The Principles and Art of Cure by Roberts, H.A.

In The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy, Herbert Roberts (1868-1950) explains in detail the various concepts related to vital force, the laws of homoeopathy, the dynamic action of drugs, dosages, second prescription, and various other concepts related to homoeopathy. The book also includes several lectures on miasms.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HOMEOPATHY

Dr. Roberts advise to homeopath that, a man who adopts the homoeopathic methods must be free from prejudice, and able to look fairly at disease conditions from a new angle….

VITAL FORCE

Without this vital energy, the cell, or the whole body, becomes inanimate and is dead. It is only when the vital energy is present that there is a living organism, capable of physical action and of the exercise of mental powers and the ability to take hold on the spiritual forces….

VITAL ENERGY IN ITS UNIVERSAL APPLICATION

For Vital Energy Dr. Robert’s says, If we have no motion, no action, no direction, without vital energy, it must be this energy which is responsible for all growth and all development in all spheres of existence …

ANALYSIS OF THE CASE

Dr. Robert’s comments on case analysis. Advise on what is necessary to take to complete the totality….

THE LAW OF CURE

No medicine can cure any disease unless it acts upon all the diseased parts, either directly or indirectly….

THE DOSE

The greater the number of characteristic symptoms of the disease that are found to correspond to the drug, the less the quantity and the higher the potency that can be used….

REMEDY REACTION

Discussion on what a physician may expect after administration of a remedy….

DRUG PROVING

The eminent homeopath Herbert A. Roberts discusses the requisites for a successful proving….

SUSCEPTIBILITY

When patient is susceptible to the disease it affects him, when he is susceptible to the remedy it cures him….

SUPPRESSION

Suppression of the disease with large physiological doses leads to development more deeper and chronic state of the disease. Dr. Robert explained with various examples….

THE LAW OF PALLIATION

In incurable cases we must not put a limitation on the possibilities of the similar remedy, similimum medicines work wonderfully and restore the patient to health….

TEMPERAMENTS

When a remedy is indicated, the symptomatology gives us a basis for our *simillimum regardless of colour or type and temperament….

LOCAL APPLICATIONS

Medicine having the power of curing internally, should not be employed *exclusively as a topical application to the local symptoms of chronic miasmatic diseases

PSORA

Dr. Robert’s comments on the Hahnemann’s concept of psora, why psora is considered root cause of several diseases?…

PSORA OR DEFICIENCY?

Deficiency of to certain elements, minerals leads maladjustment of body’s function and development of psoric manifestation….

SOME MANIFESTATIONS OF LATENT PSORA

SOME MANIFESTATIONS OF LATENT PSORA.     ***IN the last chapter you learned something of the acute manifestations of the psoric stigma. Besides the manifestations of the a…

SYPHILIS

SYPHILIS. ***WE have spoken of the psoric miasms as being closely related to the deficiency diseases, so called. Now on the same basis of the table of…

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION: SYCOSIS

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION: SYCOSIS. ***SYCOSIS is generally understood to be the gonorrhoeal poison. We should make the distinction clear between gonorrhoea and sycosis. Gonorr…

SYCOSIS-OVER-CONSTRUCTION

SYCOSIS-OVER-CONSTRUCTION.   ***WHEN we come to analyse the sycotic miasm in relation to the table of elements and their respective atomic weighs, we find an ent…

THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIEWPOINT

THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIEWPOINT.   ***IN his introduction to his book, *Philosophy and the Concepts of Modern Science (1935), Oliver ***L. Reiser, Associate Professor …

SUMMARY

Discussion on the stigma and expression of miasm….