Vital Force

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Homeopathy’s object is to stimulate the patient to cure himself. Therefore it is never a question of quantity, where the vital stimulus is employed, but always of precise selection and quality, in the drug employed for the purpose….

I think we all recognise, in these days, what Hahnemann insisted on, that cure comes by the reaction of what he calls Vital Force against disease. We know a little more about the complicated mechanism of such reaction; but it is no longer absurd to teach, as he taught that vital reactions are evoked by disease, and that such reactions are curative; and that the utmost we can do, curatively is to stimulate such reaction.

He says that thousands of substances subversive to health, simulate disease conditions and can be employed to evoke enhanced curative reaction, where such is the case.

For instance… who will diagnose belladonna poisoning from scarlet fever? they have often been mistaken; or diagnose between dysentery and poisoning by corrosive sublimate? or between ptomaine and arsenical poisoning? Hahnemann contends and demonstrates that substances which simulate natural disease can be used, in fine dosage, for their cure. And the most striking homoeopathic curative results can be seen when using Arsenic (in infinite subdivision) for ptomaine poisoning, Mercurius cor. (corrosive sublimate) for dysentery or Belladonna for scarlet fever. Anyone who desires to put Homoeopathy to the test, cannot be better than start with one of the these.

Homoeopathy never contemplates curing disease by drugs in massive and repeated doses. Its object is to stimulate the patient to cure himself. Therefore it is never a question of quantity, where the vital stimulus is employed, but always of precise selection and quality, in the drug employed for the purpose.

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John Weir
Sir John Weir (1879 – 1971), FFHom 1943. John Weir was the first modern homeopath by Royal appointment, from 1918 onwards. John Weir was Consultant Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1910, and he was appointed the Compton Burnett Professor of Materia Medica in 1911. He was President of the Faculty of Homeopathy in 1923.
Weir received his medical education first at Glasgow University MB ChB 1907, and then on a sabbatical year in Chicago under the tutelage of Dr James Tyler Kent of Hering Medical College during 1908-9. Weir reputedly first learned of homeopathy through his contact with Dr Robert Gibson Miller.
John Weir wrote- Some of the Outstanding Homeopathic Remedies for Acute Conditions with Margaret Tyler, Homeopathy and its Importance in Treatment of Chronic Disease, The Trend of Modern Medicine, The Science and Art of Homeopathy, Brit Homeo Jnl, The Present Day Attitude of the Medical Profession Towards Homeopathy, Brit Homeo Jnl XVI, 1926, p.212ff, Homeopathy: a System of Therapeutics, The Hahnemann Convalescent Home, Bournemouth, Brit Homeo Jnl 20, 1931, 200-201, Homeopathy an Explanation of its Principles, British Homeopathy During the Last 100 Years, Brit Homeo Jnl 23, 1932: etc