ON

HIGH POTENCIES
AND

HOMCEOPATHICS.

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS,

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 CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS.
FIRST SERIES.

Man kann sic fast nicht zu klein geben.

Hahnemann (CJiron. Krankh., 2nd. Ed., 1835, I., p. 149.)

The following report presents a selection from a series of

cases in which I administered High Dilution Potencies* with
success.
The Potencies employed were Dilutions made
in these cases
after the centesimal scale, and were prepared by myself
about 1850; some from Triturations, some from Tinctura
fortis, some with succussion by means of a strong steel-spring,

and some with a single jerk of the hand.

The prescription is quantitatively denoted by a fraction,
the numerator being the number of the globules used (about
the size of mustard seed), and the denominator giving the
exact number of the successive centigrade dilutions, includ-
ing the triturations or tinctura fortis respectively.

The nosological designations of the cases are intended

merely as a convenience for registration.

CASES.
1. Stranguria. —Mr. D., of Frankfort on M., Germany,
fifty years old, tailor, short and stout, choleric, cured by me
of a liver complaint within the last year ; took the last medi-

cine for it in June, 1851.

* For particulars, as to history and various kinds of Potencies, see the article on " Homoe-
opathic Notation," in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, 1860, p. 117 and in the American Homoeopathic Review, Vol.
;
II.

p. 451.
4 Seeies I.— Cases 2-4.

On September 1851, he complained of frequent

31st,

desire to urinate, with severe pains, during which lumps of

blood passed with difficulty through the urethral canal, and

pressure after urinating. Nvx vom. T §*. The urine passed

after that clear and without difficulty.

2. Pleurodynia Traumatica.— C. Gk, of Frankfort on

M., Germany, sixteen years old, apprentice, small stature,

dark-blonde, active, (with inherited gout).

October, 1851.Complained of stinging pain at a spot in
the right side of his chest, precisely where he was
stabbed
some years ag©. The pain impaired his respiration. Arnica
m, TT2CI5 After that the pain occurred twice during the
.

next week and never after.

3. Arthritis Chronica Pedum. — The same lad, after the

experience just reported, November 29th, 1851, asked for

medicine for his gout inherited from his father. The pain
was in his feet and exceedingly severe, so that he could
2
hardly bear anything on the affected parts. Sulphur TTj o o-
Immediately after taking this dose, patient felt a stitch going
from the right shoulder-blade toward the middle of the back
this pain increased and went down into both knees. Sting-

ing in the knee-joint, particularly when walking sometimes ;

the legs got slow walking in a moderately warm room

stiff;

was pleasant, but brisk walking aggravated. All this oc-

curred the first day after taking the medicine.
December 11th, 1856. Met patient on the South ferry-
boat, to Brooklyn, N. Y. ;that since the above
he stated,

occurrence he had suffered no more from gout, nor had the

stitch in^ his side returned. His general appearance had
changed very much in his favor.

4. Tussis Spasmodica. —
Lottchen L., a girl of Frankfort
on M., Germany, six years old, small in stature, lively and
delicate, treated by an eminent allceopathic physician for six
months for a dry, spasmodic, exhausting cough, and without
 Series I. Cases 5-9. 5

success. November 28th, 1851, Bellad. j^o- Cured in a

few days.

5. Tussis Spasmodica. — George L., eight years old, brother

of the above patient, was treated alloeopathically without
effect for a similar long standing, dry, wheezing, spasmodic
cough, which affected his chest very much. November 28th,
1851. Bell. 3 1 -q. This one dose cured him in a few days.

6. Dysmenorrhea. —Miss
Sophia H., of Frankfort on M.,
Germany, twenty-five years old, dark complexion, small sta-
but somewhat inclined to depression of spirits,
ture, active,
complained of cramps in the abdomen and violent pains in
her back previous to menstruating, so that she was com-
pelled to lie down. January 29th, 1852. Puis, -g^o- Prompt
relief and no return of pains.

7. Angina Faucium. —
Friedrich H., of Frankfort on M.,
Germany, seventeen years old, apprentice, of dark complex-
ion, tall, scrofulous, had burning in his throat and a sensation
as if it were swollen, exciting a dry cough in the morning.
March 13th, 1852. Sulph. aoioo. Cured promptly.

8. H^morrhoides Ccecm. —N. of Brunswick, Germany,

forty years old, emigrant passenger on board the Jason,
bound to New York, a sturdy fellow of dark complexion,
complained of blind haemorrhoids itching and burning in;

the anus distention of the abdomen and constipation. He

;

had moreover sea-sickness and vomited everything he took.

Sallow countenance. July 20th, 1852. Nux vom. T §o.
July 21st. Improvement about the anus stool abdomen ; ;

soft. Soon after all his complaints disappeared, and did not
come on during the remaining three weeks of the voyage.

9. Ophthalmia Kheumatica.— Mrs. B., of German de-

scent, fifty-two years old, of rheumatic diathesis; caught

cold, had stinging pains in the eyes ; inflammation of the
6 Series I.— Cases 10-13.

bulbous and palpebral conjunctiva could not bear the light ;

and her sight had diminished. April 3rd, 1852. Sulph.

2 oho-
Got wel1 next da 7-

10. Corneitis. —Johanna F. ;

ten months old, of German
descent, scrofulous, presented a milk-white spot as large as a
millet-seedon the cornea, the whole conjunctiva and part of
the cornea being inflamed tongue coated white urinating
; ;

in the night difficult, with crying. August 15th, 1852.

Sulph. 20 000- In a few days all the symptoms disappeared.

11. Diarrhcea Infantilis. — N., a boy of one year and a

half old, has a watery diarrhcea with colic. January, 185-1.

Cham. v. T ,
7 3 q.
Kecovered promptly.

12. —
Cholera Infantum. Thomas H., of Irish descent,
six months old, had convulsions two months ago, and has
suffered from vomiting and purging, aggravated a great deal
the last eleven days.
August 29th, 1854. In very hot and dry weather, the
patientwas found extremely emaciated, with a face like an
old man hands and feet cold incessant vomiting of green-
, ;

ish-yellow water and of the milk taken, as he is nursing all

the time watery diarrhoea penetrating cries, with convul-

;
;

sive movements of hands and feet; sleep with half open

eyes boring of the head into the pillow and carrying of the
;

hand to the back of the head abdomen hard no teeth yet.

;
;

Verat. a. 3 Jn ^ to the child Verat. &. T22 to the mother, to be

;

taken in a tumbler half full of water, one tea-spoonful every

three hours.
August 31st. The child was reported recovered. Patient
had no attack of sickness until the following summer, when
a very slight touch of the summer complaint was easily
overcome.

13. Phthisis Pulmonalis. —Mrs. Congetta M., thirty -four

years old, a lady of Italian extraction, native of Tunis, in
 Series I.— Cases 14-15. 7

Africa, lived in the East until about two years ago, when
she came to this country ; was enfeebled by many troubles,
physical and mental : mother of seven children, the youngest
of whom is one year old of dark complexion and sanguino-
;

nervous temperament speaks seven languages.

;

January 17th, 1855. Complained of a hollow hard cough

hurting her chest and head, with a pressing forward of the
eyes and thick yellowish purulent expectoration, excited by
;

burning pains in the pit of the throat, which continued dur-

ing the coughing. Dullness under the right clavicle
mucous rattle in the right upper lung anteriorly, in expira-
tion and inspiration puerile respiration in the left upper
;

lung pains under the sternum when sewing great emacia-

; ;

tion sallow countenance

;
hollow sunken eyes with dark
;

rings around irregular chills.

; There was a small mole
over the left brow.
Patient suffered habitually from copious and prolonged
menstruation, which, however, she stated was not considered
a disorder in the East. In former pregnancies she had sub-
mitted to the custom, there prevailing, of bleeding from the
arm. Those of her children who were born in the East are
frequently affected with epistaxis. One of her boys, thirteen
years old, who has been under my observation for the last
six years, is a Haemophile and usually enjoys good health
under continued homoeopathic treatment. Phos. jj^.
January 24th. Patient much improved she still coughed ;

hard, especially in cold weather. Phos. 5 /0Tj. After that all

the symptoms disappeared.

14. Kheumatismtts Pedum. — Mr. N., of German descent,

forty years old, a full-sized gentleman, blonde, of rheumatic

complained of weakness in his ankle-joints; sud-
diathesis,
den bending of the ankles, and swelling around them while
walking. February 13th, 1856. Garb. an. j^. Immediately
after taking the medicine, patient felt light and comfortable.
The next day the weakness and swelling disappeared.

15. Anasarca. — The same gentleman complained on a

8 Series I. Cases 16-18.

hot evening, 1856, of swelling, dryness, tension, and

summer
heaviness all over and through his whole body; of burning
of the feet and want of energy, so that he was obliged to lie
down. Bryonia g^o relieved him instantaneously and per-

manently.

Gastrosis.— Mr. S. of German descent, married, forty-

16.
five years old, vender of vegetables, of dark complexion,
middle size, coffee-drinker, had attacks of vomiting ever
since his eighteenth year. He used a great deal of purga-
tives for it, and some time ago a white powder, which was
followed by the most horrible vomiting, convulsions, con-
traction of the feet, and cold perspiration. After that he
left off every kind of medicine. Patient had a good appe-
tite; liked his food well peppered and salted; had a constant
bitter taste in his mouth : felt nauseated all the time, and
vomited immediately whatever he ate. Moreover, he threw
up bitter water all day, and in the night, when it woke him
up rumbling in the bowels tongue pale, slightly coated
; ;

taking pork made him perfectly woe-begone yellow counte- ;

nance ;
emaciation. March 8th, 1856. Nux vom. 4
5 o uu-

December 1st, 1858. Patient got well directly, and has

been growing stout ever since.

17. Diarrhcea Infantilis. — N., an infant, was affected for

some time with a greenish diarrhcea, which lately changed to
brownish, slimy discharges. July China 5 300
7th, 1856. m
a tumbler half full of water, one tea-spoonful every three
hours. Before one-half of this solution was taken, the child
was well.

18. Hemicrania Mercctrialis. —

Mrs. Sarah A., a widow,
forty-five years old,
probably of Irish extraction, slender and
small in stature, dark complexion, nervous temperament,
patient of the Brooklyn Horn. Dispensary suffered from ex- ;

cruciating stinging pain all over the left side of her head,
including the region of the left eye and ear, commencing at
 Series I.— Cases 19-20. 9

five p.m., and increasing during the night to the extreme.

Gums spongy and dark red ; teeth almost all decayed from
the abuse of mercury; trembling all over; extreme sensi-
tiveness. Bells, Bella, Nux v.e, Ver.e, Ars.i, from June 17th
to July 15th, had been given without the desired effect.
August 1st, 1856. Patient was entirely given up to des-
pair, and used latterly large doses of Asafoetida in order to

kill the pain, also without effect. Merc. v. -g-Qw

August -1th. Patient reported, that she had been relieved
of the pain immediately, and that she had come to report it,

and thought she did not need any more medicine.

19. —
Febris Gastrica. Ellen, an Irish cook, about twenty-
five years old, dark complexion, good-natured, complained,
after hard working and lifting, of soreness in and tenderness
of the epigastrium ;
nausea ; disagreeable taste ;
pressure in
the forehead, worse in stooping; want of appetite; tongue
furred and coated yellow and frequent
; fever ; small, quick,
pulse dry, hot skin flushed face great weakness.
;
; She ;

suffered usually in the morning from cramp in the stomach.

August 27th, 1856. Nux vom. 2
5 o oc i
after some aggravation
patient got well next day.

Abscessus Processus Mastoidei. Ernest D., a boy

20. —
of Germandescent, eight years old, two years ago put a bean
into his right ear. It was taken out with severe pain and

some injection made into the ear. Since that time stinking
matter has been discharged from the ear every now and
then. His hearing was not impaired. A few days before
seeing him, an abscess formed behind the right ear, covering
the mastoid process, causing the most excruciating pain,
preventing rest and sleep ; fluctuating slightly ; face sallow

and disfigured ; entire want of appetite for some time. After

warm chamomile poultice, highly offensive matter ran out of

the ear, but the pains continued unabated.

August 8th, 1856, 4 p.m. Directed the poultice to be taken
off and gave him some pellets Hep. s. c. 1 7 5 to be taken
10 Semes I.— Cases 21-23.

in a tumbler half full of water, one tea-spoonful every three

hours.
After the first dose the patient felt immediate relief. The
abscess opened the same night during sleep, and healed with-
out further trouble.

21 % Tussis Stomachica. — Mary M., of German descent,

two and a half years old, blonde, played with a kitten four
or five months previous to my seeing her. Since then she
coughed every night, with effort to vomit and was wasting

away gradually. An allceopathic physician, supposing that

some of the kitten's hair had got into her stomach, relieved
her somewhat by purgatives for a few nights, but then the
complaint returned every night, so that she could not sleep.
Eating sugar and drinking water ameliorated ; stools fre-
quent, of pale clayey color, three or four times a day ; she
had whooping cough when nine months old. November
22d, 1856. Sulph. 2 4oo-
November 29th. The very night after taking the medicine,
the cough subsided, and the child has slept well ever since.

22. Eetentio Urin.e — Martin K., of Irish descent six-

teen months old, had retention of urine from twelve o'clock
A.M. to two p.m., with great tenderness of abdomen, and then
passage of some hot dark-colored urine, staining the clothes;
no urine passed since top of the head very hot, with beat-
;

ing of the pulse in the fontanel, which was not entirely

closed; cold perspiration screaming wildly.
; Before the re-
tention, urine was passed profusely ; rather inclined to cos-
tiveness. The mother has piles and liver complaint and was
nursing the patient. July 1st, 1857. Xux vom. .^ to the
baby; Nux vom. F ^
to the mother.
July 31st. Patient has been well since he took the medicine.

Cholera Nostras.— Mr. S., mason by trade,

23. forty-two
years old, single, of German descent, intemperate, tall, lean,
dark blonde, stammering, had worked hard in Gowanus,
 Series I.— Cases 24-25. 11

daring the heat in July, 1857, and had drunk much bad
water there.
July 19th. He lost his appetite entirely, loathing foul
meat at his meal.
July 25th. Patient presented himself in a pitiable condi-
tion ;
very much
debilitated; face of earthen hue; tongue
thickly coated yellow, with bitter taste; moderate thirst:
throwing up whatever he drinks, sometimes immediately
after taking it; at the same time, yellowish watery diar-
rhoea severe cramps in the calves during the passage, and
;

pains around the navel after it; pulse slow and hard, not
very full. Yerat a. ^{^ in a tumbler half full of water, one
tea-spoonful every two hours. He rallied very soon, and
has been well since,

24. Stranguria.— Miss K, an American lady, thirteen

years old, of unusual embonpoint, suffered for many years
past from difficulties in urinating, and was under homoeo-
pathic treatment.
In September, 1857, she complained of painful urging to
pass urine, followed by not more than one drop of dark-
colored urine at a time under the most excruciating pain.
Canth. Tg23 o in a tumbler half full of water, one tea-spoonful
every two hours. After the first dose the difficulty disap-
peared.

25. Intermittens. —Mr. H., clerk, twenty-six years of

age, of German dark blonde, phlegmatic, had been
descent,
affected with a cold in his head for a week. Two nights
before seeing me, he noticed a disagreeable taste in his
mouth; dry lips; flatulency, and nausea. The next morn-
ing, pressing heaviness over the eyes, much aggravated on
moving the on making a step, and at the least
eyeballs,
noise. He took some gin, which rose up continually from
his stomach took only a cup of chocolate for dinner. About
;

five, p.m., shaking chill, as if his body were suspended in

the air and shaken, with clattering of his teeth cold hands ;
12 Series I.— Case 26.

and coldness of the skin for one hour. After a few pellets
of Aconite 30 in some water, which he took for himself, the
shaking left, but the chilliness continued. No sleep; terrible
heat ;
pains in the back, moving from the sacrum upward to
the region between the shoulders; aching over the eyes;
toward midnight, perspiration with griping in the bowels
then one or two hours of sleep. At three, A.M., awoke with
head-ache, which was ameliorated by laying the head higher;
his bowels had been moved the day before ;
pains along the
lower part of his back as far as the shoulder-blades. This
forenoon, while writing, a stitch along the back which drew
him crookedly together, with an involuntary loud cry now ;

and then chills; pulse small, quick, 96; pressing heaviness

upon the eyeballs on moving them; no appetite; no thirst;
periodical nausea; dry tickling cough. December 15, 1857.
X MW. 5(,0 0-

December 16th. When he got home from the office, he

slept very well until three or four, A.M., next morning. On
waking, he found himself in a profuse perspiration, which
lasted until seven or half-past, A. m. The head-ache was less
severe and went to the vertex, and thence to the occiput and
to the nape of the neck. The griping in the abdomen was of
a spasmodic character, and occurred every ten minutes;
better after passing wind. Constipation ; felt tolerably well
all day until five, p.m., when he got a chill lasting ten
minutes, but less severe than the last one, with pain in the
vertex and in the nape of the neck, higher up than before.
The patient slept well and woke up at five, a.m., next morn-
ing in perspiration, but otherwise comfortable; no appetite;
pulse small and soft; weakness; head-ache gone and return-
ing only after continued writing; rising of wind with
running water in the mouth hands sometimes warm, some-
;

times cold, and in the latter case the nails turn blue. Sacch.
lat., three powders, one every night. The patient had no
further attack, and felt stronger than ever before.

26. Hernia Inguinale Incarcerata.— Charles C, of

 Series I.— Cases 27-28. 13

German months old, was brought to the

descent, nineteen
office from New
York, June 6th, 1858, three, p.m., with
—
the following symptoms: Since morning, short laborious
breathing ; inclination to vomit ; stool in the morning green,
probably from vegetables he took the day before; left
inguinal hernia as large as his fist, bluish-red, hard and
extremely sensitive to the touch when lying down, better
when sitting up. Every attempt to reduce it by taxis was
out of the question. Frequent, almost uncountable pulse
hot hands; continual gasping. Aeon, yloo-
Shortly, after the patient was carried away in the arms of
his mother, he fell asleep, and when he got home it was found
that the hernia had receded.

27. Intermittens. —
Mrs. R, an Irish washer- woman,
about forty years old, got wet on the upper part of her body,
and since then has had chills every clay after dinner, followed
by heat in the evening ; night before seeing me, perspiration
after the heat, all without thirst. Much dull pain in the
head, especially in the forehead, across the chest and in the
arms ; stiffness of the neck pulse weak tongue
;
;
torn, red
looks most miserable. September 19th, 1858, nine, a.m.
JT lh»b. 5 00 .

After some dizziness in the head next day, she got well
without another paroxysm.

28. —
Intermittens. Mrs. 1ST., an American lady, thirty
years old, dark blonde, mother of six children, did not feel
quite well for some days last week, being up at night with
the baby several times. "While sitting in church this fore-
noon, she got an internal chill all over, though the skin was
warm to the touch ; with nausea ; thirst ;
ghastly face
throbbing in her head, on the top and in her temples ; and
red eyes, lasting until half-past two, p.m., when it passed
into a heat with less redness of the eyes, continued head-
ache, and bloatedness of the face. Patient had an old
rheumatic pain for two weeks in the lower back and on the
14 Series L— Case 29.

top of the right hip, which returned the night before last, and
last night,and a very little this morning. Tongue coarse

bowels regular; nurses a baby eight months old; but has

not much milk had fever and ague when a child, and was
;

then treated with large doses of Peruvian bark. February

13th, 1859. Nat. mur. gf^ after the paroxysm in the
evening.
February 14th, four, p.m. The chill passed off; head-
ache lasted until this morning. Patient could not sleep on
account of feeling as if bruised all over, weak and tired.

February 15th. Patient felt quite well ; she remained so

without another chill.

29. Scirrhus Mamm.e. — Mrs. B., a woman of Swiss de-

scent thirty-seven years old, three weeks married, thin, of dark
complexion had been always regularly menstruated until
;

her voyage from Europe to this country, when her catamenia

got out of *order, but was regular for three months previous
to consulting me. While on board the ship, she drank
Chamomile tea instead of coffee. She had several years ago
an abscess at the left hip-joint. Her teeth almost all
decayed. In the fall of 1858, a hard lump gradually grew,
accompanied by severe darting pains, on the upper part of
her sternum, attaining in ten or twelve days the size of a
hen's egg ; it then decreased under the application of warm
poultices and of a yellow ointment, getting softer and softer
until it disappeared.
April 4th, 1859.Patient had suffered for a fortnight
from a swelling of her right mamma. It presents a stone-
hard lump, extending from the left half of her right mamma
to the median line of the sternum, overlapping the normal
boundary as large as her fist. Since the 3rd instant, the
lower part of the sternum projected considerably as if the
bone were swollen. Small hard tumor of hazel-nut size in
the arm-pit. Severe darting pains in the right side of the
chest, all over the right mamma and in the swelling at the
breast-bone, lancinating as far as the arm-pit and along the
 Seeies I.— Cases 30-31. 15

right side of the chest toward the back. These pains

prevent sleep, as they become insufferable when in bed.
Although she had a good appetite, patient appeared ill-fed
and thin. Some red blotches on the upper part of the chest
anteriorly. She could not lie down otherwise than on her
back, nor turn from that position on account of the pains.
Used flax-seed poultice, which did not ease the pain nor help
anything. Carb. an. T(foo-
April 28th, 1859. During the first three days after giving
the medicine, the pains were aggravated and then decreased
gradually only now and then a darting pain was felt in the
;

hard places. The lumps were less hard and nothing of the
tumor under the axilla was left. No more medicine given.
March 6th, 1860. Patient is very well ; was delivered of
a vigorous boy a fortnight ago, and her mammary apparatus
is in the best condition. Lumps and pains had by the end
of May gradually, and wholly, disappeared.

30. Cephalalgia ab Ablactatione. Mrs. K, twenty —

years old dark complexion, phlegmatic, complained of heavy
;

acute pain across the forehead over the eyes, worse in stoop-
ing the eyes were quite red when she rose up again. Pa-
;

tient was weaning a baby, and has a superabundance of

milk flowing away involuntarily. Depression of spirits;
very slight leucorrhea ; was very hot the previous night
^,nd took Acon.3 for it, which moderated the heat, but not
3
the head-ache. October 23d, 1859. Puis. TIj p.
October 25th. One hour after taking the medicine the
head-ache was gone, the milk dried up without further incon-
venience, and she recovered.

31. Dentitio Difficilis. — Sophia S., of German descent,

two years old, with light blonde hair and blue eyes, com-
plained for some time of her legs. The last molar tooth was
just cutting through with its first point. In the afternoon,
effort to vomit and choking; towards evening, apparently
itching in the arms ; in the night, delirium, talking during
16 Series I.— Case 82.— Observations.

sleep, pointing with the finger to the forehead, better by

laying the hand on it ; floccilegium ; much heat, alternately

in head and hands sometimes large round red spots on

;

both cheeks much thirst

; watery discharge from her nose
; ;

watering of the eyes, which look pale and have a staring

expression; dry cough. January 9th, 18G0. Bell, q^q-q in

Sacch. lactis.

February 3d. Patient got well immediately after taking

this dose.

32. Distortio Carpi. —Mrs. 1ST., thirty years old, of Ger-

man August
descent, full habit, sprained her left wrist last
on lifting hand a heavy bowl of peaches over the
by her left

table. Since then, she has suffered when using the hand
with shooting pains in the wrist, as in inflammatory rheuma-
tism, very much aggravated at night in bed. Patient used
Opodeldoc liniment at the time of the accident, to no avail.
The pains had been more severe for the last few days and
nights. There was a slight swelling upon the middle of the
left wrist, and want of strength in the part. March 29th,
1860. Rhus tox. ioIoo-
April 7th. Patient had no pain the next night after the
medicine, but the following day all along, severe jumping,
shooting, stinging, flashing, hot pains, such as are observed
in inflammatory rheumatism, not only in the affected spot
which appeared slightly swollen, but all around and through*
the whole wrist, and almost as far as the elbow. Toward
night the pains subsided. Since then the wrist has been
wholly free from pain and swelling, and as strong as ever.

OBSERVATIONS.
Cum saepe a minimis maxima proflciscantur.
Leibnitz.

In conclusion I beg to submit the following observations :

1. Theaction and efficaciousness of homoeopathic remedies are not

limited to the lower preparations, nor to the thirtieth, or 200th Potency,
but their healing properties are preserved, propagated, and exalted through
 Series I. Observations 2-15. 17

a series of still higher Potencies, being evident even in the 20,000th centi-
grade Dilution of Sulphur.
2. The question, where the terminus of the medical action and effica-
ciousness of homoeopathic remedies is to be found at all by potentiation,

is still open.
3. High Potencies prove efficacious and curative in single doses.
4. High Potencies sometimes present the phenomenon of homoeopathic
aggravation.
5. High Potencies prepared by dilution with a single jerk of the hand,

prove efficacious and curative.

6. High Potencies prepared by dilution with a strong succussion, some-

times do not present any homoeopathic aggravation.

7. Higher potentiation seems to be the means of rendering the remedy

assimilable and thus homoeopathically active.

8. The curative action and effect of homoeopathic remedies, as already
foreseen by Hahnemann (Organon, fifth edition, §275), is in every in-
dividual case conditionated and governed by the dose as well as by the
homoeopathicity of the drug.
9. Thecurative action and effect of High Potencies being established as
a fact, any Potency, and consequently any High Potency, may be the dose
in any given case.
10. From this arises a necessity, to individualize the dose as well as the
remedy.
11. The chances of individualizing the dose increase in the ratio, in
which, by experience, a greater variety of Potencies is placed under our
command.
In this view the posological problem grows in importance, and, as
12.
itcan only be conquered by "pure experiments, careful observation, and
correct experience," (Organon, § 278,) it is of the greatest moment to
multiply the experiments with higher Potencies.
13. Such experiments should be made with the experimenters' own
preparations, and on the human organism, which so far, and especially in
its diseased condition, appears to be the only reagent, or test, delicate

enough for substances as fine as such medicines.

