Dear Chris
You did not read my post with care. I defined Cure as per Hn's definition. Perhaps John had made the same mistake.
So when you wrote the following you were making an error. The penicillin removes the causative agent, but the problem of susceptibility remains! Not a cure according to Hn.
** So to use one of John's examples, if symptoms of a middle ear infection disappear after the patient receives penicillan, that result is now supposedly a homoeopathic cure??? No wonder John picked up on your misapplication of Aphorism 26.
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You also wrote:
** You know perfectly well that a *homoeopathic result* is legitimized only when apriori proving information of a single drug substance is used to determine symptom-similarity in a case of disease, and after the homoeopathic medicine is applied, the symptoms are neutralized and homeostasis returns.
Are you saying that accidental cures do not count?
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§ 142
But how some symptoms1 of the simple medicine employed for a curative purpose can be distinguished amongst the symptoms of the original malady, even in diseases, especially in those of a chronic character that usually remain unaltered, is a subject appertaining to the higher art of judgement, and must be left exclusively to masters in observation.
1 Symptoms which, during the whole course of the disease, might have been observed only a long time previously, or never before, consequently new ones, belonging to the medicine.
My understanding of 'Clinical Proving' is that a remedy when given to a patient has removed amongst others a symptom that has not been listed for that remedy!
When a patient after extensive and incorrect use starts to exhibit a symptom associated with the remedy (like the poor woman we saw in college who had been on Sepia 30C daily for a year) then that is giving a proving of the remedy and alarm bells should have sounded long before.
Rgds
Soroush
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