
 
 4. Dr. Hering and the American Provers' Union. 
 
 5. Dr. E. M. Hale's contributions in his " New 
 Remedies." 
 
 6. Various provings and reprovings under the aus- 
 pices of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, vari- 
 ous State societies and individual provings published 
 in our journalistic literature. Also, Hartlaub and 
 Trink's pathogeneses, Stapf's additions, provings by 
 the Austrian Society, etc., etc. 
 
 These records are at present collected in three great 
 works: 
 
 1. "Allen's Enclycopaedia," in ten volumes. 
 
 2. ''Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy," in four vol- 
 umes. 
 
 These two works contain the symptoms obtained by 
 provings, and from records of poisoning, i. e., patho- 
 genetic symptoms. 
 
 3. "Hering's Guiding Symptoms," in ten volumes, 
 which also contains clinical or curative symptoms — i. e.j 
 observed on the sick. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 27 
 
 The comparative value of the three sources of 
 symptoms, from records of toxicology, provings on 
 healthy and observation on sick. 
 
 1. Toxicology. Violent cases of poisoning never yield 
 a profitable symptomatology, on account of the violent 
 invasion by foreign destructive agents. The organism 
 throws it off by all routes outward and away from its 
 distinctive life, hence vomiting, diarrhoea, convulsions, 
 etc., common to all kinds of poisoning. On the other 
 hand, the records of poisoning give us the ultimate 
 action, the tissue and organic changes that the prov- 
 ings can only indicate, and thus they illustrate and 
 interpret the provings. 
 
 2. Provings on the healthy. The provings with com- 
 paratively small doses avoid these violent, crude and 
 extreme effects, and instead of producing them, rather 
 indicate them by mild disturbances. We thus obtain 
 the finer and more characteristic action, and thus a 
 much more utilizable picture of drug effects. Fortu- 
 nately, the bulk of the homoeopathic Materia Medica is 
 made up from this source. The symptoms obtained 
 from toxicological observations and from provings are 
 also called pathogenetic symptoms^ and the full record, 
 in the order of their development, is called the drug's 
 pathogenesis. The "Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy" 
 gives these in their fullest and most accurate form. 
 
 3. Drug effects observed in the sick. In the evolution 
 of the homoeopathic Materia Medica, another class of 
 symptoms not bearing the aristocracy of origin, charac- 
 terizing pathogenetic symptoms, were introduced, so- 
 called clinical or curative symptoms. This source was 
 almost unavoidable, so long as drug provings on the 
 healthy were limited in number and extent. The 
 symptomatology of most of the great constitutional or 
 anti-psoric remedies consists, in large part, of such clin- 
 
28 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 ical symptoms. They are such symptoms as disappear 
 after administering a remedy, and which are not found 
 among the pathogenetic effects, so far as the provings 
 have been made; but, wherever genuine, there can be 
 no doubt that they are possible pathogenetic symptoms, 
 could we have full and accurate provings. In this way 
 the homoeopathic Materia Medica has been enlarged, 
 not always wisely, however; for, in order to discover 
 them amidst the symptoms of the disease in a patient, 
 much discrimination and training are required. 
 Hahnemann rightly says that this is a " subject for the 
 exercise of a higher order of inductive minds, and must 
 be left solely to masters in the art of observation." 
 But, when found, they must be used tentatively and 
 cautiously until verified in practice. Only then can 
 they be admitted by the side of the true pathogenetic 
 symptoms and form a legitimate addition to the Mate- 
 ria Medica. Some of the greatest characteristics and 
 guiding symptoms belong to this class. These clinical 
 symptoms have been excluded from the "Encyclopaedia 
 of Materia Medica" by T. F. Allen, and, of course, can- 
 not have any place in the "Cyclopaedia of Drug Patho- 
 genesy"; but they are included in full in Hering's 
 " Guiding Symptoms " and in all manuals and text- 
 books of Materia Medica. In some of these they are 
 designated by a distinguishing mark, usually O, but 
 in most of the later works even this caution is disre- 
 garded. 
 
 The Hahnemannian Schema. In order to bring 
 this vast symptomatology within the ready reference 
 of the busy practitioner, Hahnemann, himself a physi- 
 cian of large and extensive practice, and, hence, in 
 need of labor-saving devices, re-arranged it in anatom- 
 ical order, which has been found so practical for every- 
 day use, that it has been universally adopted by all 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 29 
 
 our authors on Materia Medica. He begins with the 
 head and first records all the symptoms of the mind, 
 sensorium, etc.; then those of the eyes, nose, face, etc., 
 downwards, placing together all the symptoms relating 
 to each section. In this way the original provings 
 were dissected, destroying the order of development of 
 the symptoms, but greatly facilitating ready reference. 
 
 The Repertory or Index of Symptoms. This is 
 another aid that has been found necessary to facilitate 
 the selection of the indicated remedy. It is a useful 
 appendage to the homoeopathic Materia Medica, by 
 means^ of which we can readily discover almost any 
 recorded symptom of any proven drug. The secret of 
 successful use of the " Repertory " is to get thoroughly 
 acquainted with any one of the different repertories by 
 constant reference to it, thus familiarizing oneself with 
 its peculiar arrangement. The most helpful of them 
 all, but the one requiring, also, most patient study, is 
 Boeninghausen's " Therapeutic Pocket Book." Its 
 arrangement is based on a practical analysis of symp- 
 toms into their component elements of location, sensa- 
 tion and conditions. (See Chapter V.) 
 
 How to learn Drug Pathogenesy and acquire a 
 working knowledge of the homoeopathic Materia Medica 
 has occupied the students of Homoeopathy from the 
 beginning of the school. Unquestionably, the proving 
 of a drug is the truly natural and most effective method 
 of getting a knowledge of its action, and every physi- 
 cian and student should undertake such practical study 
 as at least part of his study of materia medica. It is 
 the true, modern, scientific method by appeal to nature 
 herself. In the absence of this, and as a further aid, 
 the study of original provings, and of records of poison- 
 ings, will go far to give a good general outline of the 
 action of a drug. This should be followed by the care- 
 
30 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 ful and repeated reading of the recorded symptoma- 
 tology, noting the parts especially involved, character 
 of the symptoms, the conditions under which they 
 occur, and the concomitants connected with each symp- 
 tom. In this way the peculiar and characteristic 
 symptoms and conditions will appear, which will be 
 the guiding symptoms in practice. These characteris- 
 tics, so-called key-notes, of the different remedies, must 
 be committed to memory, they form the stock in trade 
 of the homoeopathic prescriber, and will lead to the 
 further and more detailed and comparative study of 
 the remedies. 
 
 For further study, consult Hughes, "Sources of the Homoe- 
 opathic Materia Medica," in his work ou Pharmacodynamics; also 
 published separately by Leath & Ross, London. 
 
 Dr. John W. Hayward: "How to Learn Drug Pathogenesy, " 
 with discussion, in the Journal of the British Homeopathic Society, 
 January, 1895. 
 
 The following classical papers should also be consulted: 
 
 Constantine Hering: "How the Materia Medica should be 
 Learnt," in British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. II. 
 
 Dr. Meyer, one of Hahnemann's immediate disciples, on the 
 same subject, in North American Journal of Homceopathy, Vol. II. 
 
 Dr. Pope, in Monthly Homceopathic Review, VIII, and Vol. XXV. 
 
 Dr. H. R. Madden, in same journal, Vol. XIV. 
 
 Dr. R, Hughes, in same journal. Vol. XXIII, and in Hahne- 
 mannian Monthly, Vol. XXIX. 
 
 Dr. C. Wesselhoeft in JV. E. Medical Gazette, Vol. XXII. 
 
 Dr. Joseph C. Guernsey, in Hahnemannian Monthly, Vol. XXIX. 
 
 American Institute Report for 1894, Materia Medica Section; 
 opinions of thirty-one members. Edited by Dr. Frank Kraft. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 31 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 DRUG PROVING. 
 
 The proving of medicines is a distinctive feature 
 of Homoeopathy and a logical necessity for applying 
 the law of cure; for, in order to meet morbid states 
 with drugs corresponding to them, we must know, and 
 therefore ascertain, what morbid states the different 
 medicinal substances produce. It consists in the sys- 
 tematic testing of a drug on the healthy human body, 
 in order to ascertain the changes which it is capable of 
 producing in the functions and organs. 
 
 Hahnemann, after viewing the subject in every pos- 
 sible light, and examining every method for ascertain- 
 ing the action of drugs, came to the conclusion that the 
 only efficient way was " to test the medicines singly 
 and alone on the healthy human body." 
 
 General Rules for Drug Proving. The medicinal 
 substance which is to be proved must be tested singly, 
 without any admixture of any foreign substance, except 
 an inert vehicle when necessary for its administration. 
 Nothing of a medicinal nature should be taken so long 
 as it is desired to observe the effects of the proving. 
 
 Each drug should be proved, not only in its crude 
 form and lower material dosage, but with higher atten- 
 uations as well. When the latter are used and symp- 
 toms obtained, a special susceptibility on the part of the 
 prover probably exists and some of the most important 
 characteristics may be elicited from him. Only actu- 
 ally observed facts should be recorded, free from all 
 theories of drug action. Such purely positive observa- 
 tion is for all time, and possesses the same value after 
 the lapse of centuries as it does at the time when first 
 
32 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 observed. If any deductions be drawn from the ob- 
 served facts, they should not be incorporated into the 
 text, but kept separate and distinct. For this reason, 
 Hahnemann called his Materia Medica 'Tura" (pure), 
 because free from all theories, only a record of observed 
 facts. Hence, in making a proving, great precaution, 
 control experiment, accuracy, close observation, and 
 the strictest conscientiousness are essential. 
 
 Directions for provers. The prover should not de- 
 part in any material way from any of his ordinary 
 habits of life, because his life is based on these habits 
 and conformed to them, and any marked change in 
 these must result in changes more or less important, 
 which might be put to the account of the drug; hence, 
 his food, drink, sleep, exercise, and habits generally 
 must be such as he has been accustomed to. He 
 should observe himself before beginning a proving, as 
 every one is liable, even in the best state of health, to 
 slight variations in his sensations and functions. Hav- 
 ing thus discovered what symptoms he is liable to nat- 
 urally and without any drug influence, he must avoid 
 attributing these to the drug to be proven, unless, in- 
 deed, they are more pronounced than ever. 
 
 Dosage required for proving. As a general rule, 
 begin with a comparatively small dose and increase 
 it gradually till distinct symptoms make their appear- 
 ance. The most useful doses are those that are just 
 sufficient to produce distinct symptoms. 
 
 Female provers. It is very important to test all 
 drugs in regard to their effects on the female organism, 
 hence women, married and unmarried, should contrib- 
 ute to provings. '' Before beginning the record of a 
 proving, she should inscribe in the note-book a state- 
 ment of her age, temperament, the sicknesses which 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 33 
 
 she has had, and those to which she has an inherited 
 or acquired tendency; also, whatever pains or sensa- 
 tions she may be habitually subject to; also, any pecu- 
 liar susceptibilities she may possess to external influ- 
 ences of any kind, or to mental, or moral, or emotional 
 excitements, depressions or perversions. Her constitu- 
 tional peculiarities, respecting the menstrual function, 
 should be carefully recorded; regarding frequency, 
 quantity, character, and whatever inconveniences or 
 sufferings precede, accompany or follow menstruation, 
 such as headache, backache, colic, leucorrhoea, etc., 
 with peculiar states of mind or emotion." * 
 
 Repetition of doses. No special rule can be given, 
 but it has been the custom of most provers to repeat 
 the dose every few hours until symptoms show them- 
 selves. It is best to give a single, rather large, dose 
 and watch its effects. This plan is chiefly useful with 
 some vegetable medicines, whose sphere of action is 
 small, and of which the first dose sometimes exhausts, 
 for a time, the susceptibility of the system to the action 
 of the substance. The continuous repetition of the 
 dose is applicable, if we want to ascertain the special 
 action of a drug on some organ or function by con- 
 tinued dosing. 
 
 Age and sex are modifying factors in drug proving, 
 and all drugs should be tried on individuals of both 
 sexes and different ages. Some drugs possess marked 
 affinity for one sex, as Crocus and Platina for the 
 female, and Nux preferably the male. 
 
 Temperament. Different temperaments should be 
 chosen, for certain medicines are especially adapted to 
 certain temperaments, and here find the most favor- 
 able environment for developing their specific effects. 
 
 ■* Dunham, 
 3 
 
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 Re-pro vings. The provings should be repeated in 
 different individuals and in the same prover. In order 
 to avoid the admission of accidental symptoms, it is a 
 safe rule, although not absolute, not to adopt any 
 symptoms unless it has been found in several provers. 
 By comparing one proving with another, and ascer- 
 taining the constancy with which the different symp- 
 toms appear, the characteristic symptoms are made 
 manifest. It is to be remembered that all individuals 
 are not alike susceptible to all the effects which a drug 
 is capable of producing; therefore, the need of a large 
 number of experiments is apparent, in order to obtain 
 a complete view of the action of a drug. 
 
 Heriiig's Rules for Provers. 
 
 (1) Make a first experimental test with a single, 
 moderate-sized dose. 
 
 (2) If no symptoms are produced, take it every 
 two or three hours, or change the time of the day for 
 taking it. 
 
 (3) If still no symptoms, try higher potencies, to 
 which might be added this rational, additional rule: if 
 still no symptoms appear, go lower in the scale of at- 
 tenuations and give material doses, increasing size until 
 symptoms appear. 
 
 In the nature of things, some of the symptoms take 
 time to develop, therefore the first experiments with 
 small doses should not be hurried. The prover should 
 learn to wait, for some of the late appearing symptoms 
 are frequently the most characteristic. 
 
 How to Describe Symptoms Obtained from a Prov- 
 ing. The greatest minuteness and accuracy should be 
 observed. A sensation should be described by some 
 familiar comparison. State how the symptom is ef- 
 fected by different circumstances, i. e., the drug's mo- 
 dalities, as position of body, motion, rest, eating, fast- 
 
Pkinciples of Homceopathy. 35 
 
 ing, day, night, indoors, open air, weather, etc. No 
 circumstance, however trifling, should be omitted which 
 may in any way tend to indicate the characteristic ac- 
 tion of the drug and so precisionize it. All such con- 
 ditions of aggravation and amelioration should be care- 
 fully recorded as they express the drug's individuality 
 most clearly and universally. 
 
 The sides of the body on which symptoms occur 
 should always be stated, many remedies acting more 
 markedly on one side than another. 
 
 The times of occurence, aggravation or amelioration, 
 are also very important, some remedies having distinct- 
 ive morning aggravation of some or all of their symp- 
 toms, others at night, etc. As an illustration of a per- 
 fect description of a symptom, take the following of 
 Hahnemann's proving of Nux: " Headache beginning 
 some hours before dinner, increased after eating, then 
 violent shooting pain in left temple, with nausea and 
 very acid vomiting, all of which symptoms disappeared 
 on lying down." 
 
 The three essential features of every complete 
 symptom are, therefore, 
 
 (1) Location. 
 
 (2) Sensation. 
 
 (3) Condition of aggravation or amelioration (mo- 
 dality), which is the most important, and it ought to be 
 the aim of all provers to observe symptoms with these 
 features well in mind. 
 
 Never separate symptoms that appear in groups or 
 with marked concomitants. Hahnemann always left 
 together symptoms appearing in groups, if he consid- 
 ered them really connected; for instance, he observed, 
 forty-five minutes after taking Pulsatilla, a cramp in 
 the legs, in the evening, after lying down, with a chill; 
 and at another time, in the evening, an aching, draw- 
 
36 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 ing pain in the legs up into the knee, with more chilli- 
 ness than during the day. 
 
 Primary and Secondary Drug Effects. It is a law 
 
 of drug action, according to which the administration 
 of each medicine causes, at first, certain abnormal 
 symptoms, the so-called primary effects of medicines, 
 but afterwards, by reaction of the organism, a condition 
 entirely the opposite, where this is possible, of this first 
 effect is produced — the secondary effects, for instance, 
 narcotic substances produce primarily insensibility and 
 secondarily pain. In order to produce the primary 
 effects, material doses are required. 
 
 In his essay, entitled "Suggestions for Ascertaining 
 the Curative Powers of Drugs," Hahnemann says: 
 ''Most medicines have more than one action; the first 
 a direct action, which gradually changes into the second 
 (which I call the indirectly secondary action). The 
 latter is generally a state exactly the opposite of the 
 former. In this way most vegetable drugs act. But 
 few medicines are exceptions to this rule, i. e., metals 
 and minerals. The thorough examination of drug 
 provings, as in our possession at present, does not 
 justify any division of drug-symptoms into primary 
 and secondary. There are indeed in every proving, as 
 Dr. Hering has shown, primary and secondary symp- 
 toms, in the sense that some symptoms appear earlier and 
 others later in the course of the proving, but although 
 these may appear opposed to each other, they are all 
 to be regarded as drug symptoms, and, as such, indi- 
 cate the remedy. 
 
 Hahnemann's method of conducting provings. Dr. 
 
 Hering thus describes it: "After he had lectured to 
 his fellow-workers on the rules of proving, he handed 
 them the bottles with the tincture; and when they 
 afterwards brought him their day books, he examined 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 37 
 
 every prover carefully about every particular symp- 
 tom, continually calling attention to the necessary 
 accuracy in expressing the kind of feeling, the pain 
 or the locality, the observation and mentioning of 
 everything that influenced their feelings, the time of 
 day, etc. When handing their papers to him, after 
 they had been cross-examined, they had to affirm that 
 it was the truth, and nothing but the truth, to the best 
 of their knowledge, by offering their hands to him — 
 the customary pledge at the universities of Germany, 
 instead of an oath. This was the way in which our 
 master built up his Materia Medica." 
 
 For fuller study see Organon, $ 105 to 145. 
 
 Dudgeon, Lectures on Homoeopathy, page 176. Lecture VII 
 and VIII. 
 
 Sharp's Tracts on Homoeopathy, Essay VII. Provingsin Health. 
 
 Dunham, Science of Therapeutics: The Dose in Drug Proving, 
 page 136. Directions for Drug Pro vers, page 350, 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 INTERPRETATION OF DRUG 
 PATHOGENESIS. 
 
 The homcBopathic Materia Medica, as it is accessible 
 at present to students, is a mass of symptomatology, 
 arranged, as a rule, according to the Hahnemannian 
 Schema. The " Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy " is 
 the exception, which endeavors to give the symptoms 
 in the order of their development; but, in order to 
 practically utilize the provings, the anatomical ar- 
 rangement of the symptomatology is desirable. Besides 
 this arrangement, the bulk of the symptomatology can 
 be analyzed and interpreted helpfully, and thus simpli- 
 fied. All provings of drugs give a symptomatology 
 composed 
 
 (1) Of general symptoms. 
 
 (2) Of peculiar or characteristic symptoms. 
 
 (3) Of certain elective affinities to special organs or 
 functions. 
 
 General symptoms of drugs. These are common to 
 all drugs and appear in every proving. They can 
 practically be eliminated. Such are symptoms like 
 feeling of malaise, loss of appetite, weakness, distress, 
 headache, etc. Such general symptoms, unless ampli- 
 fied by accompanying conditions or modalities^ are of com- 
 paratively little value for the prescriber, because their 
 presence does not point clearly to any one particular 
 drug. We must find in our symptomatology, and make 
 use of such symptoms as serve to individualize and 
 give character to a drug, and hence these are called 
 
 Characteristic Symptoms. Each drug is an entity, 
 and can express its disease producing properties, i. e., 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 39 
 
 pathogenetic force, in a way peculiar to itself. Those 
 symptoms that do this most perfectly are the drug's 
 characteristic symptoms. The ideal characteristic 
 symptom is one which is possessed by no other than 
 the individual drug of which it is predicated and to 
 which it gives character as an individual. We learn 
 to distinguish drugs very much as we learn to distin- 
 guish men, not by their general features, which are com- 
 mon to all, but rather by the peculiar expression and 
 shape and habits by which we recognize the individual. 
 It may be a small and insignificant thing and yet one 
 that is most expressive of the person's individuality. 
 So in drugs it is not the general effect upon the stom- 
 ach or bowels or the general debility produced that 
 serve to characterize it as the remedy, but rather the 
 peculiar, characteristic uncommon, prominent symp- 
 toms. 
 
 These have also been designated as keynote * symp- 
 toms, by Dr. Guernsey, and as guiding symptoms, by Dr. 
 Hering. 
 
 From a physiological point of view they may appear 
 trivial and unimportant, but for purposes of prescrib- 
 ing they are paramount in importance. These charac- 
 teristic symptoms of drugs may be found in one of 
 three divisions of its pathogenesis. Either 
 
 * " While the keynotes, according to Dr. Guernsey, will, in each 
 instance, form an unfailing guide, the requisite conditions and 
 corresponding totality of the symptoms in such cases being inevit- 
 ably present. If this doctrine is true — and in practice it has been 
 confirmed by much experience — it is so because these so-called key- 
 notes essentially represent a profound dyscrasia of the organic ner- 
 vous system.', either in such sensations of pain as precede even the 
 first functional derangements, and are intended as premonitory ad- 
 monitions; or in such sensations as arise in connection with, and 
 in conseqTience of, the initial disorder in these most interior organs 
 of vegetative life. " — J. H. P. Frost in Hahnemannian Monthly, Vol. 
 II, page 443. 
 
40 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 1. In the locality or tissue or organ affected. 
 
 2. In the sensations. 
 
 3. In the modalities and concomitants. 
 
 These are the three grand divisions around which the 
 symptomatology of drugs can be grouped, or into which 
 they can be divided for practical study. 
 
 Locality or seat of action. Every drug affects some 
 organ or system of organs or tissue or region more de- 
 cidedly than others, and there especially or primarily 
 expends its power. This is not a local action merely, 
 but a localization of the drug^s specific nature. It ap- 
 pears, no matter by what avenue the drug is introduced 
 into the body. A drug may come into direct contact 
 with the blood, and thereby with every part of the or- 
 ganism, and yet only certain tissues or organs will be 
 affected by it— that is, only these tissues or organs will 
 react against the foreign element. This specific localiza- 
 tion, or specificity of seat of a drug, is known as its elec- 
 tive affinity, by which it preferably chooses certain cells, 
 tissues or organs, to manifest its action. In a general 
 way, we see that Belladonna affects principally the 
 brain as its arena for action, and this organ, therefore, 
 has a preferred relationship to Belladonna. So, in the 
 same way, Aconite affects the heart, Ergot the uterus, 
 Bryonia the serous membranes, Podophyllum the duo- 
 denum, Rhus the skin; Tellurium, the tympanum; 
 Glonoin the vaso-motor centre in the brain; Phosphor, 
 the periosteum. 
 
 This elective affinity cannot be explained, but it ex- 
 ists. It was recognized even before Hahnemann and 
 homoeopathic provings, and has been made the founda- 
 tion of a system of practice by Rademacher, a German 
 physician and contemporary of Hahnemann, who him- 
 self traces the thought to Paracelsus. 
 
 AVhile each drug has a preferred locality, based on 
 
Peinciples of Homceopathy. 41 
 
 its elective affinity, still it must not be forgotten that 
 the whole organism — the whole man, mentally and 
 physically, — is affected. This is so, because the var- 
 ious functions and organs are not independent instru- 
 ments, but wonderfully bound together by nerves and 
 blood vessels, and parts most remote are in direct 
 nerve communication with each other. Diseases are 
 produced and continued along these lines of network, 
 when once they have found a foothold, and drugs act 
 in a similar manner along these tracks. We ought to 
 get a mental picture of a drug as a whole — the drug 
 personified, and thus the typical patient corresponding 
 to the drug. Such study gives a reality and practical 
 utility to the Materia Medica. 
 
 Sensations, or kind of Action. While the special 
 seat of action is the first marked fact about the patho- 
 genetic properties of drugs, the special kind of action is 
 the second fact. This may be seen in the sensations 
 and modalities of a drug. Thus the burning pains of 
 Arsenic, the coldness of Camphor and Veratrum, the 
 sticking pains of Bryonia, the stinging pains of Apis 
 and Theridion, the plug sensations of Anacardium, the 
 soreness of Arnica and Hamamelis, are all characteris- 
 tic. Frequently the character of these pains indicates 
 the seat of the action, and thus points to the elective 
 affinity of the drug, as burning pains in general indicate 
 the mucous membranes; dull, boring, gnawing pains, 
 the bones; sticking, cutting pains, serous membranes; 
 etc. In many drugs these conditions may be so expres- 
 sive of their special character, that we nearly always 
 expect them to be present when they are the homoeo- 
 pathically indicated, and, therefore, prove to be the 
 curative remedy. Such characteristic conditions are 
 the restlessness and anxiety of Aconite and Arsenic, the 
 chilliness of Pulsatilla, the thirstlessness of Apis, the 
 
42 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 dullness and drowsiness of Gelsemium, the hysterial 
 contradiction of its symptoms of Ignatia, the melan- 
 choly of Aurum, etc. 
 
 Modalities and Concomitants. Modalities are con- 
 ditions influencing or modifying drug action. They 
 are the phenomena of time, place, circumstances on 
 which the development and appearance of the symp- 
 toms depend. Every drug has its own mode of action, 
 manifests itself in a way peculiar to itself, distinguish- 
 ing it from every other. It acts best under certain 
 conditions, in certain bodily and mental constitutions, 
 which present, therefore, the most favorable ground 
 and environment for the full and free manifestation of 
 the drug's individuality. Just as a plant thrives best 
 in certain conditions of soil, climate, elevation, etc. — 
 needs, in short, for its perfect development, a suitable 
 environment, — so a drug must be similarly situated to 
 enable it to express itself clearly and fully. It is of 
 the greatest importance in drug proving, as well as in 
 prescribing homoeopathically, to note the peculiar 
 method in which a drug invades the animal economy, 
 its aggravations and ameliorations, the times of the 
 day, and conditions of the weather, when the action is 
 most pronounced. For instance, the marked increase 
 of pain on motion of Bryonia, the relief of headache 
 by wrapping head up warmly of Silica, the marked 
 preference of the left side of the body of Lachesis, the 
 aggravation of all the symptoms from 4 to 8 p. m. of 
 Lycopodium, the relief by heat of Arsenic, the aggrava- 
 tion of damp weather of Dulcamara, are characteristic 
 conditions of great value, clearly expressing the pecu- 
 liar genius of these drugs and are paramount in esti- 
 mating their place in the symptomatology. But, while 
 they hold this important place, they must not be 
 studied independently of the whole of a drug's action. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 43 
 
 for this is needed for their interpretation. It is a fact 
 that the study of characteristics alone leads quickly 
 to practical results, but also to permanent mediocrity 
 in knowledge of drug action. 
 