Homoeopathic Potencies, that is to say, those fine preparations
14.
of medicaments which are effected by the peculiar method and operation
of Hahnemann's invention, are, in fact, and strictly speaking, not mere
divisions only of the drug into its parts, but are rather differentiations
and progressions, being at the same time, as it were, successive repro-
ductions and propagations of the medical properties of the drug and its
given part.
15. For the required calculations, a mere arithmetical enumeration of
the particles into which Potentiation is assumed to divide the given
quantity of the drug, is insufficient and dubious, being apt to cause mis-
take and confusion, as it has done already and being unwieldly, too, on
;
18 Seeies L— Observations 16-20.

account of the immense array of its figures and, in fact, not adequately ;

corresponding to the real truth in the matter.

16. For a theory of Potentiation, the labors of Korsakoff and Joslin
are pre-eminently valuable.
For the practice with High Potencies, by experience so far, the rule
17.
holds good the moke susceptible the organism, the higher the
:

POTENCY AND THE FINER THE DOSE.

18. For a scientific explanation of the curative action and efficiency of
High Potencies, it might serve, to apply to Therapia a certain Law of
Nature, which was discovered and mathematically established by Mau-
pertuis. This is the Law of the Least Quantity of Action, by some called
lex parsimoniae, or Law of Thrift ridiculed by Voltaire, defended ;

and explained by Euler, happily touched upon by Franklin, and devel-

oped by Lagrange. It is thus enunciated by the discoverer: u La quan-
tity enaction necessaire pour causer quelque changement dans la nature, est

la plus petite quHl soit possible,'

1
''

— i. e., the quantity of action necessary to

effect any change in nature is the least possible ; and again :
" LorsquHl
arrive un changement dans la Nature, la quantite d'' action necessaire pour
le changement est la plus petite quHl soit possible,' 1
''
— i. e., when a change
occurs in nature, the quantity of action necessary for the change is the
least possible. (Oeuv. Bresde, 1752, p. 41.)*
19 According to this general principle, the decisive moment is always
a Minimum, an Infinitesimal. Apply this to our Therapeutics,
and it will
be perceived, that the least possible dose is the highest potency and neces-
sarily sufficient to turn the scale, that is, to effect the cure always pro- —
vided the remedy being homceopathically correct.
20. This Law of the Least Action (Maxima Minimis) appears to be
an essential and necessary complement of the Law of Rommopathicity
(Similia Similibus), and co-ordinate with it.

* Professor Peirce says, "This great proposition which was announced by its illustrious
author with the seriousness and reverence of a true philosopher, is the more remarkable,
that, derived from purely metaphysical doctrines, and taken in combination with the Law
of Power, which likewise reposes directly upon a metaphysical basis, it leads at once to
the usual form of the dynamical equations."— (Analytical Mechanics, Boston, 18.55, p. 416.)
 Series II. 19

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS.

SECOND SERIES.

The possibility of communicating medical properties to an indifferent body

without the medium of a liquid, without trituration, without commixtion,
nay, without material division, is a fact new in Homoeopathy, and highly
important for theory and practice.
Korsakoff, 1S31.

My first report on High Potencies contains cases of treat-

ment with High Dilution Potencies.
The following presents a series of cases in which I admin-
istered High Potencies of another and different kind and
preparation. They were made in the dry way, about 1850.
and in this manner: I took one or more globules of the
thirtieth centesimal Dilution Potency (medicated in the ratio
of Grtt. i. put them into a 3 ii vial, containing about
. Grr. X.),

2,000 unmedicated globules (70 to Gr. i.), and shook them

moderately, and in every direction, some by means of a little
sand-mill constructed for the purpose, some by the hand
only, long enough to have every globule brought in contact
with the others.
This mode of preparing Potencies, it will be perceived, is

similar to Korsakoff's medicating globules without Dilution,

but it from Korsakoff's method in the ratio of medi-
differs

cation,and in the mode of succussion, also probably in the

size of the globules. Korsakoff medicated 1,000 globules
with one globule of the fifteen hundreth centigrade Dilution

of Sulphur with manual succussion for one minute, and

13,500 globules with one globule of the thirtieth centigrade
Dilution of Sulphur with manual succussion for five minutes.
Hahnemann, at the time, approved of this method of Korsa-
koff's in emphatic terms.
20 Seeies II. Case 1.

In order to distinguish this kind of Potencies from the

Dilution and other Potencies, I propose for them the name
of Contact Potencies and a Notation by the sign ( c ) with the
Potency number above (£,) where the fractional figure gives
the number of globules of a centesimal Dilution Potency,
from which the Contact Potency is made. Thus, Puis. Q
2
3 I, means two globules of the
first (bimillesimal) Contact
3

Potency from the thirtieth centesimal Dilution Potency out

of one drop of the tinctura fortis of Pulsatilla.

CASES.
—
Lactatio Nimia. Mrs. C, of Frankfort on Main, Ger
1.

many, dark complexioned, small stature, mother of ten

children, the youngest of whom is nursing yet.
July 30th, 1851. Presents the following symptoms gen- ;

eral weakness, from prolonged lactation especially in the

back ; violent pressing-out pains in the forehead, as if the
eyes would fall out, especially at night ; scalp painful to the
touch yellowish face on taking a full breath, the breath
;
;

seems to remain suspended in the chest, with long stitches

through the middle of the chest, as far as the back
appetite good abdomen meteoristic and painful to the
;

touch violent diarrhoea

; heaviness of the legs chilliness
; ;

of the whole body, especially in the back restless sleep and ;

frightful dreams talking during sleep

; irritability, vexa- ;

tiousness; Patient has menstruated for

great prostration.
some time and had suffered on several previous occa-
past,
sions in her life from considerable loss of blood. China
_2_ 1
3 c-

A few hours after the medicine, the menses made their

appearance, three days too soon, and as copious as a hemor-
rhage of the womb, of normal blood, lasting for six days,
when the patient felt better.
July 9th. Nine days after taking the medicine, the dysp-
noea increased to such a degree that it was feared her breath
 Series 11.— Case 2. 21

would stop entirely when in such agony she would take

;

hold of anything she could reach with her hands. The

breathing was very deep and accompanied with long stitches
through her chest into her back.
July 14th (fourteen days after taking the medicine). The
asthmatic attacks are renewed. The child was weaned eight
days after taking the medicine without any difficulty about
the breast. Bry. -f^ J.
July 15th. The patient had lost her appetite, which, how-
ever, soon returned. Breathing was laborious and deep,
accompanied with short stitches proceeding from the interior
of the right side of the chest as far as the left shoulder.
July 16th, at midnight, exactly twenty-four hours after
taking the last medicine, the patient had headache, and
noticed a sudden appearance of milk in the mamma which
was already dried up at the same time felt drawing in one
;

of her calves, as if from fatigue. After that she rallied in a

short time.
i

2. Otalgia. — O. N., American girl of German descent,

aged seven years, blonde hair, blue eyes, very lively.
—
March 29th, 1857. In the forenoon felt violent pains in
her right ear, probably caused by exposure to draught of
air. Her father had given her Bell. 3^.

One, p. M. The pains continue unchanged and seem to be

worse, because she is now screaming, which is quite unusual
with her when suffering pain. Cham. 3^. This dose first
aggravated still more, and then brought some relief, but the
pains soon returned. Cham. v. ^s I did nothing. About
two, p. m., Puis. ^§ I. After that the pains were aggravated
again, and the patient rolled about on the sofa, crying aloud.
I then advised her to sit up. She did so, and a few moments
after the pains subsided permanently, proving beyond doubt
that this was the effect of the Pulsatilla (cf. Hahnemann's
Reine Arzneimittellehre, 3d edition, Vol. II., Sympt. 6±6 and
Note).
22 Series II.— Cases 3-4.

3. Croup. — N., American girl, fourteen months old, scro

fulous, dark-complexioned.
March 27th, 1857. —
After a catarrhal stadium which lasted
two days, during a dry, harsh and cold wind, started from
her sleep, at about eleven, p. m., with a sudden violent cough-
ing-spell, resembling precisely the barking of a hoarse dog
there was high fever, drowsiness, dread to cough, putting the
forefinger into the mouth, hard and short breathing, restless-
ness. After Spong. t.
3%,
she became quiet for some time,
though the hard and short breathing continued. In about
half an hour she coughed again. Some catarrhal sound was
now mixed with the croupy one. Spong. t. ^. After that
she was somewhat relieved, and fell into a doze. Twenty
minutes later she had another and more severe attack. The
breathing was short, hard and loud she pushed the head;

backwards ; eyes half shut, face red with a bluish tint,

involuntary motion of the hand and of the feet, throwing

left

herself on her mother's bosom for help. She then had a

slighter cough than before, which, however, was more har-
assing and threatened to suffocate her. I now gave her
some globules of Spong. t. ^
\, prepared in the afternoon of

that day. After this dose she became easier, and having
repeated the dose twenty minutes later, I left the little patient
sleeping quietly on her mother's lap. Next morning the
cough was loose. The croup disappeared, and did not come
on again.

4. Colica. —Miss N., an American lady, a sensitive invalid,

twenty-six years old, of fine cerebral development, suffering
for years from a spinal disease, resulting from external injury.
March, 1857. Complains of colic. A medical friend of
her's had given her several remedies without effect. After
the administration of one dose of Nux vom. /^ \ the colic ,

yielded readily without producing the homoeopathic aggra-

vation of Nux vom., which with her is invariably brought
on when given in lower Potencies, even as high as 100
(centes.), viz., constant disagreeable urging to urinate, with
 Series II.— Cases 5-6. 23

frequent and copious micturition, and prostration. From the

following, it appears that even the six-hundredth centesimal
Dilution of Arsen. a. was too low to prevent serious aggrava-
tion, which, however, subsided promptly after the use of
Nux vom. 5,000.
September 20th, 1857. Prescribed for scorbutic affection
of the mouth, throat and stomach, of a high degree, Ars.
g^, to be dissolved in one gill of water, and only one tea-
spoonful to be taken.
September 21st, ten, a. m. Fifteen minutes after taking
the first dose, began to pass watery urine every
the patient
ten or fifteen minutes, and in consequence a pain, which she
describes as bearing resemblance to a toothache, came on in
a place of the coccygeal region, where she was hurt at the ;

same time bearing down in the genital region. Nux vom.

5
J^- The urinary difficulty ceased immediately, and the
patient was relieved of her other complaints.

5. Stomatitis. — The same patient.

April 11th, 1857. Complains of cankers at the root and
left side of her tongue, which presented deeply-excavated

sores of pea-size, covered with a whitish secretion. These

were removed within two days by the use of Ars. g35 \, every
three hours.
i

6. Croup. — C. N., three and a half years old, American

boy, of German descent, dark blonde, hazel eyes, good-
natured, of fine nervous organization.
January 14th, 1858, at 10.30, p. m. Awoke suddenly with
a rough, deep, hollow, barking cough. Spong. t. 30, 1100,
1500. Some globules of each of these Potencies dissolved
in one gill of water, one teaspoonful to be taken after every
coughing spell. The cough did not moderate, but the patient
began to perspire about the throat and chest. Hoarseness
came on gradually and increased until 11.30, p. m., when the
cough presented a hoarse, stifled sound, in addition to the
deep metallic barking tone. The inspiration was laborious,
24 Series II.— Cases 7-9.

with a whistling noise, and the speech was broken from the
impending hoarseness; at the^same time, cheeks red and hot,
forehead cool, hands hot, pulse not accelerated, perspiration.
Bell. 30 I relieved the hoarseness in half an hour, and dimin-
ished the cough, which assumed again the hollow metallic
barking sound, but was less frequent. After another dose
of Bell. 6 I, profuse perspiration broke out; the patient
yawned much and sneezed three times.
January 15th, at 12.30, A. M. I left him quietly sleeping.
The croup was gone.

7. Coffeismus. — Mrs. D., of Frankfort on Main, Germany,

thirty-two years old, blonde, blue eyes, was in the habit of
sitting much and drinking strong coffee.
October 27th, 1850. Eeported violent headache with
peevishness and vexatiousness, want of sleep, short dry
cough, and nervousness in general. Nux vom. 3% \ . After
that, all the symptoms subsided.

Incontinentia
8. Uhm —
Noct. Charles M., American,
of Germandescent, two and three-quarter years old.
October 14th, 1856. Wet his bed for the last two nights,
somewhat loose in his bowels, looks thin, sometimes dark
around the eyes, no worms observed. Cina f*5 \ Wet his .

bed no more.

9. Dysenteria.— Mrs. K,fifty-two years old, of English

descent, tall and with dark hair and blue eyes, and a
stout,
syphilitic taint in her system, caught cold whilst perspiring
and was taken with dysentery March 27th, 1857. The
following symptoms were reported :

March 31st, 1857. Awful pains

in her bowels and across
her back, like labor-pains; incessant straining and slight
bloody discharges every half hour. Starch was taken seve-
ral times without avail. The patient had the cholera in the
summer, six years ago. Nux vom. 5
6
u ^, to be taken in one
gill of water, one teaspoonful every two hours.
 Series II. Case 9. 25

April 2d. Discharges once an hour, containing less blood,

more white, flesh-like, inodorous substance, and streaks of

bright blood with tenesmus; incessant straining without
effect ; tenderness of the abdomen grumbling ;
in the bowels
dreadful pains across the bowels and in the back, like labor-
pains ;
urine scanty, very hot and red, with sediment ;
pain
in the head, "as would come apart;" pale
if it face. Colch.
aut. J
3 o I, prepared on the spot, three globules to be taken
dry after every passage.
April 3d, 1857. The patient took one dose once an hour,
and in her own words reported "After I had taken nine :

pills, it She had, yesterday,

stopped the pain wonderfully."
a discharge every one or two hours none in the night, which ;

was passed in sound sleep two bright yellow faecal discharges

;

this morning, with bearing-down pain in the bowels, the last

one less severe ; urine normal. Colch. aut., as above, to be

continued.
April 4th, 1857. Patient had, yesterday, about eight yellow
faecal discharges. This morning only two. The last one con-
sisted of white flesh-like substance with a streak of blood
and pale yellow matter without odor ; five minutes before
the passage, pain in the bowels ; slept all night ; face natural
some cramp in the sole of the right foot for five minutes, a
symptom which she never had before. Colch. aut., as above,
to be continued, three globules after every discharge.
April 11th, 1857. Patient had now and then some pain
in her bowels, which subsided after taking the globules.
Bowels regular now. Had, last evening, giddiness, pain in
the back of her head, and a kind of a rheumatic pain in her
back, between the hinges, as she had two months ago when
passing red gravel. All these symptoms disappeared in the
morning. She took the globules twice a day until yesterday
morning, when she took the last. Feels very weak yet.
Appetite poor. China -/a \, two powders, one to be taken
every night, dry. After that she recovered.
26 Series II. Observations 1-13.

OBSERVATIONS.
Even the smallest quantities become important when they get large co-efficients.
Heubart.

In conclusion, I beg to submit tbe following observations :

1. Higb Contact Potencies prove efficacious and curative in single

doses.
2. They sometimes present the phenomenon of homoeopathic aggrava-
tion.
3. They have not the aggravation which follows the use of lower and

—
higher Dilution Potencies in the fourth case above reported.
4. They exert their action immediately, as well as ten years after pre-
paration.
5. The potentiating by Contact is a mode of refining homoeopathic

remedies by which a degree of fineness is attained different from that by

Dilution.
6. Succussion does not seem to constitute an essential element in the
preparation of High Contact Potencies.
7. Practically, the action of High Contact Potencies presents the pecu-
liar distinctness of the action of High Potencies in general, and operates
specifically to the point, clearly reflecting the pathogenetic characteristics
of the homoeopathic remedy, precisely covering the individual and most
important symptoms, and promptly removing the same.
8. Their action, by this specificness of character, avoids wasting any
of the elements of the organism and drawing any more on the same
than is exactly required for the restoration of health.
9. They are great economizers of life and health, operating in subser-
viency to the general Laws of Nature, which always accomplishes the
greatest good with the least expenditure of force.
10. Consequently, High Contact Potencies are most valuable and avail-
able for the purpose of meeting peculiar and special shades of suscepti-
bility in the organism, which the close observer perceives in the given
case by strict individualization.

11. Pharmacologically, Potentiation by dry Contact proves to be another

mode of propagating and successively improving, reproducing, and pro-
portionally exalting the medical properties of homoeopathic drugs.
12. On this basis, whatever mathematical calculations may be required,
they will have to be not mere arithmetical multiplications, or divisions,
or formations of powers ; but calculations of proportions and progres-
sions, involving the Law
of the Series and the higher branches of Ana-
lysis, whilst for the present it is sufficient for all practical purposes, to

have the Potencies numbered, that is, counted as often as the process of
Potentiation by dry Contact took place successively.
13. Scientifically, Potentiation by dry Contact appears to be effected by
 Series II. Observations 14-22. 27

a bare bringing together of unmedicated globules with medicated ones,

without an intervening medium the only medium apparent being the
;

air : Action in presence.

14. Therefore, it may properly, with Korsakoff and Hahnemann, be
regarded as similar or equivalent to medicating the globules by infection
or contagion.
15. In this view, an analogy, if not more, is presented with the action
of hypothetic poison, or nosopcesis of miasmatic and contagious char-
acter, which acts, as it were, as High Contact Potency of matter prepared
in Nature's own laboratory.
16. The fact being established, that medical properties are communi-
cated by mere dry Contact, or Action in Presence, there is no reason, why
we should not assume, that the organism can be medicated in like manner :

— Homozopathization.
17. If so, this would give a satisfactory explanation of the fact, that
Homoeopathic High Potencies do communicate their medical properties,
upon application to the organism by mere Contact, and exert their reme-
dial or curative action upon it directly, sometimes instantaneously, and
independently of digestion and circulation.
IS. Such decided affection of the organism through a High Contact
Potency is not more wonderful, than the analogical fact, that a bar of
polished metal, being indifferent in a horizontal position, becomes elec-
trical merely by being placed vertically, as has recently been shown by
Henry.
19. Here may be well applied, what Draper states in relation to Allotro-
pism " Does not all this show, that substances may be, as it were, in a
:

quiescent state, and on the application of what may perhaps seem the
most insignificant cause, may suddenly assume activity and forthwith
satisfy their chemical affinities ?"
20. Since mere Contact of so refined a substance as a Homoeopathic
High Potency, is certainly an infinitesimal, or least possible quantity of
action, clearly this medication by Contact, as well as, indeed, every
homoeopathic cure, is quantitatively governed, conditionated, and ex-
plained, by the universal principle of Maupertuis, before alluded to.
21. On this principle, the least possible quantity of action being suffi-
cient to cause a change, the curative properties and action of the homoeo-
pathic remedy and necessarily regulated and governed by its
are actually
preparation and application in dther words the quality of the action of
; :

the homoeopathic remedy is determined by its quantity.

22. Consequently, the Law of the Least Quantity of Action (Maxima
Minimis) will have to be acknowledged to be the posological principle of
Homozopathy
28 Series III.

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS.

THIRD SERIES.

Capable of being treated in the rigid manner of the positive sciences, and
removed, by reason of the nature of the topics with which it is concerned,
from the strifes of medical sectarianism, this noble subject can develope
itself in silence, without disturbance and without restraint ;and yet such
an advance cannot take place without compelling a reflecting effect to ensue
in statical physiology, and hastening the time, when, by the united consent
of all physicians, it, too, will be cleared from every mystification, and
brought within the pale of exact and positive science.
Draper.

Tyiavoii xai vooavaig ravrov.

Hermias in Plat. Phaedr.

The following cases have been treated with High Dilution

Potencies, prepared in the following manner : One or more
globules of a given centigrade Potency were dissolved in a
few drops of water, and about as much alcohol (94°) was
poured upon this solution, as would give a volume of one
hundred drops of alcohol for all together from this Dilution
;

globules were medicated in the ratio of one drop to ten

grains. One or more globules of the so obtained Potency
were then used for a second Dilution, and the same process
was repeated a third time.
It will be seen, that this mode of Potentiation coincides
with the one adopted by Jeanes, but it differs from that, by
starting the first Dilution from a given centigrade Dilution
Potency, and not from the mother tincture or saturated solu-
tion. According to my method, the refining process is con-
siderably accelerated, and I understand, that Hahnemann
pursued a similar plan in his later years.
The notation of these Potencies consists in fractional
figures, thenumerator* indicating the number of globules
given, the denominator the number of the Potency out of
 Seeies III. Cases 1-3. 29

which the Globule Potency was prepared, and in the globule

sign of Hahnemann with the Potency number above, e. g.,
Merc. v. 325 I, which means Here. v. two globules of the third
Globule Dilution Potency out of one or more globules of the
thirtieth centigrade Dilution Potency.

CASES.
1. —
Hjsmorrhoides Ani Ccecle. Mrs. 1ST., 30 years of age,
of German descent, black hair and blue eyes, small stature.
December 12th, 1858. Complains since this morning of
burning pains in the anus with protrusion of a varix as
large as a pea, very painful on sitting upon. Sep. /„ 2Q .

This dose relieved the pain, as soon as it melted upon the

tongue, "as if from an aura," (Hauch.) Patient also felt
easy as if there was no protrusion whatever, which disap-
peared pretty soon altogether.

2. Irritatio Spinalis. —
Mrs. D., 30 years of age, Ame-
rican, black hair and blue eyes, of nervous temperament,
middle size.

September 23d, 1856. Complains of pain in her left side

as if she had lifted something heavy, and of weakness under
her left shoulder-blade from fatigue. Her whole left side is
weak habitually. The pain came on ten years ago, during
pregnancy, and lasted till after confinement, when it went
away for a short time. It then returned, and continued ever
since.Calc. ^% |.
October 11th. Patient felt much stronger after that, and
was decidedly improved. The pain was gone, and has not
returned since.

3. —
Eheumatismus Acutus. Mr. N., a full-sized gentle-
man ofGerman descent, 45 years of age, blond, subject to
rheumatic attacks from time to time.
February, 1860. Was down very hard with inflammatory
30 Series III. Observations 1-4.

rheumatism in his knees and feet, which were considerably

swollen, red, and extremely sensitive to the least touch or
motion. His susceptibility, by want of sleep and by pain,
was increased to such a degree that when I had ordered Bry.
3% I to be given three times during the night, it was
found
that every dose severely aggravated his pains immediately
after taking, and his wife remarked to me the next morning,
'•'your medicine is too fine, it affects his nerves too much."
High inflammatory fever, continuing without intermission,
caused me to order one drop of Aeon. 1, to be given in one

gill of water by the tea-spoonful. The first dose imme-

diately brought on strong undulation of the heart and did
not diminish the fever, on the contrary, the fever ran higher,
and alarming delirium took place. Other low Potencies,
Nux v. 12, Bry. 3 and 4, were of no better use. I then pre-
pared and gave to the patient a dose of Aeon. 2000 \ which
cooled him off immediately, and then at short intervals of
two or three hours, Bry. 10,000 \, % \, which brought on, for
the first time, rest and sleep. These Potencies were then ad-
ministered in the further course of this case with marked
beneficial effect, and patient got well.

OBSERVATIONS.

'H Oftoia >? dvojioia e£ npxii.

Hippocrates.

Nur das Gleicli — Gegcn heilt.

Hering.

Relating to these High Potencies, I beg to submit the following obser-

vations :

1. High Globule Dilution Potencies prove efficacious and curative in

single closes.
2. They sometimes present the phenomenon of homoeopathic aggravation,
though, it would seem, in a lesser degree than the other High Potencies.

3. They, therefore, seem to be especially adapted to the higher grades

of susceptibility of the organism, and also to those low states where

aggravations are to be dreaded as lessening the chance of cure.
4. They, for this reason, are most valuable agents, to meet distinct
 Seeies III. Observations 5-17. 31

harassing symptoms in those cases, where the fund of life is oscillating

towards sure dissolution.
5. These High Globule Dilution Potencies are very practicable in regard
to their preparation, since a higher degree of fineness is obtained in a
shorter time and with less labor and expense, than by Hahnemann's and
Korsakoff's methods, especially if the proportions are enlarged in the
inverse ratio, what Hering calls erweitern.' '

The common mode of giving the pellets, by dissolving in gills of

6.

water, and by tea-spoonful, first introduced by Aegidi, is a preparation

similar to these High Globule Dilution Potencies Befracta dosis. :

. 7. The curative action of homoeopathic remedies consists in the mutual

action of remedy and organism, that is, of the drug in its proper selection
and application and of the organism in its actual state and susceptibility
— Mutuum.
8. Mutual action consists of action and reaction, and they are always
contrary and equal, under the third Newtonian Law : Contrariety and
Equality of Mutual Action.
9. Mutuality of Action is the qualitative character of all medical action.

10. For the purpose of effecting the cure, as the organism must be
susceptible of the remedy, so the remedy must be susceptible by the
organism and its concerning organs.
11. The susceptibility of the organism is varying and different in each
individual case.
12. For tins reason, it is necessary, to individualize the susceptibility as
well as the dose and the remedy. (Organon, §§ 92, 95, 97.)
13. The susceptibility actually stands as the indication and measure for
the form and quantity of remedial action required in the given case, i. e.,

for Potency and Dose.

14. The correct judgment of the actual susceptibility in the given case
implies not only the careful examination of the case, considering the
morbid sjmiptoms of the organism, in its present state as well as the
setiologicalsymptoms of previous health and habit and disease, and
including the physical method of inspection, palpation, pressure, suc-
cussion, percussion, auscultation, mensuration, chemicaland microsco-
and the like but also the perfect knowledge of the
pical investigation, ;

mode of action and power of the medicine upon the healthy and sick
organism, and its probable ratio to the organism in question, derived
from the above elements, after having been eliminated.
15. The Susceptibility, therefore, serves as the diagnostic principle of
Homoeopathy.
16. Susceptibility depends upon Assimilability of matter in general.
As the organism is assimilative to the remedy, so the remedy is assimi-
lable by the organism, and vice versa.
17. Pathologically, as well as physiologically, life is conditionated by
Assimilation, and depends upon Assimilation
it in disease as well as in
health, and as much was taught by Hippocrates.
32 Sekies III.— Observations 18-34.

