30. Drug action is always more certain and positive than the action of morbific influences. Immunity can be established to measles or other contagious disease but not to aconite or any other active drug.
31. The effects and symptoms produced by a morbific influence depends on the susceptibility of the individual. Susceptibility is intensified irritability of the organism. Individual irritability depends on constitution and disposition determined largely by living regimen. Bacteria or morbific potencies are of secondary importance in infection. A healthy individual does not readily become infected. During any epidemic only a small portion of the population comes down with the infection to which a larger proportion are presumably exposed.
32. But drug action is certain, never failing, and always characteristic, in accordance with the law of nature, in the absence of which there could be no confidence in scientific data. Like causes produce like effects.
33. Drugs are more certain to affect the feelings and sensations of the human organism than are extraneous noxious agencies.
34. Drugs produce symptoms similar to sick symptoms. Sick symptoms have their counterpart in drug pathogenesis. Nature accomplishes cures by superimposing similar symptoms, never by dissimilar symptoms.
35. There are three methods of applying symptom producing agents as remedies for the treatment of sickness 36.I. Dissimilar diseases, of equal intensity, never unequal, may coexist in the same body. Intractable chronic sickness provides immunity against mild dissimilar epidemic diseases. Authorities quoted.
37. Also allopathic treatment persisted in for years does not accomplish a cure. And the case will remain stationary if it has not been too harshly treated with drugs that cannot produce in healthy persons a condition similar to the disease. Examples are met with daily. Accidental homoeopathic cures occasionally result, when by a lucky grab into the medicine bag a homoeopathic remedy is exhibited.
38II. A new dissimilar disease, if of greater intensity, suspends the weaker, or old disease, which reappears when the new disease runs its course.
Twelve observed instances illustrating this fact are cited in foot notes.
39. For hundreds of years it has been observed that nature could not cure any disease by superadding another, however intense, if the latter was dissimilar to the one already present. A suppression by a dissimilar stronger disease does not result in a cure. Hence likewise the suppression of a natural disease by a dissimilar drug disease does not result in cure, but weakens the patient and complicates his already morbid condition.
40III. Since two dissimilar diseases cannot obliterate each other, they may exist together, in the same human organism each choosing its most accessible organ and continuing indefinitely, each to manifest its own particular and peculiar symptoms. Some exceptions to this rule have been observed. Two examples are cited in foot notes.
41. Thus inappropriate drugs, by their prolonged use, set up their dissimilar artificial sickness, complicate the disease, render incurable or difficulty curable, the natural, easily curable maladies. For this reason the indiscriminate use of patent and proprietary medicines, reduce the high standard of public health and increase chronic sickness and invalidism.
The temporary relief afforded by such medicines is deceptive and only prepares the way for the insidious encroachment of incurable chronic sickness.
42. Nature allows dissimilar diseases to exist side by side, neither can annihilate, neutralize or cure the other.
43. BUT when two similar diseases meet in the same organism the result is far different. An instance of this kind demonstrates how nature accomplishes cures and how this object can be achieved by art.
44. Two similar diseases cannot, like two dissimilar diseases; 1st, Repel each other; 2nd, Suspend each other, or, 3rd, Complicate each other.
45. On the contrary, two diseases differing in kind, similar in symptoms, when appearing in the same individual, the stronger will permanently overcome the weaker, which being a dynamic power without substance, i.e. a condition not a thing, ceases to exert an influence. By virtue of this principle, a successful vaccination with pure cow-pox will provide increased resistance to its most similar natural sickness, small-pox.
46. Examples illustrating the above described natural phenomena: 1, Smallpox has cured ophthalmia; 2, Blindness, caused by suppressed eruption has been cured by smallpox; 3, Smallpox has cured deafness; 4, Smallpox has cured swelling of the testicles; 5, Cow-pox lessens the intensity of smallpox; 6, Vaccination with cow-pox is a recognized preventive of smallpox; 7, Cow-pox frequently cures itching eruptions; 8, Measles has cured skin eruptions; 9, Cow-pox cured intermittent fever (Hardege) confirming the observation of Hunter, that two fevers, being similar, could not exist at the same time in the same body.
47. Nature demonstrates the process by which cures must be accomplished by art. Nature furnishes the most convincing argument in regard to the kind of artificial morbific potencies that must be used by the physician when choosing the remedy to match the disease in the practice of the art of healing.
48. Thus nature and art demonstrate that cures are made to result only by the exhibition of a morbific potency which can produce similar symptoms, but is somewhat superior in strength to the sick producing influence causing the sickness.
49. Abundant confirmation of this law could be had if observers had and would devote more attention to instances, proving it, brought to their notice.
50. Nature possesses scant resources she can apply, unaided, to cure disease. The curing of one disease with another similar disease is impractical. However serum therapy attempts to make a practical application of the principal. In the treatment of diphtheria with diphtheric antitoxin, the disease product, not of the most similar but of the same disease in employed. Serums, toxines and antitoxines are but products of the disease for which they are designed to act as curative or prophylactic agents. And in the desensitizing treatment for hay fever that pollen is used to which the patient is hypersensitive. But in the employment of drugs in the treatment of sickness the drug that will produce the most similar symptoms to the disease to be treated is the best that can be selected. And if frequently appears, when the remedy is well matched to the sickness, that the symptoms of the sickness and the symptomatology of the drug are practically the same. It is by this route, only, that man may make his escape from disease. He can, by applying, with distinct reason, an artificial cure, founded on natural law, observed to be operating in nature, speedily, gently, permanently cure sickness.
Nature confirms the law of cure, justifies the artificial employment of it, demonstrates the need of art and points the way.
51. Nature has few remedial agents she can herself apply. Man has at his command hundreds of morbific potencies, drugs derived from every realm of nature which are capable of being potentized and manipulated as to strength, size and frequency of dose, and that can be employed in the rapid cure of disease.
52. What intelligent, physician, sensing his responsibility, can continue to use, exclusively, allopathic methods, palliative methods, when nature and art prove that one of three unfortunate effects must result, viz : 1st, Palliation only; 2nd, Suppression by superadding another dissimilar disease; 3rd, Or complication with a few drug disease.
53. Genuine, gentle, (Hunterian) cures are accomplished, only, by the application of the homoeopathic principle, by utilizing the homoeopathic method, in accordance with the eternal and infallible law of cure.
54. The homoeopathic method is the curative one of the three :
1. Allopathic,
2. Palliative,
3. Homoeopathic.
55. The allopathic method is discussed in the preface. (Read it, it’s rich).
56. The palliative method pleases the patient, gives the doctor prestige, but ultimately injures both. It makes the patient a drugless healer and the doctor a therapeutic nihilist.
57. The allopathic method deals with the symptoms, not the sickness. Opium for pain and diarrhoea, cathartics for constipation, free bowel evacuations for the temporary relief of symptoms in any part of the body, warm baths for chilliness, wine for debility, cold packs for inflammation. Remedies so used are necessarily limited to few drugs.
58. The fault of the allopathic method is, it considers the deals only with single symptoms and not the disease. However thorough may be the diagnosis, the allopathic method will yield relief that is necessarily transient. This unsatisfactory result is due to a misconception or sickness and the limited number of drugs which allopathy applies to only a small part of the whole disease, that is, the most prominent symptom which is hopes to relieve.