 Boeiiiiighaiisen's method of interpreting symp- 
 tomatology consists essentially in the selection from 
 the symptoms of the patient, and from those of the 
 drug, of their elements, rather than try to obtain the 
 complete symptom, which latter consists of a seat or 
 location^ a sensation and a modality; but, in the present 
 incomplete state of our Materia Medica, most of the 
 symptoms are fragmentary, and but few are complete 
 in the above sense. By the use of Boeninghausen's 
 method, these fragmentary symptoms are supple- 
 mented by clinical observation of the curative effects. 
 A remedy is selected for a case that is found to possess 
 in its symptomatology marked action (1) in a certain 
 location; (2) to correspond with sensation, and (3) pos- 
 sess the same modality; without necessarily having in the 
 proving produced the very symptom resulting from the 
 combination. It is to be inferred that a full proving 
 would have it, however. For instance, a patient with a 
 bearing pain in the left hip, relieved by motion, greatly 
 worse in the afternoon, would receive Lycopodium, not 
 because Lycopodium has so far produced in the healthy 
 such a symptom, but because, from the study of its 
 symptoms as recorded in the Materia Medica, we do 
 find that it affects the left hip prominently (locality); 
 that its pains, in various parts of the body, are "tear- 
 ing" (sensation); and that its general symptoms are 
 relieved by motion and aggravated in the afternoon 
 (modality.) The only justification for such analysis 
 and synthesis of symptoms is the imperfection and 
 limitation of our provings and especially the success 
 following the application of the newly constructed 
 
44 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 symptom, out of these elements, in removing similar 
 symptoms in the patient, hence in curing, and the 
 reasonableness of the presumption that future, com- 
 plete provings will develop the missing links of the 
 complete symptom of the drug. It is in entire har- 
 mony with the fact that every genuine symptom has 
 these three factors — locality, sensation, and modality — 
 these, when combined, constitute a perfect symptom. 
 It is not usual to get these, in any one symptom, from 
 any one prover, but they may be found scattered 
 through the various provings; hence the legitimacy of 
 Boeninghausen's method. 
 
 Read in this connection: 
 
 T, F. Allen's paper before the World's Medical Congress at Chi- 
 cago, 1893, entitled, "The Selection of the Homoeopathic Eemedy, 
 especially in regard to Boeninghausen's Method," published, with 
 discussions, in North American Journal of Hommopathy, August, 
 1893. 
 
 For further practical illustration of the use of Boeninghausen's 
 method see an instructive, analytical report of a case of "Progres- 
 sive Muscular Atrophy Cured with Phosphorus," by T. F. Allen, 
 reported in Ilahnemannian Advocate, July 15, 1896. 
 
 For further study, consult 
 
 "Organon," §$ 153, 164, 165, 178. 
 
 Also, the preface to Hering's "Guiding Symptoms," Vol. I. 
 
 "Hirschel's Rules and Examples for the Study of Pharmacody- 
 namics," Thos, H. Hayle. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 45 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 DRUG RELATIONSHIP. 
 
 The study of drug pathogenesy, and its application 
 to the treatment of disease, is furthered by the recogni- 
 tion of different relationships that drugs occupy to 
 each other. Among these, the most apparent, but of 
 least practical value, therapeutically, is the 
 
 Family relation, or collateral, side relation (con- 
 geners), such as belong to the same, or allied botanical 
 family, or chemical group; thus similarity in origin is 
 its claim. In a very broad way, drugs may be divided, 
 according as they belong, to one of the three kingdoms 
 of nature, thus drugs from the animal kingdom, vege- 
 table or mineral. It is not difficult to note certain 
 great features, common to drugs, belonging to one 
 kingdom; but similarity of effects is more marked as 
 different members of a botanical family, or chemical 
 group, are examined. Thus the Ranunculacese family, 
 comprising drugs like Aconite, Pulsatilla, Cimicifuga, 
 etc., show certain symptoms of marked similarity — a 
 family likeness not to be mistaken. This is soiiietimes 
 so great as to seem identical. For instance, in the case 
 of Ignatia and Nux vomica. Both come from the same 
 order of plants, both contain Strychnia, to the pres- 
 ence of which, undoubtedly, this similarity in effect 
 can be attributed. Now, when this similarity ap- 
 proaches identity of effects, it has been found that they 
 do not follow each other well. For instance, in a given 
 case of stomach disorder, indicating Nux vomica, it is 
 injudicious practice to follow this by Ignatia, on ac- 
 count of its too close resemblance to the symptoms of 
 the former remedy, the results being unfavorable, dis> 
 
46 , A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 turbing rather the normal evolution of the curative 
 influence. 
 
 Antidotal Relation. Certain drugs antidote each 
 other therapeutically, because they produce similar 
 effects locally in certain parts of the organism or on 
 certain tissues and functions or generally throughout 
 their action as a whole. The antidotal relation is based 
 therefore on similarity and is operative according to 
 the law of cure, similia similibus; and again the anti- 
 dotal relationship between drugs may be general or 
 partial, according as the similarity in their action is 
 general or confined to certain parts only. Thus cam- 
 phor antidotes the effects of cantharis only so far as 
 these concern the mucous membrane of the urinary 
 tract, while the same tissue elsewhere is not antidoted 
 by it. 
 
 Such antidotal relation is of use in practice, by which 
 we can modify or annul an undesirable action of a 
 drug, for instance, Anacardium bears an antidotal re- 
 lation to Rhus, especially in its action on the skin, 
 Hepar to Mercury, Chamomilla to Coffea and Pulsa- 
 tilla, etc. An interesting phase of the antidotal rela- 
 tionship is the mutual antidotal or at least modifying 
 power of the higher and the lower attenuations of the 
 same drug, as well as the antidotal relationship between 
 the chronic effects of the crude drug and the attenuated 
 drug, as is seen in treating chronic tobacco poisoning 
 with Tabacum high. This holds true at times in acute 
 conditions as has been frequently verified in poisoning 
 with Rhus where a high attenuation will prove the 
 quickest antidote. 
 
 Concordant or Compatible Relationship. Hahne- 
 mann first made the valuable, practical observation 
 that certain remedies act better when they are given 
 in a certain series. There seems to be an afiinity be- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 47 
 
 tween them. They are not of the same natural family, 
 but of wholly dissimilar origin; but they have marked 
 similarities in action. Such remedies may follow each 
 other well; they point to a deeper and closer relation- 
 ship than that of mere family, or similarity in origin. 
 Such relationship exists, for example, between China 
 and Calcarea, Pulsatilla and Sepia, Belladonna and 
 Mercurius, Nitric acid and Thuja, Mercurius and Sul- 
 phur, etc. 
 
 Complementary Relation exists between drugs that 
 complete a cure that is begun by another and carried 
 to a certain point, where it is taken up by another 
 drug and completed. If a remedy is allowed its full 
 time of action, it will often lead up to a complement- 
 ary remedy — that is, the symptoms remaining un- 
 touched, or brought to the surface, will often suggest 
 a drug known to be complementary to the one given. 
 This useful relationship of certain group of drugs is of 
 great service in the treatment especially of chronic dis- 
 eases. Such relationship exists between Belladonna 
 and Calcarea; Apis and Natrum muriaticum; Aconi- 
 tum and Sulphur; Chamomilla and Magnesia phos- 
 phorica; Thuja and Silica. 
 
 Inimical relation is the very opposite of the concor- 
 dant and complementary. There seems to be a lack of 
 harmony between certain drugs, as is also seen in cer- 
 tain chemical affinities. This may be so marked that 
 when following each other in the treatment of a case, 
 disturbance shows itself and the cure is interfered with 
 and the whole case mixed up. Such a relation seems 
 to exist between Apis and Rhus, between Causticum 
 and Phosphorus; Mercurius and Silica; Sepia and 
 Lachesis and others. Do not give these remedies after 
 each other. It is well to note these inexplicable condi- 
 tions of drug action, based on friendly or inimical 
 
48 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 relationship. If it be remembered that drugs are em- 
 bodied forces, distinct entities with distinct powers to 
 modify human life as manifested in functional activity 
 and organic changes we can readily see that certain 
 forces can work advantageously side by side; their joint 
 result, thus following each other, being greater than 
 either one singly; and again certain others cannot do 
 so, but mere contact or propinquity upsetting the 
 orderly progress of the case. 
 
 For further study see Boeninghausen, "The Sides of the Body 
 and Drug Afi&nities." 
 
 Mohr, "The Inimical Relationship of Drugs." 
 Bering's contributions in the Archiv. 
 "Farrington's Clinical Materia Medica." Lecture I. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 49 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE APPLICATION OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
 
 Homceopathy consists essentially in the application 
 of the principle of similars. Drug selection alone consti- 
 tutes Homoeopathy. The homoeopathic physician has 
 to deal with two sets of phenomena in treating disease. 
 On the one hand the patient, with a certain train of 
 morbid symptoms; on the other, similar symptoms 
 known to be produced in the healthy by some drug. 
 The closer this correspondence in its essential features, 
 the more certain and speedy the cure, on the principle 
 that two like and similar forces may neutralize each 
 other. This necessitates consideration of — 
 
 1. The examination of the patient, and the record 
 of his symptoms. 
 
 2. The selection of the remedy corresponding to 
 this totality of symptoms. 
 
 3. The administration of the single remedy. 
 
 4. The dose and its repetition. 
 
 The Examination of the Patient. The first duty of 
 the homoeopathic prescriber is clearly to understand the 
 nature of the disturbed functions of the patient, to get 
 at the full facts of the case so far as they are expressed 
 by symptoms. The examination that elicits them must 
 be thorough and complete, and will yield satisfactory 
 results according to the perfection of the physician's 
 general medical knowledge. His knowledge of anatomy 
 will enable him to detect abnormal conditions of organs; 
 physiology will show abnormal performance of func- 
 tion; chemistry, microscopy, etc., will discover morbid 
 secretions and excretions, etc. He makes use of all 
 instruments that modern science places at his disposal, 
 4 
 
50 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 from the clinical thermometer to the stethoscope, and 
 all other instruments of precision of modern diagnostic 
 skill. All the results thereby attained furnish him with 
 the objective phenomena which the patient presents. 
 These go far to establish the diagnosis of the pathologi- 
 cal condition. The totality of symptoms ascertainable, 
 with the help of our numerous diagnostic aids, furnishes 
 a much more complete picture, analytically, than was 
 possible in Hahnemann's time, when the main reliance 
 had to be placed on the subjective symptoms. These 
 latter are still of paramount importance in deciding 
 between drugs that are capable of producing a similar 
 change in the organism; they thus serve to determine 
 the one most nearly indicated remedy from among a 
 group of more or less related remedies. 
 
 The totality of the symptoms must he the sole indication 
 to determine the choice of a curative remedy. 
 
 Hahnemann's teaching on this point is expressed in 
 § 18 of the Organon, as follows: 
 
 " It is then unquestionably true that, besides the 
 totality of symptoms, it is impossible to discover any 
 other manifestation by which diseases could express 
 their need of relief; hence, it undeniably follows that 
 the totality of symptoms observed in each individual 
 case of disease, can be the only indication to guide us 
 in the selection of a remedy." 
 
 And, again, in § 70, he says: "All that a physician 
 may regard as curable in diseases, consists entirely in 
 the complaints of the patient and the morbid changes 
 of his health perceptible to the senses — that is to say, 
 it consists entirely in the totality of symptoms through 
 which the disease expresses its demand for the appro- 
 priate remedy; while, on the other hand, every ficti- 
 tious or obscure, internal cause and condition, or imag- 
 inary, material, morbific matter are not objects of 
 treatment." 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 51 
 
 The totality of the symptoms consists in the sys- 
 tematic ascertaining of all the symptomatic facts nec- 
 essary to determine the curative remedy. The totality 
 of symptoms includes every change of state of body 
 and mind that we can discover or have observed, or 
 that has been reported to the physician; thus, every 
 deviation from health. It includes every subjective 
 symptom that the patient can describe correctly and 
 every objective symptom the physician can discover by 
 his senses, aided by all diagnostic instruments. In 
 examining the patient, a definite, systematic plan 
 should be followed. The regional plan, the Hahne- 
 mannian Schema form, is perhaps the best, as it fol- 
 lows a natural, anatomical arrangement. 
 
 Special Precautions to be Observed. Be patient in 
 getting at the symptoms, especially in chronic diseases. 
 There is a great difference between patients; some can- 
 not, others will not, give much aid in. analyzing their 
 case; some are morbidly desirous of imparting symp- 
 toms and will perhaps, unconsciously, warp their state- 
 ment by exaggeration. 
 
 Do not interrupt the patient in his first recital too 
 much; lead him on, if he wanders off. When he has 
 finished, cross-examine him, by careful questioning, to 
 supply any deficiencies. 
 
 Avoid asking leading questions, as far as possible, 
 and not so that the patient must answer yes or no. 
 
 Accept no diagnostic suggestions, or pathological 
 theories, or former opinions of other physicians, as 
 these can be no guide for the selection of a curative 
 remedy. 
 
 Be sure and get the modalities, especially the influ- 
 ence of the times of day, weather, season, position of 
 body, exercise, sleep, etc. 
 
 Pay special attention to the mental state of the patient 
 and his intellectual functions. 
 
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 Take the apparent, immediate cause of his sickness 
 into special account; this is often of importance for 
 selecting the remedy, even long afterwards. 
 
 In chronic diseases, especially, investigation should 
 be extended to the family history of the patient; 
 heredity is a potent factor in determining disease. 
 
 The history of the patient's previous diseases, par- 
 ticularly eruptions of any kind that may have been 
 treated with strong local remedies and so suppressed; 
 also, as to all forms of local treatment generally, and 
 the patient's medical habits, the use of patent medi- 
 cines, purgatives, mineral waters, etc. 
 
 Notice any alternation of groups of symptoms, such 
 as gastric and rheumatic symptoms, rheumatic and 
 catarrhal, bronchial and skin affections, etc. 
 
 Remember that certain bodily conditions have cer- 
 tain mental states — depression and constipation, anx- 
 iety and heart affections, hopefulness and consump- 
 tion, etc. 
 
 Remember that, when a certain train of symptoms 
 are present in some one organ or apparatus of the 
 body, there are almost sure to be present certain other 
 symptoms, objective and subjective, in other organs 
 often, anatomically, quite remote, and of which the 
 patient probably is hardly aw^are until his attention is 
 called to them by the physician.* For instance, cer- 
 tain pains in the head co-exist with certain uterine 
 affections, or anomalies of vision, etc. 
 
 Write down the record of the symptoms, beginning 
 a new line with every symptom. This will greatly 
 facilitate study and reference to allied remedies. 
 
 Subjective symptoms are a description by the pa- 
 tient of his feelings as they appear to him — his sensa- 
 tions. The ability to express and describe sensations 
 
 * Dunham. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 53 
 
 is not common to all patients; and hence, subjective 
 symptoms must always be interpreted by the physician 
 to a large extent. The patient may deceive his physi- 
 cian in stating them, as is frequently the case with 
 hysterical subjects, or he may not be able to describe 
 •them accurately enough to be utilized, as in the case of 
 young children. 
 
 Objective symptoms are, as a rule, the most import- 
 ant. They are all such as the physician can ascertain 
 by means of his senses, aided and unaided. 
 
 In many phases of disease, and with children and 
 frequently in old people, where organic changes can go 
 on to an alarming extent without very marked, sub- 
 jective disturbance, objective symptoms are all we 
 practically have on which to base a prescription. In 
 mental diseases, objective symptoms are most import- 
 ant for purposes of prescribing. 
 
 Objective symptoms are of special value when they 
 occur during sleep, as then the system is relaxed. 
 
 Objective symptoms that are not specially diagnostic 
 of the disease, or of some pathological state, when pres- 
 ent, are important for purposes of prescribing. On the 
 other hand, objective symptoms that are diagnostic of 
 certain pathological, states, so-called pathognomonic 
 symptoms^ are of great importance in guiding to a cer- 
 tain class of remedies and excluding other groups, even 
 though such may seem superficially indicated. 
 
 The Totality in Acute Diseases. In the treatment 
 of acute diseases, much of this investigation is neces- 
 sarily dispensed with, the physician learns to use his 
 eyes and other senses intuitively and thus to get hold 
 of certain characteristic conditions quickly that are 
 known to correspond to certain remedies. Epidemic 
 conditions come to his aid here for rapid and usually 
 successful prescribing. 
 
54 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 The Collective Totality of Epidemic Diseases. 
 
 During the prevalence of epidemic diseases, colds, 
 grippe, eruptive diseases, etc., it is often the case that 
 two or three remedies cover the field. It is needless to 
 go into every detail of the symptomatology, since the 
 epidemic remedies, when found, correspond to the col- 
 lective totality of numerous cases and types of the epi- 
 demic disease; each single case of an epidemic disease 
 presenting only a partial picture of the true totality of 
 the epidemic. 
 
 Interpretation of the Totality. Having taken a 
 full stock of the case and thereby obtained the totality 
 of symptoms, before prescribing the homoeopathically 
 indicated remedy, correct all hygienic, dietetic and sani- 
 tary errors. Often a change in the mode of life or 
 abstinence from some hurtful article of diet will be all 
 that is necessary. But after these things have been 
 attended to, whatever symptoms remain will call for 
 medical treatment. 
 
 Having obtained a record of the totality of symp- 
 toms, a winnowing process must be instituted, by eli- 
 minating the general symptoms and interpreting the 
 totality according to the relative value of the symp- 
 toms, and thus individualize the case under treathient. 
 
 In §83, Hahnemann says: " Individualization in the 
 investigation of a case of disease, demands, on the part 
 of the physician, principally unbiased judgment and 
 sound sense, attentive observation and fidelity in noting 
 down the image of the disease." Hahnemann's first 
 rule here is that the characteristics of the case must be 
 similar to the characteristics of the drug. § 153. The 
 more prominent, uncommon and peculiar features of 
 the case are specially and almost exclusively considered 
 and noted, for these, in particular, should bear the closest 
 similitude to the symptoms of the desired medicine, if that 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 55 
 
 is to accomplish the cure. By this individualization, 
 then, we eliminate the general symptoms common to 
 similar pathological conditions, and present to view the 
 individual patient as the pathological process affects 
 him. The morbid forces of the disease unite themselves 
 more or less with the inherent weaknesses and disease 
 tendencies, hereditary or acquired, of the individual and 
 give us his peculiar and therefore characteristic symp- 
 toms. 
 
 Characteristic or Peculiar Symptoms. Hahnemann 
 calls especial attention to the "more striking, singular 
 and uncommon, peculiar signs and symptoms of a 
 case of disease" which are chiefly to be kept in view. 
 These symptoms of themselves may be of no special 
 value, but become valuable or characteristic by their 
 conditions of aggravation or amelioration, their concom- 
 itants or locality. Transient odd and peculiar symp- 
 toms are however not so important as such as affect the 
 patient's general condition, hence the modalities, con- 
 ditions of aggravation and amelioration effects of heat, 
 cold, weather, position, times of day, etc , are most im- 
 portant. The modalities of a drug are the pathognomo- 
 nic symptoms of the Materia Medica. 
 
 Mental symptoms of drugs are most important, and 
 are a very pronounced feature in the pathogenesis of 
 certain drugs. Notice the mental state of the patient 
 particularly; does he suffer patiently or otherwise. 
 They are also of great importance prognostically; 
 improvement in the mental condition often precedes 
 bodily and general improvement. 
 
 First, or Oldest, Symptoms. In the treatment of 
 chronic diseases, the first indications of a departure 
 from health are of the greatest value, particularly those 
 occurring before there was any treatment. After a 
 
56 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 remedy has been given, and old symptoms reappear in 
 the inverse order of their development, it is an indica- 
 tion that the cure is progressing favorably, and no 
 other medicine should be given. So, also, in acute 
 diseases, the value of first symptoms is great. In diph- 
 theria for instance, the side upon which it begins may 
 decide the choice of the remedy.* 
 
 Etiological Factors. As a further aid in arriving 
 at a utilizable totality of symptoms, the immediate 
 cause of the present illness, if determinable, or its 
 exciting factor, will be a great aid in the selection of 
 the remedy. Such causes may be remote in time, and 
 not of any apparent connection with the present state. 
 This Hahnemann also teaches in § 5, Organon, as fol- 
 lows: " The physician, in curing, derives assistance 
 from the knowledge of facts concerning the most proba- 
 ble cause of acute disease, as well as from the most sig- 
 nificant points in the entire history of a case of chronic 
 disease; aided by such knowledge he is enabled to dis- 
 cover the primary cause of the latter, dependent mostly 
 on a chronic miasm." This gives, on the one hand, an 
 important place to the first, or oldest, symptoms and to 
 causes however remote; and, on the other, it elevates to 
 commandhig importance, signs of constitutional defects, 
 the underlying psoric conditions. Unquestionably, 
 such frequently modify and relegate to comparative 
 insignificance symptoms of acute disorder, and favor 
 the selection of a deep-acting, anti-psoric remedy even 
 in acute diseases. Such a selection would be justified 
 by its relationship to a truer similarity than would be 
 expressed by an uninterpreted totality of symptoms. 
 
 Late Symptoms. The more recent symptoms are 
 valuable as being the latest expression of the diseased 
 
 * S. Kimball, in Homceopathic Physician, June, 1895. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 57 
 
 condition, and must be covered by the remedy. This 
 is especially true in acute diseases. This is so when 
 another remedy is chosen; the last symptoms that ap- 
 pear must be the guide to it. Again, if a patient has 
 been drugged by palliative medication, we must direct 
 our antidotes principally against the drugs given last 
 — for instance, against Quinine, Pulsatilla, Ipecac, etc.; 
 against Iodine, Hepar; against Chloroform, Hyoscyam, 
 etc. But this rule should not be applied too rigorously; 
 it is best to give no medicine at all for a time. 
 
 Functional symptoms of an affected organ are of 
 much less value than symptoms which occur in other 
 parts during the exercise, of the function of that organ. 
 Burning pain in the urethra, during or after micturi- 
 tion, is of little value in gonorrhoea, for it is usually 
 present; but pain in the testicles, thighs, or abdomen 
 during or after micturition, or symptoms of some other 
 part not immediately concerned in that function, 
 would be more important. So, also, pain in the stom- 
 ach after eating, in indigestion, is not of as much value 
 as vertigo or headache after eating would be in the 
 same attack. Therefore, symptoms that affect the gen- 
 eral organism are of more value than those that are 
 functionally related to the organ affected.* 
 
 Need of Pathology. A knowledge of the pathol- 
 ogy of disease (not mere passing, pathological theories, 
 against which Hahnemann so justly protested,) is nec- 
 essary to interpret the symptomatology obtained and 
 prescribe the truly indicated remedy, and not merely 
 one externally homoeopathic. The true meaning of any 
 symptom is reached not by considering it alone, but 
 by viewing it in relation to all the rest, and thus 
 placing it in its proper relative position. We must 
 
 * S. Kimball. 
 
58 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 learn to view symptoms in perspective. The natural 
 history of diseases must be learned, as well as their 
 different stages and characteristic signs accompanying 
 them. 
 
 The use of pathology in interpreting the symptoms 
 is seen in the treatment of a case of typhoid fever, 
 where the fever, restlessness, etc., might call to mind 
 Aconite as a remedy; but a little closer examination 
 would show this to be but a partial and apparent 
 homoeopathic relationship. Pathology would interpret 
 the fever and restlessness of the typhoid patient and 
 associate them with the coming prostration, the septic 
 condition, the asthenia — conditions wholly foreign to 
 Aconite, which can deal only with sthenic inflamma- 
 tions and healthy blood. 
 
 Some symptoms are primary, others reflex. After 
 an organic disease has become established, secondary 
 modifications of health take place, which do not offer 
 valuable symptoms for purposes of prescribing the 
 curative remedy. Really valuable guiding symptoms, 
 if found at all, will be in the earlier state of the patient 
 before the organic changes have taken place; thus, in 
 the treatment of an organic kidney disease, a curative 
 remedy would be more likely to be found in the earlier 
 symptoms that preceded the development of the drop- 
 sy, anemia, etc., characteristic of the later stages. 
 
 Pathology also teaches the important difference be- 
 tween the absolute, pathognomonic symptoms and the 
 contingent or peculiar symptoms of a given case of 
 disease. 
 
 General or absolute symptoms are those which are 
 common to all patients suffering from the same disease 
 and they are essential for purposes of diagnosis. Thus 
 the fever, sore throat and rash are general or absolute 
 symptoms of Scarlatina, while again, the fever, cough. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 59 
 
 physical signs and bloody sputa are absolute symptoms 
 of Pneumonia. 
 
 Contingent or peculiar symptoms are those which 
 vary with the individual and are not essentially patho- 
 gnomonic of the disease^ but always of the individual' 
 patient. They are therefore the characteristic symp- 
 toms of the patient's totality of symptoms, and hence 
 most essential in selecting the remedy. Hence the rule: 
 
 The greater the value of a symptom for purposes of 
 diagnosis, the less its value for the selection of the homoeo- 
 pathic remedy and vice versa. 
 
 The seemingly unimportant, peculiar, contingent symp- 
 toms of the patient, though valueless for purposes of diag- 
 nosis, are the chief guiding symptoms for the selection of 
 the homoeopathic remedy. 
 
 Totality of quality rather than of quantity, is the 
 basis for homoeopathic prescribing. In any case of dis- 
 ease it is necessary to discover in what way, that is, by 
 what peculiar, symptoms, does one case of illness differ 
 from every other of the same disease. How does this 
 patient's typhoid or rheumatism differ from the typhoid 
 or rheumatism of every other patient. This special 
 totality of quality, or of characteristics will unerringly 
 lead to the curative homoeopathic remedy. This is the 
 Hahnemannian Similarity. It exists between the char- 
 acteristic symptoms of the patient and the characteristic 
 symptoms of the drug, and we must individualize each 
 case in order to arrive at this desirable goal, for the 
 selection of the hemoeopathic remedy. This differs 
 from the mere Pathological Similarity which consists in 
 matching diseased conditions or pathological processes 
 as determined by pathological anatomy. It adapts the 
 remedy to a disease rather than to the individual patient. 
 
 Thus, in the treatment of pneumonia, a remedy 
 would be given that actually produces lesions similar 
 
60 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 to the pneumonic process. Phosphorus has actually 
 produced hepatization of the lungs in animals poisoned 
 by it; hence, it should be the curative similar, as it is 
 undoubtedly the pathological similar. So Arsenic pro- 
 duces a gastro-enteritis and ultimate lesions just like 
 cholera, and should, therefore, be the curative remedy 
 in this disease, since it is the pathological similar. 
 But experience denies this deduction. To be curative, 
 a remedy must correspond to the characteristic symp- 
 toms, whether these are based upon the ultimate patho- 
 logico-anatomical lesion or not. Unquestionably, the 
 similarity in pathological process or lesion is one of 
 the most important factors in the totality, but not the 
 determining one in every case. 
 
 Examples of pathological similarities between dis- 
 eases and drugs. The gastro-enteritis and paralysis of 
 Arsenic; epileptiform convulsions of Hydrocyanic acid; 
 broncho-pneumonia of Tartar emetic; anaemia of Ar- 
 gentum; catalepsy of Cannabis indica; tinnitus auri- 
 um of Quinine; Meniere's disease of Salycilic soda; colic 
 of Plumbum; asthma of Ipecac; tabes of Ergot; fatty 
 degeneration of Phosphorus; glycosuria of Uranium; 
 meningitis of Belladonna, etc, etc. 
 
 Use of Pathological similarity. Often in the course 
 of acute diseases, and in children, where no character- 
 istic symptoms can be obtained, pathological corres- 
 pondence may be the only recourse; but it is otherwise 
 in the treatment of most chronic diseases. Here the 
 method of the Hahnemannian similarity yields best 
 results. 
 
