Aphorisms on disease - was Potencies - was Review of Master's Works @ Robin LONG

[Sheri Nakken]

At 01:15 PM 10/16/2006 -0000, hahnemannian wrote:

Always diverting. We were talking about potencies and posology and use of
remedies in water and now you are diverting.
And I really dislike communicating with an email address
The rest of us use our names and I hardly have seen that you are
Hahnemannian at all.

And Hahnemann never discussed bacteria and viruses causing illness as is
taken as fact now (and is not)

"§ 148 Sixth Edition
The natural disease is never to be considered as a noxious material
situated somewhere within the interior or exterior of man (§ 11-13) but as
one produced by an inimical spirit-like (conceptual) agency which, like a
kind of infection (note to § 11) disturbs in its instinctive existence of
the spirit-like (conceptual) principle of life within the organism
torturing it as an evil spirit and compelling it to produce certain
ailments and disorders in the regular course of its life. These are known
as symptoms (disease). If, now, the influence of this inimical agency that
not only caused but strives to continue this disorder, be taken away as is
done when the physician administers an artificial potency, capable of
altering the life principle in the most similar manner (a homœopathic
medicine) which exceeds in energy even in the smallest dose the similar
natural disease (§§ 33, 279), then the influence of the original noxious
morbid agent on the life principle is lost during the action of this
stronger similar artificial disease. Thence the evil no longer exists for
the life principle - it is destroyed. If, as has been said, the selected
homœopathic remedy is administered properly, then the acute natural disease
which is to be overruled if recently developed, will disappear
imperceptibly in a few hours.
"
Aphorism 11 and footnotes
Aphorism 31, 32, 33 and footnotes
Aphorism 73 and footnotes
Aphorism 100 & 101
Aphorism 148
§ 11 Sixth Edition

When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic)
vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged
by the dynamic 1 influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life; it
is only the vital force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can
furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations, and incline it to
the irregular processes which we call disease; for, as a power invisible in
itself, and only cognizable by its effects on the organism, its morbid
derangement only makes itself known by the manifestation of disease in the
sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the
senses of the observer and physician, that is, by morbid symptoms, and in
no other way can it make itself known. 2

1 Materia peccans!

2 What is dynamic influence, - dynamic power? Our earth, by virtue of a
hidden invisible energy, carries the moon around her in twenty-eight days
and several hours, and the moon alternately, in definite fixed hours
(deducting certain differences which occur with the full and new moon)
raises our northern seas to flood tide and again correspondingly lowers
them to ebb. Apparently this takes place not through material agencies, not
through mechanical contrivances, as are used for products of human labor;
and so we see numerous other events about us as results of the action of
one substance on another substance without being able to recognize a
sensible connection between cause and effect. Only the cultured, practised
in comparison and deduction, can form for himself a kind of supra-sensual
idea sufficient to keep all that is material or mechanical in his thoughts
from such concepts. He calls such effects dynamic, virtual, that is, such
as result from absolute, specific, pure energy and action of he one
substance upon the other substance.

For instance, the dynamic effect of the sick-making influences upon healthy
man, as well as the dynamic energy of the medicines upon the principle of
life in the restoration of health is nothing else than infection and so not
in any way material, not in any way mechanical. Just as the energy of a
magnet attracting a piece of iron or steel is not material, not mechanical.
One sees that the piece of iron is attracted by one pole of the magnet, but
how it is done is not seen. This invisible energy of the magnet does not
require mechanical (material) auxiliary means, hook or lever, to attract
the iron. The magnet draws to itself and this acts upon the piece of iron
or upon a steel needle by means of a purely immaterial invisible,
conceptual, inherent energy, that is, dynamically, and communicates to the
steel needle the magnetic energy equally invisibly (dynamically). The steel
needle becomes itself magnetic, even at a distance when the magnet does not
touch it, and magnetises other steel needles with the same magnetic
property (dynamically) with which it had been endowered previously by the
magnetic rod, just as a child with small-pox or measles communicates to a
near, untouched healthy child in an invisible manner (dynamically) the
small-pox or measles, that is, infects it at a distance without anything
material from the infective child going or capable of going to the one to
be infected. A purely specific conceptual influence communicated to the
near child small-pox or measles in the same way as the magnet communicated
to the near needle the magnetic property.