18. Health and disease are not contradictory things, but, as has
been
observed by Hahnemann, Reil and Comte, contrasted forms and modes
of existence, and contrary states of the same organism, and both are
governed by the same laws.
19. Consequently, Pathology is the counterpart of Physiology,
both
being correlate to the given state of the organism and under the dominion
of the same Laws of natural processes.
20. Therefore, in a physiological and pathological aspect, the healing
process by High Potencies, in its modality, appears to be a process of
Assimilation, the disease, as Hering expresses it, assuming the form of
the remedy.
21. The Law of Assimilation serves as the physiological and pathological
principle of Homoeopathy.
22. Quantitatively, Assimilation is molecular, and depends upon the
fineness and infinitesimality of matter and motion, both of the drugs and
the concerning organs : Homceoleptome'ria.
23. Assimilation by the organism is quantitatively carried on, and
mediated, by the elementary organs and imperceptibly fine and delicate
conduits in the organism.
24. Accordingly, a corresponding fineness of the drug matter is re-
quired, proportionate to the assimilativity of the organs.
25. The crude and massive form of the drug is not such as to admit of
the required assimilation.
26. The required fineness and assimilability of the drug-matter is

obtained by Potentiation.
27. The quantity of remedy thus obtained is, necessarily, molecular

and infinitesimal.
28. Infinitesimality is the quantity of remedy required for the action

which be curative and to constitute the healing process, the remedy

is to

assuming the form of the disease.

29. Therefore, Infinitesimality stands as the indication and measure for

the remedial quantity required for the curative process:— Posological

Endeixis.
30. Infinitesimality is, in point of fact, the quantity of the homoeopathic
remedy :• High Potency ; Minimum.
31. Consequently, Infinitesimality is the quantitative .principle of
Homoeopathy.
32. Infinitesimalization, or High Potentiation, and Microdosia, serve as
the pharmacological principles of Homoeopathy.
33. Qualitatively, Assimilation depends on the material nature and
distinctive quality of matter and action, both of the concerning organs
and the drug, and upon their specific relation to each other.
34. This quality and relation to each other, of drug and organism, in
the healing process, must necessarily be the same with the nature of all
matter and action in mutual action, that is, under the third Newtonian
Law of Motion Contrariety (and Equality) of Action and Reaction.
:
 Series III. Observations 35-45. 33

35. Accordingly, the very nature and conception of a remedy or medi-

cine consists in this, that it is opposed and contrary to the given state of
the organism: Contrariety.
36. Therefore, a drug, in order to be a remedy or curative medicine, is
necessarily opposed and contrary to disease, when that is the given state
of the organism, and equally opposed and contrary to health, when that
is the given state of the organism Contrarium. :

37. Consequently, every drug which is a remedy or curative medicine,

is always a medium, i. e., means of changing the given state of the organism

into its contrast, —health into disease (Nosansis, PatJwpoesis, Pathogenesis) ,

and disease into health {Hygiansis, Hygiopoesis, Paiholctony).

38. This Contrariety is found, according to the above quoted maxim
with which Hippocrates opens his book on the Physician's Office, by con-
trasting the similities and the dissimilities, that is, by contrasting the given
states of the organism, as they are affected by the drug, which are contrary,
and also the effects of the drug upon the organism in its contrasted states.
39. By so contrasting, the Contrariety is shown in the positive fact,

that the effect of the drug administered upon the healthy is opposite and
contrary to that of the same drug administered to the diseased, and, vice
versa, that the effect of the drug administered to the diseased is opposite
and contrary to that of the same drug administered to the healthy :

Nosamis <-> Hygiansis.

40. This Contrariety is the real character of the homoeopathic reme-
dies,and positively proved by experiment and experience, our Provings
and Clinics, since Hahnemann invented and operated upon his ever
admirable plan of pathogenetically testing drugs upon the organism in
its healthy state.
41. This Contrariety stands as the indication and measure for the
direction of the remedial action required for the Mutual Action of which
the homoeopathic healing process consists.
42. Therefore, Contrariety is the pharmacodynamkal principle of
Homoeopathy.
43. In a chemical aspect this Contrariety, or opposition, is represented
by the physical force, or property of matter, which is known to physical
and chemical Science by the affirmative term of Affinity, which is the
affinity of opposition between two different bodies and particles of different
nature to one another, and depends, as Faraday states, upon the energy
with which particles of different kinds attract each other Molecular :

Attraction.
44. The effects of Affinity are neutralization, as shown by Berthollet,
and all cure, as observedby Hering, is conditionated by a kind of neutrali-
zation effected by Chemical Affinity between drug-matter and disease-
matter.
45. Consequently, this Affinity and Contrariety represents, in fact,
what Hahnemann called " medicamentorum vires positivce" that is, the ,

specific quality and relation to the organism of those substances which

3
 34 Series III. Observations 46-55.

are known as Homoeopathic Potencies : Pharmacodynamical Specifica-

tion ; physiological, pathological and therapeutical.
46. The proof for this fact is in the efFects of these Potencies, which
are contrary to the disease, the homoeopathic Simile and Chemical Affinity
being identical, as Hering states ; and the evidence of it is in our Materia
Medica Pura, confirmed by its counterpart, our Clinical experience.
47. It is a fact, that not every Contrarium is curative because, as ;

Hippocrates says, the most contraries are not the most contraries and it ;

is, therefore, for our therapeutical purpose, necessary, to find, which is

the curative Contrarium in the given case.

48. This is to be done under the guidance of the Law of Homceo-
geneity, adverted to in the above maxim of Hippocrates, and which
Hamilton affirms, but inaccurately names the Law of "Homogeneity,"
and which enunciates, that things the most dissimilar must in certain
respects be similar Principium Similitudinis.
:

49. In order to find the curative Contrarium, we must follow out the
Hippocratean rule, placed at the head of these observations, by com-
paring the similities, that is, by comparing the similar given states of the
organism, as they are effected by the drug, and also the effects of the drug
upon the organism in its similar states.
50. Hahnemann was the first who understood this, and acted upon the
true understanding, when he compared the symptoms observed as the
effects of disease upon the organism in its diseased state, with those
which appear as the effect of medicine upon the organism when applied
to its healthy state Rygiansis <-- Nosansis.
:

51. By so comparing, it appears, positively, that the effects upon the

organism of the medicine which is contrary to its given state, and the
effects upon the organism of the cause of disease, are resembling or
similar to one another according as applied to the one or to the other of
the contrasted states of the organism, such effects being disease either
way, and always correlative to the state of the organism: Simility;
Parallelism of Symptoms ; Semiological Resemblance of morbific and reme-
dial action: — Hygiopoesis c~> Pathopoesis.
52. the real and distinctive character of the effects of
This Simility is

homoeopathic remedies in relation to the effects of disease, and the same

has been positively proved, over and over again, by experiment and expe-
rience, since Hahnemann first took up the true comparative thought of
Hippocrates and the evidence for it is in our Provings and Clinics
; :

Ojxolov ; Simile.
53. Simility is the qualitative principle of
Homoeopathy.
54. Mutual Action is impossible between Contraries only, and also
between Similars only, as Anaxagoras already observed but it is possible, ;

and really taking place, between Contraries and Similars, when acting
together :
Relatum.
55. Consequently, Simility and Contrariety, together, form the funda-
mental relation between drug and organism, and govern the quality of
 Series ITI. Observations 56-63. 35

thismutual action in the healing process, and are, like health and disease,
not contradictories, but correlates to and convertible into one another.
56. Both, Simility and Contrariety, are also, like health and disease,
correlative to the state of the organism, and convertible into one another,
and the effect of the remedy and the diseaseis always similar, and always

contrary, to the given state of the organism, according as applied :

Correlation.
57. Whilst a remedy, as such, must always, in abstrarto or a priori, be
a Contrarium, in concrefo the Simile is always the Contrarium in the
given case, because a Dissimile is not contrary to the disease in con-
crete :
—
Simile Contrarium.
58. The-, zistence and reality of the correlation between Simility and
Contrariety in remedy and disease, is proved by the fact, that symptoms

appearing in the disease similar to those obtained by (medicine in)

Provings in health, are unerringly, and with certainty, neutralized by
the administration of that medicine which produces in the healthy the
most similar symptoms (Org. § 50) Homoiopathicity
:

59. This Homceopathicity, the immortal discovery of Hahnemann, is

the medical property of every remedy, which is as contestable, as com-
parable, in its effects to that Pathcma or disease, which it is able to pro-
duce, and is the property by which it is capable of initiating the mutual
action of the healing process, which it could not do, if it was not Simile
and Contrarium and Correlation at the same time Homceopathology.
:

GO. From this results, as a logical deduction, the undeniable fact, that
the same medicine or Potency makes and unmakes the disease, as the
case maybe Similia Similibus Gurantur.
:

61. This is precisely the doctrine of Hippocrates, .as he laid it down

repeatedly, and with numerous illustrations, not to be misunderstood, if
and which is concentrated into these two
correctly and entirely read,
sentences: each (disease) hasits own peculiar nature and process, and

none is of an ambitious nature or irremediable and the most of them are

curable by the same means, as those by which they were produced'''' (De morb.
sacr.) and " disease is produced by the similia, and by the administered
;

similia, from being sick they get well.'''' (De loc. in horn.)
'
62. Such is the true orthodoxy of Hippocrates, ignored by Galen and
his followers, and which was touched upon by various philosophers, such as
Anaxagoras, Arndt, St. Augustinus, Baco, de Verulam, Basilius Yalen-
tinus, St. Bernhardus, Boyle, Cardanus, Auguste Comte, Cartesius,
Darwin, Democritus, Thomas Erastus; Benjamin Franklin, Fechner,
Goethe, Haller, Lagrange, Leibnitz, Mill, Nikander, Ozanam, Pascal,
Shakspeare, Tycho de Brake, Zeising, Zimmerman, etc., and which, also,
was, here and there, practical!}" applied by professional plr
—
Homozopathda involuntaria, but scientifically and practically established
and vindicated by none but our own Hahnemann.
63. The Law of Homceopathicity (Similia Simixix.us) is 1he Law of
Proving and Cure, or the therapeutical principle of Medicine.
36 Series III. Observations 64-72.

64. Logically examined, this Homceopathicity is correct, and as far from

being paradox, as the truth, that the same hammering makes and unmakes
magnet, or that the same magnet attracts and repels.
65. The rationale of this Homoeopathicity, as the combined result of
the correlation of Simile and Contrarium, is found, not only in the very
nature and conception of a medicine or remedy, which is, that it must be
opposed and contrary to the given state of the organism, upon which
it is must necessarily cause disease when applied to the
to act, therefore
healthy, and cure disease when applied to the diseased state of the organ-
ism (because only thus it can possibly be contrary to the given state in
either case) ; but, also in the fact, that the pathematic effect of the remedy
upon the healthy is similar to the pathematic effect of the disease upon
the healthy in the given case :
— ' OiioioiraSeia.

66. Since, as Hamilton expresses it, Relation and Correlation are

mutually referred, and can always be reciprocated and converted, and
since the healing process is a Mutual Action, neutralizing the disease it ;

is clear, that disease and and restoration of health,

cure, perturbation
aegrotation and probation, nosansis and hygiansis, pathopoesis and hygio-
poesis, pathogeny and pathoktony, are relations which mutually imply
each other :
Metathesis, Conversion.
67. Therefore, Conversion serves as the logical principle of Homoeopathy
— Contrariorum eadem est scientia.

68. The Galenic school only contrasted the contrary states of the same
organism, and only the effects of the drugs upon the diseased states of the
organism. That method was necessarily incomplete, and gave incorrect
results, being an imperfect comparison, and hence led to an erring
diagnosis.
69. They failed entirely to realize, that, not only, one thing or action is
similar to its parts or elements or to those of another, but that, also, two
things or actions, which are similar to a third, are similar to themselves.
70. Hahnemann, however, was the first who comprehended this, and
took the bearings of the Hippocratean rule, and extended the com-
full

parison to different organisms, and to the similar states of them, as affected

by the drug in proving and cure, and compared the symptoms obtained
by provings with the symptoms caused by disease, and the symptoms
removed by the remedy with those caused by health.
The comparison instituted in this manner, comprehends both Contraries
and Similars, and this method is necessarily complete and correct, result-
ing in a true Diagnosis and Therapia.
71. The Hippocratean Rule of Similities and Dissirnilities, or what Comte
and Mill call the Method of Comparison, and which of old has been known
as Principium Similitudinis, is the philosophical principle of Medicine.
72. By the Law of Homoeopathicity, the given disease itself, in its
symptoms, furnishes the endeixis of the remedy, and the remedy itself, in
its symptoms, furnishes the diagnosis of the disease Endeixis c* :

Diagnosis.
 Series III. Observations 73-85. 37

73. And Simility is practically the endeictical, theoretically the inductive

principle of Medicine.
74. Similityis the generic term of comparation, comprising the different
species of congruency, equality, equivalence, equipollency, and resem-
blance, under the general Laws
which are scientifically
of Resemblance
appreciated by Mill, and which, from the beginning, have always been
empirically used as the ever ready instrument for examining into the
nature of all things and actions, and determining and arranging them for
reference, or, in other words, defining their quality.
75. Ratio is the measure of the relation between two things or actions,
considered as quantities with regard to their Simility.
76. Every two things and actions, as quantities, represent in their
mutuality two equal ratios, the first one being to the second, as the
second is to the first.

77. The equality of two ratios is a Proportion,

78. The property of all things, to be in proportion, in general, inas-
much as they are parts of the Universe, and in particular, inasmuch as
they are opposed to each other by nature or experiment, according to a
certain ratio, is Proportionality.
79. Equality, as the highest grade of Simility, stands as the indica-
tion and measure for the Proportionality of the Homoeopathic Mutual
Action, or for the qualitative selection of the remedy required for the
assimilation which constitutes the healing process by Homoeopathic High
Potencies in a given case : Qualitative Homoeopathic Endeixis.
80. The Homoeopathic Simility is Proportionality.
81. Proportionality is the analytical principle of Homoeopathy.
82. On the strength of the actual correlation and logical conversion of
disease and cure, pathogenesis and pathoktony, pathopoesis and hygio-
poesis, nosansis and hygiansis, morbification and sanation, segrotation
and convalescence, are as little contradictories as the contrasted states of
the organism of which they are predicated, but they are commutable and
convertible terms, likewise and contrariwise applicable to the properties
and forces of the organism and to the properties and forces of the
medicine.
Consequently, a Potency properly applied to the organism must
83.
be, its own nature, equally morbific and curative, pathopoetic and
by
hygiopoetic, nosantic and hygiantic, pathogenetic and pathoktonic,
medium and remedium, and it must exert — its properties and powers as
and contrariwise, according
either, likewise as it acts upon and with the
one or the other of the contrasted states of the organism in the given case.
84. Accordingly, the very nature and conception of a homoeopathic
remedy or Potency consists in that it is the "simile contrarium" related
to and in mutual action with the diseased organism :— Simile Contrarium
Belatum and Gorrelatum.
85. A High Potency is an infinitesimal quantity of such a remedy :

Simile Contrarium Minimum.

38 Seeies III.— Observations 86-90.

86. In the views here taken, it appears that the formula Contraria
Contrariis, as applied to curative action, if any thing, is the converse of,
and tantamount to, our formula Similia Similibus, and this is as much as
was observed by Hering as early as 182G, and by Goeschel in 1882, and
recently acknowledged by Grauvogl and Politini.

Either formula is much like a proverb which, somebody remarked, is

a short sentence, grammatically saying one thing and essentially meaning

another.
But both formulae combined, avoid the ambiguity and make the for-
mula more complete Contraria Similia Similibus Contrariis Curantar.
:

87. This cquipollency of both formulas of medical treatment, was

indeed known to and appreciated by Hippocrates, in whose book de locis
in homine, both methods, that per Stmilia as well as that per Contra-
ria, are laid down as being proper treatment, as both being " contrary"
modes and where it is stated by him, that ''the most contraries are not
;

the most contraries ," and that "as any body's nature is changed and
perverted, complaint* are produced and cured by contraries,' and it is
1 ''

emphatically added, that "thus by both contrary modes health is restored,

and if it teas the same in all cases, the matter would be understood, and thus
these would be remedied by the contraries whatever they are, and by whatever
they are produced, but these by the similars, whatever they are, and by
'
whatever they are produced.
88. This doctrine of Hippocrates must be considered as an entirety,
comprehending both the Contraria and Similia, alike, and together. This
Avas disregarded by the one-sided expositor Galen, and his followers,
who, by omitting the Similia altogether, as it were, left the part of Hamlet
out of the play, and thus established a false orthodoxy in Medicine. The
full extent of the Hippocratean idea was first correctly understood by

Hahnemann. He, first of all, perceived and realized the truth, and the
whole truth. Recovering the original ground of it, he founded the true
doctrine, and, substantiating it practically and scientifically, he created
Homoeopathy.
89. From the preceding observations results our complete formula :

Maxima ~)
( Similibus
Cantraria >• Curantur < Contrariis
Similia ) ( Mini mix
that is, STMILIA MINIMIS CUBANTTTR.
90. And it results, that Homoeopathy rests fundamentally on the general
principles of Simility, Contrariety, Proportionality, and Infiniiesimality.
 Series IV.— Case 1. 39

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS.

FOURTH SERIES.

Major in exigno regnabat corpore virtus.

Statics.

The following presents a report of some cases treated with,

the High Globule Dilution Potencies, described in our Third
Series, but where they were further refined by a refraction of
the dose.
They were administered by globules in a powder of sugar
of milk, and either taken dry at certain periods of time, or
dissolved in one gill of water and taken by teaspoonful at
stated hours. The solution made fresh every day, as a
general rule.

CASES.
1. Endocarditis. — S. B., of New York, a girl five years
old, of German descent, blonde hair and blue eyes, rather
large for her age, was reported to labor under the following
complaints
November 19th, 1860. Three weeks ago patient had in-
flammatory rheumatism, which was treated alloeopathically
without success. About a fortnight ago, a hollow hard
cough set in with pain in the pit of the stomach, weeping,
turning red in the face, and scanty expectoration of thick
white mucus, excited by crying and aggravated in the even-
ing and night.Dread to cough. Difficult respiration. Short
and loud expiration. Sleeplessness, jactitation, pains all
over, heat in the nights, otherwise cool. Won't eat nor play.
Urine red, turbid in passing. Large ring- worm at the right
fore- arm and wrist, radial side. Bowels regular. Hooping
40 Series IY.— Case 1.

cough prevailing in the neighborhood. Veral. ^^o in eacn

of two powders of sugar of milk, to be dissolved in one gill
of water and one teaspoonful to be taken once in three hours.
21st, three, p. iff. Patient was brought to the office. She
was the two last nights extremely restless and delirious and
complained much, especially of pains in the abdomen, chest
and throat, when coughing. Cough less in frequency, of
metallic sound, short loud expiration. Hands hot. Fever
at nights with slight perspiration. Dropsical swelling of the
face, abdomen and Urine red, turbid and scanty.
feet.

Cannot sleep in the recumbent position. Wants to be carried

all the time, her body leaning forwards as much as possible.

Peevishness. Pulse almost imperceptible. Distension of

the chest over the region of the heart. Heart's action labored.
The sounds of the heart are like the ticking of a distant
watch ; the first sound accompanied with a blowing noise at
the apex which was found in its normal position. The ring-
worm presents no unusual aspect. Patient received at once
Spig. 7§ o' an d- was directed to take when at home Spig. ?
(j ^ :

in one powder, to be dissolved in one gill of water, one

teaspoonful to be taken once every hour.
22d, ten, A. m. Patient got no sleep yet ; had, however,
more rest last night. She drank often water, but little at a
time. Urine slightly increased in quantity, clear, brown
like beer, and without albumen. Less dyspnoea. Legs very
much swollen, especially one of them. Sometimes circum-
scribed red spots on the cheeks, sometimes a deadly pallor
of the face; face last night cool. Same hard dry cough.
Patient had a hard stool and passed about one pint of urine
last night and this morning. Decided aversion against food.
She wants to be carried on the arm, the body lying motion-
less against the shoulder of her mother, the head hanging
down over it. Utter impossibility to lie down. The herpes
itches intolerably and is very dry, the vesicles at the circum-
ference being all dried up. Patient is so low that further
examination must be dispensed with. Lye. -g% I in each of
seven powders, to be taken dry, one every night and morning.
 Sekies IV. Cases 1-2. 41

25th. Slept well last night. Fever gone. Stool normal.

Urine copious and clear. Patient can now lie flat on her
back. Got some appetite. Breathing natural. The chest
presents no distension. The swelling of the legs increased
November 23d, considerably, and then went down gradually
to a slight swelling on the insteps. Very impatient. Cough-
ing from passion. The herpes itches so much that she scratches
it bloody. Sep. ^lo J- (Jenichen).
29th. Remarkably improved. The swelling is gone and
she runs about.
December 9th. Patient called at the office. The heart
presented nothing abnormal, except that the left side of the
chest seemed a little fuller than the right one. The herpes
heals up from the hand towards the arm; there are only a
few scales left. Complains of sometimes pains under the
navel in the abdomen, which is somewhat enlarged. Merc,
v. 32 in each of seven powders, to be taken dry, one every
5 I
night.
After that the patient rapidly recovered and was healthier
than ever before. It was reported lately, that she remained
perfectly healthy ever since.
2. Rheumatismus acutus. — Mr. W., German, fifty years
old, locksmith, robust, of dark complexion, and violent chol-
eric temper, hard beer-drinker, sleeping regularly four to five
hours had many years ago a disease in his stomach which
;

ever since had been weak. Dr. Epps of London, ten years
ago, treated him successfully for rheumatism in the back.
Patient suffered habitually from haemorrhoids. It was about
.a month ago, at a fire, when he took cold from being drenched
thoroughly with cold water after profuse perspiration. He
used for it "all and every thing," also iodide of potassium
which aggravated the case considerably, and applied mustard-
plaster and plaster of turpentine and sulphur.
November 28th, 1860 ten, A. m. Patient is reported by
his wife, to complain of the following symptoms incessant :

lancinating pains in the right loin extending as far as the

right knee and sometimes going to the back, worse on mov-
42 Series IY.— Case 2.

ing. If he tries to rise, he " cries aloud like a baby." After

the exertion, profuse perspiration breaks out with the odor
of iodide of potassium (taken in large quantities.) Tongue
clean, but turning white during the most violent paroxysms
of pain. Salty taste (cannot bear salt and farinaceous food
generally). Thirst. Pale face. Urine clear and of strong
odor. Emaciation. Want of appetite and sleep for the last
eight days. Some pain in the chest. Cannot sit nor lie.

Continual fever for the last two days. Bry. TIi ^B | in each
of four powders, dry, night and morning.
29th. After taking the first dose in the forenoon, patient
felt better in the afternoon, and, for the first time since over a
week, slept for two hours soundly, when the pains woke him
up again. At ten, p. m. (the second dose was taken at nine,
p. m.), all of a sudden the pain became so violent as to make
him faint ; then followed some relief till morning. Eight
knee swollen. Tearing pains in the right thigh towards the
knee, aggravated at the least motion. Had a stool yester-
day morning. Flatus. Much thirst. Urine thick and red.
Constant perspiration, but now without odor. Bry. iT)
"
V)Jj o
in each of two powders, to be dissolved in one gill of water,
and one teaspoonful to be taken every third hour.
December 1st. Better. Fever gone. Slept well and got
an appetite. Less perspiration. Bowels regular. Urine
smelling strongly, thick and red like blood with red sedi-
ment. Moderate swelling from the right knee to the hip.
When lying quiet on the affected limb he feels well, but on
the least motion the pains return. Bryonia as above.
3d, nine, A.M. Can walk over the room now and can sit
up for half an hour without pain. After the urine had a
thick clayey sediment like rags, day before yesterday, it
continued to be clear since. The pain is now stinging and
jerking in the hip-joint as far as the knee. Much foetid
flatus. Patient used to smoke tobacco during the pains
which started the flatus. Pain when lying on the painless
side. Rhus. tox. y^^ I
in each of six powders, to be taken
dry night and morning.
 Series IV.— Cases 2-4. 43

7th. Took the first powder in the evening. The next

morning he had violent pains in the head. It is reported

now, that the taking of the powders in the evening always

brought on severe pains in the affected parts for a while, but
not so last night. Profuse sour perspiration last night.
Feels much better this morning. The stinging is less, and
only in the thigh ; the hip-joint is entirely free. The thigh
dead between the skin and bone with cold
feels cold, like
drizzling during the pains. Was tip for half a day yester-
day. Urine like beer. Much flatus. Berb. v. in each of ^
six powders, to be dissolved in one gill of water, one tea-
spoonful to be taken once every third hour.
July 20th, 1860. From a gentleman who wanted my
advice in a similar complaint, I learned that the patient was
well ever since.
3. Hooping cough. — P. H., of New York, a boy, ten
months old, of German descent. November 29, 1860. Had
ever since he was rough croupy cough, which was
born, a
treated allceopathically, and since July, a. c, assumed the form
of true hooping cough, which was prevailing in the neigh-
borhood. He has now coughing spells with rattling in the
chest, hooping, vomiting of food and slime, want of breath,
and turning bluish red in the face, worse before midnight.
Constant restlessness. Sleeps very little. Very much gone.
2
Dros. 3 o I in each of fourteen powders, to be' taken dry, one
every night and morning.
December 9th. This helped him in a few days. The first
day after taking the medicine, the stools were loose. The
rattling in the chest and hooping cough disappeared. There
is some dry cough yet on waking up from sleep which is dis-

turbed. Dros. 3o2oo I m eactt °f fourteen powders, to be

taken dry, one every night.
August 17th, 1862. From a neighboring patient I learned
cough shortly after the last prescription had all at
that the
once disappeared, and the child \tas well ever since.
4. Eheumatismus acuttjs. — Mr. Gr. B., of New York, of
Irish descent, forty-six years old, laborer, middle stature,
44 Series IV.— Case 4.— Observation 1.

dark blond, habitually suffering from irritation of the neck

of the bladder, complained as follows
May 29th, 1862. Drawing stiff pains in the left upper
arm with inability to aggravation on moving, fever and
lift it,

uneasiness about the stomach. Bry. $% in each of four pow-

ders, to be dissolved in one gill of water, and one teaspoonful
to be taken once every third hour.
June 2d. About the same. The pain is right in the
bone at the head of the humerus, fixed and aching, running
down along the bone of the upper arm, night and day. Both
hands swelled considerably with thick veins. Pulse small
and frequent, probably compressed by the swelling. Much
fever. Urine dark colored. Applied a liniment which did
him no good. Prostration. Rhus. tox. jq^-qq I each of m
four powders, to be dissolved in. one gill of water, and one
teaspoonful to be taken once every hour.
9th. Patient began to feel easy as soon as he began to
take that medicine, and wants more of it. Can lift the hand
to the head now. Swelling gone. Appetite good. Arm
worse on moving it. Rhus tox. T o§<jo o m eacn °f f° ur pow-
ders, to be dissolved in one gill of water, one teaspoonful to
be taken every third hour.
September 19th. After that, patient reports, he got entirely
rid of his rheumatism.