 Method of Treating Slight Ailments. It is a mis- 
 take to prescribe remedies for every slight ailment. It 
 is best to follow Hahnemann's directions, Organon, 
 § 150: "Whenever a patient complains of only a few 
 insignificant symptoms of recent origin, the physician 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 61 
 
 is not to regard them as a disease requiring serious 
 medical aid. A slight change of diet and habits of 
 living generally suffices to remove so slight an indispo- 
 sition. 
 
 Absence of Characteristic Syinptoms in the To- 
 tality. There are cases where it is almost impossible 
 to obtain any very characteristic symptoms; these are 
 difficult to handle. § 165. Or there may be only one 
 or two prominent symptoms, which may obscure the 
 remaining features of the case, so-called 
 
 Partial or One-sided Diseases. The best rule is to 
 be most painstaking in eliciting symptoms, and then 
 make the best uses of the few symptoms to serve as 
 guides in the selection of the remedy. Although the 
 remedy may be but imperfectly adapted, it will serve 
 the purpose of bringing to light the symptoms belong- 
 ing to the disease, thus facilitating a choice of the next 
 remedy. Organon, §§ 173-184. Diagnostic symptoms 
 of a disease, although of least importance for selecting 
 the remedy, may be all we have in a given case for 
 guidance. If so, the remedy corresponding to them can 
 be chosen by paying special attention to their modali- 
 ities, i. e.j conditions of aggravation, concomitants, 
 etc. For instance, in dysentery, the tenesmus is an 
 important, diagnostic symptom, but no guiding one 
 to any remedy, since many medicines have this general 
 symptom; but if attended with any modalities or con- 
 comitants, it may become a leading indication; for 
 instance, Nux vom., the tenesmus and pain in the back 
 cease with the stool; in Mercurius, they continue after 
 it. In this way a general symptom may become a 
 characteristic one, leading to the choice of the curative 
 drug. 
 
 For further study consult: 
 •'Organon, ' ^ 153-173. 
 
62 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 '* The Relative Value of Symptoms," by S. A. Kimball, M.D., 
 in Homceopathic Physician, June, 1895. A very valuable essay. 
 
 ** The Examination of the Patient for a Homceopathic Pre- 
 scription," by P. P. Wells, M.D. Transactions Int. Homceopathic 
 Association, 1888, page 18. 
 
 "The Genus Epidermicus, " by A. McNeil, M.D. Transactions 
 of Hahnemann Association, 1889. 
 
 "The Selection of the Homoeopathic Eemedy," by T. F. 
 Allen, M.D. Eead before World's Medical Congress in Chicago, 
 1893; published in North American Journal of Homoeopathy, August, 
 1893. 
 
 "The First Prescription," by O. M. Drake, M.D., in Homeeo- 
 pathic Physician, January, 1895. 
 
 "Dudgeon's Lectures on Homoeopathy." Lecture XI: On the 
 Selection of the Remedy. This gives an account of the different 
 views held by the representative older disciples of Hahnemann, 
 and is very interesting from an historical point of view. 
 
 "The Totality of Symptoms." A paper read before the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Homoeopathy, by Wm. Boericke, M.D. Pub- 
 lished in the Hahnemannian Advocate, August, 1896. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 63 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE SIMILIMUM. 
 
 The indicated remedy in any case is the remedy 
 that corresponds to the totality of symptoms, as inter- 
 preted according to the relative rank of symptoms, and 
 not one covering, merely some isolated characteris- 
 tic or key-note symptom, or, on the other hand, one 
 that corresponds merely to the pathological lesion. 
 The objections to the key-note system of selecting the 
 remedy are its disregard for the fall study of the 
 remedy and elevation, instead of some minor often 
 clinical symptom, yielding at best only palliative 
 results, while the objection to the pathological basis is 
 its incompleteness, being only a partial picture of the 
 totality of symptoms and therefore an unreliable basis 
 for curative prescribing. 
 
 The similimum is the most similar remedy corres- 
 ponding to a case, one covering the true totality of 
 symptoms, and when found, is always curative, and in 
 incurable cases, it is the best possible palliative remedy. 
 
 Unfortunately, in the present state of our Materia 
 Medica, and other limitations of our art, the Similimum 
 in any case of illness, is not always discoverable. 
 Nevertheless, a cure is possible, albeit, not so prompt 
 as it would be if the chosen remedy were the Simili- 
 mum to the case. While this is the ideal to be sought, 
 the prescriber must more frequently be satisfied with 
 the selection of a mere similar instead. Fortunately, 
 the very conception of similarity is one of relative near- 
 ness and does not express an absolute relation; it is com- 
 parative always, thus a drug is more or less similar 
 according to the nearness of its correspondence to the 
 totality of symptoms. Moreover, the experience and 
 
64 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 practice of the homoeopathic school teaches that any- 
 one of several more or less similar remedies may be 
 used with alike good results, that is, it may be suffici- 
 ently similar to bring about nature's reaction. 
 
 The merely similar remedy, though falling short of 
 the dignity of the Similimum is not thereby removed 
 from capacity of curative service, but the curative res- 
 ponse is not as direct and prompt as results from the 
 administration of the similimum which must ever be, 
 in every homoeopathic prescription, the ideal to be 
 sought. 
 
 The selection of the Similimum involves its adminis- 
 tration singly and without admixture of any other 
 medicinal substance. 
 
 The single remedy is the necessary corollary to the 
 similar remedy. It is to be given alone, not alternated 
 or mixed with any other*. Only then can its pure 
 effects be evolved and estimated, and the single remedy 
 must be given in the smallest dose that will bring 
 about nature's reaction. The single remedy does not 
 mean a simple remedy. All chemical salts, which are 
 composite substances, the juice of plants, like Opium, 
 a most marvelously compounded substance, are all 
 single remedies and used as such in homoeopathy. 
 Any single substance that has been proved upon the 
 healthy, as an entity and whose pathogenesis is known, 
 can be administered; but it must be given unmixed 
 with any other medicinal substance, so as to obtain its 
 own peculiar drug force unmodified by any other. 
 
 It is the similar relationship alone that constitutes 
 the homoeopathicity. The size of the dose has com- 
 
 * As early as 1797, Hahnemann wrote, in Hufeland's Journal, 
 that for several years he had never administered anything but the 
 single remedy at a time, and never repeated the dose until the 
 action of the first had expired. 
 
Principles of Homoeopathy. 65 
 
 paratively little to do with it, except so far as experi- 
 ence may indicate it. It may be given in a crude 
 form, wholly unprepared by the pharmacist's skill, or 
 in material dosage, provided it does not produce tem- 
 porary aggravation of the symptoms; or it may be ad- 
 ministered stripped of all its apparent material, vis- 
 ible and tangible particles. Experience alone can 
 teach which will bring about the best results in any 
 given case. 
 
 Alternation or rotation of remedies is reprehensible 
 practice, since it leads away from accurate and definite 
 knowledge of drug effects, and sooner or later leads to 
 polypharmacy, which is the most slovenly of all prac- 
 tice. Since we have no provings of combination of 
 drugs, it would be impossible to prescribe such combi- 
 nations with scientific accuracy. In regard to alterna- 
 tion, Hahnemann says : '' Some homoeopathists have 
 made the experiment in cases where they deemed one 
 remedy suitable for one portion of symptoms of a case 
 of disease, and a second for another portion, of admin- 
 istering both remedies at once, or almost at once; but 
 I earnestly deprecate such hazardous experiments, that 
 can never be necessary, though they sometimes seem 
 to be of use." Note to § 272, Organon. 
 
 For further study, read — 
 
 "Organon," $$272-275. 
 
 Dunham: "Science of Therapeutics — Alternation of Remedies." 
 
 Edmund Capper: "The Method of Hahnemann and the Homoe- 
 opathy of To-day," in Journal of British Homoeopathic Society, Jan- 
 uary, 1895. 
 
 Jones: "The Ground's of a Homoeopath's Faith." Lecture 2: 
 "The Single Remedy." 
 
 Joslin: "The Principles of Homoeopathy — The Single Rem- 
 edy." 
 
 Eleanor F. Martin, M.D.: "The Single Remedy vs. Alterna- 
 tion," in Pacific Coast Journal of Homoeopathy, October, 1894. 
 
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66 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE SECOND PRESCRIPTION. 
 
 In the treatment of chronic diseases, Hahnemann's 
 instructions to write out the symptoms and arrange 
 them according to the rules given, is an absolute neces- 
 sity to attain accuracy of knowledge of the possible 
 indicated drugs and the selection of the most similar 
 remedy. This procedure ensures also a ready selection 
 of the second prescription, since the record will answer 
 all of the necessary questions and determine the right 
 course to be pursued. The prescriber's attitude after 
 the first prescription, in the treatment of chronic dis- 
 eases especially, ought to be passive. The first and 
 foremost rule is to wait and watch further developments. 
 The selected homoeopathic remedy simply stimulates 
 the vital forces to reaction, and we must await results. 
 
 No further interference is called for when any one 
 of the following conditions presents itself: 
 
 1. Short aggravation of the Symptoms. This is a 
 curative effect of the remedy. Do not interfere with it 
 unless the aggravation continues and the general 
 state of the patient is worse, in which case an antidote, 
 i. e., a homoeopathic remedy for the latest symptoms is 
 indicated. Usually on^ dose of such an antidote is all 
 that is required to modify the condition, and then the 
 case can progress without further interruption. 
 
 2. General Amelioration of the Symptoms. It is self 
 evident that such a condition should not be disturbed 
 by further medication, on the principle of letting well 
 enough alone. If the disease gets better from within 
 outward, from above downward from more vital to less 
 vital parts, the improvement is permanent and radical. 
 
Principles of Homceqpathy. 67 
 
 So an improved mental state is always a favorable in- 
 dication of a well chosen remedy. 
 
 3. Reappearance of old Symptoms. The return of 
 some of the older symptoms, if not too severe, indicates 
 a curative action of the remedy administered, if they 
 appear in the reverse order of their development, i. e., if 
 the latest symptoms disappear first. 
 
 4. Appearance of new symptoms. If such come on 
 after the administration of a remedy, they may be 
 clinical symptoms of the remedy, and if there is at the 
 same time general improvement, they need not be con- 
 sidered, as they will disappear. If they persist, the 
 homoeopathic antidote will soon rectify the passing 
 increase of the morbid phenomena. Under all these 
 conditions, no further medication is required. So long 
 as improvement is thus progressing, it is folly to change 
 the remedy, and it is not advisable even to repeat the 
 dose. 
 
 Other Favorable Symptoms. In acute disease, it is 
 a favorable symptom if the patient falls asleep soon 
 after taking the remedy; also, if he feels generally better, 
 though the local symptoms may not show any improve- 
 ment. The improvement here is probably largely 
 psychical, and will soon be followed by the necessarily 
 slower improvement on the physical plane. 
 
 The mental condition and general behavior of the 
 patient, if more tranquil and natural, are among the 
 most certain and intelligible signs of incipient improve- 
 ment, especially in acute diseases. 
 
 Should this progressive evolution of the symptoms 
 towards health cease, 
 
 A further review of the case is required, and a new 
 remedy is to be chosen when — 
 
 (1) The mental state shows an embarrassed, help- 
 less state instead of the tranquility of improvement. 
 
68 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 (2) When no change of any kind follows the first 
 prescription, after waiting long enough for reaction, 
 which is, however, a variable matter, according to the 
 chronicity of the case and character of the remedy 
 chosen, the shortest period to be allowed in a chronic 
 disease being one week, and preferably a longer time. 
 
 (3) When new and important symptoms and old mo- 
 dalities, especially aggravations that persist , characterize 
 the case, proving that the remedy was not homoeopathic 
 to the case, and acted only as a pathogenetic agent in 
 producing new symptoms. This is the danger of select- 
 ing a remedy only remotely similar instead of the 
 similimum. The second remedy will often be found a 
 complementary drug of the first. 
 
 Three Precautionary Rules of Hahnemann. The 
 
 author of Homoeopathy, in his work on " The Chronic 
 Diseases," has established three precautionary rules, 
 which he has impressed in the most urgent manner 
 upon the minds of his disciples, and which no homoeo- 
 pathic physician can violate without committing the 
 greatest faults in practice. They are the following: 
 
 1. To suppose that the doses which he had recom- 
 mended for every anti-psoric remedy, and which expe- 
 rience had taught him to be the proper doses, are too 
 small. 
 
 2. The improper selection of a drug. 
 
 3. The too great haste in administering a new dose. 
 Precautionary Rule No. 1. — Smallness of dose. The 
 
 debates relative to the smallness of doses are far from 
 being closed. The more that has been written on that 
 subject for some years past, the more contradiction has 
 been heaped upon contradiction. What is a truly re- 
 markable circumstance in this discussion — a circum- 
 stance which is by no means creditable to the oppo- 
 nents of small doses — is the fact that the manner in 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 69 
 
 which Hahnemann gradually arrived at the introduc- 
 tion of the small doses in practice, in consequence of 
 repeated trials, observations, experience, seems either 
 to have been forgotten or entirely ignored. 
 
 It is experience, and nothing else, which led the 
 carefully-observing author of that immortal text-book 
 to that minuteness of doses which has now become an 
 object of derision. In the second edition of " Chronic 
 Diseases," after having spoken of homoeopathic aggra- 
 vations, Hahnemann continues thus: ^^ If the original 
 symptoms of the disease continue ivith the same intensity 
 in the succeeding days as in the beginning, or if this inten- 
 sity increases, this is a sure sign that, although the remedy 
 may be homoeopathic, yet the magnitude of the dose will 
 make the cure impossible. The remedial agent, by its 
 powerful disproportionate action, not only neutralizes 
 its genuine homoeopathic effects, but established, more- 
 over, in the system, a medicinal disease by the side of 
 the natural disturbance, which is even strengthened by 
 the medicine." 
 
 That portion of the preceding quotation, which is 
 printed in italics, embodies a great truth which has 
 never been denied, which has been abundantly con- 
 firmed by the numerous results of the allopathic treat- 
 ment of chronic diseases, and is, therefore, well worthy 
 of attentive and serious consideration. Such results 
 are even witnessed in the comparatively easy treatment 
 of syphilis, from the abuse of mercury, which is then 
 secondary syphilis. 
 
 Hahnemann continues afterwards: ^'This pernicious 
 effect of too large a dose may be observed already in the 
 first sixteen, eighteen or twenty days of its action. In 
 such a case it becomes necessary either to give an anti- 
 dote, or if the antidote should not be known, to admin- 
 ister a very small dose of such antipsoric as corre- 
 sponds most homoeopathically to the symptoms of both 
 
70 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 the natural and the artificial disease. If one anti- 
 psoric should not be sufficient, another, of course, ought 
 to be given, after having been selected with the same 
 care." 
 
 How little an excessive dose is capable of displaying 
 its full curative powers may be seen from the following 
 remarks of the author of homoeopathy: "The excessive 
 action of the otherwise homoeopathic remedial agent 
 having been subdued by the proper antidote or by 
 antipsoric remedies, the same agent may then be ex- 
 hibited again, but of a much higher potency, and in a 
 more minute dose." But this agent would have no 
 effect, if a first powerful dose of it had not accomplished 
 in the beginning all the good that the agent is capable 
 of doing. 
 
 Finally, Hahnemann observes: " Nothing is lost by 
 giving even smaller doses than those which I have in- 
 dicated. The doses can be scarcely too much reduced, 
 provided the effects of the remedy are not disturbed by 
 improper food. The remedial agent will act even in 
 the smallest quantity, provided it corresponds perfectly 
 to all the symptoms of the disease, and its action is not 
 interfered with improper diet. The advantage of giv- 
 ing the smallest dose is this, that it is an easy matter to 
 neutralize their effects in case the medicine should not 
 have been chosen with the necessary exactitude. This 
 being done, a more suitable antipsoric may be admin- 
 istered." 
 
 This advice ought to be carefully considered, especi- 
 ally by the beginners, together with the warning which 
 Hahnemann has expressed in the preface to his work 
 on " Chronic Diseases." " What would they have 
 risked, if they had first followed my indications and 
 then employed small doses ? The worst which would 
 have befallen them was, that those doses would have 
 been of no avail. It was impossible that they should 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 71 
 
 do any harm. But instead of exhibiting small doses, 
 they employed, from a want of sense and of their own 
 accord, large doses for homoeopathic use, thus exposing 
 the lives of their patients, and arriving at truth by 
 that circuitous route which I had traveled upon before 
 them with trembling hesitation, but the end of which I 
 had just reached with success. Nevertheless, after 
 having done much mischief, and after having squand- 
 ered the best period of their lives, they were obliged, 
 when they were really desirous of curing a disease, to 
 resort to the only true method which I had demonstra- 
 ted to them a long while ago. * 
 
 Diet and Regimen during Homoeopathic Treat- 
 ment. Hahnemann and the early homoeopathists laid 
 great stress on a strict diet; but this is a field that has 
 been greatly neglected in modern times, largely be- 
 cause it was found that the power and efficacy of the 
 well-chosen remedy were able to manifest themselves, 
 notwithstanding great license in diet and hygiene. 
 Nevertheless, a return to Hahnemann's careful restric- 
 tions may be advisable in many cases. His teachings, 
 in this regard, are as follows: 
 
 "The minuteness of the dose required in homoeo- 
 pathic practice, makes it necessary that every other 
 kind of medicinal influence that might cause a dis- 
 turbance should be avoided in the diet and regimen of 
 patients, in order that the highly rarified dose may not 
 be counteracted, overpowered, or disturbed by extra- 
 neous, medicinal influences. In chronic cases, there- 
 fore, it is especially necessary to remove all obstacles 
 of this nature with the greatest care, since they exer- 
 cise a deleterious effect. '* 
 
 Regimen in Acute Diseases. Here the instinct of 
 the patient usually guides him aright, and his cravings 
 
 * Quoted from Von Boenninghausen. 
 
72 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 can be judiciously gratified. " The food and drink 
 most commonly craved by patients suffering from 
 acute diseases is generally of a palliative and soothing 
 kind, and not properly of a medicinal nature, but 
 merely adapted to the gratification of a certain 
 longing." 
 
 " In acute diseases, the temperature of the room and 
 the quantity of covering should be regulated entirely 
 according to the wishes of the patient, while every 
 kind of mental exertion and emotional disturbance is 
 to be carefully avoided." 
 
 For further study, read: 
 
 " brganon," ^ 253-263. 
 
 "The Second Prescription," by Dr. J. T. Kent, in Proceed- 
 ings of the Hahnemannian Association, 1888, page 71. 
 
 "Practical Hints on the Management of Chronic Cases." by 
 W. P. Wesselhoeft, M.D., in Transactions of Hahnemannian Asso- 
 ciation, 1889, page 8. 
 
 "Procedure in the Treatment of Inactive, Progressive Chronic 
 Diseases," by T. J. Kent, in Hahnemannian Advocate, July, 1896. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 73 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 HAHNEMANN'S NOSOLOGY. 
 
 The classification of diseases adopted by Hahne- 
 mann includes two types, acute and chronic. §§ 72-82, 
 Organon. 
 
 Acute diseases originate from defective hygiene, 
 errors in diet, physical agents, cold, heat and other 
 atmospheric changes, mental and moral influences. 
 
 Again, telluric and meteoric and bacterial influen- 
 ces give rise to acute diseases, attacking a number of 
 individuals, at the same time giving rise to epidemic 
 and contagious diseases. Besides these general causes, 
 there are types of acute disease that are transient acti- 
 vities of the hitherto dormant psoric miasm, rendered 
 so from some cause or other. 
 
 It is well to bear this possible cause of certain acute 
 diseases in mind, since corresponding antipsoric reme- 
 dies may possibly come into requisition for their cure 
 or temporary subsidence. 
 
 Chronic diseases are such as are produced by infec- 
 tion from a chronic miasm, and which the vital powers 
 of the organism, aided by hygienic and dietetic and 
 sanitary measures are not able to extinguish. The 
 chronic miasms giving rise to all forms of chronic dis- 
 ease are psora, syphilis and sycosis. Hahnemann does 
 not classify among these chronic diseases such as result 
 from living under unhygienic and unsanitary influen- 
 ces, or trying mental conditions, dietetic errors, 
 excesses of all kinds, etc. These diseases disappear of 
 themselves by mere change of regimen and surround- 
 ings and removing the cause, provided, there is not 
 
74 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 present one of the three chronic miasms that are the 
 real causes of all chronic disease. 
 
 Drug Diseases. On the other hand, prolonged drug 
 use in heroic doses does produce a species of chronic 
 disease that is most difficult to cure, and when such 
 have attained a considerable hold, it would seem as if 
 no remedy could be discovered for their radical cure. * 
 Organon, §§ 74 and 75. 
 
 " It is a matter of regret that we are still obliged to 
 count among chronic diseases, very common affections 
 which are to be regarded as the result of allopathic 
 treatment, and the continual use of violent, heroic 
 medicines in large and increasing doses. Examples of 
 that kind are: the abuse of Calomel, Corrosive subli- 
 mate, Mercurial Ointment, Nitrate of Silver, Iodine and 
 its ointments. Opium, Valerian, Quinine, Digitalis, etc., 
 the use of purgatives persisted in for years, etc." To 
 which might be added the modern abuse of Coal tar 
 products, patent medicines. Such wanton treatment 
 weakens the organism, abnormally deranged and 
 wholly altered. Irritability and sensibility are in- 
 creased or decreased, hypertrophy and atrophy, soften- 
 ing and indurations in certain organs and organic 
 lesions are produced. Such are some of the results of 
 nature's efforts to protect the organism against com- 
 plete destruction by aggressive treatment with perni- 
 cious drugs. 
 
 The Evolution of Halinemann's Doctrine of 
 Chronic Diseases. After Hahnemann's discovery of 
 the Law of Cure in 1790, he worked incessantly inves- 
 
 * The treatment of drug diseases by the use of the highest po- 
 tency of the drug producing them is to be tried in these obstinate 
 chronic affections, it is an entirely consistent homoeopathic proce- 
 dure. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 75 
 
 tigating the action of drugs on the healthy, and prac- 
 ticed according to the newly-discovered law and by 
 the light and aid the new Materia Medica was able to 
 give. The success of this practical application of the 
 Law of Cure was striking in the extreme. Especially 
 true was this in the treatment of acute diseases and 
 epidemics. As to chronic diseases, in which allopathic 
 treatment was so often worse than useless, homoeo- 
 pathy rarely failed to improve or ameliorate the condi- 
 tions in a very short time. But, though the patients 
 were often very much relieved, they were not cured, 
 for their complaints would return more or less by 
 many unfavorable circumstances, such as errors of 
 diet, poor hygienic conditions, unfavorable weather, 
 mental emotions, etc. Their return, under these cir- 
 cumstances, was generally attended with the appear- 
 ance of new symptoms, often more troublesome and 
 more difficult of removal than before. Even when the 
 treatment of these chronic diseases was conducted 
 strictly according to the doctrines of the homoeopathic 
 art, Hahnemann himself owned that " their commence- 
 ment was cheering, their progress less favorable, their 
 issue hopeless." "And yet," he adds, " the homoeo- 
 pathic doctrine itself is built upon the impregnable 
 pillars of truth and must ever remain so." Whence 
 this inferior success, this absolute want of success in 
 the prolonged treatment of chronic diseases? If 
 homoeopathy is based upon a natural law — nature's 
 law for healing — and the conditions for carrying out 
 the law are observed, there ought not to be any failure 
 — only success. Why, then, this failure at times in 
 certain patients and even typical acute diseases; why 
 this almost constant failure in chronic disease? 
 
 He says that, from the year 1816-17, the solution of 
 this problem occupied him day and night, and at 
 length he succeeded in solving it. Like all of Hahne- 
 
76 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 mann's work, it was the fruit of long and patient 
 observation and study and experiment. 
 
 Ten years later, in 1827, he was ready to communi- 
 cate this new discovery, as he believed this epoch- 
 making theory, to the profession. He summoned to 
 Coethen, where he was then practicing as physician to 
 the reigning prince, two of his most esteemed disciples, 
 Doctors Stapf and Gross, and communicated to them 
 his theory of the origin of chronic diseases and his dis- 
 covery of a completely new series of medicines for their 
 cure, exhorting them to test the truth of his opinions 
 and discoveries in their own practice. He disclosed 
 this to these two disciples in case his death — for he was 
 then in his seventy^third year — should have occurred 
 before the publication of his book on the subject. This 
 remarkable book, entitled " The Chronic Diseases, 
 Their Peculiar Nature and Homoeopathic Treatment," 
 duly appeared the next year, 1828. With the publica- 
 tion of this book, supplementing the Organon, the high- 
 water mark of medical philosophy was reached. A few 
 generations hence this will be generally acknowledged. 
 
 Cause of Recurrence of Chronic Diseases. 
 
 His researches and reflections, Hahnemann tells us 
 in his work, led him to the conclusion that the cause of 
 the constant recurrence of chronic diseases after their 
 apparent or partial removal by the homoeopathic rem- 
 edy, and their recurrence with new and grave symp- 
 toms, was that the symptoms manifesting themselves 
 at any one time were only a portion of the deeply-seated 
 fundamental malady, whose great extent was shown 
 by the new symptoms that appeared from time to time. 
 He believed it to be a chronic miasm, which the body 
 could not throw off spontaneously and unaided, not by 
 careful diet or regimen, but that it rather increased in 
 intensity and extent from year to year. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 77 
 
 "The most robust constitution, the best regulated 
 life, and the greatest energy of the vital powers, are 
 insufficient to extinguish them." § 78, Organon. 
 
 The Skin Phase of Chronic Diseases. 
 
 His further research showed that the obstacle to the 
 cure seemed to lie in a previous scabious eruption, 
 which the patient frequently acknowledged having had, 
 and from which he often dated all his sufferings. He 
 believed that chronic diseases occurred on the suppres- 
 sion artificially, or disappearance from any cause of a 
 scabious, itching, eruption from the skin in otherwise 
 healthy persons. Itch, in Hahnemann's time, was a 
 term which covered many other affections besides the 
 one now known as scabies or itch. This itch dyscrasia 
 he called Psora, meaning thereby the internal itch dis- 
 ease, with or without any present skin symptoms. It 
 is the source of all varieties of skin diseases, abnormal 
 growths, tumors, deformity, mental diseases, etc. In 
 short, it is the parent of all chronic diseases, with the 
 exception of venereal diseases. It is the oldest, most 
 universal and obstinate of all miasmatic diseases. The 
 leprosy of the Israelites, the epidemic St. Anthony's 
 fire of the middle ages, were but forms of this taint. In 
 these forms the whole malignity seemed to be expended 
 on the skin. Greater cleanliness and generally better 
 modes of living have modified its local manifestations, 
 so that, at the present day, it is more in herpetic and 
 eczematous diseases that we meet with it. The readi- 
 ness with which these are suppressed, the readiness 
 with which ordinary practice dries up discharges of all 
 kinds, the immense development of local treatment, 
 and the increase of all kinds of specialists, whose ten- 
 dency is to suppress local manifestations of disease, has 
 driven this psora within to more vital regions, and thus 
 has lead to the great increase of chronic maladies that 
 afflict mankind. 
 
