The cure will be evinced by the disappearance of the local lesions that have not been disturbed by any topical treatment. But fig warts of long standing without treatment may need for their perfect cure, the external application of their specific medicine.
283. No harm results if the remedy administered is not the correct similimum, since the patient will not be affected by a fine dose of the remedy to which he is not susceptible.
284. The effect of a dose does not increase or decrease in the same proportion as the dose is increased or decreased in amount of the crude substance.
285. A fraction of a drop may be given as a dose.
286. The effect of a dose is augmented by increasing the amount of fluid in which the dose is dissolved.
287. The dose should be thoroughly mixed with the fluid in which it is administered.
288. A highly diluted dose spreads through the whole system with incredible rapidity after its absorption into the fluids of the body, from the tongue, mucous membrane or cuticle.
289. Every organ and cell of the body has selective power and is capable of receiving the influence of the medicine and transmitting its effects to all other parts of the body through the nerves.
290. Medicine can be administered on the tongue or on any other part of the body capable of absorption as rectum, nose, eyes, genitals, skin or denuded surface. 291. The loss of the sense of taste or smell does not impair the power to receive the remedy and transmit its effects to other parts of the body.
292. The cuticle is capable of receiving the action of liquid medication.
It is infinitely easier to contradict than to investigate, infinitely easier to sneer at truths and to present them in repulsive light by misrepresentations and falsifications than to devote one’s whole life, as Hahnemann did, to the laborious and conscientious search for truth by faithful observation of the nature of things in the most careful trials, and the unprejudiced application of their results to the welfare of humanity.