OBSERVATIONS.
/ Now, since causesand things caused are similar to each
other, although they differ in degree and dimension, it
follows that nature is similar to herself, and cannot be
different in the larger system or elementary kingdom
from what she is in —
in the macrocosm from
the lesser
what she is in the microcosm in a volume, from what
;

she is in a particle hence in the elementary particle may

;

be seen the quality of the volume, and in the volume the

quality of the particle. Swedenboro, (Principia, Clis-
sold's translation. London, 1845. Preface, p. xiv.)

In continuation of our observations on the process of healing by Homoe-

opathic High Potencies, we beg to submit the following :

1.Homoeopathic Globule Dilution Potencies are efficacious and curative,

when administered in watery solution, or in refracted doses Befracta :

dosis.
 Series IV. Observations 2-8. 45

2. By such prescription a further attenuation or refinement of the

Potency is obtained, without reaching the terminus of efficacy.
3. In a physical aspect the mutual action which constitutes the process

of healing by Homceopathic High Potencies, has been well noticed by

Hering, to be illustrated by the process of Interference which is known
and established, alike, in Optical, Acoustical, Thermological, and Hydro-
dynamical Science, (Clydonics).
4. The interferential process appears to rest upon the general principle
for the mutual action of coinciding similar series or systems of motions,
molecular, vibratory and oscillatory, by which, under certain conditions
and at certain points they augment, at others diminish, and at others
entirely destroy each other, producing darkness by adding light to light,
silence by sound meeting sound, cold by heat overcoming heat, and rest
by wave encountering wave. ,

5. Since the conditions for Interference are mutual action, molecular

motion, simility and contrariety, and infinitesimal quantity, and since its
effect is neutralization and conversion it is clear, that the conditions and
;

effects of Interference are the same as observable in the homoeopathic

healing process by High Potencies, and the analogy is obvious.
6. The Laio of Interference serves as an illustration of the physical

principle of Homoeopathy.
7. Assimilation, physiological as well as pathological and Affinity, ;

chemical as well as medical and Conversion, logical as well as remedial

;

and Interference, physical as well as therapeutical altogether, have in ;

—
common the same elements and conditions, viz. Mutuality of Action, :

Motion and change of motion, Simility and Contrariety, Molecularity,

and Infinitesimality and also the same effect, viz. change of the given
; :

state, and neutralization, and mutual conversion.

8. The same common elements and conditions and effects, mentioned

( Obs. 5), are observable to exist and take place in many other processes of

nature, e. g., in the biological (physiological and pathological) processes

of absorption and resorption ablation and apposition alimentation and
; ;

nutrition digestion and congestion

; arterialization and circulation
;

chylification and lactification hsematosis and cholepoesis albumination

; ;

and fibrination excretion and secretion exudation and suppuration

; ; ;

irritation and counterirritation ; contagion, infection and disinfection ;

thrombosis, coagulation and tuberculization ; inflammation, ulceration

and cicatrization ; tumefaction and delitescence ; induration and ossifica-
tion ;
respiration, perspiration and transpiration ; inhalation and exhala-
tion ; innervation and enervation ; crescation and atrophy ; eutrophy
and hypertrophy ;
vaccination and syphilization ; intoxication and par-
alysis ;
ovulation, fecundation and embryonization ; incubation and ges-
tation ;
generation and germination domestication, breeding and cross-
;

ing, etc. Also in the botanical processes of inoculation, gemmation, foliation,

floration, fructification, vegetation, propagation, etc. Also in the physi-
cal (and chemical) processes of osmosis and capillarity ; endosmosis,
46 Series IV. Observations 8-14.

exosmosis and diosmosis ;

absorption and resorption ;
allotropism, homo-
rnerisrn, isomerism, metamerism and polymerism ;
crystallization and
granulation ; aggregation, disintegration and catalysis ; — vaporization,
evaporation and condensation; solidification and liquefaction; congela-
tion and colliquation ; fermentation and
saturation and rarefaction ;

putrefaction ; combustion and explosion

carbonization and cineration ; ;

mixtion and distillation solution, resolution and reduction fusion and

; ;

diffusion undulation and vibration

; flection, deflection and reflection ;
;

fraction, refraction and diffraction radiation and irradiation coloration ; ;

and spectration adhesion, cohesion and ruption elasticity and" expan-

; ;

sion deposition and incrustation

; pulverization and precipitation pet- ; ;

refaction and adipoceration phosphorescence, fluorescence and calores-

;

cence annealing and steeling amalgamation and combination oxyda-

; ; ;

tion and desoxydation vulcanization and calcination galvanization and

; ;

magnetization electrization and induction telegraphy and photography

; ; ;

polarity and astasy. And also in the general phenomena of attraction, re-
pulsion and gravitation morphosis and amorphism anamorphosis and
; ;

metamorphosis homoplasia and heteroplasia accommodation and accli-

; ;

matization composition and decomposition

; formation and function ;

determination and gradation specification and variation qualification and

; ;

modification production and reproduction differentiation and develop-

;
;

ment and indeed, in all generation, degeneration, and regeneration, and

;

in all organization, disorganization and reorganization.

0. In a general point of view, all such, and similar processes, appear to

rest upon, and be governed by, one common principle which, if found,
might scientifically be considered as a general principle, or Law of Nature.
10. Such principle seems to grow out of Grove's conception of the exist-
ing universal correlation of the physical forces of matter, supported by
Berthelot and Faraday, and out of what might be called a Polarity of
Action, as being discernible in all natural processes by the conditions
and effects mentioned. .

11. As such general principle, or Law of Nature, might be proposed the

Principle of the Mutual Conversion of Physical forces of Matter into one
another, or the Equalization of Bodies according to the Patio of their
Ammiiability —Universal Assimilation,
ok Homceosis.
12. Physically considered, then, the
homoeopathic curative process of
healing by High Potencies, appears to be such a homoeotic process as
described, being governed by the same conditions, and presenting the
same effects, as all homceotic processes.
13. Equally, the homoeopathic probative process, of producing by medi-
cine disease in the healthy, appears to be a homoeotic process, being
governed by the same conditions, and presenting the same effects, as the
cure, in the reverse.
14. Also, the homoeopathic potential process, of preparing medicine by
trituration, and otherwise, appears to be a homoeotic
dilution, contact
process, being, again, governed by the same conditions and presenting the
same effects, as all homceotic processes.
 Series IV. Observations 15-26. 47

15. In fact, all processes of morbiflcation and sanation, aegrotescence

and convalescence, nosansis and hygiansis, pathopoeia and hygiopoeia,
with, or without medication, are liomccotic processes and reducible to the
same principle.
1G. Accordingly the Law of Homaosis, (Similia Minimis) is the biologi-
cal principle of Homoeopathy.
17. In a mathematical conception, everything in nature has been
always, since Heraclitus, Anaxagoras and Aristoteles, considered to be
reducible to motion, and change of motion, and thus the system of man
in its life must also be conceived to be constituted by certain motions and
changes of motion, in certain forms, conditions, and relations.
18. For the same reason the different states and conditions, or forms of
existence, of the organism health, disease, and restoration of health, are
;

reducible to certain motions, and changes of motion, in certain forms,

conditions, and relations.
19. Consequently, every homceotic process, (and among them the
process of healing by Homoeopathic High Potencies, ) necessarily, besides
quality and relation, involves and implies quantity and form, modality
and motion, and relation.
20. Therefore, Homoeopathic, and indeed all Therapia, is really amen-
able to, and under the dominion of mathematical conditions and a proper
subject for mathematical demonstration.
21. The Laws of Motion serve as the mathematical principle of Homoeo-
pathy,
22. Under these laws the homoeopathic remedial process, probative and
curative, is geometrically demonstrable, being, as Hering observes, com-
parable to the diagonal of two forces ; and the parallelogram of forces is

its geometrical illustration.

23. Since every organism is at the same time a mechanism, the homoeo-
pathic process in the organism is subject to the Laws of Mechanics,
statical and dynamical,
24. In this aspect, since the sum of the physical forces of matter is
always constant in the Universe (as was already remarked by Leibnitz,
and latterly scientifically established by Helmholtz, and sustained by
Faraday, and practically carried out by Mayer, Baumgartner, Tyndall,
a. o. ) the physical forces of matter, in reality, are constantly exchanging
y

and compensating each other statical and dynamical Equivalence.

:

25. Accordingly, that system of motions which constitutes the organism

of man, presents in its actual state a natural oscillating equilibrium which
is normal in health and perturbed in disease, and this is what was recently

so well elaborated and applied to Medicine by Grauvogl physiological

:

and pathological Equivalence.

26. Consequently, that process in the organism which constitutes the
cure or restoration of health, as the converse of disease or perturbation of
health, represents that compensation, i, e., that equation, and converse of

equation, of forces and motions of the organism, which is effected by

48 Series IV. Observations 27-33.

remedy, and is the restoration of the normal oscillating equilibrium of the

organism by medical action therapeutical, hygiantic, or hygiopatic Equi-
:

valence.
27. Likewise, that process in the organism, which constitutes the
homoeopathic probation, or perturbation of health, as the converse of cure
or restoration of health, represents that compensation, i. e. that equation ,

and converse of equation of forces and motions of the organism, which is

effected by remedy, and is the perturbation of the normal oscillating
equilibrium of the organism by medical action :
nosantic or pathopoetic
Equivalence.
28. Herewith the real character and criterion of a "remedium", which
means, etymologically, the restitution of the medium, is shown to be in the
similarly and contrarily pathopoetic and hygiopoetic quality, and quantity,
and modality, of the drug, and in its equally similarly and contrarily mor-
bific and curative relation to the organism, which is, in fact, our Homceo-
pathicity.
29. In this regard Equation serves as the analytical formula for the
homoeopathic treatment and cure in its perfection Homoeopathic Equa- :

tion; Homceoma.
30. The Law of Compensation or Equivalence serves as the mechanical,
staticaland dynamical principle of Homoeopathy.
31. From this is deduced Grauvogl's Law of the therapeutical Motion —
Equivalence, by him proposed as the Law of Dose.
32. Since there is in reality no sameness, (fyo^) or absolute equality, of
any two real tilings, and there can be no identity (tW) in the aspect of
any two existing forms, as Draper expresses it real things, if compared
;

with others, and if by such comparison appearing to be nearer to absolute

equality than to absolute difference, can only be similar (tyo«>i>) to others,
or to each other.
4 33. This fact furnishes the natural and correct answer to the vexed
question, "what is the Simile?" by the etymology of Hahnemann's
original "sehnlich" which is the German word for the Greek "o^oiov 1 '

and the Latin "simile." The word, according

Adelung's authority,to
recognized as such in Hahnemann's time, as "angleich,"
is as much
Anglo-Saxon "anlic" or "onlic" (English "alike"), and in its signifi-
cation opposed to "gleich," Anglo-Saxon "lik" (English "like"?), for
which the Greek is "V
";" and it means, etymologically and literally,
"onlike," i. e., 'near on like,' somewhat "o/ioi/," near to equal, and in
a measure so, more or less equal.*

* The origin of the words "similis" and "similar " is by Bopp (Vergl. Gram., Berl.
1842, § S08) ingeniously derived from the Sanscrit root "ma," referring to the Irish
"samhuil " cf. Sanscrit sama, similis, English similar, same. Pott (Etym. Forsch. Vol.
II. p. 395,) derives it from the Sanscrit root ma (meliri) and brings it still nearer home to its

real meaning when he says: "timili (cp. sam-mi-ta) is either verbal as facili (what can be
measured together) or nominal as humili, from sama, imagon (simulacrum)," so that it
appears, that the very expression of our " Simile " originates in the ancient most perfect
Sanscrit language, and relates to the notion of comparison from the beginning.
 Series IV. Observations 34-44. 49
34. The great "Wolff whose mathematical and philosophical works were
used as text-books in Hahnemann's younger days, defines "JEhnlichkeiV
(Simility) to be the accordance of that by which the things are discrimi-
nated by the understanding, and concludes, that similar things cannot
be discriminated if they are not brought together either in reality or in
the mind by means of a third thing as, e. g., a measure.
35. In this sense, " JEhnlichkeiV or Simility, denoting Equality as the
highest degree of Simility, admits a series of gradations, and this again is
already in popular language indicated by the use of the comparative and
superlative "sehnlicher, sehnlichste, swiilius, simillimum," i. e., more
similar, most similar.
Since there are many degrees and gradations conceivable between
36.
Inequality and Equality, as already pointed out by Mill and others, there
are such degrees and gradations conceivable of Simility and Contrariety,
which represent the gradations of Affinity, and indeed of all Homoeosis,
within the limits of Proportionality.
These gradations are determined by the quantity of action which
37.
applies, the least possible of it being sufficient to change the same into

one another, and to increase or diminish each of them more or less.

38. This is again the principle, established by Maupertuis, to which
we
referred before, and which, in fact, seems to be the Spiritus Sector,
or
regulator, by which everything, and every motion in existence,
is pre-
vented from being and becoming identically the same or absolutely equal
with any other, and by which everything, and every motion, when becom-
ing comparable with others, is made or kept in this state of Simility
and
the given gradation of the "same.
39. Consequently, all motions and changes of motion, here
concerned,
pathogenesis and cure, and all Homoeosis, indeed, all motion and change
of motion throughout the Universe, proceed by and are under the control
of theLaw of the Least Quantity of Action.
40. In this view the Law of the Least Quantity
of Action (Maxima
Minimis) serves as the cosmological and metaphysical principle of Homoeo-
pathy.
41. The degrees and gradations of Simility, and Homoeosis, may be
different in quantity, in modality, and in quality, and infinitely many of
allsuch different degrees and gradations are conceivable.
42. Therefore infinitely many proportionate remedies, and as many
proportionate forms and quantifications of remedies, are corresponding
to
the homceotic degrees and gradations which are represented by the
vary-
ing Susceptibility of the organism.
43. For the same reason, in order to insure the curative effect of our
remedies, we want to be prepared with infinitely many proportionate
medical qualities and relations, known to be curative.
44. Only with such complete apparatus we would be fully
able to meet
all cases and to carry out the rule of
individualizing Symptoms and
50 Series IV. Observations 45-55.
«

Remedy, Susceptibility and Assimilability -.—Medical Proportionality,

pathopoelic and hygiopoetic.
45. Such medical qualities and relations is furnished
infinite variety of
by the exact homoeopathic provings, such as are already made and such
as are continually being made, and may be made in all future time :

Materia Medica Pura ; Pathopceia.

46. Equally so, for the purpose of insuring the curative effect of our
remedies in all cases, we want to be prepared with infinitely many pro-
portionate different remedial modalities, forms and quantities, and corres-
ponding relations, that is Potencies, known to be curative in the given
case.
47. Only with such complete ammunition we would be fully able to
meet and to carry out the rule of individualizing the actual
all cases,

Susceptibility of the organism and the Potency and the Dose Pharma- :

copoetic Proportionality.
48. Such infinite variety of ammunition is to be acquired by preparing
the homoeopathic remedies in various modes and forms and quantities,
and by infinitesimal or High Potentiation, so that they may be adminis-
tered in various ways and different degrees of fineness, from the lowest
to the highest, proportionable to the requirements of the given case :

Pharmacopeia Pura.
49. When being so prepared with such exact knowledge of the effects
of the Potencies upon the organism in the healthy state, changing the
same into disease ; and when being prepared with a full ammunition of
Potencies for the application : then wc are enabled to apply the Potencies
to the organism in the diseased state ; and when that is done according to
the principles of Homoeopathy, proportionally to the requirements of the
organism in the given case, then, and then only, we are certain of the
effects of the Potencies upon the organism, changing disease into health,
that is, of the cure Therapia Pura Hygiopceia.
:
;

50. Pharmacopoeia is the art and science of potentiating the drugs or

preparing the medicines for application upon the organism so as lo render
them susceptible and assimilable by the same.
51. Pathopceia is the art and science of applying the Potencies upon the
organism in the healthy state and thereby converting health into disease.
52. Hygiopceia is the art and science of applying the Potencies upon
the organism in the diseased state and thereby converting disease into
health.
53. Since all the motions, forms, quantities and relations, here concerned,
are under the dominion of Mathematics, they must, and possibly can be
submitted to calculation.
54. As they are altogether infinitesimal, the proper calculus for them
required, seems to be the Infinitesimal Calculus.
55. As the invention of this calculus preceded, and, indeed, alone ren-
dered possible, the high development of Physics and Chemistry as positive
and exact sciences, so its proper application to Medicine would carry
 Series IV. Observation's 56-65. 51
«

medical science to a point of exactness which it could not reach

scientific

without Homoeopathy and High Potencies. its

56. The Infinitesimal Calculus would serve as the proper mathematical

method of investigation and computation for Homoeopathy and for high-
potential Therapeutics in particular.
57. Since all facts, the medical quality and
theory must rest on reliable
relation, as well as the remedial quantity and modality of the drug, is only
to be found and secured by experiment, observation and experience, and
for this reason, the Homoeopathic Provings and their counterpart, our
Clinks, are, and forever will be, the ground-work and only safe foundation
of Therapeutics and Medical Science in general.
58. In conclusion, if it is moral, to do the most good and the least evil
possible, to our fellow-men, then Homoeopathy is the true Ethics of Medi-
cine.
59. If it is the policy of Nature itself, to effect the greatest amount of
good with the least expenditure of force, then Homoeopathy is the natural
and true Medical Policy.
60. If it is religious, to believe, and live conformably to the belief, in
the harmonious and unique government of the Universe, whether per-
sonified, singly or plurally, or otherwise, then Homoeopathy is the true
and universal Religion of Medicine.
61. If it is the doctrine of Christianity and the bible, to do unto others
as we would be done by, then Homoeopathy is the truly Biblical and
Christian Medicine.
62. If the true regular practice is that which is supported \>y a correct
theory, then Homoeopathy is the true regular Practice of Medicine.
63. If the true theory is that which is resting on positive facts and exact
observations, and borne out by practice, and in accordance with the laws
of the Universe, then Homoeopathy is the true Theory of Medicine.
64. If the true art of healing is that which is fully supported, and borne
out by theory and practice, and in perfect harmony, accordance and con-
formity with the Laws of Nature and God, then the only true, natural,
rational and real System of Medicine is Homceopathics.
65. When this true system shall be appreciated by Physiology,
Chemistry and Physic when Du Bois-Rcymonds' beau ideal of Analy-
;

tical Mechanics of all biological processes, and Draper's high idea of

Analytical Physiology, both of them subsumable under Newton's grand
conception of applying the mechanical principles to all phenomena of
nature,* shall be realized and when the instruments of the higher Mathe-
;

* "Utinam phenomena ex principiis mechanicis eodem argumentandi

caetera naturae
genere, derivare liceret! Nam
multa me movent, ut nonnihil suspicere ea omnia ox viribus
qnibusdam pendere posse, quibus corporum particular per causas nondum cognitas, vel in
se mutuo impelluntur et secundum figuras regulares coherent, vel ab invicom fugantur et
recedunt quibus viribus ignotis, Philosophi hactenus Naturam frustra tentarunt. Spero
;

autem quod vel huic philosophandi modo, vel veriori alicui principia hie posita lucem
aliquam prsebebunt." Principia, Praefatio, Op. om., Horsley, Vol. II. p. X.
52 Seeies IV. Observation 65.

matics shall be brought to bear upon the investigation and analysis of

morbific and therapeutical processes; all of which may be done, the

doubts of Comte and Mill to the contrary not-withstanding, according to

and by the homceological principles and methods of Homoeopathy and its
High Potencies then a true comprehensive and correct Biology, and the
:

corresponding Therapia, will be accomplished, and Medicine, through the

stadium of Homoeopathic Comparative Medicine, will be elevated to
the real dignity of a positive and exact Science, answering the highest
conception of Analytical Medics.
 Series V. 53

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATION'S.

FIFTH SERIES.
E pauxillis atque rainutis.
Lucretius.

The cases here reported were treated with High Dilution

Potencies of my own preparation, carried up by further dilu-
tion on a new plan. The notation is on the centesimal scale.
Every thousand is denoted by the letter " m," e. g., Apis mel.
3
4 2m., means two pellets of the forty -two thousandth Potency
of Apis mel.
The success obtained by these Potencies, not only confirms
the observations made in the First Series, but also establishes
the fact, that the action and efficaciousness of .Homoeopathic
Potencies is not limited to 20000 or 40000 —the highest
made by Jenichen —but evident even in higher centigrade
dilutions, as in the 42000 of Apis mel, in the 50000 of Nux
vom., and in the 55000 of Sepia.
The question, then, where, by potentiation, the terminus of
medical action for Homoeopathic remedies is to be found, at
all, is still an open question.
The experience in case number 8, settles the fact, that our
High Potencies, and, more particularly, doses of a third Glo-
bule Dilution Potency of a 10000 centesimal Potency, pre-
serve their medical properties, and exert their curative action,
when prepared and prescribed in America, mailed in a letter
to Europe, and taken at Dresden in Saxony.
In the observations subjoined we commence summing up.
When the was published (March, 1860), Boenning-
first series

hausen did them the honor of noticing them, publishing

a translation with glosses of his own, cordially approving
54 Series V. Case 1.

and supporting the views advanced * Now, before the last

series reaches his eyes, they are closed forever. The great
master of our art, the champion of true Homoeopathy, the
standard-bearer of High Potencies in Europe, — he is no
more.
With feelings of gratitude I cherish, personally, the
memory by words of encouragement and assu-
of him, who,
rance, strengthened my purpose, when I first professed Ho-
moeopathy. "Man kann Alles lernen," he said, with true
Franklinian terseness.
But with deep sadness comes the thought, that his power-
ful, aid should be withdrawn now, when we most need it, to
put down the false prophets, criticasters, double-dealers, and
disunionists, who by supercilious misrepresentation and dis-
paragement of Hahnemann's labors, betray and endanger the
good cause. Oh, that he were still with us in the coming
battle, to be fought on the true ground of Infinitesimality,
which is ultimately to decide, by the High Potencies of
scientific truth, the final triumph of genuine Homoeopathy
!

Have pia anima!

CASES
1. Angina, ophthalmia.— Therese S., 7 years and 9
months old, of German descent, dark complexioned, at a
time when diphtheria was prevalent in the neighborhood,
presented the following symptoms
December 28th, 1863, three p. m. High fever with dry,
burning skin; aching in the forehead: maturating of
the
eyes,which stick together so that she can hardly open them
swelling of the throat on the left side, with pain in
swallow-
ing; nausea; pains in all her limbs; sent her one
dose of
Apis met ?45m-
December 29th. The fever had ceased very soon after
taking the medicine. Otherwise she is about the same.

* "Allgem. Horn. Zeitung," Vol. 61, pp 63, 134, 140, 159, 164.
 Series V. Cases 2-5. 55

December 30th. Much better. The swelling went from

the left to the right side. Tonsils very red, swollen, looking
as if scratched.
January 1st, 1864. Stench from the throat in speaking.
Lachesis ^m ,

January 2d. The swelling goes dow n. T

Two days after
she was well.

2. Herpes ctrcinatus. — Same patient.

February 13th, 1863. Eing worm, red and burning, as
large as a copper cent, under the lower lip, for a week. Sc-

After that the eruption subsided within a fortnight.

3. Indigestio. — Mary S., sister of the same, 10 years old,

blond hair, blue eyes, short, fat.

December 7th, 1863. After eating potato salad and pork,

vomiting early in the morning in bed diarrhoea with tearing ;

pains in the bowels; sour taste; coated tongue. Aluminium

met. 224 m . Soon relieved.

4. Angina, ophthalmia. Same patient. —

December 30th, 1863. Headache, both eyes watering and
latterly maturating. Apis met 76o m .

January 1st, 1864. "Watering and maturating of the right

eye ;
gum-boil. Belladonna j% m .

January 3d, 1864. The right eye maturating yet ; fever,

red swollen cheeks; pain on swallowing in the throat on the
left side, externally and internally; no appetite. Apis
met. 4 2m.
January 4th. Slight fever in the night ; slept but little ;

throat re(J, swollen; left tonsil swollen; pain on swallowing

still ; right eye maturating ; no appetite ;
little thirst. After
a day or two well.

5. HiEMORRHOiDES C(ec#. — Mrs. N., American, blond

56 Series Y.— Cases 6-7.

hair and blue eyes, 30 years old ;

after the loss of a valued
friend
February 27th, 1864. Complains of aching in the lower
part of the back, followed by blind piles with stinging pains
stool regular. Used to have piles when pregnant, which she
is not now. Neck and shoulders rheumatic. She is unable
to walk. Great depression of spirits. Took Opium 200
(Lehrman) herself without effect. After Nux vom. 2-
5 m .,
in
some sugar of milk, she got well and went the next afternoon
some distance to church. She said, " it acted like a charm."