78 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 The appearance of skin symptoms, or discharge from 
 a mucous surface, shows that nature is making an 
 effort to localize on the outskirts of the body the mor- 
 bid process, removed as far as possible from the more 
 vital parts of the organism, where it would be much 
 more mischievous. Therefore, forcing it back into the 
 interior by strong, local treatment must necessarily 
 work detrimentally to a radical and permanent cure. 
 
 " Every external treatment of a local symptom whose 
 aim is to extinguish it on the surface of the body with- 
 out curing the internal miasmatic disease — such, for 
 example, as that of destroying a psoric eruption on the 
 skin by means of ointments, healing up a chancre by 
 the use of caustic, destroying the granulations of 
 sycosis by ligature, excision or the application of a hot 
 iron — is not only useless, but injurious. This perni- 
 cious method, in such general use at the present day, 
 is the chief source of the innumerable chronic diseases 
 that oppress the human race. This is the most crimi- 
 nal practice physicians can adopt, and it has, notwith- 
 standing, been very generally practiced till the present 
 time, and taught, ex cathedra, as the only one. § 203, 
 Organon. 
 
 The Underlying Facts of the Psoric Theory. With- 
 out the necessity of accepting the Psoric doctrine as a 
 whole, the homoeopathic school has found in it an excel- 
 lent working hypothesis, and certain facts are undeni- 
 able and go far to establish the essential truth of the 
 doctrine. These are the following: 
 
 1. In many patients, the even and regular clinical 
 course of diseases is from some course or other within 
 themselves interfered with. 
 
 2. Remedies apparently indicated and chosen ac- 
 cording to the law of similars, fail to accomplish what, 
 as a rule, they ought. 
 

 Principles of Homceopathy. 
 
 3. This is especially true of most chronic diseases. 
 
 4. It is a further fact that frequently the suppres- 
 sion or disappearance of a skin disease is followed by 
 serious mischief in more vital organs, as respiratory 
 affections (asthma), after eczema capitis, etc., showing 
 a reciprocal relation between the skin and internal 
 organs. 
 
 It is the presence of this unseen but nevertheless very 
 active and perturbing factor that accounts for these con- 
 ditions. Now, this fact of recognition is the mark of 
 genius. The theory of its precise nature is of compa- 
 ratively little importance and may or may not be true. 
 That it is nothing but suppressed itch in the narrow 
 sense is not true. That, however, suppressed skin affec- 
 tions in a wider acceptation than what we now-a-days 
 understand by itch are an indubitable factor in the pro- 
 duction of many forms of obstinate and occult chronic 
 suffering far removed from local skin manifestation, is 
 an established truth. The Hahnemannian conception 
 of Psora is a very real thing, the Psora theory an in- 
 tensely practical thing and that is its passport to the 
 general practitioner whose aim is to cure permanently 
 rather than palliate and relieve for the time being. 
 Perhaps it would have been better not to try and define 
 the inner essence of this dyscrasia. The celebrated 
 Botanist Schleiden, used to open his lectures on Botany 
 by frankly confessing that he did not know what a 
 plant was. So we may not know what Psora is, ex- 
 cept that it consists of the sum of all the biological 
 obstacles which resist, deface, complicate and alter the 
 natural course of diseases and interfere with the action 
 of the apparently well selected homoeopathic remedy. 
 In this wider sense, as indicating cachexia or dyscrasia, 
 the Psora theory is founded in nature and truth. 
 Though Hahnemann's theory is not proven, it is a most 
 admirable working theory, a stepping stone by means 
 
80 
 
 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 of which we attain remarkable results in the treatment 
 of disease. 
 
 Anti-psoric remedies are such as show in their 
 pathogenesis a tendency to act from within outwards, 
 from above downwards, who thus abound in skin 
 symptoms and are deep and long-acting remedies; 
 hence, they are of special value in the treatment of 
 chronic disease and for the eradication of inherited 
 and constitutional disease tendencies. They show their 
 greatest medicinal power in highly attenuated form 
 and do not bear frequent repetition. Many of them 
 are wholly inert in their crude state and require the 
 pharmaceutical processes of homoeopathy to develop 
 their latent medicinal force. 
 
 The principal anti-psoric remedies are Sulphur, Cal- 
 carea, Lycopodium, Sepia, Silica, Natrum mur., Gra- 
 phites, Arsenic, Alumina, etc. * 
 
 Hahnemann's Suggestion in Regard to Adminis- 
 tering Anti-psoric remedies. " The best time for 
 
 '^ The following is Hahnemann's list of anti-psoric remedies, 
 but there are quite a number of others that ought to be included, 
 which have been proved and introduced since his time: 
 
 Agaricus, 
 Alumina, 
 Ammon. carb., 
 Ammon. mur., 
 Anacardium, 
 Antimon. crud.. 
 Arsenic, 
 Aurum, 
 Baryta carb., 
 Borax, 
 
 Calcarea carb., 
 Carbo animalis, 
 Carbo vegetabilis, 
 Causticum, 
 Clematis, 
 
 Colocynthis, 
 
 Cuprum, 
 
 Digitalis, 
 
 Dulcamara, 
 
 Euphorbium, 
 
 Graphites, 
 
 Guaiacum, 
 
 lodum. 
 
 Kali carb., 
 
 Kali nitricum, 
 
 Lycopodium, 
 
 Magnesia carb., 
 
 Manganum, 
 
 Mezereum, 
 
 Muriatic acid, 
 
 Natrum carb., 
 
 Natrum mur.. 
 
 Nitric acid. 
 
 Petroleum, 
 
 Phosphorus, 
 
 Phosphoric acid, 
 
 Platina, 
 
 Sarsaparilla, 
 
 Sepia, 
 
 Silica, 
 
 Stannum, 
 
 Sulphur, 
 
 Sulphuric acid, 
 
 Zincum. 
 
Principles OF Homceopathy. 81 
 
 taking a dose of an anti-psoric medicine is early in the 
 morning while fasting; no food or drink should be 
 taken within half an hour after. After taking the 
 medicine, the patient should keep perfectly quiet at 
 least a full hour, but without going to sleep, avoiding 
 mental exertion of any kind as well. 
 
 '^ To females, anti-psoric remedies should not be 
 given immediately before or during menstruation, not 
 until four days after the flow has commenced." 
 
 Pregnancy offers a most favorable time for the ad- 
 ministration of anti-psoric remedies, the organism 
 being then in a specially receptive state for the eradica- 
 tion of chronic and inherited disease tendencies. 
 
 During treatment of a chronic disease, do not inter- 
 fere too readily with the acute sufferings that may arise 
 during the treatment. Often such acute symptoms are 
 really a part of the curative action and hence it would 
 be unwise to interfere with their development. 
 
 Other Miasms Recognized by Halinemann. 
 
 In the Hahnemannian pathology of chronic diseases, 
 besides psora, two other miasms, i. e. syphilis and 
 sycosis figure as etiological factors. The importance 
 and extent of syphilis as a cause of a distinct miasm 
 does not differ as conceived by Hahnemann from that 
 accepted by modern pathology, but sycosis assumes a 
 distinctive importance peculiar to homoeopathy. 
 
 Sycosis is the suppression of the gonorrhoeal poison 
 in the system. Its main local manifestation is the 
 production of figwarts around the genital region, but 
 its later constitutional symptoms are not confined to 
 any part of the. organism but are a general deviation 
 of health. 
 
 Hahnemann distinguishes two kinds of gonorrhoea — 
 one comparatively innocent — a urethral, catarrhal in- 
 flammation, and the other the sycotic form. In regard 
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82 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 to the more common and comparatively innocent form, 
 he says in his "Chronic Diseases": "The miasm of the 
 other common gonorrhoeas seems not to penetrate the 
 whole organism, but only to locally stimulate the uri- 
 nary organs. They yield either to a dose of one drop 
 of fresh parsley-juice, when this is indicated by a fre- 
 quent urgency to urinate, or a small dose of Cannabis 
 or Cantharis, or of Copaiva, according to their different 
 constitution and the other ailments attending it. 
 These should, however, be always used in the higher 
 and highest dynamizations, unless a psora, slumbering 
 in the body of the patient, has been developed by 
 means of a strongly-affecting, irritating or weakening, 
 old-school treatment. In such a case, frequently, sec- 
 ondary gonorrhoeas remain, which can only be cured 
 by anti-psoric treatment." 
 
 The sycotic form of gonorrhoea differs in being a 
 much more serious matter. Hahnemann describes it 
 as follows: "The discharge is from the beginning 
 thickish, like pus; micturition is less difficult, but the 
 body of the penis swollen somewhat hard; the penis is 
 also, in some cases, covered on the back with glandu- 
 lar tubercles, and very painful to the touch." 
 
 The characteristic features of sycosis are the wart- 
 like, cauliflower excresences around the genitals, soft, 
 spongy, bleeding easily, recurring when violently re- 
 moved, frequently emitting a specific, fetid fluid. 
 
 All heroic, external treatment is forbidden, tending 
 to produce the sycotic diathesis; only the external use 
 of Thuja is permitted. For internal treatment. Thuja 
 is the great anti-sycotic. 
 
 The violent suppression of a sycotic, urethral dis- 
 charge is often followed by chronic suffering, which is 
 characterized by peculiar symptoms and conditions, 
 among which the following have frequently been 
 observed : 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 83 
 
 Symptoms of Suppressed Sycosis. Great muscular 
 debility- is the most characteristic physical sign ; anx- 
 iety; anguish; fear of associating with strangers; going 
 into a crowd; great irritability; dysmenorrhcea, before, 
 during and after flow, with great debility; sterility; in- 
 flammation of the Fallopian tubes, ovaries; neurasthe- 
 nia; asthma; bronchial affections; distorted finger 
 nails, eruption in the palms of the hands; dryness of 
 the hair, etc.; rheumatism setting in shortly after the 
 suppression of the discharge or remova^l of the warts; 
 ankle and knee are specially affected; pains worse be- 
 fore a storm and during the day. 
 
 Eradicative Possibilities of Anti-psoric Treatment. 
 
 The greatest evil of these miasms, is that they are 
 made organic and rendered permanent by heredity. It 
 is this fact of heredity and the pollution of the vital 
 fluids * entailed thereby that modifies not only the 
 course of acute diseases, but establishes and makes a 
 permanent field for chronic diseases. This hereditary 
 gift and this organized field give rise to certain bodily 
 constitutions and certain dyscrasic conditions. Acute 
 diseases and possibly the action of remedies run their 
 course in the track marked out by these bodily constitu- 
 tions, which again are largely modified by the latent 
 psoric taint. 
 
 Every practitioner of experience arrives sooner or 
 later at this fact — namely, that in order to get a true 
 and practical understanding of diseases, the ground, 
 the human organization modified more or less by 
 heredity, upon which ground diseases feed, and which 
 is the battlefield of the malignant forces of disease from 
 
 * " The vaccinated syphilis of one organism passing into 
 another, ncay not manifest itself by eruption, or chancre or visible 
 syphilitic taint at all, but may fall upon the nervous life and be a 
 raging and unappeasable lust in afterlife." — J. J. Garth Wilkinson. 
 
84 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 without combining with the impurities within, the char- 
 acter of this ground must be studied; for, according to 
 its composition, it will certainly modify one way or 
 another the course of diseases that from time to time 
 invade it. The presence of this modifying something — 
 this perturbing and yet determining factor — this psoric 
 taint, was recognized by Hahnemann. His facts are 
 true; his theory, true or not, is, nevertheless, an admir- 
 able working theory, leading to remarkable, successful 
 results. 
 
 Pre-natal Treatment by Means of Anti-psoric Rem- 
 edies. This is a peculiar field for Homoeopathy. By 
 means of the deeply-acting anti-psoric remedies, the 
 lower strata of perverted life where it first establishes 
 itself in impurities in the finest fibres and cellular 
 structures, can be restored. Medicines chosen wisely 
 and given to the expectant mother, can benefit the 
 coming child. Frequently, with the indicated remedy, 
 anatomical and structural deficiencies — as cleft palate, 
 hare lip, eczema, etc. — can be prevented in families 
 where such have appeared, because the taint that gave 
 rise to them in former pregnancies has been neutral- 
 ized by the timely administration of the homoeopathic 
 anti-psoric remedies. 
 
 Suggestions for the Treatment of Chronic Diseases. 
 
 1. Before beginning the treatment of a chronic dis- 
 ease, it is necessary to inquire carefully if the patient 
 has been infected by venereal disease, and, if so, to in- 
 stitute treatment against such infection; but more fre- 
 quently it will be found that psora complicates the case. 
 
 2.' Ascertain, also, the nature of medical treatment 
 that the patient had received, either from drugs or 
 mineral baths, etc., in order to understand the devia- 
 tions which this treatment had produced in the origi- 
 nal disease. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 85 
 
 3. Patient's age, mode of living, diet, occupation, 
 domestic circumstances, and even his social position, 
 should be considered, in order to see how the cure may- 
 be favored or impeded thereby. 
 
 4. Patient's mental condition and temperament 
 should not be overlooked, as it may be necessary to 
 direct or modify his mental state by psychical means. 
 
 5. Several interviews may be necessary before the 
 physician will find himself enabled to determine the 
 state of the patient's case as perfectly as possible, and 
 to mark the most conspicuous, characteristic or peculiar 
 symptoms, which alone will guide him to the first anti- 
 psoric, anti-syphilitic or anti-sycotic remedy for the 
 beginning of the cure. §§ 206-209, Organon. * 
 
 Partial Diseases and Local Affections. Diseases 
 presenting an insufficient number of symptoms, usu- 
 ally only one or two prominent ones, though compara- 
 tively rare, are met with. Here, the first selected rem- 
 edy will only be partially adopted and will, therefore, 
 excite accessory symptoms, which, however, are not 
 wholly due to the remedy given, but were latent, and 
 the remedy served to arouse them; therefore, the new 
 totality of symptoms will enable the prescriber to dis- 
 cover the truly indicated remedy. Organon, §§ 172-184. 
 
 The so-called local affections occupy a prominent 
 place among partial diseases. The term is applied to 
 diseased conditions appearing upon external parts, and 
 are mostly of recent origin and caused by external 
 injury. Affections of external parts, requiring me- 
 chanical skill, properly belong to surgery alone; as, 
 for instance, when external impediments are to be re- 
 moved that prevent the vital force from accomplishing 
 
 * See, also, Hahnemann's Golden Kule, page 93, and "Chronic 
 Diseases," page 125. 
 
8f) A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 the cure, as the opening of cavities, either for the re- 
 moval of cumbersome substances, or to form an outlet 
 to effusions, etc. §§ 185-6, Organon. 
 
 Besides the local affections, requiring surgical and 
 mechanical treatment, there are local affections that 
 proceed from an internal morbid state. Such involve 
 the entire state of health of the whole organism, since 
 all its parts are so intimately connected as to form an 
 indivisible whole in feelings and functions; hence, all 
 curative measures should be planned, with reference 
 to the state of the whole system and by means of in- 
 ternal remedies. This is done most effectually by 
 including the record of the exact state of the local 
 disease to every other change that is perceptible in the 
 state of the patient. All these symptoms ought to be 
 united in one perfect image and a remedy chosen 
 according to this true totality. Organon, §§ 190-193. 
 
 Objections to Local Application of a Medicine 
 Simultaneously with its Internal Use. It may seem 
 as if such a practice were conducive to more rapid im- 
 provement, but it is objectionable in local affections 
 dependent on some chronic miasm, on account of the 
 more rapid disappearance of the local phase than of 
 the internal disease. This often leads to the decep- 
 tive impression that a perfect cure has been accom- 
 plished. 
 
 The local application of non-homceopathic rem- 
 edies renders the case even more difficult. Local 
 symptoms should not be obliterated by caustics, es- 
 charotics, or by excision, since thereby the symptoms 
 necessary for a choice of a curative remedy are ob- 
 scured, and, also, the chief evidences of a permanent 
 cure are taken away; for, if the local symptoms disap- 
 pear after the administration of the homoeopathic rem- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 87 
 
 edy, we have established evidence of the achievement 
 of a radical cure and of complete recovery from the 
 general disease. §§ 196-200, Organon. 
 
 The Local Disease is Nature's Effort to Relieve by 
 Derivation. '' When the system is affected with some 
 chronic disease which threatens to destroy vital organs 
 and life itself, and which does not yield to the sponta- 
 neous efforts of the vital force, this endeavors to quiet 
 the inner disease, and to avert the danger by substi- 
 tuting and maintaining a local disease on some exter- 
 nal part of the body, whither the internal disease is 
 transferred by derivation. In this way, the local affec- 
 tion for a time arrests the internal evil, without, how- 
 ever, being able to cure it, or to lessen it essentially. 
 The fontanels of the old school have a similar effect, 
 in the form of artificial ulcers upon external parts; 
 they soothe internal chronic complaints, but without 
 curing them." 
 
 Nevertheless, the local malady is never anything 
 more than a part of the general disease, but it is a part 
 which has become excessively developed in one direc- 
 tion by the vital force, and transported to the surface 
 of the body where there is less danger, in order to les- 
 sen the internal morbid process. § 201, Organon. 
 
 The mental state and temperament of the patient 
 
 are often of most decisive importance in the homoeo- 
 pathic selection of a remedy, and should never escape 
 the accurate observation of the physician, as the state of 
 mind is always modified in so-called physical diseases. 
 
 Mental Diseases and their Treatment. Most of 
 them are in reality bodily diseases. Certain mental 
 and emotional symptoms are peculiar to every bodily 
 disease; these symptoms develop more or less rapidly, 
 and become predominant over all other symptoms, and 
 are finally transferred, like a local disease, into the 
 
88 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 invisibly fine organs of the mind, where, by their pres- 
 ence, they seem to obscure the bodily symptoms. 
 
 In regard to the totality of symptoms of a case of 
 this kind, all physical symptoms which prevailed before 
 the disease assumed the mental form are very essential. 
 Comparison between these early symptoms and their 
 present indistinct remnants, which may occasionally 
 appear during lucid intervals or during transient ame- 
 lioration of the mental disease, will show the continu- 
 ance of the physical disease, although obscured. Study 
 §§ 214-220, Organon. 
 
 Acute insanity, even though due to latent psora, 
 should not be treated with anti-psoric remedies at once, 
 but met with remedies like Aconite, Belladonna, etc., 
 in highly attenuated doses. After such treatment, 
 anti-psoric remedies, with well regulated diet and 
 habits, will do the rest. In the treatment of insanity, 
 the medicines may be given mixed with the patient's 
 usual drink, without his knowledge, thus obviating 
 every kind of compulsion. Study §§ 221-231, Organon, 
 in this connection. 
 
 Intermittent and alternating diseases are such as 
 return at certain periods, or where certain morbid con- 
 ditions alternate with each other. Such are mostly a 
 product of developed psora. 
 
 The symptoms which mark the condition of the 
 patient during the period of intermission should chiefly 
 be taken as guides in selecting the most striking homoe- 
 opathic remedy. 
 
 In intermittents, besides the importance of the apy- 
 rexia as offering most guiding symptoms for the selec- 
 tion of the remedy, the stage which is most prominent 
 and peculiar should next be considered. The best time 
 to administer the remedy is a short time after the ter- 
 mination of the paroxysm, when the patient has par- 
 
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 tially recovered from it. The vital force is then in the 
 most favorable condition to be modified by medicine 
 and restored to healthy action. Anti-psoric remedies 
 will generally be required after other remedies corre- 
 sponding to the special type of fever have failed to 
 bring about a perfect cure. Study §§ 231-244, Organon. 
 
 For further study, consult — 
 
 "Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases," translated by Prof. L. 
 Tafel. 
 
 "Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases," by C. L. Swift, M.D., in 
 Homceopathic Physician, February, 1885. 
 
 "Sycosis," by F. S. Keith, M.D., in Homoeopathic Physician, 
 May, 1895. 
 
 "Procedure in the Treatment of Inactive, Progressive Chronic 
 Diseases," by T. J. Kent, in Hahnemannian Advocate, July, 1896. 
 
 C. W. Wolf: "Homoeopatische Erfahrungen. Die Grundver- 
 giftung der Mensch heit." Berlin, F. A. Herbig, 1860. 
 
 Dudgeon: " Lectures on Homoeopathy." Lectures IX and X. 
 " The Doctrine of Chronic Diseases." These give an historical 
 account of the development of the doctrine and the views of the 
 older homoeopathists in regard to it. 
 
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 CHAPTER XL 
 
 POSOLOGY. 
 
 By posology {posos-how much) is meant the science 
 of dosage. By doses are meant the quantities of drugs 
 that are required to produce effects on the body whether 
 the body is in a state of disease or normal health. In 
 order to produce the direct effects of drugs, a definite 
 quantity within a certain range is requisite. This can 
 only be determined by experiment and experience, and 
 differs according to the age, temperament and state of 
 health of the subject. It is known as the physiological 
 dose. This use of drugs by means of a definite physio- 
 logical dosage has nothing to do with their homoeo- 
 pathic use. 
 
 Different Effects Between Large and Small Doses. 
 
 Homoeopathy discovered the fact that there is an oppo- 
 sition in effects between very large and small doses. A 
 teaspoonful of wine of Ipecac, causes sickness and 
 vomiting, while drop doses cure the same. Large 
 doses of Opium bind up the bowels, while a small dose 
 has the opposite effect. Large doses of Bryonia act as 
 a drastic, while small have a tendency to promote a 
 torpid state of the intestines. This physiological anta- 
 gonism between large and small doses of drugs is one 
 explanation made use of in regard to the homoeopathic 
 law. 
 
 Reasons for the difference in Dosage between 
 Drugs chosen Homoeopath ically and Antipathically. 
 
 The reason is found in the fact of the bodily resistance 
 which must be overcome by the drug before it can 
 manifest its action. Every living organism is in the 
 constant effort to keep itself intact — automatically and 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 91 
 
 unconsciously to the individual. This protecting 
 sphere of its distinctive life offers resistance to any- 
 foreign intruder, which bodily resistance to everything 
 that tends to disturb its health must be overcome first 
 of all before the drug can manifest its peculiar power. 
 The physiological dose of any drug, therefore, must 
 be large enough (1) to overcome the normal body re- 
 sistance; (2) sufficiently more to produce symptoms. 
 
 Reasons Why the Homoeopathic Dose is Neces- 
 sarily Smaller. Because here no bodily resistance has 
 to be encountered, since a similar action is already 
 existing in certain organs and tissues, the disease hav- 
 ing overcome the resistance offered by the protective 
 sphere of the body, and thus the affected region is ex- 
 posed to attacks fiom without. The homoeopathic 
 remedy acts upon the very tracts involved, and since 
 the protecting gates are down, a much smaller dose is 
 required. Another reason is the fact that the affected 
 parts are probably rendered hypersensitive by the dis- 
 ease process. This is seen daily in every direction. 
 Take a healthy eye, and it receives the rays of light 
 and responds thereto; but let the same eye be inflamed, 
 and see how exquisitely sensitive it becomes to other- 
 wise natural stimuli. A third reason is that the 
 homoeopathic remedy is given singly, without admix- 
 ture with other drugs; and hence, its action is not 
 interfered with. 
 
 Aggravation follows sometimes even a Minute 
 Homoeopathic Dose. If so, it indicates that either the 
 dose selected is still too strong, and in that case other 
 symptoms will probably appear, or the remedy chosen 
 was perfectly homoeopathic to the case and the aggra- 
 vation would be but very temporary and would be in 
 itself the best possible indication to do nothing further 
 hut icait. 
 
92 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 Should aggravation follow a certain dose, it is a good 
 rule to go higher in the scale of potency. 
 
 Historical Development of the Homceopathic 
 
 Dose. At first, Hahnemann prescribed the usual doses 
 ( Ipecac, five grains, Nux four grains, Cinchona Bark 
 one to two drams), he soon found that aggravation 
 would follow such dosage, if they were chosen accord- 
 ing to the similar relationship to the diseased process. 
 This led him naturally enough to a reduction of 
 dosage, and as he obtained equally good or better re- 
 sults, he kept on decreasing the amount. Yet the 
 transition from the crude dosage to comparative infinit- 
 esimal quantities was quite sudden, within one year 
 from 1798 to 1799, he advocated both. For a quarter 
 of a century, Hahnemann gave his remedies in vary- 
 ing potencies, seldom as high as the thirtieth potency,* 
 more frequently between the first and twelfth potency, 
 sometimes descending to more material quantities. 
 
 But after he had incorporated the psora theory into 
 his doctrinal edifice, he fixed upon the thirtieth potency 
 as the uniform standard for the dose of all remedies. 
 This was to be given in globules saturated and subse- 
 quently dried. He desired uniformity among homoeo- 
 pathists, "and when they describe a cure, we can re- 
 peat it, as they and we operate with the same tools. 
 Thus our enemies will not be able to reproach us with 
 having no fixed normal standard." And at the same 
 time, he disapproved of attenuations beyond the 
 thirtieth in these words: "There must be some end to 
 the thing, it cannot go on to infinity." 
 
 Whatever the size of a dose of a homoeopathic 
 remedy, there is one point which must characterize it, 
 i. e., it must be sub-physiological, that is, just short of 
 producing symptoms. 
 
 * See chapter on the preparation of medicines. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 93 
 
 Hahnemann's recommendation of the thirtieth po- 
 tency as the dose for all remedies and cases has not 
 been followed by the school, and rightly so, because it 
 is wholly arbitary and unphilosophical to adopt one 
 potency for all drugs. The physician must here, as in 
 the selection of the remedy, learn to individualize. 
 
 Repetition of Doses. Hahnemann's latest teach- 
 ings were to give but one dose, and await its full 
 action. There is much to be said in favor of this ad- 
 vice in the treatment of chronic diseases. No doubt 
 young physicians repeat their remedy too often and 
 change too frequently. Too frequent repetition of 
 doses frets the system and hinders the cure. The safest 
 general rules, based upon firm adherence to the law 
 and practiced by the closest prescribers are the fol- 
 lowing: 
 
 1. Give one remedy at a time — the one most clearly 
 indicated by the totality of symptoms. 
 
 2. Give it preferably at first in a medium potency 
 with a tendency to go higher. 
 
 3. So long as improvement shows itself, do not 
 change the remedy, and better also, do not repeat the 
 dose. Learn to wait, for so long as the disease does not 
 progress any further, after giving the medicine, there 
 is no danger in waiting, not until new indications 
 appear. 
 
 4. In acute diseases, the doses may have to be re- 
 peated frequently, according to the intensity and 
 severity of the case; as a rule every hour or two is 
 often enough, and in most acute, as often as every five 
 to ten minutes may be necessary, but all medication 
 should cease with commencing improvement. 
 
 The following golden rule is given by Hahnemann 
 in his Chronic Diseases, page 156: 
 
94 . A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 " The whole cure fails if the anti-psoric remedies, 
 which have been prescribed for the patient, are not 
 permitted to act uninterruptedly to the end. Even if 
 the second anti-psoric should have been selected with 
 the greatest care, it cannot replace the loss which the 
 rash haste of the physician has inflicted on the patient. 
 The benign action of the former remedy which was 
 about manifesting its most beautiful and most surpris- 
 ing results, is probably lost to the patient forever." 
 