In a similar way, the effect of medicines upon living man is to be judged.
Substances, which are used as medicines, are medicines only in so far as
they possess each its own specific energy to alter the well-being of man
through dynamic, conceptual influence, by means of the living sensory
fibre, upon the conceptual controlling principle of life. The medicinal
property of those material substances which we call medicines proper,
relates only to their energy to call out alterations in the well-being of
animal life. Only upon this conceptual principle of life, depends their
medicinal health-altering, conceptual (dynamic) influence. Just as the
nearness of a magnetic pole can communicate only magnetic energy to the
steel (namely, by a kind of infection) but cannot communicate other
properties (for instance, more hardness or ductility, etc.). And thus every
special medicinal substance alters through a kind of infection, that
well-being of man in a peculiar manner exclusively its own and not in a
manner peculiar to another medicine, as certainly as the nearness of the
child ill with small-pox will communicate to a healthy child only small-pox
and not measles. These medicines act upon our well-being wholly without
communication of material parts of the medicinal substances, thus
dynamically, as if through infection. Far more healing energy is expressed
in a case in point by the smallest dose of the best dynamized medicines, in
which there can be, according to calculation, only so little of material
substance that its minuteness cannot be thought and conceived by the best
arithmetical mind, than by large doses of the same medicine in substance.
That smallest dose can therefore contain almost entirely only the pure,
freely-developed, conceptual medicinal energy, and bring about only
dynamically such great effects as can never be reached by the crude
medicinal substances itself taken in large doses.

It is not in the corporal atoms of these highly dynamized medicines, nor
their physical or mathematical surfaces (with which the higher energies of
the dynamized medicines are being interpreted but vainly as still
sufficiently material) that the medicinal energy is found. More likely,
there lies invisible in the moistened globule or in its solution, an
unveiled, liberated, specific, medicinal force contained in the medicinal
substance which acts dynamically by contact with the living animal fibre
upon the whole organism (without communicating to it anything material
however highly attenuated) and acts more strongly the more free and more
immaterial the energy has become through the dynamization.

Is it then so utterly impossible for our age celebrated for its wealth in
clear thinkers to think of dynamic energy as something non-corporeal, since
we see daily phenomena which cannot be explained in any other manner? If
one looks upon something nauseous and becomes inclined to vomit, did a
material emetic come into his stomach which compels him to this
anti-peristaltic movement? Was it not solely the dynamic effect of the
nauseating aspect upon his imagination? And if one raises his arm, does it
occur through a material visible instrument? a lever? Is it not solely the
conceptual dynamic energy of his will which raises it?

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Aphorism 31, 32, 33 and footnotes

§ 31

The inimical forces, partly psychical, partly physical, to which our
terrestrial existence is exposed, which are termed morbific noxious agents,
do not possess the power of morbidly deranging the health of man
unconditionally1; but we are made ill by them only when our organism is
sufficiently disposed and susceptible to attack of the morbific cause that
may be present, and to be altered in its health, deranged and made to
undergo abnormal sensations and functions - hence they do not produce
disease in every one nor at all times.

1 When I call a disease a derangement of man’s state of health, I am far
from wishing thereby to give a hyperphysical explanation of the internal
nature of disease generally, or of any case of disease in particular. It is
only intended by this expression to intimate, what it can be proved
diseases are not and cannot be, that they are not mechanical or chemical
alterations of material substance of the body, and not dependant on a
material morbific substance, but that they are merely spirit-like
(conceptual) dynamic derangements of the life.

§ 32

But it is quite otherwise with the artificial morbific agents which we term
medicines. Every real medicine, namely, acts at all times, under all
circumstances, on every living human being, and produces in him its
peculiar symptoms (distinctly perceptible, if the dose be large enough), so
that evidently every living human organism is liable to be affected, and,
as it were, inoculated with the medicinal disease at all times, and
absolutely (unconditionally), which, as before said, is by no means the
case with the natural diseases.

§ 33

In accordance with this fact, it is undeniably shown by all experience1
that the living organism is much more disposed and has a greater liability
to be acted on, and to have its health deranged by medicinal powers, than
by morbific noxious agents and infectious miasms, or, in order words, that
the morbific noxious agents possess a power of morbidly deranging man’s
health that is subordinate and conditional, often very conditional; whilst
medicinal agents have an absolute unconditional power, greatly superior to
the former.