6. Rheumattsmus. — Ch. F., boy 10 years old, dark com-

plexion.
February 4th, 1864. Rheumatic pain in the right knee on
walking. Bryonia Ifi m., some pellets.
February 5th. The pain disappeared in the morning after
taking the medicine, and returned in the afternoon. Bryonia
%4> m-, some pellets.
February 6th. The pain was gone.

7. Ablactatio. — Mrs. B., of French descent, dark com-

plexioned, well-formed, was, March 1st, 1864, delivered of a
healthy child. She did not want to nurse the child, although
she had nursed her previous children, and was in good con-
dition to nurse again now.
March 4th. Breast very sore, swollen as far as the left

arm pressure and soreness

;
and on touch. The
in motion
milk is running out. Bryonia Jfi m., some pellets, to be dis-
solved in about one gill of water, and one teaspoonful to be
taken once in three hours.
March 5th. She is doing well. The swelling went down
but still the milk is being secreted and oozing out. Pulsa-
tilla 51 m., in solution as before.
March 9th. The milk is gone the breast is quite natural.
;

She has no more uneasiness about it.

March 14th. Patient called afc the office, reporting herself
perfectly well.
 / o a ,
o & & a ,
cr a . • C ,
or O , * O , O & o> & O ,
o>
f

» -
J> (, *

Series V. Case 8. 57

8. Hernia inguinalis. — J. F. F., of Dresden, Saxony, 75

years old, middle stature.
fat,

August 19th, 1861, during a walk, got stinging pains in

the right inguinal region, shooting over into the right hip
and the right thigh, with difficulty in walking. Coming
home, he noticed a swelling just above the pelvis near the
hip. After Aconite 30 it disappeared, but afterwards it

returned. He then must pass water more frequently than

usual. The spine is curved on the right side in such a way
that, when sitting, the lowest ribs touch the right hip bone,
the ribs having already assumed a corresponding curvature.
Thereupon mailed him three doses. 1. Nux vom. f m 2. Nux .

vom. f m 3. Rhus tox.

.
f^ m to be taken dry, successively, ,
t

one a week.
June 1st, 1862. Patient reports, that the remedies had
acted successfully, when by a sudden and violent motion in
bed he got a relapse. The next physician on hand was called
in, and he declared, that it was an inguinal hernia, which,

besides the bowels, contained also some omentum he then ;

reduced the hernia and put on a truss. Mailed a powder

with a quantity of pellets of Rhus tox. 10 m. I* with the
direction, to take three pellets once a week.
November 23d. Patient reports, that the hernia had no
more protruded behind the truss as often as before, and that,
whenever it occurred, it was hardly to be distinguished from
a fold of loose skin.
April 3d, 1863. Mailed some more pellets of Rhus tox.
10 to.
I,
three once a week.
December 7th, 1863. Eeceived the good news, that the
hernia had come down no more, that there was no more any
difficulty about it, and that patient had stopped taking
medicine.
March 12th, 1864. Patient reports, that the hernia did no
more protrude.

* High Globule Dilution Potency, see the Third Series, p. 28.

58 Series V. Observations 1-3.

OBSERVATIONS.

I approve much more your method of philosophising which

proceeds upon actual observation, makes a collection of facts, and
concludes no further than those facts will warrant.
Dr. Franklin to Abbe Souliave.

It remains, to gather the consequences and proper deductions for

General Science, to be drawn from the facts and observations collected in
the preceding articles, and also to sketch the position which Homoeopathy,
especially as determined by High Potencies, deserves to occupy among the
Sciences. But we must here limit ourselves to the following suggestions :

1. The High Potencies which form the basis of our observations, are

fully known as to their preparation and elements, all having been carefully
registered in our books, and the clinical effects of them having been taken
from our journals. So, there is no mystery, nor uncertainty, about these
High Potencies, and they, at least, claim immunity from the sweeping
objections by which heretofore even Goullon, Meyer, and others, actually
excused themselves from considering High Potencies at all.
2. The general principle of potentiating remedies appears to be a
working out of the old theorema: corpora non agunt nisi soluta; and its

practical idea is a rectification of the old-school Acuition.

3. From the views presented in the observations, it results, that
homoeopathic remedies are agents and reagents, and, more particularly,
that they are as homceodynamic with the organism in its actual condition,
as the organism is homoeopathic with them in their proper application.
Hence, when they are indiscriminately termed homoeopathic, it is done
tropically.
The organism, in its healthy condition, is by homoeopathic remedies
always similarly affected, as it is in its diseased condition affected by the
disease, and it is always contrarily affected by them in either condition.
A further result is, that homoeopathic drugs are, likewise and contrari-
wise, morbific and curative, pathopoetic and hygiopcetic, pathogenic and
pathoktonic, pathic and antipathic, nosantic and hygiantic, according as
they are applied to the given state of the organism.
Conformably to these views, the character of homoeopathic remedies is
always pathematic, and at the same time always homosomatic, and always
dynamic. It might be aptly designated as equally homceopathopoelic and
Tiomceohygiopoetic, equally homozopathogenic
and hom&opathoktonic. Such,
or a similar terminology would seem
be serviceable for a short-hand
to
description of the peculiar and distinctive nature of medical Homwo-
dynamicity, in which we recognize the basal principle of that Simility and
Potentiation which were both discovered and established by Habnem.'-.nn,
the true son of Hippocrates, the equal of Columbus upon the vast ocean
 Series V. Observations 4-7. 59

of Medicine. These discoveries, being positive enrichments of Science,

form his highest original merit, his monumentum aere perennius !
4. Inasmuch as the direction of the action of our remedies in relation
to the organism, and its constituent or integrant parts, is in every case
distinct and peculiar, and unerringly specific, as has been recently so well
elaborated by Grauvogl it is certain, that their effect is always specific
;

in each individual case, whore it is properly administered and proves

curative and in this sense a homoeopathic remedy is a specificum.
;

But this would seem to be about all of what is tenable of the theory of
the specificists and of the schools which enjoy the delusion of being
orthodox. There is no such thing as a specificum for any generic class
of diseases, unless it means only a generalization and abstraction of
pathognomonic symptoms of single remedies. Organon, 5th ed., § 147.
5. The specific direction of the several remedies or drug matters, com-

pared with the equally specific direction of the several hypothetical

nosopoeses, or disease matters, presents again a Simility, and, on account
of it, another property of homoeopathic remedies, which is recognizable
in that they are homesotropic.
6. In relation to Therapia, the inferences from the views developed in
the observations, do not here need any more explicit elaboration. Gene-
rally, these observations may contribute to a correct understanding of
what Paracelsus described as the pith of our art, in these words " Sum- :

mum artis mysterium erit in naturae et remedii convenientis cognitione.'n

7. Inasmuch as each homoeopathic remedy has, and, especially in its

High Potencies, maintains its own and peculiar pathematic sphere, and
its own pathognomonic character, reflected in the pathogenetic picture :

the old Nosology will not be sufficient for any thing else than a mere
nominal index.
But a better system of Nosology, that is, a true and real Pathology or
Pathognosis, might be built up on the basis of scientifically comparing,
and contrasting, and carefully and cautiously grouping, the different
symptoms of the different remedies according to the traits which they
have similar and in common. This might be done by combining the true
pathognomonic symptoms with cautious and correct generalization, in
which already Hahnemann, Bcenninghausen, Hering, Lippe, Jahr, and
others, have succeeded to a great extent. The nomenclature, then
still desirable, would most naturally be taken from the names of the

drugs which produce the same or similar symptoms; e. g., Aconitism,

Carbonism, Digitalism, Helleborism, Ioclism, etc.
Such a Pathognosis would mainly depend upon the study of High-
potencies, because they, as is confirmed by Jahr, "present the real,
proper and peculiar characteristics of the remedy."
True, such Pathognosis would certainly presuppose considerable help
from micrological, microscopical, anatomical, microchemical and other
exact observations, finer than those hitherto made by physicists, chemists
and physiologists. Yet, it may confidently be hoped, that, as Science
60 Series Y. Observations 7-9.

and Art proceed in their onward march, they will, with a fuller appre-
and of all
ciation of the throughout micrological character of all matter,
natural processes, find methods and instruments
and acquire those finer
which are required to elucidate, palpably, what Homoeopathy has already
commenced to secure by her experience and observations and by her
operations with the finest substances upon the fine organization of the
human body.
Inasmuch as the true Bemedium is that drug which in quality, sub-
8.

stance and effect, is contrary to the given state of the organism or its
concerning organs, therefore capable of unmaking the disease in the sick,
and making the disease in the healthy organism and which, at the same ;

time, in relation, quantity, form and modality is conform and equal, ergo
similar, to the given pathopoesis or morbification, and most nearly so,
and in the exactest possible proportion unto the quantity and form of the
disease and which is, therefore, homoiotic, or capable of assimilating
;

the disease and inasmuch as the corresponding pathopoesis or morbific

;

agent must be equally homasotic or capable of assimilating the drug or

hygiopoesis : it is clear, that such a remedium, necessarily, is thorough,
direct, positive, radical, and precise in its effect, and that any other drugs
selected and administered after other theories, can only be more or less
indirect, negative, palliative or alterative, and uncertain in their action :

Positivity of Homeopathy.
9. The correlation of physiological and pathological Assimilation in the

view we have taken, will find its illustration in an examination into the
effects of our best known remedies from which we select Arsenic as an
example.
The pure no oxydation in the alimentary
metallic Arsenic undergoes
canal, is pure metallic state, and not poisonous. (See
eliminated in its

Schmidt and Bretschneider in Moleschott JJntersuchungen, Vol. 6, p.

140.)
The arsenious acid, if taken in large and massive doses, terminates life
more or less rapidly, and is one of the most formidable poisons.
The same arsenious acid is taken habitually and regularly, in small
doses, by mountaineers, in some places, for the purpose of improving
their "wind" and of preserving and bettering their general health. And
there its effects are, that the people who make a regular practice of

Arsenic eating, with certain precautions, grow upon it sleek and fat and
red-cheeked, and their appearance improves generally. Likewise it is
given to horses, cattle and hogs, for the purpose of fattening them up.
And we are informed, that in the Styrian stud of the King of Prussia it
is made a rule to give Arsenic to the horses. The Arsenic serves as a
nutritious element.
The same arsenious acid is, at some places, taken regularly and in
small doses, by persons who are connected with the manufacture of
Arsenic, for the purpose of avoiding the deleterious effects of the fumes
of the poison, and this is done not only with impunity, but with marked
 Series V. Observations 9-11. 61

benefit, as preserves their lives. Thus Arsenic serves as a prophylactic

it

and same time as a remedy and a nutriment.

at the
The same arsenious acid, if taken in infinitesimal quantities, cures such
complaints as are similar to those produced by it in large doses. Thus
Arsenic serves as a true remedium, and is one of the most efficacious
remedies in our Materia Medica.
Arsenic, therefore, stands as full proof for the fact, that the same sub-
stance may be indifferent, poisonous, nutritious, morbific or curative, as
the case may be the effect depending upon the mutual action of the
;

organism and the drug, according as it is assimilable in different degrees.

We are aware of the objection against considering arsenious acid as a
nutriment, on the ground, that it diminishes the ordinary waste of the
tissues and causes an amount of fat and albuminous substances, equiva-
lent to the repressed carbonic acid and urea, to remain in the body and to
increase its weight, when the animal receives at the same time a sufficient
amount of food. (Schmidt and Sluerzwage Jour., f. pr. Chcm., 1859,
Vol. 78, p. 373.)
But this objection rests on the narrow view which physiologists take of
assimilation. The arsenious acid must be assimilated by the tissues in
some way or it is to diminish their waste.
other, if And, that it is so
assimilated, is conclusively proved by the chemical test in post-mortem
examinations.
10. Hippocrates already observed the correlation of physiological and
pathological assimilation, and laid down illustrations, and rules drawn
from it for practice, in various passages of the books which we have under
his name. His views in this respect are concentrated in this sentence
"For any other thing is food to one and injurious to another." (de morbo
sacro. ed. Adams 2, p. 843.)
But this, like many other good things, was mostly neglected by his
epigones, and so that the profession generally, even homoeopathic
it is,

physicians, still cling to the untenable definition of a "remedy" which

assumes it to be unassimilable matter.
It must be acknowledged, however, that Falck, of the physiological
school, refers to the difference in the effects of toxication as depending
upon the dose and the state of the organism. But he, too, completely
ignores what, before him and in the very same direction, was observed
by Hahnemann, and others, and what might be well made available for
Toxicology.
11. With that understanding of remedial action, which is adopted in
our observations, Boerhaave's, "Idem remedium aliter afficit sanum
hominem, quam aegrotantem," and Hartman's, "Corpus etiam aegrum
Unge alium ac sanum a medicamento effectum experiatur necesse est " are
easily reconciled and scientifically confirmed. Of course, the same drug
operates differently upon different states of the organism. And by our
Homoeopathy it is proved, that it operates contrariwise as well as simi-
larly.
62 Series Y.~ Observations 11-12.

Of the Holmesian witticism, "that, what is injurious to the healthy,

must be injurious to the sick," it is hardly worth while to say more, than
that it is, at best, an injury to Logic.
12. The famOUS Sentence " ra 'tvavTia run evavntov 'tsTiv irinara " Or
ll
C07l-

trariorum contraria sunt remedial attributed to Hippocrates in the

spurious book " De flatibus" (Kuhne's ed. Vol. I, p. 569), is after all
conformable with the views here presented. It does not at all justify the
inferences drawn from it by the school whose dogmas Hahnemann stig-

matized as Allceopathy. On the contrary, the sentence corroborates the

homoeopathic doctrine of Hippocrates, inasmuch as it formulizes the one-
half of that doctrine, viz. the Contrariety, without denying the other half,
:

viz. : the Simility, which is adverted to by him elsewhere. Only, we

must properly understand the whole passage, judge correctly the sen-
to
tence concluding it. The author "that it is necessary to
distinctly says:
"know the beginning and the source of the evils in the body. For, as
"soon as one knows the cause of the disease, he can give to the body
"what is agreeable, because he knows the disease/rom the opposite causes,
" and in this consists the healing art according to its nature. For instance,
" hunger is a disease the remedy against hunger is that what satiates it.
;

" This is food, therefore, it is the remedy."

This explains the sense of the sentence. For, to reason with the author,
and to analyze, hunger is the disease hunger is known by the opposite
;

cause of the disease, since "we know the disease from their opposite
causes," and such is satiation. Satiation is the health. Satiation is
known by the " opposite cause " of the health, and that is hunger. Now,
food is known to produce satiation food is known to allay hunger.
;

Therefore, food is the opposite cause of hunger, i. e. satiation and food ;

is the opposite cause of satiation, i. e. hunger. This is the logic of the

Galenic, school.
If the author spoke sense at all, the solution is, that "food" is used
in different meanings ;
first, in a positive sense, as, something being added,
and then in a negative sense, as something being subtracted. If food is
the remedy of hunger, as the author says, it is entirely homoeopathic,
that is, it produces in the one case what it removes in the opposite case.
It produces satiation in the hungry by being given or " added" to him,
and hunger in the satiated, by being denied or " subtracted " from him.
What else, then, has the author done, than to prove food upon the
healthy negatively, i. e., what it would not do, and to prove food upon
the diseased, here the hungry, positively, i. e., what it would do? And
what else is this, than homoeopathic ?
When the author found, that food would produce no hunger upon the
healthy, that is, the satiated, he was naturally led to this doctrine of
"opposite causes" and to its application for satiating the hungry,
because, if food will not make the healthy sick, that is, hungry, it certainly
makes the hungry healthy, that is, satiated. The "opposite" and the
 Series V. Observations 12-13. 63

"agreeable" are clearly identified. The Alloeopathic Contrarium is a

Contrarium, but the Homoeopathic Contrarium is the Contrarium.
Hahnemann proved positively, by giving or "adding" to the body
various substances from the three kingdoms of nature (nutriments in-
cluded), and it is from that positive experiment, that we have obtained
the Materia Medica Pura.
Again : whosoever acknowledges as genuine the book on the Sacred
Disease which contains the homoeopathic idea, will have to rank the book
"Be Flatibus" equally high, when comparing the conclusion of the
book on the sacred disease with the sentence above discussed.
In either sentence the same idea is expressed, the same spirit prevailing,
and almost the same language used.
Galenus acknowledges both these books as genuine, and all his followers
attached so high a value to the book "De Flatibus," that they took the
above quotation as a shibboleth or dogma of a new orthodoxy, thereby
ignoring or dissimulating the true doctrine. Now we see, how they have

deceived themselves, and that their orthodoxy is an old error and a com-
mon logical blunder, and a false heterodoxy. They mistook particularly
the true meaning of "ret 'cvavnd." They took any Contrarium to be the
Contrarium, i. e., the curative Contrarium. But, what is not positively
certain cannot be entirely certain. Their Contrarium is not the Con-
trarium. Logic would have prevented their mistake.
And here we may say, that some competent Greek scholar, thoroughly
acquainted with the scientific and philosophical progress of our age,
should furnish us a new, true and faithful English translation of the
works of the great Coan. Such would do more justice to him and to his
homoeopathic comprehension, than hitherto accorded by Galenic task-
masters.
13. In regard to Biology, our theory of Homoeopathic High Potencies
leads to the following views :

Nutrition the result of assimilation of nutritious matter, contained in

is

the particles of food, comminuted and refined by mastication and diges-

tion,and combined with indigestible matter which serves as a vehicle to
keep the nutritious matter in the required condition of fineness and com-
minution.
Nutrition is thus carried on by potentiation of nutritious matter in the
organism, rendering it assimilable by the concerning parts or organs of

the system.
Every part of the organism assimilates of the nutritious matter, pre-
sented to it in a variety of forms, whatever is affined to its own substance
and nature, and required to meet its wants.
Consequently, any food which by such assimilation contributes to the
self-preservation of the organism, is proper nutriment.
As there is an assimilation of nutritious matter, so there is an assimi-
lation of noxious matter, and whatever does not tend or contribute, or
64 Seeies V. Observation 13.

agree to, or concur with, the self-preservation of the organism, is noxious

to it.

The indigestible matter of the particles of food which, as a vehicle,

keeps the nutritious matter suspended in a state of comminution or fine-
ness, forms one source of assimilation of noxious matter, being itself
comminuted and refined by the process of digestion, in such a manner,
that its assimilation is facilitated, which again is potentiation.
The ingestion of poisons and drug-matter in a crude state, by their
contact and chemical action upon the organism, forms another source of
assimilation of noxious matter.
The ingestion of nutritious matter, when nutrition is deranged, forms
a third source of assimilation of noxious matter, the nutriment, thus in-
gested, itself becoming noxious to the organism, by virtue of its chemical
and physical properties.
The perversion of nutrition, taking place where the self-preservation
of the organism does not require nutrition, and being contrary to self-
preservation, forms a fourth source of assimilation of noxious matter.
The ingestion into the healthy organism of drug-matter in a condition
of comminution or refinedness, obtained by High Potentiation, forms a
fifth source of assimilation of noxious matter.
All this taken together, it will be perceived, that all matter assimilated
by the organism, through its various parts and organs, stands in the
nutriment or noxious matter, conversely, as the case may
signification of
be. And, whether it act as the one or the other, depends upon the place,
and upon the part in the organism, .where the assimilation is going on,
and upon the velocity of the assimilating process, as well as upon the
(infinitesimal) comminution, or fineness of the matter, and, of course,
upon the affinity of the assimilating particles to those assimilated, and
vice versa.
Noxious matter may
be assimilated, and by nature prevented from
exerting by being enveloped with indifferent tissues so
its specific action,
as to remain indifferent or innocuous to the self-preservation of the organ-
ism for a longer or shorter time Innoxious assimilation of noxious
:

matter.
Assimilation, everywhere, is accomplished by Potentiation, that is by
rendering the infinitesimal particles of matter susceptible and active
according to their inherent affinities.
Disease originates in the specific action of noxious matter which is
either produced within the organism or brought in from without, and it

is always carried on by a process of assimilation.

As homoeopathic remedies are obtained by potentiation, that is by
comminuting and refining drug-matter, by means of a vehicle easily
assimilable so nutritious matter appears to stand as the vehicle in the
;

natural potentiation of those noxious materials which the organism itself

prepares as remedies for its own self-preservation.
As the whole organism draws upon digestion, as the source of its
 Series Y. Observations l-i-15. 65

nutrition, so every part and particle of the organism draws upon the
various materials successively worked out by the different processes of
animal chemistry for its own
proper nutriment, and assimilates them for
its own particular use Thus, the lacteals draw upon
and subsistence.
the chyle prepared by digestion the lymphatics upon the transudation
;

of the capillaries the blood upon the fluids of either of these and the
; ;

nerves upon the blood.

Those parts of the organism which do not satisfy their wants and
requirements by this intra-organic nutrition alone, assimilate from the
outer world, whatever is necessary, not only for their own existence,

but also for their co-operation with others and for the self-preservation of
the organism. Thus, the blood assimilates oxygen from the air the eye ;

light ; the ear sound ; the nose olfactory matter ; the tongue gustatory
matter ; the skin surfaces ; the brain and nerves phosphorus ; the mind
operations of other minds by means of the senses, and so on ; the organ-
ism, in fact, continually assimilating from the planet and the Universe as
long as it lasts. Consequently, the whole organism is the product of
Assimilation of matter, and its action is the result of Potentiation of
matter. And so is disease. And so is health. And so is all life.

The hypothetical ether is, comminuted matter

possibly, innnitesimally
in space, forming, as it were, the reservoir of the High Potencies required
for the Universal Assimilation or Homceosis, which is continually going
on and mediating all life in the world.
The means by which this universal process of Homceosis is carried on,
individually and collectively, are the Imponderables, as well as the Pon-
derables, and Gravitation, and indeed all natural agencies in turn.
14. The inferences for Aetiology, to be drawn from the above advanced
biological views, are easily understood.
Inasmuch and effects of homoeopathic remedies are
as the properties
similar to the propertiesand effects of what we must conceive to be the
causes of the diseases which they cure, it would not seem unlikely, that
the material substance or nature of both, the drug-matter and the disease-
matter, should be also similar.
And, would give an important addition, if not a new basis, to
if so, it

Aetiology, which, therefore, will have to direct its attention to the

Homoeopathic Materia Medica, and complete its investigations by the
results of the homoeopathic provings which are, in fact, as many setio-
logical studies.
probative process is the reverse of the curative process, and there
The
isno reasonable doubt, but that by proving the disease is produced under
the same Laws of Nature under which the disease is produced otherwise.
15. The homceotic hypothesis proposed in the course of our observations
and deductions, is an unpretending effort of harmonizing, and subsuming
under one common head, many important physiological and physical
phenomena, which appear to bear near relation and resemblance to the
healing process by Homceopathic High Potencies.
5
 '

66 Series Y. Observation 15.

It can hardly be denied, that the homeeotic nature of our healing pro-
cess shows itself in the fact, that the remedies, in different degrees of
Potentiation, exert their natural selection and affinity for certain parts

and conditions of the organism in different degrees of intensity and

Susceptibility.
Considering, that the conception of Mutuality of Action is, indeed, as
Herbart observes, transferable and applicable to Chemical Affinity
believing, that the character of our Homceosis corresponds to Heraclitus'
Enantiotrbpia and to Anaxagoras' Diacosmesis, and to Kepler's Harmonia
Mundi and to Newton's Delight of Nature in transmuting everything into
its opposite, and to Leibnitz' Harmonie Preetablie; and remembering
Kant's conception of Chemical Interpenetration, which Herbart once
thought, deserved to be made the foundation of all Natural Philosophy :

we may feel assured, that further examination will be accorded to this

subject for the purpose of more fully elucidating its comprehensive rela-
tions to Science, and that it will ultimately lead to good practical results.
As our Homoeosis presents a generalization and combination of
it is,

Newton's Attraction, of Grove's and Faraday's Universal Correlation and

Mutual Conversion of the Physical Forces of Matter, and of Herbart'
Concursus Incompletus, applied to Physiology, Pathology and Therapia.
The homceomatic idea in general is proverbially expressed in Pope's
sentence :

"All nature's difference makes all nature's peace ;"

and poetically rendered in thee lines of Tennyson :

•

" Nothing in this world is single ;

All things, by a law divine,

In one another's being mingle."

It is classically depicted by Goethe's master hand in the words

" Und es ist das ewig Eine,

Das sich vielfach offenbart,
Klein das Grosse, gross das Kleine,
Alles nach der eignen Art,
Inimor wechselnd, fest sich halteud,
Nah and fern, und fern und nah,
So gestaltend, umgestaltend,
Zum Erstaunen bin ich da !

And it is, with characteristic emphasis and precision, embodied in

Faust's exclamation

" Wie Alles sich zum Ganzen webt,

Eins in dem Anderu wirkt und lebt!"

But the practical realization of this homceomatic idea, and its applica-
tion to Medicine, is properly due to Homoeopathy.
 Series I.— Case VI. 67

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS.

SIXTH SERIES.
'Ai jitKpat Svvajxcta pcyaXaa ran poiraa tiroirioav.

Isocrates.

The following report presents a further collection of cases

cured by High Dilution Potencies of the description given in
the First Series.
In the observations we continue the corollaries, com-
menced in the Fifth Series.

CASES.
1. B. a boy of
;
German descent, six weeks old. October,
16th, 1861. Oval, elastic, bladder-like tumor in the right
part of the scrotum, and moveable under it, as large as a
pigeon's egg, sometimes larger, more like a small hen's egg.
When the tumor is as large as that, patient spreads his legs
apart. No testicle can be found at the right side. The veins
injected at the surface of the scrotum at the right side. The
tumor was never found to go away or to decrease, on the
contrary it lately has increased so as to draw the mother's
attention to it. The tumor offers an elastic resistance to the
touch, without payi, and cannot be reduced. There is some
eruption of small red pimples about the body and the mother
is covered with larger red pimples all over. Silicea IJf, m.
one pellet.

October 25th. After that the tumor gradually decreased.

The testicle became distinct and the tumor receded, above
along the course of the spermatic cord, presenting a soft and
roundish appearance.
November 5th. The tumor is entirely gone. Only now
68 Series VI. Cases 2-4.

and then there is a slight appearance as if the right spermatic

cord was a trifle larger than the left one.
Also this symptom disappeared.