 In Organon, §§ 247-8, Hahnemann says: "These 
 periods are always to be determined by the more or less 
 acute course of the disease and by the nature of the 
 remedy employed. The dose of the same medicine is 
 to be repeated several times, if necessary, but only 
 until recovery ensues, or until the remedy ceases to pro- 
 duce improvement.^^ Consult, also, §§ 249-252. 
 
 Also, in note to § 246, Hahnemann emphatically 
 teaches that the homoeopathic physician is to admin- 
 ister but one most minute dose at a time, and to allow 
 this dose to act and to terminate its action. And he 
 holds that the best dose is the smallest in one of the 
 high potencies (the thirtieth) for chronic as well as 
 acute diseases. But, in many forms of disease, a single 
 dose is insufficient; and " hence, it may undoubtedly 
 be found necessary to administer several doses of the 
 same medicine, for the purpose of altering, pathogenet- 
 ically, the vital force to such an extent, and to raise 
 its curative reaction to such a degree, as to enable it to 
 extinguish completely an entire portion of the original 
 disease." 
 
 In § 245, Hahnemann gives this general rule: "Per- 
 ceptible and continued progress of improvement, in an 
 acute or chronic disease, is a condition which, as long 
 as it lasts, invariably counter-indicates the repetition 
 of any medicine whatever, because the beneficial effect 
 which the medicine continues to exert is rapidly ap- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 95 
 
 preaching its perfection. Under these circumstances, 
 every new dose of any medicine would disturb the pro- 
 cess of recovery."* 
 
 The period between the early dosage of Hahnemann 
 and this final designation of the thirtieth potency, as 
 the standard covered about twenty-five years. He 
 now entered upon an entirely new conception of drugs, 
 as embodied medicinal forces, which could be practi- 
 cally separated from their material particles and im- 
 parted by means of his peculiar pharmaceutical proce- 
 dures to inert substances — hence, the development of 
 
 The Theory of Dynamization. The process of suc- 
 cussion and trituration is now said to result, not only 
 in a thorough mechanical admixture, but in '' a real 
 spiritualization of the dynamic property — a true, as- 
 tonishing unveiling and vivifying of the medicinal 
 spirit." And Hahnemann looked upon this process 
 as "among the greatest discoveries of the age." 
 
 Hahnemann distinguishes carefully between dilu- 
 tions, or attenuations, and homoeopathic dynamizations. 
 While the former are solutions, retaining less and less 
 of the distinctive physical properties, in the proportion 
 
 * "In dealing with so complex an organism as the human 
 body, it is not to be wondered at that such definite rules have not 
 been found invariably to hold good. When we consider the mani- 
 fold varieties of constitution, the different degrees of excitability, 
 and the peculiar idiosyncrasies that are met with, it would appear 
 highly improbable that any absolute law of universal application 
 would be found to meet all contingencies. This is borne out by 
 the evidence furnished by the fact that the greatest diversity of 
 opinion nowadays prevails as to the question of the dose and its 
 repetition. . . . The question remains, to a great extent, un- 
 settled, and the ideas of many, with regard to it, differ considerably 
 from those of the earlier homoeopathists. Observation and experi- 
 ence, however, will, without doubt, lead ultimately to more definite 
 lines of guidance." — Edmund Cappeb, M. D., Journal of British 
 Homceopathic Society, January, 1895. 
 
96 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 that they are mixed with the diluting vehicle, the lat- 
 ter he deems real potentiation of the medicinal force 
 inherent in drugs. This he clearly teaches in the pref- 
 ace to the fifth volume of his "Chronic Diseases," as 
 follows: "Homoeopathic dynamizations are processes 
 by which the medicinal properties, which are latent in 
 natural substances while in their crude state, become 
 aroused, and then become enabled to act in an almost 
 spiritual manner on our life — i. e., on our sensible and 
 irritable fibre. This development of the properties of 
 crude, natural substances (dynamization) takes place, 
 as I have before taught, in the case of dry substances, 
 by means of trituration in a mortar; but, in the case 
 of fluid substances, by means of shaking or succession, 
 which is also a trituration. These preparations cannot 
 be simply designated as solutions, although every 
 preparation of this kind, in order that it may be raised 
 to a higher potency — i. e., in order that the medicinal 
 properties still latent within it may be yet farther 
 awakened and developed, must first undergo a further 
 attenuation, in order that the trituration or succussion 
 may enter still further into the very essence of the 
 medicinal substance, and may thus also liberate and 
 expose the more subtle part of the medicinal powers 
 that lie hidden more deeply, which could not be effected 
 by any amount of trituration and succussion of the 
 substances in their concentrated form." 
 
 Nevertheless, Hahnemann recognized the improba- 
 bility of any separation of matter and force; hence, in 
 a note to § 280, he calls attention to the truth " that a 
 substance divided into ever so many parts must still 
 contain in its smallest conceivable parts always some 
 of this substance, and that the smallest conceivable 
 part does not cease to be some of this substance and 
 cannot possibly become nothing." 
 
 Possibly the radiant state of matter, as described by 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 97 
 
 Faraday and Crookes, may give point to an explana- 
 tion of the process of dynamization, and of the value 
 of succussion, even without dilution, as mentioned by 
 Hahnemann in the following extract note to § 270: 
 " I dissolved a grain of soda in half an ounce of water, 
 mixed with alcohol in a vial, which was thereby filled 
 two-thirds full, and shook this solution continuously 
 for half an hour, and this fluid was in potency and 
 energy equal to the thirtieth development of power." 
 
 If this be really so, the development of power must 
 be due to succussion, some of the particles having been 
 put into their radiant state of energy. 
 
 Hahnemann went further in some directions than 
 any of his followers. His practice of olfaction is proba- 
 bly without any followers at present. In § 288 of the 
 Organon, he mentions it as follows: 
 
 " It is especially in the form of vapor, by olfaction 
 and inhalation of the medicinal aura that is always 
 emanating from a globule impregnated with a medici- 
 nal fluid in a high development of power, and placed 
 dry in a small vial, that the homoeopathic remedies 
 act most surely and most powerfully." 
 
 While this may be true theoretically, the practice of 
 the school has not availed itself of it to any extent and 
 it is but fair to know that the suggestion for this practice 
 sprung from a desire to evade the unjust laws prohibi- 
 ting physicians to dispense their own medicines, for 
 Hahnemann suggests in a letter to one of his disciples 
 in regard to this subject: " The physician would give 
 neither powders himself or prescribe them from the 
 drug shops." * 
 
 Hahnemann's Reasons why the Sceptic Ridicules 
 these Homoeopathic Attenuations. First, because he 
 is ignorant that by means of such triturations, the in- 
 
 *Life of Hahnemann, page 458. 
 
 7 
 
98 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 ternal medicinal power is wonderfully developed and 
 is as it were liberated from its material bonds, so as to 
 enable it to operate more penetratingly and more freely 
 upon the human organism. Secondly, because his purely 
 arithmetical mind believes that it sees here only an in- 
 stance of enormous subdivision, a mere material divi- 
 sion and diminution, wherein every part must be less 
 than the whole, as every child knows; but he does not 
 observe, that in these spiritualizations of the internal 
 medicinal power, the material receptacle of these 
 natural forces, the palpable ponderable matter, is not 
 to be taken into consideration at all; thirdly, because 
 the sceptic has no experience relative to the action of 
 preparations of such exalted medical power. (Hahne- 
 mann in Lesser Writings, p. 734.) 
 
 For fiirther study consult — 
 
 "A Complete Historical Review of Hahnemann's Posology," 
 by T. L. Bradford, M.D., in his "Life of Hahnemann," Chapters 
 LXXXII-V. 
 
 Dudgeon's Lectures, Chapters XII-XVI, on Dynamization and 
 Homoeopathic Posology, in which the opinions of the older repre- 
 sentative Homceopathists are given. 
 
 J. M. Selfridge, M.D.: "Infinitesimals from a Scientific Stand- 
 point," in Homcmpathic Physician, February, 1896. 
 
 Also, the chapter on Hahnemann's Philosophy, page 109. 
 
Peinciples of Homceopathy. 99 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE PREPARATION OF HOMCEOPATHIC 
 MEDICINES. 
 
 Pharmacy is the art of preparing drugs for use, and 
 dispensing them as medicines. The method of prepar- 
 ing medicines for homoeopathic use differs in many 
 essential details from that of the old school. 
 
 Pharmacopceia. This is an authoritative list of drugs 
 and their preparations recognized and used by the pro- 
 fession, and which have thus become oflScinal. At 
 present we have in homoeopathy three pharmacopoeias: 
 the British, the German and the American, not differ- 
 ering greatly. The American Institute of Homoeopa- 
 thy has a committee at work on a new and authorita- 
 tive work, which will be published shortly, and will 
 unquestionably be the future authority in the homoeo- 
 pathic school. 
 
 Medicines. The medicines used in homoeopathic 
 practice, and included in its pharmacopoeia, are taken 
 from all the kingdoms of nature, and include most of 
 the drugs used by the old school and many others not 
 recognized and known there as possessing any medici- 
 nal virtues. The pharmaceutical processes of homoe- 
 opathy are characterized by a marvelous simplicity 
 and perfection requiring the greatest nicety and care, 
 so that the designation homoeopathic has actually come 
 to mean a special degree of fineness of quality. 
 
 Essential Conditions for Preparing Homoeopathic 
 Medicines. Accuracy is the basis of every procedure. 
 Make up your mind beforehand to do everything right 
 or not at all. 
 
100 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 Cleanliness. Be exquisitely clean and have vials, 
 corks and everything necessary of the finest quality. 
 Under no condition use the same vial or cork for two 
 different preparations, or potencies, even of the same 
 drug. No amount of cleansing will make them fit for 
 different homoeopathic preparations. Absolute cleanli- 
 ness of utensils and instruments and person is essential. 
 
 Conscientious care in selecting, handling and storing 
 drugs. Keep them from contact with each other; pro- 
 tect them from vapors, odors, dust; store them in cool, 
 dry, airy, darkened, pure place. 
 
 Drugs for homoeopathic use are taken from the 
 three kingdoms of nature; they are either in a liquid 
 state or dry, soluble or insoluble. In order to convert 
 these drugs into homoeopathic medicines, which shall 
 contain all the medicinal powers inherent in the crude 
 substances, and in such a state as will secure their 
 ready and complete assimilation by the organism, three 
 different processes are made use of, trituration, solution, 
 and attenuation, and three vehicles or menstrua are 
 employed for that purpose — sugar of milk, water, and 
 alcohol. 
 
 The Menstrua Used in Homoeopathic Pharmacy. 
 
 Sugar of milk (Saccharum lactis or Lactose). A 
 product of animal life, one of the constituents of milk, 
 obtained by evaporating the whey of the milk. It is 
 of pure white color, faintly sweet taste, should be odor- 
 less and non-hygroscopic. For homoeopathic use, ought 
 to be re-crystallized, as the ordinary product of the 
 shops is not always perfectly pure. It must be kept in 
 a dry place, as it becomes musty when exposed to 
 dampness. The marvelous sagacity of Hahnemann is 
 seen in his selection of sugar of milk for the process of 
 triturating mineral drugs. No other known substance 
 could equal the sharp, flinty crystals, in grinding to 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 101 
 
 an inconceivably fine powder hard mineral substances, 
 so that they can be rendered absorbable by the body. 
 Its preservative properties are very great, keeping the 
 minutest particles of triturated metals untarnished by 
 oxidation indefinitely. . It is easily made into tablets, 
 which, in their pores, can be made to absorb medicinal, 
 alcoholic solutions. 
 
 Alcohol is the most important menstruum used 
 in homoeopathic pharmacy; it is seldom pure unless 
 redistilled. Alcohol is formed whenever sugar comes 
 in contact with a fermentable matter in water at a 
 suitable temperature. It may be made from a great 
 number of vegetable substances, that from rye or 
 wheat being the best. Pure Alcohol is a colorless fluid 
 which must not lather when rubbed in the hands and 
 have no disagreeable odor. Strong Alcohol contains 
 about 94 per cent by volume of Ethyl Alcohol. It is 
 used principally in the preparation of tinctures or cer- 
 tain solutions. 
 
 Officinal or Dispensing Alcohol is used for making 
 the attenuations and is best adapted for medicating 
 pellets. It contains 88 per cent by volume of Ethyl 
 
 Alcohol. 
 
 Alcohol should be kept in well stoppered bottles and 
 in a cool place. 
 
 Distilled Water (Aqua distillata). Common water 
 is always impure for medicinal preparations, being 
 charged with gases, earthly matters, etc. Hence dis- 
 tilled water is essential. The still used should be used 
 for no other purpose whatever. The crucial test of the 
 purity of distilled water is its ability to keep. If it 
 has any kind of odor, or becomes turbid it is unfit for 
 homoeopathic preparations. It should be kept in glass- 
 stoppered bottles and only in small quantities as it is 
 
102 A COMl'END OF THE 
 
 very liable to deterioration from the entrance of inor- 
 ganic dust and microbes. 
 
 Distilled Water is used as a solvent for many chemi- 
 cal substances; for making solutions of acids, and also 
 converting triturations into liquid attenuations, as is 
 done with all minerals, chemical salts and all other 
 drugs first prepared by triturating them, after the third 
 centesimal poteney. 
 
 The Unit of Medicinal Strengtli. The dnj, crude 
 drug, is the unit of medicinal strength, or drug power. 
 It is the starting point from whence to calculate the 
 strength of every preparation, be it tincture, solution or 
 trituration. In making triturations or solutions of 
 chemical substances, the matter is very simple, the first 
 potency being the yV or yJo of the crude drug accord- 
 ing to the decimal or centesimal scale. In the case of 
 tinctures, the dry drug also is the unit of drug power, 
 but as this is soluble in varying proportions in differ- 
 ent plants, the drug-power of the tinctures varies ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 Preparations of Drugs. 
 
 General rule. All substances soluble in either Alco- 
 hol or water, are properly made into solutions or tinc- 
 tures; all insoluble or only partially soluble substances 
 should first be made into triturations only. 
 
 Aqueous Solutions are made from such chemicals as 
 are soluble in water. Hygroscopic substances, such as 
 some of the potash and soda preparations ought to be 
 so prepared in the lower potencies in preference to 
 triturating them. The solutions are made in the pro- 
 portion of one in ten, one in one hundred and one in 
 one thousand, depending upon the degree of the solu- 
 bility of the substance. Such solutions are as a rule 
 unstable and do not keep for any length of time, and 
 
Principles of Homoeopathy. 103 
 
 ought, therefore, be renewed whenever required. The 
 solution must be clear, free from sediment and cloudi- 
 ness. 
 
 Tinctures. Homoeopathic tinctures are made from 
 plants and other substances wholly or partially soluble 
 in Alcohol. They are, therefore, alcoholic solutions of 
 solids or semi-solids. The chief source of homoeopathic 
 tinctures is the fresh plant, but parts of plants, barks, 
 roots, seeds, gums, balsams, etc., are also used. Mine- 
 rals and chemicals soluble in alcohol also give tinc- 
 tures. When made from plants, it is essential to obtain 
 the fresh flowering plant, whenever possible, the dried 
 article always being inferior, often inert. For this rea- 
 son, homoeopathic tinctures must be imported from the 
 country, where the plants, grow and in no case will it 
 answer to substitute a tincture made from the dried plant, 
 or worse still, from a fluid extract. It is very important 
 that tinctures should be of uniform strength, and as 
 the watery, proportion varies greatly according to sea- 
 son and other conditions, the dried, crude drug is 
 taken as the starting point from whence to calculate 
 the strength of the tincture. This is readily ascertained 
 by taking a suitable quantity of the fresh plant and 
 weighing it, then drying it by gentle heat until there is 
 no further loss of weight. The difference of weight will 
 indicate the amount of water contained in the plant 
 for which allowance is to be made in the use of the 
 menstrua. But remember, that while the dry, crude 
 material after evaporation is taken as a unit of strength, 
 the fresh green plant is to he used in the preparation of 
 the tincture. 
 
 The tincture represents one part of this dry, crude 
 material in each ten parts of the completed solution, 
 i. e.j Ix would represent its drug power. This is the 
 method prescribed by the British and American Insti- 
 
]04 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 tute pharmacopoeias, and leads to accurate and scien- 
 tific results. At present, however, many tinctures are 
 not made so and the mother tincture represents vary- 
 ing degrees of drug power, which ought to be known 
 in each instance, in order to make an exact Ix attenua- 
 tion. 
 
 Dilutions or Liquid Attenuations. Hahnemann 
 introduced and adopted as the standard, a progressive 
 scale of diluting drugs in the proportion of 1 to 99 
 known as the 
 
 Centesimal Scale. Under this rule each attenuation 
 contains just ^Iq part as much of the drug substance 
 as the preceding attenuation. The potencies so pre- 
 pared are marked 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., according to the potency 
 represented. The first, 1, containing 1,35^ part of the 
 crude drug, the second, marked 2, the -, Jo part of the 
 first J or 10000" o^ the orginal drug; the third, marked 3, 
 the iJo of the second, or the 1 ooooott o^ the original, 
 etc. Later, in order to secure intermediate grades of 
 strength and better communication of the particles, 
 Hering introduced the 
 
 Decimal Scale, the proportion of 1 to 9 by which 
 each successive dilution contains just ^'5 as much of 
 the drug substance as the preceding one. 
 
 Decimal preparations are designated such by an x; 
 thus the first decimal is marked Ix, and contains j^o 
 part of the original drug substance; the second decimal 
 is marked 2x, and contains the ^-o part of the first dec- 
 imal, or ,00 of the original drug-substance. Thus it 
 will be seen that the first centesimal is equal to the 2x; 
 the 2nd centesimal, marked 2, is equal to the 4th deci- 
 mal; the 3d centesimal to the 6x, etc., etc. 
 
 Triturations. A trituration is a preparation of a 
 drug introduced by Hahnemann, by which the finely- 
 
Pkinciples of Homceopathy. 105 
 
 powdered, medicinal substance is ground for a certain 
 time in a mortar and pestle with a certain proportion 
 of sugar of milk. 
 
 In the process of trituration, there is a progressive 
 division and diminution of the medicinal substance, 
 by which mechanical subdivision the visible particles 
 of the substance become gradually smaller and fewer 
 as the numbers of the triturations ascend — their sur- 
 faces are thereby immensely enlarged. 
 
 It can readily be seen that the surface occupied by a 
 grain of any drug is greatly increased, if it can be 
 divided into its constituent molecules. This can be 
 done by triturating it with a larger quantity of some 
 other substance — sugar of milk preferably — by which 
 the distance between the molecules may be increased, 
 and thus the surface extent enlarged. In this mole- 
 cular form, the specific quality can be impressed upon 
 the organism most effectually — for only in this form 
 do the individual parts enjoy their freedom of motion, 
 and can enter into the specific relations to the organ- 
 ism their affinity urges them on to. In the proportion 
 as this molecular activity is attained, can these atoms 
 enter the tissues of the body and there modify the func- 
 tions. 
 
 To make Triturations. Hahnemann's method is 
 still adhered to in all essential points, except that with 
 the great increase of quantity required, most of the 
 process of triturating is now done by means of machin- 
 ery. At least one hour should be consumed to make 
 each trituration and some drugs, especially in the first 
 trituration, require a much longer time. The principle 
 is taught clearly by Hahnemann. His original method 
 was as follows: 
 
 Take 100 grains of fine sugar of milk and divide it 
 into three equal parts; then add one grain of the drug 
 
lOG A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 to one of these three parts of sugar of milk in a mortar, 
 mix well with a spatula, and then grind for six min- 
 utes with a moderate degree of force. The triturate is 
 then to be scraped together for four minutes. Another 
 third of sugar of milk is then added and treated ex- 
 actly like the first third, and finally the last third is 
 added and proceeded with in the same manner. This 
 results in the first centesimal trituration (containing 
 1^0 of the original drug). The second centesimal is 
 made by taking one grain of the first and b}^ proceed- 
 ing with it in the manner described above. The third 
 centesimal is made in the same manner from the second. 
 
 B)^ adopting the decimal scale, a better preparation 
 is ensured, since every centesimal trituration gets 
 double the time of grinding, and this scale is therefore 
 universally adopted. 
 
 All mineral preparations, most chemical salts, ani- 
 mal substances, and certain vegetable drugs and alka- 
 loids, are thus prepared for purposes of homoeopathy 
 by first triturating them up to the sixth decimal or 
 third centesimal potency. Each separate potency is 
 triturated at least one hour, so the sixth has had no 
 less than six hours constant triturating; but, as most 
 triturations are now made by machinery, the time 
 given to each is usually greatly extended. One hour, 
 however, was Hahnemann's rule. Although many 
 medicines have been carried up to the twelfth, and 
 even the thirtieth potency, by trituration^ there is no 
 need or advantage in doing so beyond the sixth deci- 
 mal, since Hahnemann proved conclusively, and clin- 
 ical experience fully verified the fact, that beyond that 
 potency all medicines yield up their medicinal virtues 
 to water and alcohol, and can thus be prepared in a 
 liquid state. 
 
 To Convert Triturations into Liquid Potencies. 
 
 Hahnemann discovered the fact that any insoluble sub- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 107 
 
 stance when triturated to the third centesimal or sixth 
 decimal trituration, becomes so finely subdivided that 
 its particles are held in suspension in the diluting 
 menstruum, alcohol or water in other words are prac- 
 tically dissolved. In this way, all homoeopathic medi- 
 cines made from minerals and other insoluble substan- 
 ces are nevertheless converted into liquid preparations 
 retaining all the medicinal virtues of the drug. The 
 process is thus described by Hahnemann and adopted 
 by the homoeopathic profession: 
 
 "Sugar of Milk cannot be dissolved in pure Alcohol; 
 this is the reason why the first dilution should be com- 
 posed of one-half water and one-half alcohol, To one 
 grain of the (loooooo) third centesimal trituration, you 
 add fifty drops of distilled water and turn the vial 
 several times around its axis. By this means the 
 Sugar of Milk becomes dissolved. Then you add fifty 
 drops of Alcohol, and shake the vial. Only two-thirds 
 of the vial ought to be filled with the solution." The 
 vial is then marked with the name of the remedy and 
 a figure 4, indicating the fourth centesimal potency. 
 This preparation, containing one-half water cannot be 
 used for saturating pellets as it would dissolve them. 
 From this fourth the subsequent attenuations are made 
 in the usual manner with pure alcohol. * 
 
 * One of the real dangers to Homoeopathy consists in the lack 
 of attention to the exact preparation of homoeopathic medicines, 
 and in substituting old school pharmaceutical methods for the 
 precise and accurate instructions of Hahnemann. Dr. J. Hayward 
 calls attention to this subject in a presidential address delivered in 
 Liverpool last year. He says: " It is much to be feared, in view 
 of the great competition and endeavor to undersell each other 
 amongst the present-day homoeopathic pharmacists, and with the 
 low-priced tinctures, that many of the preparations are anything 
 but those of genuine and pure drugs. This may be part of the 
 cause of much of the disappointment we sometimes experience in 
 practice. This risk is increased by the fact that many of our 
 
108 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 Pellets, Disks, Cones, etc., are forms of vehicles for 
 prescriptions. They are made of sugar and are simply 
 saturated with the liquid attenuation. They are a con- 
 venient form of administering remedies. 
 
 Tablets are a compressed form of the trituration it- 
 self, of recent introduction. They come in one and 
 two grain sizes, and are, therefore, very convenient 
 when a definite size of dose is desired. 
 
 For further study consult the forthcoming Pharmacopoeia of 
 the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
 
 Also, "Three Lectures on Homoeopathic Pharmaceutics, " by 
 the veteran pharmacist, Dr. F. E. Boericke. 
 
 drugs are procured from ordinary wholesale drug-stores, where 
 they are not prepared with the care necessary for homoeopathic 
 medicines. It is very desirable that our own pharmacists should 
 themselves collect and procure the medicines and make the prepa- 
 rations. If they will not, then practitioners should procure and 
 prepare, at least, some of them for themselves." — (From a general 
 Purvey of our position in The Journal of the British Homwopathic 
 Society, Januarj', 1896.) 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 109 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 HAHNEMANN'S PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 Hahnemann was a vitalist. His philosophical con- 
 ceptions are a protest against materialism; against all 
 merely chemico-physiological ideas, all pathological, 
 bacterial, antitoxic theories, discoveries and facts as a 
 basis for Therapeutics. He proves that a true science 
 of therapeutics cannot be built on any such insecure 
 foundations, and the whole history of medicine justifies 
 the position. Again, his teachings in regard to disease 
 and their cure by homoeopathic remedies require a 
 practical acceptance of the existence of a vital princi- 
 ple animating the body, and at the same time a simi- 
 lar vital principle or force embodied in every medic- 
 inal substance. It necessitates therefore, a substantial 
 world of causes, the world of mind where thought and 
 affection, desire and lusts in their innumerable mani- 
 festations exist and a material world of effects, where 
 these ultimate themselves in corresponding forms, and 
 thus become fixed and enduring. Hahnemann saw in 
 the body but an organism made up of material parti- 
 cles in themselves dead, but vivified and embodied and 
 adapted to the real, living man, the spirit within. The 
 connection between the immaterial, spiritual and im- 
 mortal being, and the body is supposed by him to be 
 effected by means of the vital force which he designates 
 Dynamis. We have then, in Hahnemannian physio- 
 logy, (1) the spirit, the true man, (2) the material 
 body, receiving its life and health through (3) the vivi- 
 fying vital force, the dynamis. From this conception 
 follows the pathological deduction that the disturbance 
 of the harmonious play of life, manifesting itself in 
 symptoms affecting the functions and sensations which 
 
110 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 we call disease, is a disturbance of this same vital force 
 or dynamis. This Dynamis differs from the material 
 body in being of a more subtle quality and Hahne- 
 mann defines it, in contradiction of the material gross- 
 ness of the body as '' spirit-like." The vital force is 
 active throughout the body, is the immediate cause of 
 every functional activity, of all bodily growth. It is 
 the formative force of the organism, is in fact the inner 
 form which controls the molecular, chemical and me- 
 chanical processes, and uses them for its own purposes. 
 Immaterial, hence beyond the penetration of the keen- 
 est sense or most powerful microscope, or the X ray. 
 The vital force is the intermediate agent between the 
 spirit and the body, enabling the spirit to dwell for a 
 time in its material bodily clothing. Hahnemann's 
 dynamis or vital force is not, therefore, the very seat of 
 life, but only the connecting medium between the 
 rational spirit, the true living man and the outer 
 material covering by which man takes cognizance of this 
 material world and its plane of external life. It is not 
 necessary to suppose this vital force to be an organized 
 entity, but rather the first ultimation on the plane of 
 matter by means of the finest degrees of that plane, of 
 the moulding, organizing and maintaining activity of 
 the spirit within. If you choose to call it molecular 
 motion, well and good, it is molecular motion guided 
 for a definite end in view. 
 
 In disease, the vital principle is first disturbed, and 
 its disturbance precedes functional and organic changes. 
 Hence, disease is of dynamic origin, and the true causes 
 of disease are such as affect the vital force; dynamic 
 agents, mental conditions, passions, moral deteriora- 
 tions in the individual or in the race. So-called causes 
 of disease can act only as secondary causes when the 
 vital force has become weakened in its resistance and 
 allows untoward influences to affect the organism. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. Ill 
 
 The following paragraphs in the Organon clearly teach 
 this: 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 29. 
 