1 A striking fact in corroboration of this is, that whilst previously to
the year 1801, when the smooth scarlatina of Sydenham still occasionally
prevailed epidemically among children, it attacked without exception all
children who had escaped it in a former epidemic; in a similar epidemic
which I witnessed in Konigslutter, on the contrary, all the children who
took in time a very small dose of belladonna remained unaffected by this
highly infectious infantile disease. If medicines can protect from a
disease that is raging around, they must possess a vastly superior power of
affecting our vital force.
Aphorism 73 and footnotes

§ 73

As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human
beings individually, the exciting cause being injurious influences to which
they were particularly exposed. Excesses in food, or an insufficient supply
of it, severe physical impression, chills, over heatings, dissipation,
strains, etc., or physical irritations, mental emotions, and the like, are
exciting causes of such acute febrile affections; in reality, however, they
are generally only a transient explosion of latent psora, which
spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the acute diseases were not
of too violent a character and were soon quelled. Or they are of such a
kind as attack several persons at the same time, here and there
(sporadically), by means of meteoric or telluric influences and injurious
agents, the susceptibility for being morbidly affected by which is
possessed by only a few persons at one time. Allied to these are those
diseases in which many persons are attacked with very similar sufferings
from the same cause (epidemically); these diseases generally become
infectious (contagious) when they prevail among thickly congregated masses
of human beings. Thence arise fevers1, in each instance of a peculiar
nature, and, because the cases of disease have an identical origin, they
set up in all those they affect an identical morbid process, which when
left to itself terminates in a moderate period of time in death or
recovery. The calamities of war, inundations and famine are not
infrequently their exciting causes and producers - sometimes they are
peculiar acute miasms which recur in the same manner (hence known by some
traditional name), which either attack persons but once in a lifetime, as
the smallpox, measles, whooping-cough, the ancient, smooth, bright red
scarlet fever2 of Sydenham, the mumps, etc., or such as recur frequently in
pretty much the same manner, the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of
the sea-coast, the Asiatic cholera, etc.

1 The homœopathic physician, who does not entertain the foregone conclusion
devised by the ordinary school (who have fixed upon a few names of such
fevers, besides which mighty nature dare not produce any others, so as to
admit of their treating these disease according to some fixed method), does
not acknowledge the names goal fever, bilious fever, typhus fever, putrid
fever, nervous fever or mucous fever, but treats them each according to
their several peculiarities.

2 Subsequently to the year 1801 a kind of pupura miliaris (roodvonk), which
came from the West, was by physicians confounded with the scarlet fever,
notwithstanding that they exhibited totally different symptoms, that the
latter found its prophylatic and curative remedy in belladonna, the former
in aconite, and that the former was generally merely sporadic, while the
latter was invariable epidemic. Of late years it seems as if the two
occasionally joined to form an eruptive fever of a peculiar kind, for which
neither the one nor the other remedy, alone, will be found to be exactly
homœopathic.

Aphorism 100 & 101
§ 100

In investigating the totality of the symptoms of epidemic and sporadic
diseases it is quite immaterial whether or not something similar has ever
appeared in the world before under the same or any other name. The novelty
or peculiarity of a disease of that kind makes no difference either in the
mode of examining or of treating it, as the physician must any way regard
to pure picture of every prevailing disease as if it were something new and
unknown, and investigate it thoroughly for itself, if he desire to practice
medicine in a real and radical manner, never substituting conjecture for
actual observation, never taking for granted that the case of disease
before him is already wholly or partially known, but always carefully
examining it in all its phases; and this mode of procedure is all the more
requisite in such cases, as a careful examination will show that every
prevailing disease is in many respects a phenomenon of a unique character,
differing vastly from all previous epidemics, to which certain names have
been falsely applied - with the exception of those epidemics resulting from
a contagious principle that always remains the same, such as smallpox,
measles, etc.