2. K., a boy of American descent, six months old.

June 1st, 1863. Hydrocele as large as a pigeon's egg.
Silicea 14- w., six pellets.
The tumor disappeared in two or three days.

3.Dysenteria cruenta. Alex. K., five years, American,

of German descent, very lively.
October 5th, 1864. Had yesterday ten, to-day fifteen
bloody mucous discharges. Thinks he must
sit all the time

on the vessel. Tenesmus. Abdomen bloated, hot griping ;

pain about the navel awful pain when bending over, and
;

when passing stool. All over the body spots with thick
reddish brown scabs with a small red base. He passed pure
blood yesterday and two days before. No passage without
blood since the third of this month. Two, p.m., Merc, v., f^ m ,
t

and Merc. v. § m one powder to be given after midnight.

.,

October 6th. Four, p.m., had a natural stool at one, A.M.,

at eight, a.m., but less, and ten discharges since passes now ;

more slime, when to stool, but don't like to get up again ;

less pain. Merc. v. | m in one gill of water, one teaspoonful

.,

once in two hours, four powders.

October 20th. After three, p.m., he was all right; then
he got a " tremendous appetite."

Asthma. Mrs. S., twenty-four years, of German birth,

4.

brunette, good natured.

July 12th, 1862. Tickling cough and asthmatic difficulty
want of breath, possibly from sympathy with her husband
who is troubled much with Asthma in clear weather. Puis.
7 m., in watery solution, every two hours, one teaspoonful.
The second day she got a thick red eruption, very much
like measles, all over the back and chest and the upper half
of the upper arms. After a few days, whole pieces of skin
 Series VI.— Cases 5-7. 69

peeled off. When I saw her a clay or two afterwards, there

were whitish brown scabs of pea size, and smaller, to be seen,
which easily scaled off. The people thought it so strange,
that they expressly came to the office, to show it to me.
Cough and asthma were gone.

5. Depilatio. B., seven years, a girl, American, blonde,

and brown eyes.
October 1st, 1863. A bald spot, as large as a dime, on the
left side of the fore part of the head, and another one like it,

as large as a pea, on the middle part of the head. Pains in

the forehead, over the root of the nose. Had sore ears when
a babe, and was treated homoeopathically. Last January
hives all over like erysipelas, and also treated homoeopath-
ically. Thuj. occ, f m .

June 25th, 1864. "After five or six weeks the hair came
in beautifully." Verbal report.

6. Blennorrhea octjli. A hen.

December 12th, 1863. Blenorrhcea of the right eye, with
swelling of the right ear. 6
Euphras. off., 5T <jo-

December 13th. Better; in a few days well.

7.Scarlatina miliaris. St., boy, eight years, American,

of German descent, small and stout.
October 18th, 1863. Since the 16th he complained, first

of his head, then of his belly, then he went to bed. Worse

since yesterday afternoon. His mother gave him yesterday
morning infusion of Senna, which produced a slimy diarrhoea.
Then an eruption broke out, which, with the exception of
the face, covered his whole body with red granules, very
red and dense, especially at the trunk. Strawberry-tongue,
violent fever, anxiety, with hot red face ; inclination to deli-
rium, worse in the warm room ; a small place in the pit of
the stomach extremely tender to the touch. Had three
months ago hooping-cough, for which Moschus had been
given to him; since then he "has it" in his head, he cries,
70 Series VI.— Cases 8-9.

and runs away, complaining of pain in his head. Apis m.,

fm ._
two hours.
in one gill of water, one teaspoonful every
January 27th, 1864. The fever did not last even a week;
he complained no more ran about in a few days, and the
;

skin scaled off after a fortnight.

Scarlatina laevis. A girl, two years, child of the

8.

patient with Scirrhus mammae, in the case First Series, No.

29, page 14, ante ; of good appearance.
January 21st, 1864. Since a few days, some cough; yes-
terday high fever ; red cheeks, red spots on the left cheek ;

teething ; smooth, scarlet eruptions on the whole body,

except in the face ; tongue thickly coated, with the papillas
shining through; sub-maxillary and parotid
perspiration;
glands swelled. Apis rnel. f m-i in water every three hours.
The child got well, without further development of the dis-
ease, in a few days, and the people said, it had not been
scarlet-fever, though they had no doubt about it before.

9. Yarioloides. P. G., eight years, poor constitution,

American, of German descent.
October 31st, 1861. Came home yesterday from school
with vomiting delirium. Three, p. m., Bell. ^, in water,
;

every two hours.

November 1st. This morning vomiting of much slime ;

some cough; talking in sleep is usual with him; stands all

the time crooked. Ipec. -f^,
in water, once in two hours.
November 2nd. Since yesterday, an eruption breaks out,
mostly in the face, on the arms and on the trunk,
legs, less
like small-pox, without pit in the centres. was vacci-
Pat.
nated in the dispensary as a child, and had one good vaccine-
pustule. Slept all night; less fever; urine brown; until
yesterday afternoon all the excretions went from him invol-
untarily. Thvj. occ. 5 m., in water, once in two hours, in one
powder.
November 3rd. Talking much in the night. The whole
 Sekies YL— Observation 1. 71

body is now covered with pustules ; otherwise lively. Con-

tinued Thuj. occ. 5 to., as above, one powder.
November 6. The pustules are quite full, and partly con-
fluent; great photophobia; urine clear; violent itching of
the skin.
November 7th. The pustules open.
In a few clays everything healed up without further
trouble.

OBSERVATIONS.

It is the destiny of Homoeopathy, not only to effect a glorious

revolution in the art of healing, but to lead to new views of the

constitution of matter.
Joslin. {Principles of Homoeopathy, 1850.)

The general observations commenced in the Fifth Series, are continued

as follows
1. It may occur to look for an explanation of the Homceotic Process by-

some higher law.

Some of our homoeopathic systematists have introduced Magnetism
(Altschul) and Electricity (Goullon), as a cosmological basis for the
homoeopathic quality of our remedies.
The high character of Science which we all claim for Homoeopathy,
warns us to be very cautious, and never too willing in adopting a bold,
however ingenious speculation, when there are not yet facts enough to

justify it.

The true nature and relation of Electricity and Magnetism will be

better understood, the idea of Potentiation shall thoroughly take

when
hold of the scientific mind. This idea is like a powerful telescope, apt to
dissolve the nebulae of the so-called Imponderabilia, which even Liebig
now styles "Potencies."
The and observations at our disposal as yet, are hardly decisive
facts
enough, to warrant us in assuming, that the quality of homooepathic sub-
stances, individually, is proprie magnetic or electric, or that our healing
process is a magnetic or electric process, properly speaking.*

* By means of a most delicate Galvanometer I find that the human body conducts
Galvanism as readily as a copper wire, though with more or less velocity and intensity,
according to the state of the organism at the time being.
By means of a most delicate astatic needle, I find that the human body deflects the needle
as an ordinary magnet does, differing or varying according to the sex, and part and con-
dition of the organism, at the time being.
This would seem to indicate, that the chemical action in the organism produces galvanic
72 Seeies VI. Observations 1-2.

But whether or not the substances themselves, certainly their action, in

may exhibit something like polarity
relation to substances of the organism,
and Polarity of Action might, indeed, be taken for a property common
and essential to all Mutual Action and to all homoeotic manifestations.
There is a general signification of the term Polarity, here applicable,
by which it is used, to designate opposite or dissimilar properties or
powers, simultaneously developed by a common cause in opposite or con-
trasted, parts. And in this sense Polarity is a phenomenon observed, not
only in magnet, light and electricity, but also in Homceosis which em-
braces them all. Not, that the matter concerned in the mutual action is
itself polar, but that the Polarity appears to be in the motion and action
of the matter concerned in the mutual action.
With such a conception of Polarity of Action, as being the property of
all Mutual Action, would seem, that in the homoeopathic healing pro-
it

cess the action of theremedy is polar to the action of the disease and vice
versa, and that the convertibility of pathopoesis and hygiopcesis has its
analogy in the Exchange of the Poles.
2. Referring to Obs. 13 in the Second Series, it must be remembered

that every medication, as well as nutrition, and motion in general, follows

the Law of Contact, which is in close relation to the nature of the bodies.
What, of old, is called ''Impenetrability of the Bodies," depends actually
upon the reactive property common to all matter and force, that is, it
depends upon Mutual Action. And this is effected always by Contact, the
subtleties of the Leibnitzians to the contrary notwithstanding. For, as
Newton says: "to suppose, that one body may act upon another at a
"distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by
"and through which their action and force may be conveyed to one
" another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe, no man who has
"in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall
"into it."
Now, in the said observation only dry contact is mentioned. But the
Law of Contact is exactly the same with fluid substances. In fluids the
infinitesimal particles, constituting them, are so arranged, tbat they among
each other preserve their contact in such a manner, as to easily displace
each other in all conceivable directions, without undergoing disintegra-
tion. A solid may be conceived to become a fluid by being potentiated,
and equally so, by the same process a fluid may become a gaseous body
being possessed of another kind of fluidity, (p. 26, ante.)

processes which, in their turn, again cause the magnetism observed through the astatic
needle.
Persons possessed of much Animal Magnetism
or Mesmerism, (Hahnemann Orgauon, 5
more than those having less of it.
ed., § 293, 294,) deflect the needle
This shows, that Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism are identical with mineral and com-
mon terrestrial Magnetism. /

These facts are directly practicable for application in probative and curative treatment.—
(See Scientif. Amer., Vol. VI., p. 342, new series.)
 Series VI. Observations 2-3. 73

If fluids act at they must act by Contact, just the same as gaseous
all,

or solid bodies. This is, what in Mechanics is expressed by the term

" SoMevtaUon"
These views are in accordance with the Theory of Contact or Continua,
adopted and cultivated by the best Mathematicians, especially by Lagrange,
Poisson and Cauchy, and which has furnished fine results, but which
was abandoned by its adherents, because they could not make out the
phenomena of the so-called Imponderabilia. (Redtenbacher, Dyna-
miden, p. IV.)
Now, here, w'th our High Potencies, are positive facts, making out
how Imponderables are produced by a known process of Potentiation,
from measurable, ponderable and palpable substances. Was, then, the
Continua-Theory so very wrong?
Homoeopathies furnishes facts and proofs for it the ignorance of them ;

led to its being discarded.

Resuming this theory now, we
most simple relation
find that, since the
of bodies to one another most simple Law of Impact
is that of Impact, the
would exactly tally and correspond with the Law of Contact, Impact
being only another and a more definite term for the same thing on the
one side, which is Contact on the other side.
The almighty shock which Newton postulates for the movement of the
heavenly bodies, may well be supposed to consist of infinitely many little
shocks, through an infinity of time and space, in all possible directions
and with infinitely varying intensities. A hypothesis of this kind would,
perhaps, enable us, reasonably to account for the great original shock,
and its effect, by the conception, that the Infinite Impact is continuing all

the time, bearing along everything and ourselves, too, with all our Philo-
sophy and Mathematics, infinitesimally and infinitely.
3. The term "infinitesimal" i. e. infinitely little, having been applied

to Homoeopathic High Potencies, it is to be distinctly understood, that

infinitesimals are not infinites, and that Homoeopathic High Potencies, too,
are by no means infinites, but that they are finite quantities, real infini-

tesimals and infinitesimal realities. They are proved to be something,

by facts of experience, and by logical induction. Hitherto their quantity
has not been "assigned," that is, specified or designated with precision,
and thus it is correct enough to call them infinitesimal, that is, of less
than "assignable" quantity, which means less than hitherto has been
or could be assigned i. e. precisely specified.
But it cannot be said, that they are less than "assignable," because it
is impossible to assign their quantity. Only, we have to learn and find,
that, and how, they are assignable.
In the mean while, and until the High Potential Calculus shall be
established, all we physicians have to do, is, to show by facts and expe-
rience in our Healing Art, that the High Potencies do act, and do act with
forces analogous to other forces of Nature. The results thus obtained
will, after us, be taken up by the other proper departments of Science,
74 Series VI. Observations 4-5.

and the Infinitesimals will be all the same, whilst the assignability of
quantities will be realized and increased.
4. As High Potencies, the Homoeopathic Infinitesimal Dose
applied to
is the medicinal quantity which, by virtue of its mutual action with the
organism, is sufficient, to cause that specific hygiopcetic or pathopcetic
motion, which, again, is sufficient to its purpose as a Minimum in the
given case.
"When the High Potency (always provided that it be homceopathically
correct)is actually applied, the path which it has to pass through in the

organism, and the time in which it does so, and the expenditure of force
on the part of the organism at the time, will be the least possible, whilst
at the same time the velocity of its action will be the greatest possible ;

and hence, the Quantity of Action necessary to effect either change,

(Hygiopcesis or Pathopcesis) will, necessarily, be the least possible.

Whoever remedy
considers the size of the quantity of the homoeopathic
employed in a High Potency, in comparison with the size of the quantities
which the organism and its various organs oppose to it and who ever ;

will measure, weigh and number, estimate or calculate, as quantities, the

symptoms of disease cured or produced by the least dose will satisfy ;

himself that the practical rule of Maxima Minimis is perfectly reliable for
hygiopcetic and pathopcetic motions, as well as for all other kinds of motion.
5. The calculations periodically ruminated by enemies of Homoeo-

pathy, about Homoeopathic High Potencies, for the purpose of ridiculing

them as absurdities, are simply ridiculous. But, as they treat them
seriously and gravely, we have to repay the compliment.
The argument made by them fails in the premises. These allceopathic
philosophers fancifully create their own premises, and then take the
figment of their own brain as a basis for their deduclio ad absurdum,
instead of taking, as a starting point, the plain true facts in the Process
of Potentiation and using them as the basis of the calculation or as pre-
mises for the ratiocination.
such as are habitually looking at things superficial ly,
It is natural, that
are easily misled plausibility of a " proposition," and
and deceived by the
by the seeming exactness of a " calculation." Equally natural it is, that
such as are constitutionally afraid of ridicule, should allow their sensi-
bilities to interferewith their better judgment. But all this cannot alter
facts, nor justify logical blunders.
Honest men of true scientific attainments are not so easily led off, by
fibs, from the point in question, and they do not fail to see, in this matter,

that the ridiculing calculators bravely fight a Quixotic battle.

The famous reasoning of these calculators starts from a self-made
figure, and based upon an arbitrary assumtion, which is this, that a
is

little substance is, by potentiation, gradually magnified, according to its

rarefaction or attenuation, to such dimensions, as the size of Saturnus, of
the Sun, nay, so terribly large, that the w hole
T
planetary system would not
sufficiently convey the idea of its magnitude.
 Seeies VI. Observation 5. 75

The absurdity of the syllogism is evident. But the assumtion itself

is totally wrong in fact, and a misrepresentation of Hahnemann's
Potent iation-Theory.
Such magnifying is impossible by their own showing : how can
Hahnemann be made responsible for doing it? It appears strange, that
such an imaginary thing as this magnifying process would be, should be
used as an argument against the infinitesimal lessening which is the gist
of our Potentiation, as if infinitesimalizing were impossible, because its
very contradiction, the magnifying, is impossible !

It might be fairly expected, that the very possibility of such lessening

of a substance to such a remarkable degree, (as their own calculation

would show in the converse), and which is already established as a fact
by our Potentiation, would excite admiration of the greatness of Nature,
and of man's mental power, to perform such a prodigious task by the
simple means of a few vials, a small quantity of inert powder, an indif-
ferent fluid, and comparatively little labor.
But, oh that would be too plain and sensible a thing. They rather
!

admire a thing for its impossible magnitude they rather believe a thing, ;

because it is absurd and they rather disbelieve a thing, because it is

;

beyond their comprehension.

That they should do so, is physiologically, and psychologically, explaina-
ble by muddle of brain and consequential confusion. But, it is, neverthe-
less, a shame and a pity. A little bit of logic, just a homocepathical dose
of it, or even as much
gentlemen themselves understand to be a
as those
homoeopathic dose, would have prevented them from perpetrating such
nonsense, as that is, to assume to prove, that, what Hahnemann did, is
absurd, because it is beyond their comprehension, and that what he did
is impossible, because it would have been impossible if he had done it

otherwise, or done something else.

Only think of mere "Nothings," (of their own showing), so large that
the world could not hold them And, yet, that is their great gun.
! ! !

Another circumstance here to be noticed is, that these task-masters

arrive at their stupendous result by way of a calculation, limited to simple
Arithmetics. They are in blissful ignorance of the fact, that simple Arith-
metics alone are insufficient for Progressions, Proportions, Variations,
and Potencies, which call for Higher Mathematics.
Thus, it is, that their appeal to common sense utterly fails, and their
avgumentum ab impossibili, turns on a humbug. Job XIII., 4, 5.

Dalembert once took a flask of water from tho table, shook it up

violently, untilinnumerable bubbles formed, and then said " calculez moi :

cela!"
Well, why do not these aristarchs of Medicine calculate their own doses
and their effects upon the same principle imputed to us? They take
any quantity of drugs, and mix, and shake, and bottle, and shake again,
—
forming innumerable bubbles, why do they not calculate that? Every
one of the substances taken for their drugging, is, itself, the result and
76 Seeies VI. Observations 5-6.

product of innumerable previous attenuations and solidifications and

—
substances and processes, why do they not calculate that? The very
effects of their drugs are innumerable indiscriminate bubbles in the
organism, innumerable motions, and changes of motion, of innumerable
infinitely little parts of the system, —
why do they not calculate that ?
" Calculez moi celaf" Can it not be done ? Is it impossible, absurd,
then, by your Logic, to prepare and use such drugs ?
When our censors of the Galenic persuasion shall have done their
calculations by the method on which they rely against us, they will be
welcome to their criticism, including witticisms and all. It will thus be
seen, what their deductio ad absurdum amounts to. In the meanwhile
their sneer comes with bad grace from them, and we can afford to wait.
Our High Potencies are something more than that water and those
bubbles in Dalembert's flask, and their preparation is something more
exact than that chaotic shaking of Dalembert's and hence the calcula-
;

tion of our High Potencies is something more practicable, than that of

allceopathic medicine and Dalembert's "ceZ«."
The true method for such calculation may not be known yet, but does
that prove, that it never will be ? The ridiculers had better employ their
acumen to Biological Mathematics, in order to assist in discovering the
true Medical Calcul/us.
6. Since the Fourth Series was written (1860), Kirchhoff and Bunsen

published their paper on "Chemical Analysis by observations of the

spectrum." (Pogg. Ann, Vol. CX., p. 161.)
This Spectral Analysis is actually a process of Interference. The waves
of the solar light, coinciding with the waves of unequal length of the
light of incandescent particles of metallic vapors, which are supposed to
come from the solar atmosphere, interfere and produce the dark lines of
Fraunhofer. A similar process of Interference is experimentally effected,
when a solar beam is thrown upon the spectrum of a less luminous flame
containing similar incandescent substances as are supposed to exist in the
solar atmosphere. Here the less luminous flame with the incandescent
substances represents the solar atmosphere. The substances artificially
introduced are indicated by bright lines of different color m certain
flame-spectrum, and correspond to those substances con-
localities of the
tained in the solar atmosphere, indicated by Fraunhofer' s lines. Now,
by Interference with thesunlight, the bright lines of the less luminous
flame-spectrum are converted into dark ones, owing to inequality of
wave length. Their precise coincidence with the original dark line of
Fraunhofer, proves, almost beyond doubt, that the sun contains, in"an
incandescent state, similar substances as our planet.

The analogy of this Analysis to Homoeopathy is obvious. It appears in

the Infinitesimality of Action, as well as in the Convertibility of the con-
trasted states of the spectrum into one another. The fact, that the lines
representing the contrasted states of the spectrum, are by the same
agencies converted from darkness into brightness and from brightness
 Series VI. Observation 6. 77

into darkness, corresponds exactly to the fact, that the symptoms repre-
senting the contrasted states of the organism, arc by the same remedies
converted from health into disease, and from disease into health.
The light, as reflected in the spectrum, would represent the organism,
and the bright and dark lines in the spectrum would represent the symp-
toms produced in the organism, by certain substances in infinitesimal
quantity, in virtue of their specific relation to the organism. The Fraun-
hofer lines, being the normal state of the solar spectrum and restored by
the solar light, would mean, that one given substance producing symp-
toms of disease in the healthy organism is neutralized by another similar
one coinciding, which produces symptoms of health in the diseased
organism, where the susceptive power is strong enough to admit of it at all.
If the power of the organism is lowered, as represented by the less luminous
flame, the substances burning in it with bright lines, produce symptoms
of disease according to their specific relation to the organism ; and, espe-
cially, if those substances burn on their own account, being present in
the telluric atmosphere (Sodium, etc.), they stand for natural disease,
and if they are artificially introduced into the flame (Lithium, etc.,) they
stand for artificial disease — our Proving. By the experiment of Hahne-
mann, as well as by that of Kirchhoff and Bunsen, the qualities of the
substances experimented on, are elicited, with the only difference, that
what in Spectral Analysis are lines, in Homoeopathy are symptoms ; in
other words, we find by
Kirchhoff and Bunsen' s experiment the physical,
by Hahnemann's the medical properties of the substances.
These very substances which produce bright and dark lines in the same
locality of the spectra of sun and flame light, convertibly, and as the
case may be, are applied by us in proper Potentiation to the organism as
remedies, when we direct the sunbeam of health upon the less luminous
spectrum of disease. Tn e substances producing disease in the healthy,
are neutralized by Interference, as it were, of the similar substances pro-
—
ducing the lines in the (solar) spectrum of health here Potencies, as well
—
as there, though differing in degrees and thus by the same remedy the
morbid symptoms, like the bright lines, disappear together with what is
abstractly called disease, and the normal symptoms, like the Fraunhofer
lines, are restored together with what is abstractly called health.
Quantitatively considered, this new Analysis furnishes new evidence
for the efficaciousness, directness and specificness of infinitesimal action of
attenuated substances, and already have Ozanam and others, taken its
bearings upon the Homoeopathic Potencies. In
Analysis proves
fact, this

again the correctness and general applicability of the Maupertuisian Law

of the Least Quantity of Action, and that Infinitesimality, which we claim
as the quantitative principle of Homoeopathy.
Qualitatively considered, it is another evidence for the correctness
and general Newtonian Law of Contrariety (and
applicability of the
Equality) of Action and Reaction, and of that Mutuality, which we
claim as the qualitative principle of Homoeopathy.
78 Series VI. Observations 6-8.

But, it is not less striking as an illustration of the Correlation and

Conversion in which we recognize the rational character of all honioeo-
matic processes, including Interference, and which we claim as the
logical principle of Homoeopathy.
And, inasmuch as this Conversion is here demonstrated ad oculos, and
verified, to take place really, and physically, and unerringly so, under
certain conditions and inasmuch as in this new Analysis again the same
;

elements and conditions (Motion and Change of Motion Simility and ;

Contrariety; Molecularity and Infinitesimality), and the same effects

(change of the given state, Neutralization and Conversion) are observ-
able,which we find to be common to all homoeomatic processes: this
important and beautiful discovery elucidates and confirms the correctness
and general applicability of the principle of the Mutual Conversion of
Physical Forces of Matter into one another, and that HOMGBOS1S which
we claim as the physical principle of Homoeopathy.
7. Inasmuch as by the preparation and effects of Homoeopathic High
Potencies, it is proved beyond controversy, that by variously commi-
nuting, attenuating, rarefying, fining and refining, crude drug-matter,
growing
" Fine by degrees and beautifully less,"

certain properties of matter are not only kept and preserved, but also
propagated, reproduced and improved, which are not perceived in the
state of crudity ; and that by the administration of so subtiliated sub-
stances certain matter of the organism is unerringly affected : we may
safely concede, thatby Potentiation the remedies are rendered molecular,
and represent molecular forces, setting free, as Grauvogl has it, mole-
cular motion, and molecular life, which were latent and unperceived in x

the crude state of the drug-substances. Anamorphosis, Metagenesis.

And we may also infer, that, as Assimilation is a molecular process, so
the proper condition of a homceopathic remedy for being curative, is

Molecularity, and that Potentiation is a process of Molecularization.

If we herein do not adopt Goullon's phraseology of atoms and atomiza-
iion, we only give up his nomenclature, because that would imply absolute
simplicity and and thus exclude the very
indivisibility of the constituents
idea of motion, and composition, which is belonging to molecules and
indispensable for any theory of Potentiation and for Goullon's own.
8. Inasmuch as our own experience, conformably with that of Hahne-

mann, Aegidi, Burkhardt, and others, places it beyond doubt, that

HomcBopathic High Potencies exert their action unmarred and undis-
turbed for a long time, as well as immediately after their preparation,
and as soon as they are brought into proper contiguity with the organism :

Ave have again evidence of the identity of the curative action of these
Potencies with the action of Chemical Affinity, because a very peculiarity
of the latter is known to be, that it is capable of either waiting or acting
at once (Faraday).
 Series VI. Observations 9-11. 79

9. Lehinann says: "from the anorganic chemistry it is known, that

the ablation or apposition of a single atom may conditionate such entire
difference of properties in a single composed body why, then, shall it ;

still seem to us so very strange, when in the organic composition, where,

on the whole, atoms use to group variously with such facility (isomeric),
such changes are produced by a plus or minus of one atom ?
This relates to Isomerism Chemical Science knows also Homomerism,
;

Metamerism and Polymerism.

But homoeopathic experience would lead directly to an investigation of
homceomeric bodies and Homaomerism, and it might, for such purpose,
prove of interest, to refer to the Anaxagorean Homceomeria.
And, in so far as Allotropism is acknowledged to be another similar
property of matter, also pointing to the facility of acquiring new pro-
perties by a mere infinitesimal change, the greater strictness of homoeo-
pathic observation would induce us to judge, that in the action of
homoeopathic drug-matter, as well as in that of disease-matter, a certain
Homceotropism is perceptible, and that such, in fact, constitutes one of
their properties.
10. Inasmuch as self-preservation, propagation, reproduction and im-
provement of its kind, are an undoubted criterion of organic life it may ;

be inferred, that Homoeopathic High Potencies, like the constituent and

integrant parts of the organism, are organic and organized matter, living
micro-organisms, each with an individual existence, which, comparable to
Milton's spirits,

" that live throughout,

Vital in every part, not as frail man, -

Cannot but by annihilating die."