 "During health, the immaterial vital principle which 
 animates the material body, rules absolutely. By it 
 all its parts are maintained in admirable, harmonious 
 vital operation, as regards both sensations and func- 
 tions; so that our indwelling, rational spirit can freely 
 employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher 
 purposes of our existence." 
 
 " The material organism, without the vital force, is 
 incapable of sensation, function or self-preservation; 
 it is dead and subject only to the physical laws of the 
 external world; it decays, and is again resolved into 
 its chemical constituents; it is the immaterial, vital 
 principle only, animating the material organism in 
 health and disease, that imparts to it all sensation and 
 enables it to perform its functions." 
 
 "In disease, it is only this immaterial, automatic 
 vital force, pervading the entire organism, that is pri- 
 marily deranged by the dynamic influence upon it of 
 a morbific agent inimical to life. Only the vital prin- 
 ciple, thus deranged, can furnish the organism its ab- 
 normal sensations and set up the irregular processes 
 we call disease; for, as a power invisible in itself and 
 only known by its effects on the organism, its morbid 
 derangement only makes itself known by the manifes- 
 tations of disease in the sensations and functions of 
 those parts of the organism exposed to the senses of 
 the observer and physician — that is, by morbid symp- 
 toms, and in no other way can it make itself known. 
 
 "How the vital force causes the organism to display 
 morbid phenomena — that is, how it produces disease, — 
 it would be of no practical utility to know, and, there- 
 fore, it will for ever remain concealed from the physi- 
 cian." 
 
112 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 In the preface to the second volume of the " Materia 
 Medica Pura," Hahnemann says: "Life is in no re- 
 spect governed by any physical law which govern only 
 inorganic substances. The material substances com- 
 prising the human organism are not governed in their 
 living composition, by the same laws to which inor- 
 ganic substances are subjected, but follow laws pecu- 
 liar to their vitality; they themselves are animated 
 and vivified, just as the whole organism is animated 
 and vivified. * * * * As the organism, in its nor- 
 mal condition, depends only on the state of the vitality, 
 it follows that the changed condition which we call dis- 
 ease or sickness must likewise depend, not on the oper- 
 ation of physical or chemical principles, but on orig- 
 inally vital sensations and actions — that is to say, a 
 dynamically changed state of man— a changed exist- 
 ence, through which, eventually, the constituent parts 
 of the body becomes altered in their character, as is 
 rendered necessary in each individual case through the 
 changed condition of the living organism." 
 
 Need of the Dynamized Remedy to Aifect Changes 
 in the Disturbed Yital Force. Now the next step 
 was almost inevitable. If disease is but a disturbed 
 condition of the vital force, and this far removed from 
 the grossness of matter, so fine as to be almost spirit- 
 like, surely crude drugs cannot possibly affect it cura- 
 tively, and hence the need for purposes affecting this 
 disturbed dynamis of the dynamized drug of the poten- 
 tized remedy, one from which all crude, grossly ma- 
 terial parts have been eliminated. * Such a prepara- 
 
 * The following quotation from Paracelsus is interesting in 
 this connection, and may possibly serve as a clue to explain the ac- 
 tion of the attenuated homoeopathic medicines. 
 
 " Matter is connected with spirit by an intermediate principle 
 •which it receives from the spirit. This intermediate link between 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 113 
 
 tion alone would approach in character and fineness 
 that of the dynamis, hence the teaching in Organon, 
 16, 269, 275, 276, 288, where it is said that it is only 
 by means of the spirit-like influence of a morbific agent 
 that our vital power can be diseased; and in like man- 
 ner, only by the spirit-like (dynamic) operation of med- 
 icine that health can be restored. 
 
 " The homoeopathic system of medicine develops 
 for its use, to a hitherto unheard-of degree, the spirit- 
 like medicinal powers of the crude substances by means 
 of a process peculiar to it and which has hitherto never 
 been tried, whereby only they all become penetratingly 
 efficacious and remedial, even those that in their crude 
 state give no evidence of the slightest medicinal power 
 on the human body." § 256 Organon. 
 
 Hahnemann discovered the fact that there existed a 
 dynamic, vital principle in all drugs, a curative force, 
 peculiar and individual and distinctive of each drug, 
 that could be practically transferred to some medici- 
 nally inert substance and preserved indefinitely. This 
 is not saying that it becomes separated from its mate- 
 rial basis, but the particles of this material envelope, if 
 present at all, must be capable of a subdivision infini- 
 tely beyond that accepted by modern science. 
 
 A drug as we preceive it, is the ultimate embodiment 
 of a medicinal force, differing in kind and degree in 
 every drug, and Hahnemann devised or accidently hit 
 upon a method, probably the only practical method, of 
 securing this inner, living, medicinal force for thera- 
 peutic purposes. 
 
 matter and spirit belongs to all three kingdoms of nature . . . and 
 it forms, in connection with the vital force of the vegetable king- 
 dom, the Primum Ens, which possesses the highest medicinal 
 properties." (Paracelsus). 
 
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114 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 The same thought is expressed in the following ex- 
 tract of a lecture on the Evolution of Medicine by 
 Prof. Thos. J. Gray, M. D., of Minneapolis. 
 
 " We say that Opium is obtained from the Papaver 
 Somniferum, Pulsatilla from the Anemone, Belladonna 
 from the Atropa Belladonna, and so following. Just 
 what do we mean in these statements? What is Opium 
 or Pulsatilla or Belladonna? These plants named 
 will grow and come to perfection in the same square 
 foot of earth, in the same season, under the same con- 
 ditions of air, light, soil, heat and moisture, yet each 
 retains its identity; there is no transfer of individual- 
 ity, each remains itself. Each has transmuted the 
 common environment into himself, without any confu- 
 sion or mistake. Upon closer examination, not alone 
 do we find a common environment, but the microscope 
 reveals an essential identity in structure. The proto- 
 plasmic vegetable cell is, so far as we can see, the same 
 in them all, nay more, though our subtlest methods of 
 chemical analysis must be confessed as crude ap- 
 proaches to the inner sanctuary of nature's secrets, 
 since in the very nature of the case we cannot know 
 the essential changes produced upon the original sub- 
 stances by our solutions and calexes, and so must fur- 
 nish from the imagination long links of connecting 
 conditions, yet they all point to an essential unity of 
 chemical composition as well. If we reason on the 
 plane of our experiments and observations, we are 
 obliged to assume that the slight differences in struc- 
 ture and composition that seem to be present, are suffi- 
 cient to account for one of the most stupendous facts 
 in the natural world, a clear case of laying too heavy 
 a burden on the major premise of the syllogism. But 
 still more, when we contemplate the hidden processes 
 by which the various vegetable cells unerringly appro- 
 priate and assimilate the common air, water and soil, 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 115 
 
 in certain fixed proportions, do we see the force of this 
 fact. Is it not a mere figure of speech to call the form 
 in space of green and other colors, which appears to 
 the eye, or whose reality may be attested by the bal- 
 ance, that space-filling and time-perduring thing, the 
 plant, rather is it not a body for the real plant, the 
 real thing, the thing that has caused what we can see 
 and feel ? This real poppy, this real anemone, or 
 deadly night-shade, evidently is neither red or black, 
 neither short or long, neither heavy or light, neither 
 penetrable or impenetrable — in short, it has not nor can 
 have attributed to it any of the forms or qualities of bodies 
 whatsoever. Hence, it cannot be measured or weighed, 
 nor can the terms much or little be applied to it. The 
 poppy is as truly in one seed as in a thousand. It is a 
 dynamic energy, a force and not matter at all, unless we 
 make the confusion of assuming matter and force to be 
 one and the same thing. And so of every drug, each is 
 an active dynamic self. We acknowledge this truth in 
 the phrase,'the active principle of this or that substance.' 
 
 And so it comes about that what we really adminis- 
 ter is a principle, a force; a thing of which absolutely 
 no attributes of matter can be predicated." 
 
 The keynote to Homoeopathy is the Hahnemannian 
 teaching of the Dynamis or vital force. Homcjeopathy 
 eliminates material causes of most diseases, material 
 dosage of medicines and looks to the real cause of all 
 disease in the disturbed vital force and selects a cura- 
 tive remedy corresponding to all the symptoms expres- 
 sing the disturbance and administers it in a dynamized 
 form, one in which the drug is free to all outward ap- 
 pearance of its proper material envelope. This view of 
 disease does not countenance therefore, a removal of 
 the products of a disease as a cure of the disease itself, 
 any more than blowing and cleaning of the nose is a 
 cure for coryza. Hence the mere excision of tumors is 
 
116 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 no permanent cure of the tumor disease. We must go 
 back of the local manifestation and cure the condition 
 which produced the tumor. Local astringent injections 
 do not cure a leucorrhoea, although the discharge is 
 made to disappear; cauterizing a chancre will not cure 
 the syphilitic cause of that outward manifestation of a 
 general infection; a Sulphur or Zinc ointment applied 
 to a skin disease, or a corrosive sublimate wash does 
 not cure, although the skin itself may be freed. These 
 measures merely suppress the local and ultimate mani- 
 festation of the disease. Metastases (change in the seat 
 of disease), are sure to appear sooner or later and inva- 
 riably more serious than the primary disorder. To be 
 sure, the physician pronounces these new diseases, and 
 the patient submits to further suppression and pallia- 
 tion, but a cure is further off than ever. Bear in mind 
 that it is a fallacy to believe that disease can be cured 
 by the expulsion of material morbific matters — they 
 cannot be so permanently cured, though of course, the 
 immediate symptoms of discomfort of the patient may 
 be thereby removed. The physician's duty therefore, 
 is more than to be a medical scavenger, expelling sup- 
 posed or real morbific matter. There is no question 
 that the loathsome, vile or impure discharges in disea- 
 ses are effete products of the disease itself, symptoms 
 of the dynamic disturbance within and as such guides 
 to the selection of the remedy not to be carelessly sup- 
 pressed, for frequently they are a relief of the inner 
 more dangerous evil. By suppressing these outer 
 manifestations, curative efforts of nature, possibly, 
 metastases towards other and more vital parts are 
 likely to take place. 
 
 For further study consult Chapter X, " Dynamization;" also, 
 Chapter X on " Hahnemann's Doctrine of Chronic Diseases." 
 
 "The Genius of the Homoeopathic Healing Art;" preface to the 
 second volume of the Materia Medica Pura by Hahnemann. 
 
 Teste's Materia Medica; introductory chapter. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 117 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A CATECHISM ON SAMUEL HAHNEMANN'S 
 ORGANON. 
 
 A plain laborer went once to church to hear a cele- 
 brated preacher, whose eloquence was known near and 
 far. After the service a parishioner asked that man 
 how he enjoyed the sermon, and the poor man replied 
 that it must have been a great sermon, but he failed to 
 understand it. Years ago I gave to one of my students 
 the Organon in vernacular and in the original to read, 
 and bye and bye he came back and in sorrow ex- 
 claimed: "Why could that great man not write in 
 such a language that a plain fellow, like me, can know 
 what he meant?" Commentators tried over and over 
 to explain every sentence (none better than Kent), and 
 still the very necessity of commentators prove the 
 necessity of abbreviating this great work, to give to the 
 student the kernel in as few words as possible. If this 
 is a sacrilege to the name of the father of homoeopathy, 
 may the good Lord pardon my sin. 
 
 * Some years ago, when the author edited the California Homos- 
 opath, the late Professor Samuel Lilienthal contributed to the jour- 
 nal a series of articles embodying the gist of Hahnemann's "Orga- 
 non" and of his "Chronic Diseases" in simple language and 
 especially written for the student. They were greatly appreciated 
 at the time and repeated requests for their republication have been 
 made. In compliance thereto and especially, as Professor Lilien- 
 thal's presentation is wholly in harmony with the purpose of this 
 compend, the author believes that he will render a service to his 
 readers and students generally, by enriching his pages with them. 
 
118 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 1. The physician's highest and only calling is to re- 
 store health to the sick, which is called healing. 
 
 2. Healing ought to be accomplished in the most 
 speedy, most gentle, and most reliable manner. 
 
 3. To do this he must know the ailment of the 
 patient, select the remedy, the dose and its repetition 
 according to each individual case. 
 
 4. Sanitation and hygiene are studies in which 
 every physician must be well versed. 
 
 5. Constitution of the patient, his mind and temp- 
 erament, occupation, mode of living and habits, social 
 and domestic relations, age and sexual functions, etc. 
 Give us the individuality of the patient. 
 
 6. Deviations from the normal state show them- 
 selves by morbid signs or symptoms. 
 
 7. The totality of these symptoms, this outwardly 
 reflected image of the inner nature of the diseased state, 
 i. e., of the suffering dynamic, or living force, is the 
 principal and only condition to be recognized in order 
 that they may be removed and health restored. 
 
 8. Life, a dynamic principle, animates the material 
 body, and this material body passes away as soon as it 
 is bereft of this life-force. In health, harmonious vital 
 processes go on in our mind and body, and in sickness 
 this life-force becomes deranged by the dynamic influ- 
 ence of some morbific agency inimical to life, hence 
 abnormal functional activity, manifesting itself by 
 morbid sensations and functions, by morbid symptoms. 
 
 9. This morbidly changed life-force can only be re- 
 stored to its normal state by a similarly acting dyna- 
 mical power of the appropriate remedy, acting upon 
 the omnipresent susceptibility of the nerves of the 
 organism. The total removal of all symptoms is health 
 restored, and therefore the totality of symptoms ob- 
 served in each individual case can be the only indica- 
 tion to guide us in the selection of a remedy. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 119 
 
 10. These aberrations from the state of health can 
 only be removed by the curative power inherent in 
 medicine to turn the sensorial condition of the body 
 again into its normal state. 
 
 11. Experiments on animals, vivisection and au- 
 topsy can never reveal the inherent power of medicine; 
 the healthy human body alone is the fit subject for 
 such experiments, where they excite numerous definite 
 morbid symptoms, and it follows that, if drugs act as 
 curative remedies, they exercise this curative power 
 only by virtue of altering bodily failings through the 
 production of peculiar symptoms, which then they are 
 able to remove from the sick; in other words, the rem- 
 edy must be able to produce an artificial morbid condi- 
 tion similar to that of the natural disease. 
 
 12. Experience teaches that all drugs will unex- 
 ceptionally cure diseases the symptoms of which are as 
 similar as possible to those of the drugs, and leave 
 none uncured. 
 
 13. Natural diseases are removed by proper medi- 
 cines, because the normal state is more readily affected 
 by the right dose of a drug than by natural morbific 
 agencies. 
 
 14. Psychical and partly physical terrestial poten- 
 cies show their greatest power where this life-power is 
 below par, hence they do not affect everybody nor do 
 they do so at all times; we may therefore assert that 
 extraneous noxious agencies possess only a subordinate 
 and conditional power, while drug-potencies possess an 
 absolute, unconditional power. 
 
 15. Drug-disease is substituted for the natural dis- 
 ease, when the drug causes symptoms most similar to 
 that which is to be cured, and it is hardly possible to 
 perform a cure by means of drugs incapable of pro- 
 ducing in the organism a diseased condition similar to 
 that which is to be cured. 
 
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 16. Palliation of prominent symptoms ought to be 
 discarded, for it provides only in part for a single 
 symptom; it may bring partial relief, but this is soon 
 followed by a perceptible aggravation of the entire 
 disease. 
 
 17. Primary and after or counter effect of drugs. 
 During the primary effect of a drug the vital force re- 
 ceives the impression made upon it by the drug and 
 allows the state of health to be altered by it. The 
 vital force then rallies and either calls forth the exact 
 opposite state of feeling or it neutralizes the impression 
 made upon it by the drug, thereby establishing the 
 normal state of health. The former a counter effect, 
 the latter a curative effect. 
 
 18. Diseases peculiar to mankind are of two classes: 
 (1). Rapid, morbid processes caused by abnormal 
 states and derangements of the vital force, acute dis- 
 eases. (2). Chronic diseases.. Originating by infection 
 with a chronic miasm, acting deleteriously upon the 
 living organism and undermining health to such a 
 degree that the vital force can only make imperfect 
 and ineffectual resistance, which may result in the 
 final destruction of the organism. 
 
 19. Acute diseases may be sporadic, endemic or 
 epidemic. 
 
 20. Allopathy is to blame for many an incurable 
 ailment; the organism becomes gradually and abnor- 
 mally deranged, according to the individual character 
 of the dru£:. 
 
 21. True chronic diseases arise mostly from Syphilis, 
 Sycosis and Psora. The latter is often the fundamental 
 cause and source of countless forms of diseases, figur- 
 ing as peculiar and definite diseases in our text-books 
 on pathology. 
 
 22. Individualization in the investigation of a case of 
 disease demands unbiased judgment, sound senses, at- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 121 
 
 tentive observation and fidelity in noting down the im- 
 age of the disease. 
 
 23. The patient tells the history of his complaints, 
 the attendants fill out the gap, narrating every thing 
 which he might have forgotten. The physician observes 
 by means of sight, hearing and touch what is changed 
 and abnormal about the patient, and writes down 
 everything in precisely the same expressions used by 
 the patient, and his attendants. Symptoms ought to 
 be noted separately, one beneath the other, so that ad- 
 ditions could be inserted. Careful inquiry by the 
 physician will bring out the particular points, the mo- 
 dalities of each symptom. No leading questions are to 
 be made, so that the patient may give unbiased his 
 own sensations. Memoranda are then to be added of 
 what he himself observed on the patient and anamnesis 
 fully noted down. 
 
 24. The previous use of drugs may tarnish the pic- 
 ture of the disease, and it may be advisable to give a 
 placebo for a day or two, so that afterwards a true pic- 
 ture may be attained. This holds specially good in 
 chronic affections. In acute cases which brood no de- 
 lay, the physician may be obliged to accept the morbid 
 state as modified by drugs and embrace it in one record. 
 
 25. In chronic cases all the circumstances of the 
 patient must be investigated: occupation, habits of 
 living, diet, domestic relations, etc., so that appropriate 
 means be taken for their removal. All this takes time 
 and patience, as many chronic patients consider many 
 a symptom as a part of their unavoidable condition, 
 and forget to mention it, considering such of no value. 
 
 26. In the exploration of the totality of symptoms 
 of epidemic or sporadic diseases, the physician should 
 pre-suppose the true image of any prevalent disease to 
 be new and unknown, and give it a new and thorough 
 investigation. Nothing must be taken for granted. 
 
122 A GOMPEND OF THE 
 
 In all epidemics the physician may only be able to 
 collect the full picture of the disease after the investi- 
 gation of several cases. Only thus he arrives at the 
 characteristic peculiarities of the epidemic, which 
 affects all patients alike, because each case arises from 
 the same source, and then we are enabled to discover 
 the appropriate homoeopathic remedy for that prevail- 
 ing epidemic. 
 
 27. When all the prominent and characteristic 
 symptoms of the case have been committed to writing, 
 the most difficult part has been accomplished, and we 
 must now seek out the corresponding drug which in 
 its effects on healthy persons produces symptoms strik- 
 ingly similar to those of the disease. Upon subsequent 
 inquiry concerning the effects of the remedy and the 
 changes of feelings it has produced in the patient, and 
 after having made a new record of the case, the physi- 
 cian only omits from his diary the symptoms Avhich 
 were improved, and notes down what remains, or what 
 has subsequently appeared in the form of new symp- 
 toms. 
 
 28. The entire range of disease-producing power of 
 each drug must be known, that is, all morbid symp- 
 toms and changes of the state of health which each 
 drug is capable of producing by itself in healthy persons, 
 in order to discover what elements of disease each is 
 able to produce and inclined to excite by itself in the 
 condition of mind and body. Thus, the disease-pro- 
 ducing power of drugs can be made available homoeo- 
 pathically in the case of all diseases. 
 
 29. Experiments made with moderate doses of drugs 
 (except narcotics, which destroy sensibility and sensa- 
 tion), upon healthy persons, exhibit only primary 
 effects, i.e., those symptoms by means of which a drug 
 affects or deranges the healthy state and produces in 
 the organism a morbid condition of variable duration. 
 
Principles of Homoeopathy. 123 
 
 30. Some symptoms are produced by drugs in many 
 healthy persons who try them; others are produced in only 
 a few; others again are extremely rare, showing them- 
 selves only in peculiar constitutions, which, though 
 otherwise healthy, are inclined to be more or less mor- 
 bidly affected by certain things which appear to make 
 no impression and to produce no change in many other 
 persons. 
 
 31. Each drug manifests particular effects in the 
 human body, and no other drug will produce effects of 
 exactly the same kind. Medicines must therefore be 
 differentiated from each other with scrupulous accu- 
 racy, and proved by pure and careful experiments with 
 regard to their power and true effects upon the healthy 
 body. In proving drugs it should be remembered that 
 strong, so called heroic substances, even in small doses, 
 have the property of affecting changes in the health, 
 even of robust persons. Those of milder power should 
 be given in considerable doses in these experiments; 
 and those of least activity, in order to cause their effect 
 to become perceptible, should be tried only upon 
 healthy, but sensitive and susceptible persons. Let us 
 be very careful in regard to the reliability of the drugs 
 used in the provings; they must be pure, genuine, and 
 of full strength. 
 
 32. Every medicinal substance should be employed 
 entirely alone, in a perfectly pure state, without the 
 admixture of any other substance, and the prover 
 should not take any other medicinal substance on the 
 same day, or for so many days as the observation of 
 the effects of the drug requires. 
 
 33. During the proving, the diet should be moder- 
 ate, but nutritious; avoid all green vegetables, roots, 
 all kinds of salad and pot-herbs, as they retain medi- 
 cinal properties, even if most carefully prepared; avoid 
 mental and bodily exertions, particularly disturbances 
 
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 resulting from the excitement of sexual excesses. 
 Provers ought to possess the requisite degree of intelli- 
 gence to enable them to define, or to prescribe their 
 sensations in distinct expressions. 
 
 34. Crude medicinal substances, if taken by the 
 prover for the purpose of ascertaining their peculiar 
 effects, will not disclose the same wealth of latent 
 powers as when, they are taken in a highly attenuated 
 state, potentiated by means of trituration and succus- 
 sion. Thus the medicinal powers, even of substances 
 hitherto considered as inert, are most effectually de- 
 veloped by administering to the prover daily from 
 four to six of the finest pellets of the thirtieth potency; 
 the pellets, having been previously moistened with a 
 little water, should be taken on an empty stomach for 
 several days. 
 
 35. Drugs must be proved by both sexes, in order 
 to get their full effects. 
 
 36. All persons differ in their susceptibility to drug 
 influence. Each prover should begin with a small 
 dose of medicine, gradually to be increased day by day 
 where such a course appears proper and desirable. 
 
 37. By giving a sufficiently strong dose in the be- 
 ginning of a proving, we get the exact, consecutive 
 order in which the symptoms appear, and the prover 
 can note the time at which each one appeared. Thus, 
 we find out the genius of the drug. A moderate dose 
 frequently suffices, when the prover is sensitive and 
 pays proper attention to the state of his feelings. The 
 duration of the effect of a drug is determined only after 
 comparison of a number of provings. 
 
 38. When increased doses are taken several days 
 in succession, we discover the various morbid condi- 
 tions which this drug produces in general, but we will 
 not learn the consecutive order of their appearance, 
 and besides, a second dose, by its curative effect, will 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 125 
 
 often remove some of the symptoms resulting from the 
 previous dose; or a second dose may produce the oppo- 
 site condition from that of the first, an alternating 
 effect of the drug. 
 
 39. An increased dose for several successive days 
 shows the symptoms better, but not the consecutive 
 order, nor the duration of the drug effect. During the 
 proving the prover should study out whether any symp- 
 tom is changed by taking different position, when ame- 
 liorated or aggravated, and at what time of day or night 
 each symptom usually appears. 
 
 40. Several provings are necessary by the same 
 prover to get from him as many symptoms as possible, 
 but to get at the totality of symptoms which a drug is 
 liable to produce, the provings of many persons are 
 necessary; the smaller the dose of the drug, the more 
 distinctly the primary effects will appear, while exces- 
 sive doses cause the result to be disturbed by the ap- 
 pearance of various after-effects, because the primary 
 effects become confused by the violence and haste of 
 the action of the dose. 
 
 41. Symptoms similar to the drug the prover has 
 sometimes felt before the proving was commenced, but 
 when they appear again during the proving, it shows 
 that he is susceptible to the action of the drug. 
 
 42. Every prover must be directed to distinctly 
 write down every sensation and change of feeling, the 
 time of its appearance, its duration, and then the 
 director of the proving compares the different manu- 
 scripts of records. Thus, we accumulate a collection 
 of genuine, pure, and undeceptive effects of simple 
 drugs. Such records contain and represent in simili- 
 tude the elements of numerous natural diseases here- 
 after to be cured by these means. A materia medica 
 of that kind should exclude every supposition, every 
 mere assertion or fiction. 
 
126 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 43. A drug fully tested with regard to its power of 
 altering human health, and whose symptoms present 
 the greatest degree of similitude with the totality of 
 symptoms of a given natural disease, will be the most 
 suitable and reliable homoeopathic remedy for that 
 disease, its specific curative- agent. 
 
 44. A medicine possessing the power to produce an 
 artificial disease most similar to the natural disease to 
 be cured, exerts its dynamic influence upon the mor- 
 bidly disturbed vital force, and in the right dose will 
 affect those parts of the organism where the natural dis- 
 ease is located, and will excite in them an artificial 
 disease. 
 
 45. A well-selected homoeopathic drug will remove 
 a natural acute disease of recent origin, even if severe 
 and painful; an older affection will disappear in a 
 few days, and recovery progress to full restoration of 
 health. Old, complicated diseases demand longer 
 time for their removal. Qhronic drug diseases, com- 
 plicating an uncured natural disease, yield only after 
 great length of time, if they have not become quite 
 incurable. 
 
 46. For a few insignificant symptoms of recent ori- 
 gin, no medicinal treatment is needed; a slight change 
 of diet and habits of living suffices for their removal. 
 
 47. In searching for the homoeopathic specific 
 remedy, the more prominent, uncommon and 'peculiar 
 (characteristic) symptoms of the case should bear the 
 closest similitude to the symptoms of the drug. The 
 more general symptoms deserve less notice, as gene- 
 ralities are common to every disease and almost to every 
 drug. 
 
 48. Although a well-selected remedy quietly extin- 
 guishes an analogous disease without exciting additi- 
 onal sensations, it may produce a slight aggravation 
 resembling the original disease so closely that the pa- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 127 
 
 tient considers it as such. Aggravations caused by 
 larger doses may last for several hours, but in reality 
 these are only drug effects somewhat superior in inten- 
 sity and very similar to the original disease. The 
 smaller the dose of the drug, so much smaller and 
 shorter is the apparent aggravation of the disease during 
 the first hours. Even in chronic cases, after the days 
 of aggravation have passed, the convalescence will pro- 
 gress almost uninterruptedly for days. 
 
