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§ 171 Fifth Edition
In non-venereal chronic disease, those, therefore, that arise from
psora, we often require, in order to effect a cure, to give several
antipsoric remedies in succession, every successive one being homoeopathically
chosen in consonance with the group of symptoms remaining after
the expiry of the action of the previous remedy (which may have
been employed in a single dose or in several successive doses).
§ 171 Sixth Edition
In non-venereal chronic disease, those, therefore, that arise from
psora, we often require, in order to effect a cure, to give several
antipsoric remedies in succession, every successive one being homoeopathically
chosen in consonance with the group of symptoms remaining after
completion of the action of the previous remedy.
§ 172
A similar difficulty in the way of the cure occurs from the symptoms
of the disease being too few - a circumstances that deserves our
careful attention, for by its removal almost all the difficulties
that can lie in the way of this most perfect of all possible modes
of treatment (except that its apparatus of known homoeopathic medicines
is still incomplete) are removed.
§ 173
The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms, and on that
account to be less amenable to cure, are those which may be termed
one-sided, because they display only one or two principal symptoms
which obscure almost all the others. They belong chiefly to the
class of chronic diseases.
§ 174
Their principal symptom may be either an internal complaint (e.g.
a headache of many years’ duration, a diarrhoea of long standing,
an ancient cardialgia, etc.), or it may be an affection more of
an external kind. Diseases of the latter character are generally
distinguished by the name of local maladies.
§ 175
In one-sided diseases of the first kind it is often to be attributed
to the medical observer’s want of discernment that he does not fully
discover the symptoms actually present which would enable him to
complete the sketch of the portrait of the disease.
§ 176
There are, however, still a few diseases, which, after the most
careful initial examination (§§ 84-98), present but one or two severe,
violent symptoms, while all the others are but indistinctly perceptible.
§ 177
In order to meet most successfully such a case as this, which is
of very rare occurrence, we are in the first place to select, guided
by these few symptoms, the medicine which in our judgment is the
most homoeopathically indicated.
§ 178
It will, no doubt, sometimes happen that this medicine, selected
in strict observance of the homoeopathic law, furnishes the similar
artificial disease suited for the annihilation of the malady present;
and this is much more likely to happen when these few morbid symptoms
are very striking, decided, uncommon and peculiarly distinctive
(characteristic).
§ 179
More frequently, however, the medicine first chosen in such a case
will be only partially, that is to say, not exactly suitable, as
there was no considerable number of symptoms to guide to an accurate
selection.
§ 180
In this case the medicine, which has been chosen as well as was
possible, but which, for the reason above stated, is only imperfectly
homoeopathic, will, in its action upon the disease that is only
partially analogous to it - just as in the case mentioned above
(§ 162, et seq.) where the limited number of homoeopathic remedies
renders the selection imperfect - produce accessory symptoms, and
several phenomena from its own array of symptoms are mixed up with
the patient’s state of health, which are, however, at the same time,
symptoms of the disease itself, although they may have been hitherto
never or very rarely perceived; some symptoms which the patient
had never previously experienced appear, or others he had only felt
indistinctly become more pronounced.
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