11. And, inasmuch as no terminus of annihilation of homoeopathic

remedies by potentiating has been reached as yet, our High Potencies are
new testimony for the Imperishability of Matter, always maintained by
Hahnemann,* which, since his time, was successfully sustained by
Moleschott, and has now become the very basis of research in Natural
Science. "Matter, however, subtiliated, is matter still," (Boyle). And
"material substances can neither be created nor destroyed, and the dis-
tinctive qualities which appertain to them remain forever unchanged,"
(Draper).
This is the great truth, so beautifully illustrated by Du Bois Reymond
in his celebrated Preface, that it bears repeating: "A particle of iron is
and remains assuredly one and the same thing, no matter whether it is

* "A substance distributed in ever so many parts, must still ever contain in its least
conceivable parts something of that substance yet, and the least conceivable part does not
cease to be something of that substance, and, therefore, it cannot possibly become nothing."
(Organon, 5th ed. p. 288, Note.) Logically speaking, this amounts to the Principium Iden-

tatis. If a = a, it can never be = b, or = c, or =j, everything being equal to itself, and to

the whole of itself and of its parts.
80 Series VI.— Observations 11-14.

propelled into space in a meteoric stone, whether it thunders along upon

the railway in the wheel of a locomotive, or whether it pulsates through
the temples of a poet in a bloodcell as in the mechanism by the human
;

hand, so in the latter case, not anything has acceded to the properties of
that particle, not anything has been removed therefrom those properties ;

are from eternity, they are inalienable, intransferable."

Truly, a Homoeopathic High Potency, in the language of Pope :

" Lives through all life, extends through all extent,

Spreads undivided, operates unspent."

12. It is an object of further investigation, how much of this preserva-

tive and reproductive organization of the drug, and of the medical pro-
perties, in the potentiating process, is to be attributed to the mode of
Preparation (trituration, dilution, contact, succussion, etc.) and how
much of it to the Vehicle (sugar of milk, alcohol, water, etc.)
Probably, the vehicle serves as the medium, menstruum or means, for
keeping the remedial matter in the state of fineness required, and thus
for facilitating its assimilation when required. At all events, here again
is Homoeosis observable, this time as mutual action between drug and
vehicle.
13. It is, likewise, a matter of further inquiry, how much of the effects
of Homoeopathic High Potencies is to be attributed to the Velocity of the
assimilating process in space and time. For the purpose of an instan-
taneous and perfect cure, ceteris paribus, the momentum of the remedial
force must be similar to that of the pathopcesis or morbific force, that is
homozorrhopic, the facility of assimilation standing as the measure of the
susceptibility of the organism, which is found and elicited by individual
examination in each given case.
The velocity and intensity of the hygiopoesis or curative force are
mutually governed by the action of the organism, as well as by that of
the drug, and the curative action must therefore be IwmozotacMc and
Tiomozorhythmic
And, by comparing this action with the known velocities of circulation,
lightand electricity, in nerves and in other bodies, we might, possibly, get
at an approximative estimate, and infer, whether the effect of the remedy
is in the given case conducted through the circulation, or the nerves, or
how?
In any case, however, the least momentum possible, because sufficient
to cause a change, is certain to be all that is necessary to overcome the

opposed force of the pathopcesis and to neutralize the same, as is always

done by the mutual action of a cure or hygiopoesis.
14. Inasmuch as by the established effects of Homoeopathic High
Potencies it is certain, that the substance of the drug, after its refining or
potentiating, is more pointed and more specific in its medical action, than
the crude substance, or in Jahr's words, that "High Potencies present
 Series VI. Observations 15-16. 81

the peculiar characteristics of the remedy,"it may be assumed, that they

exist andunder the dominion of the great Law of Development, first

act
pointed out by Goethe, and, as Draper remarks, somewhat obscurely
enunciated by Bahr in the following words "the heterogeneous arises :

from the homogeneous by a gradual process of change," by which is

meant, that in the process of development the stages are not from forms
degraded from a higher type.
This gradual change is clearly homceotic and depending upon Leibnitz'
Laio of Continuity.
And, inasmuch as Development, to continue with Draper, is a Differen-
tiation of a higher order, or a Compound Differentiation, and by Differen-
tiation ismeant an increase involving modification of fabric and the
assumtion of new properties (symptoms) there seems to be no objection
:

to the idea, that the process of Potentiation, and also that of healing
through High Potencies, are processes of Differentiation and Development.
15. And if, agreeably to Draper's further observation, the great result
of every Development is Heterogenesis and Homogenesis, only apparent
as the conditions bringing on Differentiation approach Simility we may ;

adopt and apply this here, with the modification, however, that, in strict-
ness and reality, it is not exactly Homogenesis, but Homceo genesis, which
becomes apparent. Nothing can express this better, than the spiral whose
curves are true asymptotes, ever tending to approach each other, but
never meeting. (Rentsch, Homceogenesis.)
And here, and in this sense of Differentiation, and Development, with
assumtion of new we
understand, corroborate, and justify,
properties,
Hahnemann's often misrepresented theory, that the medical and scientific
characteristic of Potentiation consists in the " Kraftentwickelung' 1
'
1
or
Dy namization, development of force.
i. e.,

16. Besides quantity, quality, and relation, there is also the modality, and
form, or the morphological condition of the drugmatter, as well as of the
constituent and integrant parts of the organism, concerned in the mutual
action of the curative process, and also, perhaps, the morphological con-
dition of the hypothetical disease-matter, or pathopoesis. They present
further important elements for analyzing the nature of the matter which
is mutually active in the healing process.
Microscopical observation, in this regard, has not yet given us suffi-

ciently many of certain and positive facts, because the fineness of the
object is so extreme, that it still escapes perception by the instruments
now in use ; and hence the our Potencies, as perceived in the
effects of

organism, are still the only means of observing them. This morpholog-
ical condition, therefore, deserves further attention. Stereoscopic obser-
vationswould help much.
Thus much, however, upon comparing the said effects in the given case,
might be safely assumed, that the motions and functions, proper to the
remedial matter, are in form similar to those of the pathopoetic matter,
and that the constituent and integrant organs or elements, and their
motions and functions, as concerned in the mutual action of healing or
6
 82 Series VI. Observations 17-18.

diseasing, respectively, are in form similar to the substance, motions and

functions of the remedial and morbific matter, respectively, that is, that
* they all are homceomorp7iic.
Equally plausible it is, that all these matters are in a similar condition

of fineness in particles, and proportionate in form to each other, so as to

admit of susception and assimilation, that is, that they are homceolepto-
meric.
17. Inasmuch as HomazomorpTdsm presents a legitimate scientific point of
view of our subject, legitimate inferences may be drawn from it. Among
such might be one in regard to those strange and interesting indications
for discovering peculiar remedial properties, in organic and inorganic
substances, by their certain peculiar form and appearance, which from old
are known as Signature/, Eerum.
Superstition is connected with this subject, as it used to be with
Astrology and Alchemy before the scientific development of Astronomy
and Chemistry. But the subject never fairly died, and Helig, and
recently Granvogl, bestowed their attention to it.
Now, it would not be unnatural, nor supernatural, to think, that,
because every thing, and every organ, consists of a certain system of
motions and functions, peculiar to it, and unique of its own, and adapted
to the intent for which it is existing and formed, —
the regularity and
object of such functions and motions, causates and conditionates, by the
plasticity of nature, a certain configuration and form in the thing, or
organ, which appears to the eye and acts visibly. The organic form is
always a result of the operation of the substance. And if it could be
made out, as may be done by a conception of the Homceoplasticity of
Nature, that such functions and motions, and the inferred configuration
of the parts constituting the thing or organ, are homceomorphic then :

simility of configuration, Homasoplasia and Homoeoschematism, would be an

expression and conception of what is commonly called Signatura Rerum,
and it would explain, how, really, such Signatura, as the effect of the
homoeoplastic forces of Nature, might serve as indication of certain medical
properties, and that they, if correct, can only be homceopathical, and
that they can only be correct as such, if homceopathical.
18. Since there are in reality no two things identical (<W) and no two
diseases identical ;
there can be in strictness no isopathic remedy, and
Isopathy is impossible by nature and by logic.
The substances which are improperly called isopathic, are products of
the organism in certain diseased conditions ;and whilst there is no ques-
tion as to their efficiency in praxi, there is no doubt, that, when curative,
they are- homoeopathic remedies. Such substances represent, incorporate,
and typify, in their formation, the whole complex of the disease from
which they result and which is their pathogenesis. Upon this positive
ground they may be properly applied against similar diseases and forma-
tions but it will always have to be done with certain precautions, as for
;

instance, that the isopathic substance to be used, be taken from individuals

presenting the disease, or pathema, in a most simple and uncomplicated
form, and that it be subjected to the process of Potentiation.
 Series VI. Observations 19-22. 83

When regular homoeopathic provings of those so-called isopathic sub-

stances shall have been consummated, lege artis, as has been done already
with Hydrophobine, Psorine, etc., by Hering, Stapf, Gross, Redm. Coxe
and others; then we shall have most valuable additions to the Materia
jr.,

Medica Pura, and probably arrive at a fuller scientific explanation of

their medical action.
19. Whether the remedial and the pathopoetic matter in mutual action,
might be also similar in respect to the parts constituting either, is another
question offering itself for speculation. Generally speaking, the observed
simility of both, the drug and the disease matter, in form, quantity,
quality, properties, and effect, seem to allow an inference, that both might
also be composed and constituted of similar parts, that is homasomeric.
And, even the Anaxagorean conception of Homceomeria would confirm
this in a measure, because, if everything consists of similar parts com-
pared with itself, those things which are similar to each other, must also
have a simility of their constituent parts as compared with each other.
But this question pertains to the department of chemical science which
will decide it, when it shall at length avail itself of the
homoeopathic
facts,and when, taking a homceomatic view of the matter and giving to
Potentiation its clue credit, it shall be able to develope its higher branches
into Mctachemics.
20. From the preceding spicilegia it would seem, that the substances
which we know to be homceopathic remedies or Potencies, as conceived
in their mutual action with the organism, are homceodynamic and homce-
pathic, homceopathogenetic and homceopathoktonic, homcetropic, homce-
omeric, homceorrhopic, homceotachic and homceorhytmic, homceomorphic,
and homceoleptomeric, homceoplastic and homceoschematic, and conse-
quently homcuomatic withal.
21. All these several properties and effects taken together, seem to war-
rant the further conclusion, that they are all under a similar government,
and under the condition of similar laws, that is homceonomic.
22. The remaining question of their Essence, might consistently be
answered by drawing a final conclusion from property, form, and effect,
to essence, nature, and origin, which would be, that, compared with one

another, they are hornceousian.

Perhaps, for a conclusive determination of this question, further accu-
mulation of facts may be wanted. But Schneider's hypothesis, that the
Sjxoia are the remedies and the causes of disease, is very acceptable, being

consistent with the facts at our command, and comporting with the doc-
trine of Hippocrates and Hahnemann.
And, with Newton's caution about the use of the word "forces"* it

* Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Colonise Allobrogum 17C0, 4° I., p. ii.

" . Mathematicus dundaxat est hie conceptus. Nam virium causas et sedes Physicas
. . .

jam non expendo .... Unde caveat lector, ne per hujusmodi voces cogitet, me speciem
ver modum actionis causamve at rationem Physicam alicui definire, vel centris (quae
sunt puncta Mathematica) vires vere et Physice tribuere si forte aut centra trahere, aut
;

vires centrorum esse dixero."

84 Series VI. Observations 23-24.
might be safely said, that the 6>o«j are the forces which operate in and
upon organism and remedy, representing the effects of disease and medi-
cine upon the healthy. The tertium comparationis is the pathema, i. e.
the manner in which the organism is affected by either.
23. Hahnemann, and his greatest disciples, always stoutly maintained
the Jiylozoic opinion, that every thing in nature lives. The same belief is
shared by the highest minds of every age, and among its adherents are
Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Aristoteles, Leibnitz, Forster, Goethe, Herbart,
Ritter, Du Bois-Reymond, Draper, Moleschott, Fechner, and a host of
eminent scientists of our age.
The same opinion gains new confirmation and support by the nature,
properties, and efficaciousness, of our High Potencies. They, in their
preparation and mutual action with the organism, prove again, what
Draper states, that "there is no essential difference between the processes
of organic and inorganic life, and the line of demarcation which Natural
History has so far vainly attempted to define with correctness between
organic and inorganic world, is merely arbitrary either of them is
:

reducible to motion and governed by the same laws."

24. Thus the proposed disquisition of our subject leads to the final
question of the ultimate constitution of matter, adverted to in Joslin's
prognosticon at the head of these observations.
And indeed, it would be entirely proper to inquire, what service the
study of Homoeopathic High Potencies might do in that direction.
Researches of that kind legitimately belong to Metaphysics. Newton's
—
warning: "Oh, physicians, beware of metaphysics!" was correct in
his time. What
then was called Metaphysics, was nominally Meta-
physics, quasi lucus a non lucendo, whilst he himself was, in fact, the
greatest metaphysician, because the greatest natural philosopher, of his
age. But Metaphysics must not be understood to be mere mental philos-
ophy and transcendentalism, but, according to Herbart' s conception of it,
is that branch of philosophy, the province of which is, to explain experi-

ence by philosophical conception, and which, therefore, proceeds from,

and finally rests on, experience and reality. Metaphysics, says Herbart,
must support Natural Philosophy and Psychology, and thereby show its
accordance with itself: it must stick to facts the most certain, whilst
experiments and observations multiply in infinitum; and experience,
only, must be its ground and foundation, and no dwelling in castles of
air
will do instead of it.
Now, it must be owned, that we know nothing
positively of the nature
of health, disease, and remedy, and that their properties, and existence, are
only inferred from the effects they produce in the organism. Equally so,
we know nothing positively of the nature of things and forces generally,
and their properties,and existence, are only inferred from the effects they
produce. Hence, as Astronomy, by judging from their apparent positions,
and motions, finds the true position and motion of the celestial bodies, so
Metaphysics has to find the real nature and essence of things and forces
 Series VI. Observations 24-25. 85

from the properties and effects of things and forces, as they appear to us
by correct observation.
Among these the phenomena of Attraction and Repulsion, as a general
property of matter, and the Origin of Matter by Contraries, are problems
to which our Homceosis, or the mutual action of contrary similars, is
referable. Their reality, and the solution of the seeming contradiction,
that contraries cooperate and, by doing so, produce thirds similar to them-
selves and to one another, becomes practically and scientifically explain-
able by the conception of Infinitesimality of all Action.
But this is not the place to enter, to any extent, into such metaphysical
disquisitions, and a historical reminiscence must suffice.
25. The general principle of the Origin of all Matter and Motion by
Contraries, was in early times conceived by Pythagoras, Heraclilus, and
Anaxagoras.
The latter, moreover, distinctly taught Simility as a pivotal point for the
constitution of matter, and also Infinitesimality of matter, mind and mo-
tion. And he states, especially, the origin of affections vpon the organism
to be by Contraries, laying down as the reason for it :
" to yap bjiowv WaSto-
rov 'opotov" i. e. because the simile is impassible from the simile.
~°'aird

(Theophrastus Eresius.) This is a remarkable rectification of the com-

mon belief, that "simile simili gaudet," and, together with Hippocrates'
nice observation, that " the most contraries are not always the most contra-
ries,'''' it argument for our idea of Homceody-
affords a fine philosophical
namicity, and medical action especially, according to which similia
similibus curantur.
Singular, indeed, it seems, that Anaxagoras, the friend and teacher of
Pericles, Euripides and Democritus, and who died when Hippocrates
was thirty-two years old, and to whom belongs the merit of anatomical
research prior to Arisloteles, and of whom are preserved a few most
interesting viewson Biology and Cosmology, and whose life, in excite-
ment, persecution and martyrium, and in other respects, presents a
parallelwith that of Hahnemann singular, we say, it is, that this early
;

Greek philosopher should have foreshadowed, as it were, the molecular

theory of our own age, and the homoeomatic principle, and the Affinity of
Opposition, the elemental importance of Simility and Contrariety, and the
Laws of Motion, and the Infinitesimality and micrological nature of all
motion and all things, and almost the Law of the Least Quantity of Action,
in short, the very elements and principles of our own Homoeopathic
Science, which are no more nor less, than the principles of Natural
Science.
Verily, as Quinctilian says, optima veterum nova, optima novorum
Vetera !
But here we take leave of the subject, resting with confidence in our
hope, that Herbart's prophecy will be fulfilled: "Much will Europe
" learn from North America, when Philosophy shall come to blossom there.' 1 ''
86 Series VTL— Cases 1-2.

CLINICAL CASES AND OBSERVATIONS.

SEVENTH SERIES.

Yet, little as it is, you see, it was of some service to him.

Sterne.

In this final series we

some cases, where High.
report
Potencies, carried up further, and as far as the 71000th
centesimally, were administered and proved successful.
These High Potencies, being of the same kind as men-
tioned in the Fifth Series, are prepared on a new plan, which,
in proper time, willbe communicated to the profession. For
the present, in order to distinguish them from others, we
propose to call them Fluxion Potencies, taking the notion
from Newton's infinitesimal calculus, which assigns to the
fluxion, though of infinitesimal magnitude, a finite value.

CASES.
1. —
Vomitus. M., a girl of German descent ten years old.
September 20th, 1861. On going out this morning in the
street, she vomited yellow water and slime. Since then she
cannot get into an erect position without vomiting again,
with pain in the pit of the throat. Face pale ; headache,
with hot head ; eyes dull ; drowsy. Bryon. ?
6
fra .

This relieved her promptly.

2. Ascites. — P. a girl, American, five years old.

September 18th, 1861. Abdominal dropsy after scarlet
fever. Merc. v. im
.f'. .

Removed in a short time.

 Seeies VII.— Cases 3-4. 87

3. Rheumatismus. — Miss K, fourteen years old, of German

descent.
May Rheumatism in the right shoulder and
5th, 186-1.
upper arm painful in moving and touching it. Bryon. 72 rm
;
.

before bedtime. Next morning it was gone.

4. Nephritis and Albuminuria^. — Henry J., seven years

old, of German descent ; scrofulous ; thin, delicate ; black hair,
gray eyes. Father died recently of inflammation of the
lungs and dropsy, as they say.
September 17th, 1864. The mother says, three or four
weeks ago, patient got a pustular eruption in his face, which
suppurated a good deal; also, a pustule on the leg, which
made quite a sore, " probably chickenpox."
Since last week his left parotid began to swell hard ; but
it has since decreased again. His face is, since the 13th.
swollen under the eyes, where he looks quite blue ; tongue
coated whitish keeps his two eyes closed all the time; no ap-
;

petite except for coffee, which he wants constantly skin hot ;

fever high, with headache ; short breath ;

heart's action large
and frequent. Urine last night twice, quite black ;
yesterday,
brown sediment ; now turbid, scanty, greenish, with reddish
slimy sediment, 1,020 sp. g., containing much albumen.
Stool yellow, lumpy, mucous; this morning quite thin. The
boy given up by his physician as beyond recovery. Apis,
is

mel. 1$ m. in water teaspoonful every hour, except when

;

sleeping.
September 18th. Fever and headache continuing urine ;

turbid, cloudy, somewhat greenish. Apis m., 1000 in water

a teaspoonful every two hours.
September 19th. Had a very bad night. At six, p. M.,
terrible heat, headache, eyes closed, constant lamentation, till

seven and a quarter, p.m. At twelve, a.m., some sleep; the

heat unabated ;
pain in the right renal region, where he
puts his hand on, since three, A.M. He cries already when
his mother is only going to touch him, and. complains much
in that side on being lifted. In the forenoon less heat.
88 Series VII.— Case 4.

Didn't want to take medicine this morning (an unfavorable

sign, always, with homoeopathic patients.) Face less swollen
feet swollen over the ankles ;
genitals swelled. Complains
still of the right renal region. Drinks not much. Kicking
with hands and feet. Stool black, thin, smelling like carrion.
Passed six ounces of urine in twelve hours greenish, contain-
ing much albumen, 1,020 sp. g.
Arsen., T2 m to be given immediately.
<j
.

Arsen., B § n at six, p.m.; and

,

Apis, m., 2%m. at one o'clock in the night.

September 20th. Yesterday the heat subsided. Was very
weak could not keep his eyes open. Does not complain of
;

his head. Stool yesterday at four, P. m., thin, brown, looking

well, and without offensive odor. Slept well all night and
this morning. This morning, thirst wants water. Wanted
;

his school things yesterday. Moaning during sleep. Yester-

day passed thick urine three times; once in the night. This
morning he asked for the vessel in order to pass water,, for
which he did not ask before. Urine brighter, somewhat
turbid, without sediment, greenish ; much less albumen, re-
markably so 1,020 sp. g. Very tender, with loud crying
;

on being touched. Face sunk, eyes larger genitals more ;

swelled feet swollen around the ankles and at the instep.

;

Eight, P.M., Arsen., 51 m.

September 21st. Was quite hungry. Slept well, and had
a sound stool. Face somewhat swollen genitals much swollen, ;

but no other swelling to be seen. Passed urine twice during

the day, twice in the night, and once this morning. Urine
somewhat turbid, less albuminous 1,0225 sp. g. Eight o'clock,
;

P. M., Arsen. 1$ m.

September 22d. Has passed urine five times this morn- ;

ing more than one pint. Genitals swollen so much, that he

cannot with stinging pain. Appetite good. Sleep
sit straight,

and stool normal. Sings, and is quite lively. Looks better.

Some perspiration at the forehead. He says, when he opens
his mouth wide, he hears music. Abdomen is not swollen at
 Semes VII.— Case 4. 89

all.Arsen. 51 m. in water a teaspoonful once in three hours

;

two powders.
September 24th. Sleeps well. Had yesterday headache ;

the face was more swollen; the genitals were very much
swollen. Ate little yesterday. Stool normal every day.
Passed about a quart of urine night and morning, aud some
during the day. Some perspiration. Urine greenish, turbid,
with less albumen
1,0175 sp. g.
; Arsen. 10 m., in water a ;

teaspoonful once in three hours four powders. ;

September 27th. On the 25th he complained much of

headache, with much swelling, especially on his right side, of
the face, and under the eyes. Less so to-day. But the swell-
ing of the genitals is considerable, so that the skin is shining,
transparent from the distention. Yesterday, stool twice ; to-

day, once. Appetite good. Passed often and much urine

this morning more than ever ; since then twice again. The
last secretion looks much brighter, with a greenish shade
little albumen ; 1,0125 sp. g. Arsen 20 m., in water, a tea-
spoonful every three hours ; six powders.
October 3d. Is quite lively. Face a little swollen about
the eyes. Passes much urine, a little turbid, with little albu-
men. 1,010 sp. g. Arsen. 25 m., in water; a teaspoonful
every three hours seven powders.
;

October 10th. Next day, after the last prescription, on

waking up, violent headaAe over the eyes, so that he could
not open them, lasting all day till evening with paleness of ;

the face, coldness, and sometimes cold sweat, icy cold head
and ears. The day after, red turbid urine, like blood. Now
loose cough, with choking, swallowing the expectoration
down. All swelling gone. Wants now cakes and coffee, no
meat. Yery peevish. Passes much urine, pale, yellowish,
and a little turbid very little albumen. 1,015 sp. g. Looks
;

very miserable. Suljph. /§- m .

October 17th. Feels quite well. Urine slightly turbid,

greenish, some albumen, on boiling colored brown, 1,025 sp. g.,
showing brownish granules under the microscope. Arsen. -^ m ,

October 24th. Urine quite clear, pale, with a slight whitish

90 Series VII. Observations 1-9.

shade; no albumen; 1,015 sp. g. ; face very pale, especially

when sleeping; sometimes cold perspiration during sleep.
5
Arsen. g Tm .

October 31st. Urine somewhat turbid, with some albumen

again ; 1,022 sp. g. stool sometimes quite hard uncovering
; ;

in the night. Merc. v. | m .

November 6th. Merc. v. ^ m ,

November 16th. Had a slimy diarrhoea the 13th. Passes

much water. Urine pale yellow, with slightly turbid shade,
unchanged by heat or nitric acid. Otherwise well. Wants
potatoes. Merc. v. 36 m.
January 1st, 1865. Urinary secretions normal. Other-
wise well.

OBSERVATIONS.

In medicina multa scire oportet et pauca agere.

Baglivi.

In conclusion, I beg to submit the following observations :

1. Homoeopathic High Potencies as high as 71,000, are efficacious and

curative.
2. The terminus and limit number of the efficaciousness of High
Potencies not reached yet at 71,000, and the question is still open.
is

3. High Potencies sometimes heal symptoms produced by lower

Potencies. •
4. High Potencies heal, sometimes, what lower ones did not.
5. High Potencies, as high as 71,000, are sufficient to cure by one
single dose.
6. In these Higher Potencies the original substance from which they are
started, is still discernible by the pathogenetic picture of the ease cured,

which picture is similar to the pathopoetic picture of the lower Potencies.