 49. If in acute cases the remedy was poorly selected 
 we must examine the case more thoroughly for the 
 purpose of construing a new picture of the disease. 
 Cases may occur where the first examination of the 
 disease and the first selection of the remedy prove that 
 the totality of symptoms of the disease is not suffici- 
 ently covered by the morbific elements (symptoms) of 
 a single remedy; and where we are obliged to choose 
 between two medicines which seem to be equally well 
 suited to the case, we must prescribe one of these medi- 
 cines, and it is not advisable to administer the remedy 
 of our second choice without a renewed examination of 
 the patient, because it may no longer correspond to the 
 symptoms which remain after the case has undergone 
 a change, and often a different remedy will be indica- 
 ted. If the medicine of our second choice is still suited 
 to the remnant of the morbid condition, it would now 
 deserve much more confidence and should be employed 
 in preference to others. 
 
 50. Diseases presenting only a few symptoms may 
 be called partial (one-sided) diseases; their chief symp- 
 toms indicating either an internal affection, or head- 
 ache, or diarrhoea, or only a local one. A mere careful 
 examination often reveals more occult symptoms, and 
 if this fails, we must make the best use of these few 
 prominent symptoms as guides in the selection of the 
 medicine. As for such a partial disease, the selected 
 
128 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 remedy may also be only partially adapted, it may ex- 
 cite accessory symptoms and symptoms of the disease 
 will be developed which the patient had not previously 
 perceived at all or only imperfectly, thus facilitating 
 the task of selecting a more accurate homoeopathic 
 remedy. 
 
 51. After the completion of the effect of each dose 
 of medicine, the case should be re-examined, in order 
 to ascertain what symptoms remain and the corre- 
 sponding remedy selected, and so on till health is 
 restored. 
 
 52. Local diseases are those affections which are of 
 recent origin and caused by external injury. Affections 
 of external parts, requiring mechanical skill, belong to 
 surgery alone, but often the entire organism is affected 
 to such an extent by injuries, as to require dynamic 
 treatment in order that it may be placed in the proper 
 condition for the performance of the curative operation. 
 
 53. Affections of external parts, not caused by ex- 
 ternal injuries, proceed from an internal morbid state 
 and all curative measures must be taken with reference 
 to the state of the whole system, in order to effect the 
 obliteration and cure of the general disease by internal 
 remedies. 
 
 54. In examining such a case, the record of the 
 exact state of the local disease is added to the sum- 
 mary of all symptoms, and other peculiarities to be 
 observed in the general condition of the patient, in 
 order to get at the totality of symptoms and to select 
 the corresponding remedy which removes the local as 
 well as the general symptoms. Notwithstanding the 
 well-regulated habits of the patient a remnant of the 
 disease may still be left in the affected part, or in the 
 system at large, which the vital force is unable to re- 
 store to its normal state; in that case the acute local 
 disease frequently proves to be the product of psora, 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 129 
 
 which has lain dormant in the system, where it is now 
 about to become developed into an actual chronic dis- 
 ease. Antipsoric treatment will be necessary to remove 
 this remainder and to relieve the habitual symptoms 
 peculiar to the patient previous to the acute attack. 
 (See Chronic Diseases.) 
 
 55. It is not advisable to combine the local appli- 
 cation of a medicine simultaneously with its internal 
 use, for the disappearance of the local symptom ren- 
 ders it nearly impossible to determine whether the 
 total disease has also been exterminated by the inter- 
 nal remedy. Relying on the internal remedy alone, 
 the removal of the local disease proves the achievement 
 of a radical cure, and of complete recovery from the 
 general disease. 
 
 56. When the sy.-^tem is affected with some chronic 
 disease which threatens to destroy vital organs or life 
 itself and which does not yield to the spontaneous 
 efforts of the vital force, the latter endeavors to substi- 
 tute a local disease on some external part of the body, 
 whither the internal disease is transferred by deriva- 
 tion, in order to lessen the internal morbid process. 
 But still the internal disease may increase constantly 
 and tlieir nature will be compelled to enlarge and 
 aggravate the local symptoms in order to make it a 
 sufficient substitute for, and to subdue the internal 
 disease. 
 
 57. Most chronic diseases originate from three 
 chronic miasma; internal syphilis, internal sycosis, and 
 particularly from internal psora. Each of these must 
 have pervaded the whole organism and penetrated all 
 its parts before the primary representative local symp- 
 tom makes its appearance for the prevention of the in- 
 ternal disease. The suppression of the local symptom 
 may be followed by innumerable chronic diseases; the 
 true physician cures the great fundamental miasm 
 
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130 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 together with which its primary as well as its secondary 
 symptoms disappear together. 
 
 58. Before beginning the treatment of a chronic 
 disease we must find out whether the patient ever had 
 been infected by syphilis or by sycotic gonorrhoea, 
 although it is rare to meet with uncomplicated cases of 
 these affections, as we usually find them often com- 
 plicated with psora, the most frequent and fundamental 
 cause of chronic diseases. It will be necessary to inquire 
 into all former treatment and what mineral .waters 
 have been employed and with what result, in order to 
 understand the deviations which the treatment had 
 produced in the original disease, to correct this artifi- 
 cial deterioration and to determine the course now to 
 be pursued. 
 
 59. A full anamnesis of the case ought now to be 
 recorded, also the state of mind and temperament of 
 the patient, as it may be useful to direct or modify 
 this mental condition by psychical means. Guided by 
 the most conspicuous and characteristic symptoms the 
 physician will be enabled to select the first anti-psoric, 
 anti-syphilitic or anti-sycotic remedy for the beginning 
 of the cure. 
 
 60. The state of the patient's mind and tempera- 
 ment is often of most decisive importance in the selec- 
 tion of the remedy, as each medicinal substance affects 
 also the mind in a different manner. Mental diseases 
 must only be treated like all other affections and they 
 are curable only by remedies similar to the disease. 
 
 61. Most mental alienations are in reality bodily 
 diseases, only these mental and emotional symptoms 
 develop in some cases more or less rapidly, assume a 
 state of most conspicuous onesidedness, and are finally 
 transferred like a local disease, into the invisibly fine 
 organs of the mind, where they seem to obscure the 
 bodily symptoms; in short, the disorder of the coarser 
 
Principles of Homoeopathy. 131 
 
 bodily organs are transferred, as it were, to the almost 
 spiritual organs of the mind, where the dissecting knife 
 will search in vain for their cause. 
 
 62. In recording the totality of symptoms of such 
 a case, we must obtain an accurate description of all 
 physical symptoms which prevailed before the disease 
 degenerated into a one-sided mental disorder. We 
 compare, then, these early symptoms with their present 
 indistinct remnants, which occasionally appear during 
 lucid intervals, and add the symptoms of the mental 
 state as observed by the physician and attendants of 
 the patient. 
 
 63. Though a patient may be relieved of an acute 
 mental disorder by non-antipsoric medicine, no time 
 must be lost in perfecting the cure by continued anti- 
 psoric treatment, so that the disease may not break out 
 anew, which will be prevented by strict adherence to 
 well-regulated diet and habits. If neglected, psora 
 will be usually developed during the second attack, 
 and may assume a form, periodical or continuous, and 
 much more difficult to cure. 
 
 64. Mental diseases, not the result of physical or 
 bodily affections, of recent date, and which have not 
 yet undermined the physical health too seriously, ad- 
 mit of the . speedy cure by physical treatment, while 
 careful regulations of habits will re-establish the health 
 of the body, but as a measure of precaution a course of 
 antipsoric treatment is advisable, in order to prevent a 
 recurrence of the attack of mental aberration. Proper 
 hygiene and psychical regimen of the mind must be 
 strictly enforced by the physician and attendants. 
 The treatment of insane persons should he conducted ivith 
 a view of the absolute avoidance of corporeal punishment 
 or torture. Physician and attendants should always 
 treat such patients as if they regarded them as rational 
 beings. 
 
182 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 65. Intermittent diseases also claim our attention. 
 Some return at certain period, and there are others, ap- 
 parently non-febrile affections, resembling intermittents 
 by their peculiar recurrences. There are also affections 
 characterized by the appearance of certain morbid con- 
 ditions, alternating at uncertain periods with morbid 
 conditions of a different kind. Such alternating dis- 
 eases are mostly chronic and a product of developed 
 psora, in rare instances they are complicated with 
 syphilitic miasma. The first needs purely antipsoric 
 treatment, the latter an alternation of antipsoric with 
 antisyphilitics. 
 
 66. Typical intermittents recur after a certain 
 period of apparent health, and vanish after an equally 
 definite period. Apparently non-febrile morbid con- 
 ditions, recurring at certain periods, are not of sporadic 
 or epidemic nature, they belong to a class of chronic, 
 mostly genuine psoric diseases. Sometimes an intercur- 
 rent dose of highly potentized Peruvian bark extin- 
 guishes the intermittent type of the disease. 
 
 67. In sporadic or epidemic intermittents, not pre- 
 valent endemically in marshy districts, each attack is 
 mostly composed of two distinct stages, chill and heat, 
 or heat and then chill; still more frequently they con- 
 sist of three stages, chill, heat and finally sweat. The 
 remedy, usually a non-antipsoric, must have the power 
 to produce in healthy persons the several successive 
 stages similar to the natural disease, and should cor- 
 respond, as closely as possible, with the most promi- 
 nent and peculiar stage of the disease; but the symp- 
 toms which mark the condition of the patient during 
 the apyrexia, should chiefly be taken for guides in 
 selecting the most striking homoeopathic remedy. The 
 best time to administer the medicine is a short time 
 after the termination of the paroxysm, then the medi- 
 cine has time to develop its curative effect without vio- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 133 
 
 lent action or disturbance, and the vital force is then 
 in the most favorable condition to be gently modified 
 by the medicine and restored to healthy action. If the 
 apyrexia is very brief, or if it is disturbed by the after 
 effects of the preceding paroxysm, the dose of the medi- 
 cine should be administered when the sweating stage di- 
 minishes or when the subsequent stages of the paroxysm 
 decline. 
 
 68. One dose may suffice to restore health, but when 
 a new attack threatens, the same remedy should be re- 
 peated, provided the complex of symptoms remains the 
 same; but the intermittent is apt to recur, when the 
 noxious influences, which first originated the disease, 
 continue to act upon the convalescent patient, as would 
 be the case in marshy localities, and to eradicate the 
 tendency to relapses, the patient ought to be removed 
 to a mountainous region. When this suitable remedy 
 fails to break up the paroxysms, unless continued ex- 
 posure to marsh miasma is at fault, we may blame 
 the latent psora for it, and antipsoric remedies are 
 needed for a cure. 
 
 69. Epidemics of intermittents in non-malarial dis- 
 tricts partake of the nature of chronic diseases; each 
 epidemic possesses a peculiar uniform character, com- 
 mon to all individuals attacked by the epidemic, and 
 this uniform character points out the homoeopathic 
 remedy for all cases in general. This remedy usually 
 also relieves patients, who, previous to this epidemic, 
 had enjoyed good health, and who were free from de- 
 veloped psora. 
 
 70. In such epidemic intermittents our antipsorics 
 fail, but a few doses of sulphur or hepar sulphur, re- 
 peated at long intervals, will aid us in their cure. 
 Malignant intermittents, attacking single persons not 
 residing in marshy districts, need in the beginning a 
 non-antipsoric remedy, which should be continued for 
 
134 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 several days, for the purpose of reducing the disease as 
 far as possible. Where this fails, psora is sure in the 
 act of development, and antipsorics alone will give 
 relief. 
 
 71. Intermittent fevers, indigenous to marshy coun- 
 tries, or places subject to inundations, will hardly ever 
 affect young and healthy people, if their habits are tem.- 
 perate, and if they are not weakened by want, fatigue 
 or excesses. Endemics are apt to attack new comers, 
 but a few doses of high potencies of China will easily 
 rid th«m of the fever, provided their mode of life is very 
 simple, and if there is no latent psora in them, which, 
 where such is the case, necessitates antipsoric treatment. 
 
 72. Mode of Application of Curative Remedies. — 
 Perceptible or continued improvement in acute or 
 chronic diseases invariably counter-indicates the repe- 
 tition of any medicine whatever, for every new dose 
 would disturb the process of recovery. A very minute 
 dose of the similimum, if uninterrupted in its action, 
 will gradually accomplish all the curative effects it is 
 capable of producing, in a period varying from forty 
 to one hundred days. Yet physician and patient desire 
 to reduce this period. We must be careful to select 
 the most appropriate remedy, and then only we might 
 repeat this potency in fourteen, twelve, ten, eight or 
 seven days. In chronic diseases assuming an acute 
 fbrm, and demanding greater haste, these spaces of 
 time may be abbreviated still more, but in acute dis- 
 eases the remedies may be repeated at much shorter 
 intervals, for instance, twenty-four, twelve, eight or 
 four hours; and in the most acute cases at intervals 
 varying from one hour to five minutes. 
 
 73. The dose of the same remedy is to be repeated, 
 .lintil recovery ensues or until the remedy ceases to pro- 
 duce! improvement; and with the change of symptoms 
 a fresh examination may indicate another remedy. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 135 
 
 74. Every medicine which produces new and 
 troublesome symptoms not peculiar to the disease to be 
 cured, is not homoeopathic to the case. An antidote 
 must be given, selected with great care in regard to the 
 similitude of the case, or if the accessory symptoms are 
 not too violent, the next remedy should be given at 
 once, in order to replace the inappropriate one. If in 
 urgent cases we see after a few hours that the selection 
 of the remedy was faulty and the patient fails to im- 
 prove or new symptoms are discovered, we must select 
 with greater care another remedy which is more accu- 
 rately adapted to the new state of the case. 
 
 75. There are some remedies, as Ignatia, Bryonia, 
 Rhus, rad., in some respects Belladonna, which show 
 alternating effects on the state of the health, composed 
 of partly opposite primary effects. If after the exhibi- 
 tion of one of these remedies, no improvement follows, 
 we must in a few hours, in acute cases, give a new po- 
 tency of the same remedy. 
 
 If in a chronic psoric case the antipsoric fails to re- 
 lieve, there must be some irregularity of regimen or 
 some other vigorous influence acting upon the patient, 
 which must be removed before a permanent cure can 
 be accomplished. 
 
 Incipient improvement, however slight, is indicated 
 by increased sensation of comfort, greater tranquility 
 and ease of the mind and return of naturalness in the 
 feelings of the patient. To find out improvement or 
 aggravation, the physician must examine the patient 
 closely upon every symptom contained in the record 
 of the case. If these show that neither new nor un- 
 usual symptoms have appeared, and that none of the 
 old ones have increased, and especially if the state of 
 mind and disposition is found to be improved, the 
 medicine must also have produced an essential and 
 general improvement in the disease, or at all events, it 
 
13G A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 may soon be expected. Where delay occurs beyond 
 expectation, there must be some fault in the regimen 
 of the patient or the protracted homoeopathic aggrava- 
 tion produced by the medicine must be attributed to 
 the insufficient reduction of the dose. 
 
 76. New and important symptoms, mentioned by 
 the patient, indicate that the medicine was not well 
 selected; though the patient may think he is improv- 
 ing, his condition may even be worse, which will soon 
 make itself apparent. 
 
 77. No physician should have favorites among 
 drugs, nor should he disregard medicines on account 
 of their failure. Too often the fault is the physician's 
 or the supposition a wrong one; his only duty is to se- 
 lect the similimum to every case. 
 
 78. On account of the minuteness of the homoeo- 
 pathic dose, great care must be taken in the diet and 
 regimen of the patient, and especially in chronic cases 
 we have to search carefully for such impediments to a 
 cure, because these diseases are often aggravated by 
 obscure, noxious influences of that kind as well as by 
 errors in regimen, which, being frequently overlooked, 
 exercise a noxious influence. Daily walks, light 
 manual labor, proper nutritious food and drink, una- 
 dulturated with medicinal substances are to be recom- 
 mended. In acute cases we have only to advise the 
 family to obey the voice of nature by gratifying the pa- 
 tient's ardent desires, without offering or urging him to 
 accept hurtful things. In acute cases the temperature 
 of the bedroom and the quantity of the covering should 
 be regulated entirely according to the wishes of the pa- 
 tient, while every kind of mental exertion and emo- 
 tional disturbance is to be avoided. 
 
 79. Genuine and unadulterated medicines, retaining 
 their full virtues are the first requisites of a physician, 
 and in the treatment of disease only one single medici- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 137 
 
 nal substance should be used at one time; which will 
 give relief in diseases whereof the totality of symptoms 
 is accurately known. Too strong a dose, of even a well 
 selected drug, will produce an unnecessary surplus of 
 effect upon the over excited vital force, and will be in- 
 jurious, while the same similar drug-disease, if exerted 
 within proper limits, would have gently effected a cure. 
 
 80. Experience proves that the dose of a homoeo- 
 pathically selected remedy cannot be reduced so far as 
 to be inferior in strength to the natural disease, and to 
 lose its power of extinguishing and curing at least a 
 portion of the same, provided that this dose, immedi- 
 ately after having been taken, is capable of causing a 
 slight intensification of symptoms of the similar natural 
 disease, though this homoeopathic aggravation is very 
 often almost imperceptible. 
 
 81. The homoeopathic similimum will operate 
 chiefly upon the diseased parts of the body, which 
 have become extremely susceptible of a stimulus so 
 similar to their own disease. The smaller dose will 
 change the vital action of those parts into an artificial 
 drug disease, and the organism be freed from the mor- 
 bid process. 
 
 82. In homoeopathic practice the diminution of the 
 dose, and its effect is conveniently accomplished by 
 lessening the volume of the dose. In using a solution 
 of this kind a much greater surface supplied with sen- 
 sitive nerves, susceptible of medicinal influence, is 
 brought in contact with the medicine, and we must 
 take care that the medicine is equally and intimately 
 imparted to every particle of solvent fluid. The effect 
 of medicines in liquid forms penetrates and spreads 
 through all parts of the organism, with such incon- 
 ceivable rapidity, from the point of contact with the 
 sensitive nerves supplying the tissues, that this effect 
 may, with propriety, be defined spirit-like or dynamic. 
 
138 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 83. Remedies in their dynamic dose, may be given 
 by the mouth and tongue, by olfaction, or hypodermic- 
 ally. The most sensitive parts of the surface are, at 
 the same time, the most susceptible. 
 
 A CATECHISM ON THE FIRST VOLUME OF 
 HAHNEMANN'S CHRONIC DISEASES. 
 
 1. All chronic diseases are so inveterate immedi- 
 ately after they have become developed in the system, 
 that, unless they are thoroughly cured by art, they 
 continue to increase in intensity until the moment of 
 death. They never disappear of themselves, nor can 
 they be diminished, much less conquered or extin- 
 guished, by the most vigorous constitution or the most 
 regular mode of life and strictest diet. 
 
 2. Psora is the oldest, most universal and most per- 
 nicious chronic miasmatic disease. Existing for many 
 thousands of years, its morbid symptoms have in- 
 creased to such an extent that its secondary symptoms 
 have become innumerable. 
 
 3. The ancient nations designated psora as leprosy, 
 by which the external parts of the body became vari- 
 ously disfigured, and during the middle ages the Cru- 
 saders spread it over Europe. Cleanliness, increased 
 refinement and more select nourishment succeeded in 
 diminishing the disgusting appearance of psora so as 
 to reduce the disease, towards the end of the fifteenth 
 century, to the ordinary eruption of an itch. But 
 about this time, 1493, the second contagious chronic 
 disease, syphilis, began to raise its fearful head. 
 
 4. During the first centuries of leprosy the patients, 
 though they suffered much in consequence of lanci- 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 139 
 
 nating pains in the tumors and scabs, and the vehe- 
 ment itching all around, enjoyed nevertheless a fair 
 share of general health, for the obstinately lasting 
 eruption upon the skin served as a substitute for the 
 internal psora, and furthermore the leprous patients 
 were kept apart from human society and thus the con- 
 tagion remained limited and rare. 
 
 5. But the milder form of psora, in the shape of an 
 itch, infected a far greater number of people, and the 
 itch vesicles being constantly ruptured by scratching 
 and their contents spread over the skin, and those 
 things which had been touched by such patients, psora 
 became the most contagious and most universal of the 
 chronic poisons. Though this eruption by its easier con- 
 cealment may attack many persons, still the essence of 
 this reduced psora remains unchanged, and being more 
 easily repelled from the skin, it appears so much more 
 imperceptibly upon the inner surface, producing severe 
 secondary ailments. 
 
 6. At the time before leprosy was reduced, there 
 were much less nervous affections, painful ailments, 
 spasms, cancerous ulcers, adventitious formations, 
 weaknesses, paralysis, consumptions and degenerations 
 of either mind or body, than there are now, aided 
 probably by universal use of coffee and tea for the last 
 two centuries. 
 
 7. The most universal of external means has done 
 an immense amount of mischief, for secondary ail- 
 ments will sooner or later manifest themselves as re- 
 sults of the psoric reaction. 
 
 8. Many cases from ancient and recent writers can 
 be cited to convince the observer that the itch with its 
 varieties, tinea capitis, crusta lactea, herpes, etc., are 
 the external vicarious symptoms of an internal disease 
 affecting the whole organism, and that psora is the 
 most pernicious of all chronic poisons. It is well 
 
140 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 known that all infections first attack the whole organ- 
 ism internally before the vicarious affection manifests 
 itself. 
 
 9. In acute diseases, the local symptoms, together 
 with the disease, leave the system as soon as they have 
 run through their regular course. In chronic diseases 
 the local affection may either be removed or disappear 
 by itself, when at the same time the internal disease 
 may increase, unless it is cured by art. 
 
 10. In considering the formation of the three chronic 
 maladies, psora, sycosis, syphilis, as well as that of 
 the acute infectious diseases, three cardinal points 
 must be noticed: 1, the period when the infection took 
 place; 2, the period when the whole organism began to 
 be tainted with the infectious poison, until it became 
 a complete internal disease; 3, the manifestation of 
 the external symptoms, by which nature indicates the 
 complete development of the infectious disease in the 
 internal organism. 
 
 11. The infection in acute as well as in chronic 
 diseases, takes place in a moment, provided this mo- 
 ment is favorable to the contagious influence; the whole 
 nervous system becomes infected in a moment. The 
 human small-pox, measles, etc., will run through their 
 course, and the fever which is peculiar to each of these 
 different forms of infection, together with the cutane- 
 ous eruption, will break out a few days after the inter- 
 nal disease has completed its development. 
 
 12. The mode of contagion in chronic contagious 
 diseases is the same, but after the internal disease is 
 completed, there is this difference, that the chronic 
 poison continues in the organism, and even develops 
 itself from year to year, unless it is extinguished and 
 thoroughly cured by art. 
 
 13. Syphilitic contagion happens at those places 
 which come in contact with the syphilitic virus and 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 141 
 
 receive it into themselves by friction; the internal or- 
 ganism is roused in a moment by this infection, and 
 not until the internal disease is completely developed,- 
 does nature try to form at the spot where the contagion 
 took place, a local symptom as a substitute for the in- 
 ternal disease. By extinguishing the internal disease 
 with an internal remedy, the chancre becomes also 
 cured without any external application. 
 
 14. Psora is the most contagious of all chronic dis- 
 eases, as it taints the system, especially that of chil- 
 dren, by simply touching the skin. Not till the whole 
 organism has been adapted to the nature of the chronic 
 contagious disease, do the morbidly affected vital 
 powers try to alleviate the internal disease by local 
 symptoms and the eruption is merely the ultimate 
 boundary of the psoric development, a substitute for 
 the internal disease, which, together with its secondary 
 ailments, remains in a latent condition. External ap- 
 plications may check the local symptoms, but too often 
 the internal psora is thus aggravated. 
 
 15. There are many symptoms that reveal the exis- 
 tence of psora, but they cannot all be found upon 
 one person; one has more, the other less, in one they 
 come out progressively, in another they remain sup- 
 pressed; this depends greatly upon the constitution and 
 the external circumstances of the patient. These affec- 
 tions do not prevent him from leading a tolerably 
 comfortable existence, provided he is young and robust, 
 is not obliged to fatigue himself, has all his wants pro- 
 vided for, is not exposed to chagrin or grief and has a 
 cheerful, calm, patient and contented temper. In this 
 case psora may continue slumbering for years without 
 becoming developed into a permanent chronic disease. 
 
 16. However, a trival cause, an ordinary vexation, 
 a cold, an irregularity in the diet, etc., may, in a more 
 advanced age, cause a violent though short attack of 
 
142 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 disease, out of proportion with the moderately exciting 
 cause, especially during the fall, winter and early 
 spring. 
 
 17. But whenever the vital power has been reduced 
 by some mental ailments or by a bodily affection, the 
 latent psora becomes aroused and develops a host of in- 
 veterate symptoms; some one of the psoric chronic dis- 
 eases break forth, unless more favorable circumstances 
 set in, diminishing the intensity of the disease and 
 making its ulterior development more moderate. (Here 
 follow the symptoms of the aroused psora, differing 
 according to the individuality of the patient and the ex- 
 tent of the psoric intoxication.) 
 
 18. Sycotic excrescences are often accompanied with 
 a sort of gonorrhoea from the urethra, are sometimes 
 dry and in the form of warts, but more frequently soft, 
 spongy, emitting a fetid fluid, of a sweetish taste, 
 bleeding readily and having the form of a coxcomb or 
 a cauliflower. In man they appear upon the glans 
 and around or beneath the prepuce; in woman they 
 surround the pudenda. Surgery and mercury are still 
 much abused in sycosis; the extirpation of the excres- 
 cences only lead to their appearance at some other 
 place and the internal use of mercurials rouses a latent 
 psora and we deal then with a combination of psora 
 and sycosis. Our duty then is to annihilate the psoric 
 miasm by the indicated antipsorics, and then we use 
 the remedies indicated for sycosis (Thuja, Nitric acid), 
 and for syphilitic complications Mercury remains the 
 remedy. 
 
 19. The syphilitic contagion is much more general 
 than the poison of sycosis. The treatment of syphilis 
 is only difficult when complicated with the psoric 
 poison. The former is rarely complicated with sycosis, 
 but whenever it exists we meet psora as an additional 
 complication. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 143 
 
 20. Chancre and bubo are the original representa- 
 tives of syphilis, and if not interfered with, they might 
 remain during life and no secondary symptoms will 
 appear. By considering the chancre a mere local ulcer 
 and by removing it by external means, the disease is 
 forced to manifest itself throughout the organism with 
 all the secondary symptoms of a fully developed syphi- 
 lis; hence it is that the internal disease is most per- 
 manently cured while the chancre or the bubo are yet 
 existing as its vicarious types, especially in young per- 
 sons of a cheerful temper, where often one single minute 
 dose of Mercury suffices, and Hahnemann prefers that 
 preparation which goes by his name. If more than 
 one dose should be required, the lower potencies may 
 then be employed. 
 
 21. The second stage sets in when the chancre has 
 been speedily removed by external means, but even 
 then, provided there is no latent psora, the secondary 
 symptoms may be prevented by the soluble Mercury, 
 and the original spot of the chancre can no more be 
 traced, while without that internal treatment a red- 
 dish morbid-looking, red or bluish scar remains. Bubo, 
 when not complicated with psora, only needs the same 
 treatment. 
 
 22. In the third stage we find syphilis complicated 
 with psora and the patient suffered already from psora 
 when the syphilitic infection took place or false inter- 
 nal and external treatment caused a combination of 
 the psoric with the syphilitic element and it take then 
 more than one remedy to remove the evil consequences. 
 It may be here observed that it is the nature of the 
 psoric poison to break forth in consequence of great 
 concussions of the system and violent inroads upon the 
 general health. 
 
