In the face of the construction of the body there can be but one single basic cause of all disease, and that one basic cause is shock. Shock alone will basically cause disease. There may be many exciting or contributing causes, but whether physical, mental, chemical or mechanical, if they do not or cannot produce shock, there will be no disease. This shock merely breaks or injures the lines of communication. Before the body can possibly be restored to health those lines must be repaired.
When broken how can these lines be repaired? Each line of communication is composed of a distinct class of basic cells and a remedy that will repair that line must be composed of cells identical with the cells composing that line. Homoeopathy finds the remedy needed by drug proving, the results of which are constant, as the drug will affect only such a line as is composed of such basic cells as compose the drug mass, therefore cells accurately similar to its own. The line repaired, the flow of vital energy restored, the cure takes place at once radically, safely, speedily and pleasantly.
The applied drug itself supplies no force, it merely repairs the broken line of communication, thereby allowing the real curative agent, the vital force, to do its work; and that it does by supplying enough energy to allow the part to repel all basic cells foreign to the part. Thus no matter what the route taken to gain that end the fact remains that material must enter the cure, unless the line has simply been injured and not broken, in which case any method of healing is apt to bring about a result. Thus you will note the Law of Similars is positively mandatory; there is no means of sidestepping the issue. Hence homoeopathy by incorporating that law becomes the only scientific system of medical healing; it admits of no empiricism.
In conclusion: You will note how the explanations dovetail in and show the reason for the superiority of homoeopathy: first, the construction of the body; next, the cause (basic) and nature of disease; next, just how disease is cured and why, and what does the real curing; next, how the Law of Similars acts; next, why the infinitesimal dose, the necessity for attenuation, and its superiority; next, where the power is derived that does the real curing. You will note that science and system permeate all through homoeopathy from beginning to end; it admits of no empiricism.
Now if any of you know positively I am wrong in what I have written you evidently know positively you are right, therefore kindly let me into the secret.
TOLEDO, OHIO.