§ 101

It may easily happen that in the first case of an epidemic disease that
presents itself to the physician’s notice he does not at once obtain a
knowledge of its complete picture, as it is only by a close observation of
several cases of every such collective disease that he can become
conversant with the totality of its signs and symptoms. The carefully
observing physician can, however, from the examination of even the first
and second patients, often arrive so nearly at a knowledge of the true
state as to have in his mind a characteristic portrait of it, and even to
succeed in finding a suitable, homœopathically adapted remedy for it.
Aphorism 148

§ 148 Sixth Edition

The natural disease is never to be considered as a noxious material
situated somewhere within the interior or exterior of man (§ 11-13) but as
one produced by an inimical spirit-like (conceptual) agency which, like a
kind of infection (note to § 11) disturbs in its instinctive existence of
the spirit-like (conceptual) principle of life within the organism
torturing it as an evil spirit and compelling it to produce certain
ailments and disorders in the regular course of its life. These are known
as symptoms (disease). If, now, the influence of this inimical agency that
not only caused but strives to continue this disorder, be taken away as is
done when the physician administers an artificial potency, capable of
altering the life principle in the most similar manner (a homœopathic
medicine) which exceeds in energy even in the smallest dose the similar
natural disease (§§ 33, 279), then the influence of the original noxious
morbid agent on the life principle is lost during the action of this
stronger similar artificial disease. Thence the evil no longer exists for
the life principle - it is destroyed. If, as has been said, the selected
homœopathic remedy is administered properly, then the acute natural disease
which is to be overruled if recently developed, will disappear
imperceptibly in a few hours.

An older, more chronic disease will yield somewhat later together with all
traces of discomfort, by the use of several doses of the same more highly
potentized remedy or after careful selection1 of one or another more
similar homœopathic medicine. Health, recovery, follow in imperceptible,
often rapid transitions. The life principle is freed again and capable of
resuming the life of the organism in health as before and strength returns.

1 But this laborious, sometimes very laborious, search for and selection of
the homœopathic remedy most suitable in every respect to each morbid state,
is an operation which, notwithstanding all the admirable books for
facilitating it, still demands the study of the original sources
themselves, and at the same time a great amount of circumspection and
serious deliberation, which have their best rewards in the consciousness of
having faithfully discharged our duty. How could his laborious,
care-demanding task, by which alone the best way of curing diseases is
rendered possible, please the gentlemen of the new mongrel sect, who assume
the honorable name of homœopathists, and even seem to employ medicines in
form and appearance homœopathic, but determined upon by them anyhow
(quidquid in buccam venit), and who, when the unsuitable remedy does not
immediately give relief, in place of laying the blame on their unpardonable
ignorance and laxity in performing the most and important and serious of
all human affairs, ascribe it to homœopathy, which they accuse of great
imperfection (if the truth be told, its imperfection consists in this, that
the most suitable homœopathic remedy for each morbid condition does not
spontaneously fly into their mouths like roasted pigeons, without any
trouble on their own part). They know, however, from frequent practice, how
to make up for the inefficiency of the scarcely half homœopathic remedy by
the employment of allopathic means, that come much more handy to them,
among which one or more dozens of leeches applied to the affected part, or
little harmless venesections to the extent of eight ounces, and so forth,
play an important part; and should the patient, in spite of all this,
recover, they extol their venesections, leeches, etc., alleging that, had
it not been for these, the patient would not have been pulled through, and
they give us to understand, in no doubtful language, that these operations,
derived without much exercise of genius from the pernicious routine of the
old school, in reality contributed the best share towards the cure. But if
the patient die under the treatment, as not unfrequently happens, they seek
to console the friends by saying that "they themselves were witnesses that
everything conceivable had been done for the lamented deceased". Who would
do this frivolous and pernicious tribe the honour to call them, after the
name of the very laborious but salutary art, homœopathic physicians? May
the just recompense await them, that, when taken ill, they may be treated
in the same manner!
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[Paul Booyse]

Bacteria , viruses and fungi can cause distress and deterioration, but the
pus and infection is not the disease. It's one of the results of the
contaminants, that are allowed to proliferate, and find the growth medium
suitable. The disease state is dynamic. Through the dynamic
derangement/altered vital force, these organisms can now grow. Normally
they would be contained and killed by a healthy vital force, through the
immune/defence system.

That the disease is dynamic, is basic hahnemann homeopathy 101, you seem to
be stuck on hahnemann 2002.

You base the choice of simillimum on the dynamic disorder, not the
pathogenic result.

Paul Booyse