 23. In order to reach this marked syphilis (pseudo 
 syphilis), we must remove from the patient all hurtful 
 
144 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 external influences and put him on an easily and vigo- 
 rously nourishing diet and regulate his general mode 
 of life. The most appropriate antipsoric must then be 
 selected which may be followed by a second antipsoric 
 according to the new symptoms, and when the latter 
 has accomplished its action, the single dose of Mercury 
 must be allowed to act as long as it is capable of exer- 
 cising a curative influence. 
 
 24. In old difficult cases, ailments remain which 
 are neither purely psoric or syphilitic. Here several 
 courses of antipsorics are needed, until the last trace of 
 all provocation has ceased. After this we give a lower 
 potency of Mercury and allow it to act until the skin 
 has recovered its healthy color at the spot where the 
 venereal chancre stood. 
 
 25. A complication of the three chancre poisons 
 must be treated on the same principles. Antipsoric first 
 and then that poison whose symptoms are most promi- 
 nent. Afterwards the remaining portion of the psoric 
 symptoms must be removed and then the last traces of 
 syphilis and sycosis by other adequate remedies. A re- 
 turn of a healthy color of the skin on places which had 
 been affected, is the surest sign of a perfect restoration. 
 
 26. As long as the psora eruption is yet existing 
 upon the skin, psora exhibits itself in its simple and 
 most natural integrity, and may be cured in the easi- 
 est, quickest and safest manner; but when the internal 
 disease is deprived of its vicarious symptoms, the psoric 
 poison is forced to spread over the most delicate parts 
 of the internal organism and to develop its secondary 
 symptoms. 
 
 27. The psoric poison having pervaded millions of 
 organisms for thousands of years, has gradually devel- 
 oped out of itself an endless number of symptoms, va- 
 ried according to differences of constitution, climate, 
 residence, education, habits, occupation, mode of life, 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 145 
 
 diet, and various other bodily and mental influences; 
 herein different antipsoric remedies will be required 
 for the eradication of the psoric poison. 
 
 28. Only the recent itch, with the eruption still ex- 
 isting upon the skin, can be completely cured by one 
 dose of sulphur; but such a speedy cure is not always 
 possible, as the age of the patient has great influence 
 upon the result of the treatment. In eruptions which 
 have existed for some time on the skin, it ceases to 
 be a vicarious symptom for the internal disease, and 
 secondary psoric affections will manifest themselves; 
 in such case sulphur does not suffice, and it requires 
 several antipsorics for a cure. 
 
 29. With relation to diet and mode of life, whatever 
 is injurious to the action of the remedies must be avoided, 
 and with lingering diseases we must consider the age, 
 occupation and social conditions of the patient. Strict 
 diet alone will hardly ever cure a disease, and it is un- 
 reasonable to insist upon a mode of life which is impos- 
 sible for a patient to follow; only that which is generally 
 injurious to health, ought to be carefully avoided. 
 
 30. Rich patients must walk more than they usually 
 do; moderate dancing, rural entertainments, music and 
 amusing lectures, theaters once in a while are allow- 
 able, but they must never play cards; riding horse- 
 back or in a carriage ought to be restricted. All 
 amorous intercouse and sensual excitement, reading 
 lewd novels, superstitious and exciting books, are to be 
 carefully avoided. 
 
 31. The literary man ought to take much exercise 
 in the open air; in bad weather do some light me- 
 chanical work in the house. During treatment he 
 ought to limit his literary work, and in mental dis- 
 eases reading must be positively forbidden. 
 
 32. Chronic patients must avoid domestic medi- 
 cines and abstain from perfumes. Those who are ac- 
 
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146 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 customed to wear wool may continue to do so, but as 
 the case progresses and the weather becomes warmer, 
 cotton or linen ought to be substituted. Daily ablu- 
 tions are often more advisable than baths. 
 
 33. In regard to eating, one should consent to re- 
 strictions in order to be freed from a troublesome 
 chronic disease, and only in abdominal affections re- 
 strictions are more necessary. In regard to beverages, 
 coffee has pernicious effects upon mind and body. 
 Young people do not need it, and older persons ought 
 to wean themselves generally from its use, and be sat- 
 isfied with roast rye or wheat, whose smell and taste is 
 very much like coffee. Tea ought to be entirely avoided 
 during treatment of chronic diseases. Old people can- 
 not be suddenly deprived of their wine, but by mixing 
 it with water and sugar, they can gradually reduce its 
 strength; in fact, the patient cannot be too abstemi- 
 ous in relation to alcoholic beverages; it is a law of 
 nature that the apparent increase of strength and ani- 
 mal heat consequent upon the use of ardent spirits 
 will be followed by a state of depression and diminu- 
 tion of heat. 
 
 34. Beer is so much adulterated, that it becomes in- 
 jurious to health; vinegar and lemon juice are especi- 
 ally hurtful to those who are affected with nervous 
 and abdominal complaints; sweet fruits may be used 
 moderately; beef, wheat or rye bread, cow's milk and 
 fresh butter are the most natural food, hence also for 
 chronic patients. Next to beef comes mutton, game, 
 old chickens, young pigeons. Goose, duck, or pork are 
 less admissible. Salt and smoked meats ought to be 
 used in great moderation. Fish ought to be boiled 
 and eaten without any spiced sauces; herrings and 
 sardines in moderate quantities. Moderation in both 
 eating and drinking is a sacred duty for all chronic 
 patients. 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 147 
 
 35. Restriction in the use of tobacco is especially 
 necessary when the intellectual functions are affected, 
 when the patient does not sleep well, is dyspeptic and 
 constipated. 
 
 36. Excessive fatigue, working in marshy regions, 
 injuries and wounds, excessive heat or cold, starvation, 
 poverty, unwholesome food are less capable of rousing 
 latent psora or aggravating a manifest psoric disease 
 than an unhappy marriage or a gnawing conscience. 
 Grief and sorrow are the chief causes which either de- 
 velop latent psora or aggravate an already existing 
 secondary psoric affection. 
 
 37. Mineral springs and all medicinal influences 
 ought to be avoided and when the patient used them, 
 he ought to abstain for some time from all medicines 
 and follow a strict diet in the country. 
 
 38. All excesses injure mind and body; by vicious 
 practices the most robust bodies often fail and the 
 latent psora entering in combination with a badly 
 managed syphilitic poison gives origin to most distress- 
 ing diseases. We must then remove first the psoric 
 poison and thus prevent all secondary chronic affec- 
 tions. 
 
 39. The physician must never interrupt the action 
 of an antipsoric remedy nor exhibit an intermediate 
 remedy on account of every trifling ailment; a care- 
 fully selected remedy should act till it has completed 
 its effect. 
 
 40. Suppose the remedy calls out symptoms which 
 have existed before, this apparent aggravation and the 
 development of new symptoms show that the remedy 
 has attacked the disease in its inmost nature, and it 
 must be left undisturbed. 
 
 41. Should the remedy cause new symptoms, which 
 may be supposed to be inherent to the medicine, the 
 remedy should be permitted to act for a while and 
 
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148 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 generally these symptoms will disappear; but if they 
 are troublesome, they show that the remedy was not 
 properly chosen, and an antidote, if known, must be 
 given or another suitable antipsoric selected. 
 
 42. A homoeopathic aggravation is a proof that a 
 cure may be anticipated with certainty; but if the origi- 
 nal symptoms continue with the same intensity, it 
 shows that too large a dose made the cure impossible, 
 neutralizing its genuine homoeopathic effects and caus- 
 ing a medicinal disease by the side of the natural dis- 
 turbances. We then select an antipsoric which corres- 
 ponds to the symptoms of the natural and of the arti- 
 ficial disease. Should the same antipsoric be still in- 
 dicated, we must give it in a much higher potency and 
 in a more minute dose. The doses can scarcely be too 
 much reduced, provided the effects of the remedy are 
 not disturbed by improper food. 
 
 43. The physician ought to avoid three mistakes, 
 that the dose can be too small, the improper use of the 
 remedy, and in not letting the remedy act a sufficient 
 length of time. The surest and safest way of hastening 
 a cure is to let the medicine act as long as the improve- 
 ment of the patient continues. 
 
 44. Psora is a troublesome thing to deal with, ex- 
 acerbations show only that the disease is writhing un- 
 der the action of the remedy, but they will progressively 
 diminish in frequency and intensity if not interfered 
 with by a new remedy, for the benign action of the 
 former remedy, which was manifesting itself, is thus 
 probably lost. 
 
 45. A second dose of the selected remedy is only 
 indicated when the improvement which the first dose 
 had produced, by causing the morbid symptoms gradu- 
 ally to become less frequent and less intense, ceases to 
 continue after the lapse of fourteen, ten or seven days, 
 when it is evident that the medicine has ceased to act; 
 
Principles of Homceopathy. 149 
 
 the condition of the mind is the same as before, and no 
 new or troublesome symptoms have made their ap- 
 pearance. It may be expedient to give this second 
 minute dose in a somewhat lower potency. 
 
 46. Sulphur, hepar, and sepia excepted, the other 
 antipsorics, seldom admit of a favorable repetition of 
 the same drug. One antipsoric having fulfilled its ob- 
 ject, the modified series of symptoms generally requires 
 another remedy. In cases treated by the old school it 
 may be necessary to interpolate, once in a while, a 
 dose of sulphur or hepar, according to indications. 
 
 47. Alternating remedies in rapid succession is a 
 sure sign that the right remedy was not selected, or 
 that the symptoms were only carelessly studied. By 
 such mismanagement remedial agents seem to lose all 
 their power, and mesmeric action may succeed in calm- 
 ing the system. Let the palms of both your hands 
 rest for about a minute upon the vertex, then move 
 them slowly down the body, across the neck, shoul- 
 ders, arms, hands, knees, legs, feet and toes; this pass 
 may be repeated. 
 
 48. The irritability of the patient may also be 
 calmed by directing him to smell a globule moistened 
 with the highest potency of the homoeopathic medi- 
 cine. By smelling of the medicine, its influence may 
 be communicated to the patient in any degree. By in- 
 creasing the number of inspirations the power of the 
 medicine steadily increases. 
 
 49. Globules, kept in corked vials, protected from 
 heat and sunshine, preserve their medicinal powers for 
 years. 
 
 50. Placebos are in order where the patient wishes 
 to take medicine every day. 
 
 51. The cure of a chronic disease may be often re- 
 tarded by bodily or mental accidents, or intercurrent 
 diseases, due to malaria or meteoric influences, may set 
 
150 A COMPEND OF THE 
 
 in, interrupting the antipsoric treatment sometimes for 
 several weeks, and olfaction of the non-antipsoric 
 remedy may suffice for the removal of the intermediate 
 disease. 
 
 52. After the intercurrent disease is removed, the 
 symptoms of the original chronic disease may be modi- 
 fied or morbid symptoms may manifest themselves in 
 other parts of the body. The patient must be thor- 
 oughly re-examined, so that the appropriate remedy 
 may be chosen. 
 
 53. Great epidemic diseases, improperly treated and 
 permitted to complete their course, arouse the latent 
 psoric poison often to a high degree of intensity, mani- 
 festing itself in innumerable forms, and antipsoric 
 treatment is the only safeguard. 
 
 54. The obstinate character of endemic diseases is 
 due to some psoric complication or the action of the 
 psoric poison modified by the peculiar influence of the 
 locality and the peculiar mode of life of its inhabitants. 
 The marshy exhalations, especially of hot countries, 
 appear, on account of their paralyzing influence over 
 the vital forces, to be one of the most powerful excit- 
 ants of the psoric poison, which can only be calmed by 
 antipsoric treatment. Recently developed symptoms 
 are the first to yield to the action of the antipsorics, 
 the older symptoms, which have permanently existed, 
 are the last to disappear, hence local sj^mptoms only 
 pass off after the general health has been completely 
 restored, and we must not be contented till the last 
 vestige of psora is removed. 
 
 55. A great chronic disease may be cured in the 
 space of one or two years, provided it was not mis- 
 managed to the extent of having become incurable. In 
 young robust persons half this space of time is suffici- 
 ent. If we consider that the psoric poison has gradu- 
 ally ramified into the inmost recesses of the organism, 
 
Principles of Homoeopathy. lol 
 
 patient and physician understand why much time 
 must be necessary to master this parasitical enemy 
 that has assailed the most delicate roots of the tree of 
 life. 
 
 56. Where antipsoric treatment is properly conduc- 
 ted, the strength of the patient increases from the start 
 and this increase in strength continues during the 
 whole treatment until the organism unfolds anew its 
 regenerate life. 
 
 57. The best time for taking an antipsoric is the 
 morning, before breakfast and the patient ought then 
 to wait about an hour before eating or drinking any- 
 thing. 
 
 58. Antipsorics should neither be taken immedi- 
 ately before nor during menstruation. If the menses 
 appear too soon, too abundant, and last too long, she 
 may smell on the fourth day of a globule of a high po- 
 tency of nux vomica, and several days after the anti- 
 psoric may be taken. Nux restores the harmony of 
 the nervous functions and calms that irritability which 
 inhibits the action of the antipsoric. 
 
 59. Pregnancy offers a brilliant sphere of action to 
 antipsoric remedies, but only the highest potencies 
 ought to be employed. Nurslings ought to get their 
 medicine through the milk of the mother or wet nurse. 
 
 60. The vital force, if left to itself, tries to palliate 
 by producing secretions and evacuations, or diarrhoeas, 
 vomiting, sweats, ulcers, hemorrhages, etc., but they 
 produce only an apparent alleviation of the primitive 
 disease, and in fact increase it on account of the great 
 loss of nutritious pabulum which the patient has suf- 
 fered. 
 
 61. At the beginning of the antipsoric treatment 
 constipation is often the great bugbear of the patient, 
 and an injection of pure tepid water may be allowed, 
 which may be several times repeated, until the anti- 
 
152 
 
 Principles of Homceopathy. 
 
 psoric remedies succeed to regulate the proofs of intes- 
 tinal evacuation. Sulphur and lycopodium act most 
 favorably under those circumstances. Hot baths inter- 
 fere with the effects of antipsoric treatment. 
 
 62. The smallest possible electrical sparks aid the 
 antipsoric treatment by animating those parts of the 
 body which had been long affected with paralysis or 
 insensibility. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page. 
 
 Absence of characteristics in totality 61 
 
 Absolute symptoms 58 
 
 Active principle 115 
 
 Acute diseases 73 
 
 Aequalia Aequalibus 12 
 
 Administration of antipsoric remedies 80 
 
 Acute insanity . 88 
 
 Affections of external parts 85 
 
 Alternating diseases 88 
 
 Age and sex in proving 33 
 
 Aggravation of symptoms 66, 91 
 
 Allen's Encyclopaedia 26 
 
 Allopathy 4 
 
 Alternating groups of symptoms 52 
 
 " remedies 65 
 
 Amelioration of symptoms 66 
 
 Alcohol 101 
 
 Attenuations 104 
 
 A ntipathy 4 
 
 Antidotal relation 46 
 
 Application of Homoeopathy 49 
 
 Antidotal medication 57 
 
 Appearance of new symptoms , 66 
 
 Antipsoric remedies 80 
 
 " •' for females 81 
 
 Apyrexia, importance of 88 
 
 Aqua distillata , 101 
 
 Aqueous solutions 102 
 
 Bacteriology 4 
 
 Basis of Therapeutics 11 
 
 Biochemistry 4 
 
 Bodily constitutions S3 
 
 Boeninghausen's method 43 
 
 " quoted 71 
 
 " Therapeutic Pocket Book 29 
 
 Bradford's Life of Hahnemann quoted 97 
 
 Capper Dr. Edmund quoted 95 
 
154 Index. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Catechism of Organon 117 
 
 " " Chronic Diseases 138 
 
 Cause of recurrence of chronic diseases 76 
 
 Centesimal scale 104 
 
 Characteristic symptoms 38, 55 
 
 " features of sycosis 82 
 
 Cinchona experiment 9 
 
 Classification of drugs 18 
 
 " " diseases 73 
 
 Clinical symptoms 26 
 
 " " how designated 28 
 
 Contraria Contrariis opponenda 18 
 
 Coccophobia .* 4 
 
 Comparative value of sources of Materia Medica 27 
 
 Comj)lementary Relation 47 
 
 Comparative value of Toxicology and Provings 20 
 
 Concomitants 42 
 
 Concordant or Compatible Relation 46 
 
 Collateral relation of drugs 45 
 
 Collective Totality of Epidemics 54 
 
 Constitutional defects 56 
 
 Contingent or peculiar symptoms 58 
 
 Conversion of trituration to liquids 106 
 
 Cones 108 
 
 Croll, a disciple of Paracelsus 6 
 
 Curantur or Curentur 8 
 
 Curative Medicine 3 
 
 " Symptoms 26 
 
 " " where found 26 
 
 •« " \alueof 27 
 
 Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy 26 
 
 Dake, J. P., quoted 5 
 
 Decimal scale 104 
 
 Diagnostic Symptoms 61 
 
 Diet during Homoeopathic treatment 71 
 
 Direct effects of drugs 18 
 
 Dioscorides' classification 18 
 
 Difi*erence between two schools of Medicine 22 
 
 Different effects of drugs on animals 17 
 
 " applications of drug action 21 
 
 " dosages 90 
 
 Dilutions and potencies 95, 104 
 
 Directions for pro vers 32 
 
 Discovery of law of cure 74 
 
Index. 1 
 
 00 
 
 Page. 
 
 Distilled water 101 
 
 Disks 108 
 
 Doctrine of signatures 15 
 
 " dynamization 95 
 
 ' ' chronic diseases 74 
 
 Dosage 90 
 
 • ' for provers 32 
 
 Drugs — drug action 14 
 
 * ' preparation of 102 
 
 Drug- proving 19 
 
 ' ' relationship 45 
 
 ' ' action on animals , 17 
 
 ' ' pathogenesy 20 
 
 ' ' as embodied forces 48 
 
 " diseases 74 
 
 " power, unit of ... 102 
 
 Dudgeon, R. E., quoted 8 
 
 Dunham quoted 33, 52 
 
 Dynamization theory ; 95 
 
 Dynamis 109 
 
 Dynamic origin of disease 1 10 
 
 Elective aflSnity of drugs 40 
 
 Empiricism 3 
 
 Environment of drugs 42 
 
 Essential conditions for preparing homoeopathic medicines. . , 99 
 
 Eradicative treatment 83 
 
 Essential features of every symptom 35 
 
 Etiology in the totality 52, 56 
 
 Experimental Pharmacology 16 
 
 Examination of the patient 49 
 
 Evolution of Homoeopathic Materia Medica 23 
 
 •' doctrine of chronic diseases 74 
 
 Examples of pathological similarity 60 
 
 External impediments 85 
 
 ** treatment 86 
 
 Failure in treatment of chronic diseases 75 
 
 Family relationship of drugs 45 
 
 First book on drug effects 23 
 
 " promulgation of Homoeopathy 9 
 
 ' ' symptoms 55 
 
 Fresh plant tinctures 103 
 
 Frost, J. H. P., on key-note symptoms 39 
 
 Functional symptoms 57 
 
 General drug symptoms 38, 54 
 
156 Index. 
 
 Page. 
 
 General or absolute symptoms 58 
 
 Globules '. 108 
 
 Gonorrhoea — two forms 82 
 
 Gray, Thomas J. , quoted 114 
 
 Grauvogl quoted 15 
 
 Guiding symptoms 39 
 
 Hahnemann on alternation 65 
 
 "diet 71 
 
 ' ' *' palliatives 18 
 
 Hahnemannian pathology 81 
 
 ' ' philosophy 109 
 
 " schema 28 
 
 " similarity 59 
 
 Hahnemann's precautionary rules 68 
 
 ' ' directions for triturations 105 
 
 " early dosage 92 
 
 " early use of single remedy 64 
 
 " golden rule 94 
 
 • ' method of proving 36 
 
 '* reasons why potencies are ridiculed 97 
 
 " nosology 73 
 
 ** suggestions for giving antipsorics 80 
 
 " suggestions for treating chronic diseases 84 
 
 ** teaching on repetition of dose 93 
 
 Hale, E. M., contributions to Materia Medica 25 
 
 Haller, Albert von 19 
 
 Hayward, Dr. J., quoted 107 
 
 Heredity 83 
 
 Hering, Dr. C, provings 25 
 
 " Kules 34 
 
 " Guiding Symptoms 26,28 
 
 Historical development of homoeopathic dosage 92 
 
 Homoeopathy, science of Therapeutics 10 
 
 •' first promulgation 9 
 
 " its development 9 
 
 " its great central truths 11 
 
 " what constitutes it 49 
 
 Homoeopathic relationship 21 
 
 " Materia Medica ... 23 
 
 " dosage 91 
 
 *' aggravation 91 
 
 " pharmacy 99 
 
 •' tinctures 103 
 
 How to learn drug pathogenesy 29 
 
Index. 157 
 
 Page. 
 
 How to describe symptoms 34 
 
 Hygroscopic substances, preparation of 102 
 
 Index of symptoms 29 
 
 Individualization 55 
 
 Inimical Relation 47 
 
 Indicated remedy 63 
 
 Interpretation of Drug Pathogenesy 38 
 
 "Totality 54 
 
 Insanity 87 
 
 Isopathy 12 
 
 Intermittant diseases 88 
 
 Jorg's provings 26 
 
 Journal of British Homoeopathic Society, quoted 108 
 
 Keynote symptoms 30, 39 
 
 Kimball, Dr. S., quoted 56 
 
 Late symptoms 56 
 
 Lactose 100 
 
 Lawson Tait, quoted 4 
 
 Lilienthal, Samuel, Catachism 117 
 
 Liquid attenuations 104 
 
 List of medicines first proved 23 
 
 •' " Anti psorics 80 
 
 Locality in drug action 40 
 
 Local affections 85 
 
 ** applications 86, 116 
 
 Materia Medica 14 
 
 '♦ Pura 24 
 
 Material Causes 115 
 
 Medical habits 52 
 
 Medicinal Force 14, 113 
 
 Medicines, their preparation 99 
 
 Medicinal Therapeutics 3 
 
 Methods of determining properties of drugs 16 
 
 " " treating slight ailments 60 
 
 Menstrua used in Homoeopathic pharmacy 100 
 
 Mental picture of a drug 41 
 
 Mental state important 51, 87 
 
 " symptoms 55 
 
 " state embarrassed 67 
 
 Miasms 81 
 
 Mental diseases 87 
 
 Modalities 35, 42, 55 
 
 Myxedema 6 
 
 Names of early provers 24 
 
158 Index. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Names of first medicines proved 23 
 
 Necessity of smallness of homoeopathic dose 91 
 
 Need of pathology 57 
 
 • ' " dynamized medicines 112 
 
 Nosodes 12 
 
 Nosology 73 
 
 Objections to Antipathic Treatment -. 7 
 
 Objective symptoms 53 
 
 Objections to keynote prescribing 63 
 
 " " pathological basis 63 
 
 " " local treatment 86 
 
 Officinal alcohol 101 
 
 Old modalities 68 
 
 Oldest symptoms 55 
 
 Olfaction of medicines 97 
 
 One-sided diseases 61 
 
 Organon— Catechism on 117 
 
 Organo— Therapeutics 6 
 
 Origin of acute diseases 73 
 
 " " chronic " 73 
 
 " " drugs for homoeepathic use 100 
 
 Palliative medicine 2 
 
 Palliatives 18 
 
 Paracelsus, quoted 16, 112 
 
 Partial diseases 61, 85 
 
 Pathognomonic symptoms 53 
 
 Pathogenesy 20 
 
 Pathogenetic symptoms 26 
 
 " " value of 27 
 
 Pathological theories 4 
 
 Pathology, need of 57 
 
 Pathological similarity 59 
 
 Peculiar symptoms 55 
 
 Pellets 108 
 
 Perfect symptoms 35 
 
 Pernicious effects of large doses 69 
 
 Prenatal treatment 84 
 
 Pharmacology 14 
 
 Ptomaines 13 
 
 Physiological action of drugs 17 
 
 dose 17 
 
 Pre ventive Medicine 2 
 
 Provers of Drugs 25 
 
 Proving of Medicines 31 
 
Index. 159 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proving of medicines— General rules 31 
 
 Provers, Female 32 
 
 " Directions for 32 
 
 Publication of Chronic Diseases 25 
 
 " " Materia Medica Pura 24 
 
 Primary and secondarj' drug effects 36 
 
 Precautions in taking the Totality 51 
 
 Prescriber's attitude after first prescription 66 
 
 Precautionary Rules of Hahnemann 68 
 
 Psora 77 
 
 Pregnane}^, antipsorics in 81 
 
 Rademacher ... 40 
 
 Radiant state of matter 96 
 
 Reappearance of old symptoms 67 
 
 Reflex symptoms 58 
 
 Regimen in acute diseases 71 
 
 Relationship of drugs 22 
 
 Allopathic , 22 
 
 Reasons for smallness of Homoeopathic dose 91 
 
 Repertories 29 
 
 Re-provings 34 
 
 Repetition of doses 93 
 
 Rotation of remedies . 65 
 
 Rules for Totality 59 
 
 Schuessler's method 5 
 
 Second Prescription 66 
 
 Sensations in drug-action 41 
 
 Serum Therapy 12 
 
 Signatures 15 
 
 Similia, S. C 8 
 
 Similar remedy 63 
 
 Similimum 63 
 
 Simple remedy 64 
 
 Single remedy 64 
 
 Skin phase of chronic diseases 77 
 
 Sleep in acute diseases 66 
 
 Smallness of dose 69 
 
 Specifics 4 
 
 Sources of Homoeopathic Materia Medica 26 
 
 Specific alkaloids , 13 
 
 Stapf, Dr., quoted 12 
 
 ** call to Coethen 76 
 
 Subjective symptoms 52 
 
 Sub-physiological dosage 92 
 
160 Index. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Succussion, eflfects of , 97 
 
 Suggestions for treatment of chronic diseases 84 
 
 Sugar of milk 100 
 
 Suppression of skin diseases 79 
 
 '• ' * gonorrhoea 82 
 
 Suppressed sycosis 83 
 
 Sycosis 81 
 
 Sycotis gonorrhoea 82 
 
 Tablets 108 
 
 Temperament in provings 33 
 
 Tinctures . . 103 
 
 Theories and hypothesis 11 
 
 Therapeutics 1 
 
 Three methods of treatment 1 
 
 " essential features of every symptom 35 
 
 " precautionary rules of Hahnemann 68 
 
 Toxicology, value of 20, 27 
 
 Totality of symptoms 50 
 
 " in acute diseases 53 
 
 ** of quality 59 
 
 Treatment of drug diseases 74 
 
 Triturations 104 
 
 True meaning of symptoms 57 
 
 Two ways for drug action 21 
 
 " kinds of gonorrhoea 81 
 
 Underlying facts of psoric theory 78 
 
 Unit of medicinal strength 102 
 
 Vital force 110 
 
 * ' principle in drugs 113 
 
 Wilkinson J. J. Garth, quoted 83 
 
 Winnowing process in interpreting totality 54 
 
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