ORGANON 6: 8

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

§ 8
It is not conceivable, nor can it be proved by any experience in the world,
that, after removal of all the symptoms of the disease and of the entire
collection of the perceptible phenomena, there should or could remain
anything else besides health, or that the morbid alteration in the interior
could remain uneradicated. 4
FN4 When a patient has been cured of his disease by a true physician, in
such a manner that no trace of the disease, no morbid symptom, remains, and
all the signs of health have permanently returned, how can anyone, without
offering an insult to common sense, affirm in such an individual the whole
bodily disease still remains interior?

And yet the chief of the old school, Hufeland, asserts this in the following
words: "homœopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease remains." (Vide
Homoopathie, p.27, 1, 19.) This he maintains partly from mortification at
the progress made by homœopathy to the benefits of mankind, partly because
he still holds thoroughly material notions respecting disease, which he is
still unable to regard as a state of being of the organism wherein it is
dynamically altered by the morbidly deranged vital force, as an altered
state of health, but he views the disease as a something material, which
after the cure is completed, may still remain lurking in some corner in the
interior of the body, in order, some day during the most vigorous health, to
burst forth at its pleasure with its material presence! So dreadful is still
the blindness of the old pathology! No wonder that it could only produce a
system of therapeutics which is solely occupied with scouring out the poor
patient.
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15:50

[Shannon Nelson]

"... And yet the chief of the old school, Hufeland, asserts this in the
following words: "homœopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease
remains."

Isn't that exactly what happens in palliation, or even in a case of
suppression when the imbalance is still interior, and the deeper
problems have not yet become evident?

I think this does bring up the importance of evaluating a case's
progress *over time*; and that is yet another advantage of
(well-practiced) homeopathy--or other truly "holistic" therapy--over
any therapy that focuses on single symptoms.

So I think it's important to see Hahnemann's comment as made in the
context of an *assumption* that the patient is being followed and
evaluated over time--as in fact he did!
Shannon