7. By comparing the Susceptibility of the same person in the different

states of health and disease, we arrive at the possibility of finding the dose
commensurate in the given case.
8. With this view, measures should be taken, to institute experiments

upon certain persons all through their time of life, with regard to their
ascendants and their medical history.
9. Arrangements should be made, to collect the pathematic pictures so

obtained, from time to time, in one common work, forming a Comparative

Materia Medico. Pur a, and running perpetually from age to age.
 Series VII.— Observations 10-17. 91
10. The diseases described in the allceopathic text books on Pathology,
should be carefully examined into, as to their origin and complication,
owing to alloeopatnic medication. And such observations, as are not pure
and exact, should be rejected, in spite of all high authority.
11. Under treatment, frequently symptoms make their appearance,
which belong to the pathopoetie action of the remedy applied, and such
are acceptable as pathopoetie symptoms available for cure.
12. Pathogenetic symptoms cured by one single remedy without inter-
ference of any other remedial agent, may be considered as equivalent to
pathopoetie symptoms and as available for cure.
13. The Provings and the Clinics, including the aggravations observed
during treatment with High Potencies, taken together, prove, when com-
pared, the correctness of each other.
The action of Homoeopathic High Potencies is in no way explain-
14.
able by the so-called Humoral Pathology, the quantities concerned being
too fine and too little, as to be proportionable to the elements of the
lymph and blood and their constituents.
15. The nervous system offers a possibility of finding a rationale for the
action of Homoeopathic High Potencies upon the organism.
16. Many analogies from Physiology and Pathology point to the manner
in which Homoeopathic High Potencies may act upon the organism.
For instance, we know, that the slightest impression upon the skin is
conveyed to the brain and occasions an impression there, which is accepted
to be mediated only by the nervous system. The slightest and least
amount of olfactory matter is perceived by the expansion of the olfactory
nerve upon the mucus membrane of the nose, and transferred to the
brain, by the nerve mentioned. The least ray of light causes intolerable
pain in strumous ophthalmia. In the ear of our venerable colleague,
Aegidi* a flock of cotton was sufficient to prevent a train of serious per-
turbation of health bordering on apoplexy. The wine-taster can, on his
tongue, distinguish a certain taste among different wines. Chemical
changes in the bowels are perceived as pain, by the nerves distributed to
them. Thoughts uttered in speech or writing by a distant individual,
perhaps distant by centuries and death, enter the brain and work accor-
dant changes, certainly not by means of the bones or muscles, but by
means of the nervous system. Miasms, unapt to be isolated and so
detected, affect the body and change its healthy into a morbid state, by
the mediumof the nervous system.
Physiology abounds with instances of chemical actions in the
17.
organisms modified by nervous influence. And in the face of these facts
the nervous system must be considered to be the government of the Union
of the organism, for its self-preservation and enjoyment, as a little
Republic or Microcosm.

* All-. Horn. Zeit., Vol. 65, p. 122.

92 Series VII.— Observations 18-29.

18. As other agencies of similar nature, and as the so-called Imponder-

abilia (in reality High Potencies of Nature), Heat, Light, Electricity,
Galvanism, Magnetism, Mechanical and Chemical Action, and Physical
and Organical Action withal, act upon the human organism so the ;

Homoeopathic High Potencies themselves affect the organism equally in

Hygiopoesis and Pathopoesis.
19. The modus operandi of Homoeopathic High Potencies upon the
organism, cannot be more wonderful or strange than that of any other
agency affecting the organism, nay, that of the contact of bodies in
general.
20. This modus operandi depends upon the contact of the High
Potencies acting upon the organism at the most conven ent point of soli-

citation which found to be not the stomach, as of old, but the mucous
is

membrane of the tongue and nose.

21. In these organs the mucous membrane, as the proper point of
solicitation, presents the finest and most appropriate arrangement for
taking up those fine medicinal preparations which are known by the
name of Homoeopathic High Potencies.
22. In this mucous membrane the terminations of the nerves in the
papillae, have not yet been discovered, and, perhaps, never will be,
because the microscope can hardly attain power and clearness enough, to
show the nerves, distributed in infinitesimal webs throughout the mucous
membrane, in such a degree of fineness, as required for the susception of
the contact of such firm substances as Homeopathic High Potencies are.
23. Nevertheless, these infinitesimal terminations of the nerves are
extant,and they must be endowed by nature with forces sufficient in
mutual action with the similarly infinitesimal High Potencies, to produce
the physiological effect of pathopoesis and hygiopoesis.
24. This effect is conditionated and determined by the Proportionality of
the Homoeopathic High Potencies with the nerval terminations of the
mucous membrane solicited.
25. This Proportionalityis, again, determined and conditionated by the

connexion of the nerve terminations with the nervje centres.

26. The action of the Homoeopathic High Potencies upon the organism
is the resultant of the continued equalization of mutual action between

the High Potency and the nerve solicited, constituting the physiological
force, hygio- or patho-poetical.
27. This action may be facilitated, or hindered, or modified, by the
concurrence of the various humours and tissues of the system, standing in
the relation as vehicles to the nerves.
28. Probably, all the known physical and chemical processes of Nature
in infinitesimal space, are instrumental in mediating the contact between
the Homoeopathic High Potencies and the nerve terminations.
29. The nerve centre is that central point in relation to the peripheral
nerve termination at the tongue or nose, whence and where the physio-
logical effect of the Homoeopathic High Potencies and the nerve, in
 Series VII. Observations 30-44. 93

mutual action, is converted into its contrary : hygiopotic into pathopoctic

action, and pathopoctic into hygiopoetic action, as the case may he :

Metathesis Medica.
30. This Conversion, as such, acts polarly in the opposite direction
towards the periphery of the nerve centre, and there produces in a physio-
logical order those symptoms which are known as pathopoctic or hygio-
poetic symptoms respectively.
31. The pathogenetic symptoms have their centre in the nerve centre,
equally so have it and pathopoetic symptoms.
the hygio-
32. Therefore, the Homoeopathic High Potencies, in the disease, by
converting in the nerve centre the pathopoetic effect into hygiopoetic
symptoms neutralize the pathogenetic effect upon the nerve centre.
33. This being done, the pathogenetic symptoms disappear, that being
the effect of the hygiopoetic and pathogenetic action of the High
Potencies.
34. The agencies producing the pathogenetic symptoms in the organ-
ism, are similar to the High Potencies which are known to produce
similar pathopoetic symptoms.
35. The form of disease depends upon the quality of the pathogenetic
High Potencies, and the form of cure depends upon that of the hygio-
poetic High Potencies applied.
36. The cure with Homoeopathic High Potencies, is that form of cure
which is proportional to the form of disease, because the various symp-
toms of pathogenesis and pathopoesis are, by virtue of their Simility, pro-
portioned to each other.
37. The natural highest aim of the organism is promoted by its self-

preservation.
38. Self-preservation consists in the assimilation of nutritious matter
and disassimilation of noxious matter, either matter being furnished by
Potentiation of crude matter Physiological Homceosis.
:

39. By virtue of this assimilation the different organs grow in various

degrees of organization.
40. Among them the organs, comprised under the denomination
"Nervous System," show the finest organization as yet known.
41. The nervous system consists of infinitely many, immeasurable, and
infinitesimal terminations of nerves, connected with comparatively few
nerve centres.
42. These nerve terminations stand in specific relation to these nerve
centres, and, according to this connection, act to and fro, centripetally and
centrifugally, as the case may be.

43. We
distinguish five different nerve centres governing the organism,
interdependent among themselves, and acting according to the Law of
Compensation, viz. : the mental, the motorial, the emotional, the vegeta-
tive,and the reproductive.
44. These nerve centres are interconnected, and balanced, and pro-
portioned, so as to form, as it were, the great centre of the whole organism
94 Series VII. Observations 45-56.

as a Union, having the control of all the biological motions in all its

parts.
45. All the nerve terminations being equally so interdependent, inter-
connected, balanced, and proportioned, by an infinitesimal network,
demonstrable only by induction, as yet, lead in distinct fibres to and from
the several centres.
46. But neurotic action proceeds, not only along the fibres in continual
motion, but also athwart and across, independently of anatomical con-
struction, and in all possible directions,and this diancurotic action, appa-
rently irregular, seems to be mediated by the nerve centres themselves as
masses.
47. The nervous system presents a series of Potentiation of nervous
matter, elaborated by Nature herself, from the palpable to the infinitesi-
mal.
48. The various terms of this series are endowed with various energies,
each according to its Proportionality with the other terms.
49. But the functions of the nervous system are far too little understood
as yet, as to allow a conclusive inference as to the modus operandi.
50. In this respect, it is almost hopeless, to get any satisfactory result,
because it seems to be impossible, to get between the mutual action of
bodies. For, you are not between the mutual action of two bodies approach-
ing each other for contact, when you stand between them and feel their
impact upon you. For, then, even the mutual action takes place between
you and the impinging body on either side.
51. Only from the result, we can judge, what may have occurred but ;

we can never enter the circuit itself which every mutual action, according
to its own nature, accomplishes apart of ourselves.
52. And this is all we can fairly expect to know, and we must be
satisfied with making observations from the facts before us, and drawing
correct conclusions therefi
53. Consequently, it is altogether improper, to call for an explanation of
the modus operandi of the action of Homoeopathic High Potencies upon
the organism, without previously explaining the modus operandi of the
origin of disease or pathogenesis, as the action of the unknown patho-
genetic High Potencies upon the organism.
54. Hence, it would be unreasonable, to doubt, or reject, Homoeopathy
on the ground of the difficulty in explaining the modus operandi of infin-
itesimal remedies. The difficulty is the same with the modus operandi of
any other remedy or agency.
55. Those who press this difficulty, using it as a weapon against
Homoeopathy, only forget, or mask, or disguise, their own ignorance, and
their inability to prove themselves, what they blame us for not proving.
If they will explain to us the modus operandi of any medicine and of life
in general, we will explain to them the modus operandi of Homoeopathic
High Potencies.
56. The distinct and clear action of Homoeopathic High Potencies upon
 Series VII. Observations 57-58. 95

the organism, an established fact. From it, by careful investigations,

is

to be continued through many ages, we may, by and by, be enabled to

deduce the action of the nervous system in its minutest details, which
now escape the knife of the anatomist, the lens of the microscopist, the
reagent of the chemist and the astatic needle of the physicist. (See Vogt.
Physiol. Briefe, 185G, 2d ed. Vol. I. p. 251, 309.)
57. An falls short of its duty, if it admits, or acknow-
exact Science
which crosses the field of vision of its own special sense.
ledges, only that
To be exact, it must include, necessarily, the philosophical and mathe-
matical deductions from facts and observations, as well as the acquire-
ments of other exact Sciences.
58. The present defects, insufficiency, inability, and incomprehension
of Physiology, however, does not materially interfere with the practical
Art of Healing itself. •Since Hahnemann's great revelation, the want of
theory has ceased to furnish to Medicine an excuse for not curing what
proves to be curable, with or without a theory. Fact is, that in what
is called disease, the only reality positively observable and discernible,

is the totality of the symptoms, that is, the physiological sum of the
phenomena observed. And the fact is, that the Symptom-Simility, ex-
perimentally discovered, and firmly established, is, under the Law of
Proportionality, a safe guide for the cure of the disease, that is, of the
patients, by Potencies, low and high. Similia Similibus Cukantuk !

+
APPENDIX.

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 APPENDIX.

I.

THE HOMCEOPATHIC DOSE IS INFINITESIMAL.

A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT.

In certls unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus charitas.

Auoustinus.

Homoeopathic is that which pertains or belongs to Homoeopathy. To

know, then, what is homoeopathic, we must know, what is Homoeopathy.
Homoeopathy is a matter of fact and a historical reality. It is the Art of
Healing established and named by Hahnemann, and history knows no
other Homoeopathic Art of Healing, but that founded by Hahnemann.
The Dose is the quantity of medicine administered to the patient. To
know, then, what the Homoeopathic Dose is, we must know, what dose
that is, which history shows to be peculiar to Homoeopathy. And this is
the dose originally employed and taught by Hahnemann as the dose pro-
perly belonging to the Homoeopathic Art of Healing.
Apart from theory and philosophy, opinion, and estimation, the sure
and safe way of finding, what the Homoeopathic Dose is, appears to be the
natural way of historical inquiry, to know the facts in history, showing
the origin, nature, and development, of Homoeopathy, and of its Posology
and Dose in particular.
These facts are known to history. They are recorded in the writings
of the founder of Homoeopathy, such as are published and before the
world, ever since 1795. His statements are the evidence of facts, and they
are the very best kind of evidence, authentic and documentary.
On a close examination of Hahnemann's writings, with a single eye to
the purpose of ascertaining these facts, we discover, that the original and
true text of them is sometimes different from the translations of it. This
is remarkably so in all matters relating to the Homoeopathic Dose. As an
instance we refef to the Organon, the standard-work and text-book on
Homoeopathies. We have before us the English translation by Stratten,
republished by Kadde, and commonly received, in this country. Com-
paring this with the German original, we are astonished to find, that this
English translation not only is, indeed, what Stratten calls it in the pre-
face, a version, rather than a translation, but also, that especially in all
matters relating to the Dose, it is defective, inaccurate, sometimes deci-
dedly untrue, not to say falsifying the record.
100 APPENDIX.

Since, from this, it may be naturally supposed, that those of our pro-

fession, as well as our opponents, who derive their knowledge of Homoeo-

pathy from translations, are easily misled and deceived as to the truth in
the matter; we have, in the following pages, endeavored to give a correct
and faithful translation of the principal passages in Hahnemann's works,
including the Organon, relating to the Dose, with a view of rendering the
true meaning of the words as literally as possible, at the same time avoid-
ing paraphrase, and religiously preserving the quaint, complicated, square-
rigged, elaborate, latin-like style of the author, which to the general
reader appears somewhat stiff and unwieldy, but to the careful student
and scholar never ending delight of entering into the spirit of a
offers the
great genius aud benefactor. It is the Organon, especially, which gains
and groAvs upon you, the more you study it, and the more your faculties,
by its study, develop and increase and expand into a clear comprehen-
sion of it. The observation of this fact, by experience, led our Bcenning-
hausen, to inculcate upon the profession, his advice, to iterate and reiterate
the diligent perusal and assiduous study of this work, as the fountain-
head of our knowledge of Homoeopathies.

To come to our historical argument, we have to premise a word or two,

as to the reason for presenting it. This is the circumstance, that the
second generation of Homoeopathicians, and many of our brethren at the
present time, in their conception of Homoeopathy are discriminating
between Homoeopathy and Hahnemann, and separating the element of
Simility from the element of Infinitesimality. By a curious mistake, for
which reasons are obvious and here not to be adverted to in particular,
they attempt to emancipate Homoeopathy from Hahnemann. Un-
guardedly confounding fact and theory, they undertake to eliminate the
Homoeopathic Dose from Homoeopathy, and openly express their belief,
that the question of the Dose is not fundamental for Homoeopathy.
This is not only inconsistent with historical truth, as will be shown
presently, but it is also a logical error, in as much as an attempt, in
it is

a real thing and in its practical application, to separate and keep sepa-
rate, that which by nature inseparably united in
is it, viz. Quality and
:

Quantity. severing a man's body from his

It is like soul, and then insist-
ing, that he is a live man.
There is, in fact, no thing in the world, which has not its quality and
quantity at the same time and together. In cogitation they may be con-
sidered separately ; but that is only a psychological process. In reality,
in the thing, as itand as it is used, there is always its quantity
exists,
together with its quality. Without the one or the other, it would not be
a real thing, and not be the identical thing, nor could it be used at all.
The same is the case with Homoeopathy, as a historical reality. Simil-
ity relates to the quality of disease and rerncdj', and Infinitesimality
relates to the quantity of the same. A homoeopathic remedy is uncon-
ceiveable and impracticable Avithout uniting its quantity Avith its quality,
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 101

and, historically, it never existed without so uniting both. Its Posology

has ever been as homceopathical as its Materia Medica.
The quality is not disputed. All concede it to be fundamental, and
even the dominant school seem to tire out of attacking Homoeopathy on
account of the Simile.
But as to the quantity, there is much doubting, wrangling, and barking,
all around. Being so little, it is much controversy;
the subject of so
being so much ridiculed, it is so much dreaded and avoided and it being ;

impossible to be kept out, an open question.

it is treated as
Now, as to the quantity, the fact is, that we do not know, what quan-
tity it is, which gives us the symptoms in the natural disease but we do ;

know, what quantity it is which gives us the symptoms in artificial dis-

ease (by our Provings), and we do know, what quantity it is, which
effects the cure (by our Clinics). In the given case we know positively,
and distinctly, that it is such and such a quantity of a medicine, given to
the healthy, which has produced or cured a given set of symptoms. And,
since the quality of a medicine which makes it a certain definite substance,
such as Aconite, Gold, Silver, etc., cannot be severed, in use, from its
quantity, because it cannot be administered otherwise, than in a certain
definite quantity : the conclusion is unavoidable, that it is the quantity
as well as the quality of a medicine which makes it a remedy, and is

instrumental in the production or removal of the symptoms observed

after its administration. This ismost clearly transparent
self-evident, but
in the fact, that certain substances, which in great quantity
(e. g., Opium, )

act poisonous, are comparatively inert in little quantity, and that, on the
other hand, certain substances, (<?. g., Sepia,) which in large doses are in-
different, are in small doses exerting a poisonous action, making seriously
sick.
Quantity, then, is indispensable for the action of any medicine of any

quality ; but mostly so for the action of the homoeopathic quality,

it is

which is the only remedial quality, recognized by us all.

The homoeopathic quantity is that which is just sufficient to overcome
the disease, and the least of it is sufficient, and hence the least possible or
infinitesimal of it is homceopathical.
Whilst the Simility of the symptoms represents that quality of the dis-
ease which we observe as the effect of the Quiddity, as it were, of the
known or unknown substance, or agent, acting upon the organism the ;

Infinitesimality represents the quantity of the same, the substratum, as it

were, of the phenomena, rendered accessible to us by means of the
Simility.
Now, Higher Analysis shows, that Quantity is something extending in
and practicable quantities, from the measureable
a series of all possible
to the immeasureable, from the ponderable to the imponderable, from
the numerable to the innumerable, from the crudest to the finest, from
the greatest to the least. And this is the Infinite Series of Magnitude.
102 APPENDIX.

Therefore, as in any reality, so in Homoeopathy, it is logically impos-

Quantity from Quality, Iufinitesimality from Simility.
sible to separate
Also, physically considered, this inseparability of the two elements of
Homoeopathy, the entirety of Homoeopathy, the intimate union of both
the quantitative and qualitative elements, Infinitesimality and Simility,
in the one whole of Homoeopathy, is a fact natural, real, existent and
established.
Infinitesimal means infinitely little, and no fact is so certain as this,
that all bodies, including the human organism, consist of infinitesimal
parts ; and Higher Analysis, introduced by Homoeopathic
especially the
Potentiation, together with the experience had, furnishes positive and
conclusive proof of the Infinitesimality of all matter and action. This is
not to be gainsayed any more. It is no use theorizing or quibbling about
it. Dialectics will never disprove a fact. And as a fact, beyond all
Transcendentalism, Moralism, Dogmatism and Mysticism, it stands proved
and incontrovertible, that bodies do consist of infinitesimal parts. Only,
the difficulty is to assign them, being so diminutive as to escape percep-
tion so easily, that the superficial observer would fain to believe them
apparent nothings, whilst the careful observer, arriving at a point antici-
pated to be final, only discovers the beginning of a new series of infinitely
many links of quantities. Thus the astronomer, the more he magnifies
his telescopicpower, the more he sees of the unseen, and, behind all the
presupposed nothing, perceives to be an infinitude of worlds.
It is clear enough, then, that the crude substance of any remedy of
ours, consists of Infinitesimals. If any one doubts it, let him count and
measure the number and volume of particles of one grain of Arsenic or
of one of the precipitated metals in dust-form Or let him try it with
!

fluids. There the infinitesimal particles run together in liquid form, so

that with our senses we perceive only the assemblage or aggregation of
Infinitesimals, and not the Infinitesimals themselves.
But still, the Infinitesimals are there, and make the tiling, and do the
work. And the same applies to our remedial substance.
But, you ask, how many Infinitesimals do you want for a cure ? "As
many as sufficient, just enough, and no more." This is the plain, straight-
forward answer, given by Hahnemann. Sufficient to cure, is all, that is

necessary to cure. The sufficient quantity is the curative quantity ; the

least of it, if is a curative quantity and is sufficient
a Simile, and, hence, ;

the least of which is required for the Dose and that is an infini-
it, is all ;

tesimal quantity of it. Here you have the answer to your question, and
with it the very principle of the Homoeopathic Dose.

Thus much as to the logic and philosophy of those who insist upon
disconnecting Infinitesimality from Simility. But considering their propo-
sition in the light of history, it must be said, that it is inconsistent with
truth to contend, as they do, that the infinitesimal dose is indifferent and
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 103

not fundamental for Homoeopathy. History disproves and confutes their

assumtion altogether.
For, from the first to the last, in the history of the life of Homoeopathy,
given to it by Hahnemann, we find it to be the fact, that the minimal
dose of the Simile is established to be sufficient for the cure, and that the
most possible littleness and fineness of the dose is invariably presented,
and urged, as the constant proviso for the practical application of the
remedy.
This is historically the Posology of Homoeopathy. As a matter of fact,
the minimal, i. e., infinitesimal, doseany time, separate was never, at
from Homoeopathy on the contrary, from the beginning, it was its in-
;

herent nature and characteristic and on the same principle, and in the
;

same direction, it was constantly, and continually, followed up, and

developed, by Hahnemann himself, and by wholesouled Homceopathicians
after him.
This is proved, as we mentioned before, b}' Hahnemann' s own statements.
It would take too much space to reproduce all the passages of his
works relating to the Dose. But it is certain, that none of them is con-
flictingwith the others. They are all of the same even tenor, they all
evidence the fact, that from the start, from the moment of the very con-
ception of Homoeopathy, he never mentions the homceopathical remedy-
without providing at the same time for the little dose, the minimal dose,
and the least possible dose of it, as the homoeopathic dose. Always in
his statements, the quantity of the dose is inseparably connected with
the quality of the remedy always the prescription of Simile is united
;

with the proviso of the Minimum Dose. This is so, not only in the
writings of his higher age, as some believe, but from beginning to end.
Commencing with Hahnemann's discovery or creation of Homoeopathy,
and continuing with the most distinct and striking passages, here presented,
of his works, mainly of the Organon, we feel confident, that the closest
scrutiny of these statements will leave not the least doubt of the fact, that
the father and educator of Homoeopathy, from the first and throughout,
stated, and insisted, that the least dose of the Simile is sufficient to cure,
and that he always made it the characteristic and indispensable condition
of the Homoeopathic Art of Healing, that the Homoeopathic Dose should
be little, only just great enough to overcome the disease, and no more ;
that it should be a minimal dose, as little as possible, and as fine as pos-
sible ;
impressing it upon the mind, that almost never it could be given

little enough and must be infinitesimal. Nay, it is

infinitely little, that is,

historically demonstrable, that the very thingwhich gave him the first
impulse towards the conception of Homoeopathy, was the very question
of the Dose. And in this sense, and in point of time too, it may be truly
said, that Microdosia is the very condition precedent of Homoeopathy
itself.

Singularly enough, it is taken for granted, that the cure by Symptom-

Simility forms the only new and highest merit of the great man we speak
104 APPENDIX.

of, and yet, to do so, is raising a trivial question of priority, without occa-
sion for and without necessity for Homoeopathy. And it is almost
it,

injustice to those physicians who, as Hahnemann alleges himself, pre-

vious to him, occasionally touched upon, and unconsciously followed, the
same idea of Simility as Principle of Cure. And it is belittling Hahne-
mann himself, not to vote him the crown for that which is beyond con-
troversy new and greatest in him, namely, his Potentiation, which we
do not hesitate, to declare, to be the greatest discovery of the age, reaching
far beyond Medicine into the realms of Natural Science.
None of those before Hahnemann had ever touched or appreciated the
Infmiteshnality of Dose, nor had any of them ever connected it with the
Simility of Symptoms. Hahnemann, first of all, and alone, saw and dis-
covered and practically applied to Medicine the Minimal Dose he, first ;

and alone, in Medicine realized the truth and importance of the great
Economical Law of Nature which we call the Law of the Least Quantity
of Action. His, and nobody else's, is the merit of first having carried
the same into execution, by his own discovery of Potentiation, as the
means of lessening, refining, and infinitesimalizing the remedy, thereby
rendering the dose as homoeopathical as the remedy is, and thus estab-
lishing the practical usefulness and scientific preeminence of Homoeopathic
Medicine above all others.
This discovery is, indisputably, Hahnemann's own. It caused wonder-
ment at first. Few understood it. Few dared to countenance a thing
seemingly so extravagant. Derision was easy and cheap. But it survived
all that. By dint of firmness, caution, and perseverance, by laborious
experiment, and careful observation, it was secured. And now it begins
to be recognized as one of the great features of Homoeopathy.
Already, the usus loquendi, and the forerunners and popularizers of
Science, general literature, periodicals, and public opinion, have adopted
the term "homceopathical" as synonymous and identical with minimal,
extremely fine, atomic, corpuscular, molecular, unassignable, infinitely
little and infinitesimal. And in spite of all opposition, general attention
is riveted to the subject. Experience
is increasing, and facts are accumu-

lating, and thus, before long, we may trust to see the matter thoroughly
sifted and the whole truth elicited. The stone which the builders rejected,
is becoming the head of the corner.

The sunbeam of this discovery of Potentiation, long shut out, is, from
day to day, spreading more and more, and in the flood of light, coming
from it and illuminating the ages to come, the imposing form of Hahne-
mann, the discoverer, will stand out in bold relief against the sky. The
opposition to the Similewas never as violent, and persistent, as it was to
the Minimum, and it is dying out like that to the Simplex. But the wildest
torrent of abuse was always directed against the Minimum. The higher,
then, will be the glory, the greater the triumph of Hahnemann and
Homoeopathy, when, with the full understanding of both, the Minimum
shall be revindicated.
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 105

In 1789, Hahnemann was sick of the practice of Medicine. " After

discovering the weakness and mistakes of my teachers and of my hooks,"
he says, " I fell into a state of melancholical indignation, which almost
" created a complete disgust against the study of Medicine. I was on
" the point to helieve, that the whole art is null and void and incapable of
" any improvement. I gave myself up to my lonesome meditations, and
"concluded to set no limit to my considerations, until I should have
"arrived at the decisive resolution." (Aesculap in der Wagschale in
Kleine medic. Schriften, ed. Stapf, Dresd. & Leipz. Arnold, 1829, Vol.
II., p. 247.)

At that time, he made his celebrated investigations in Pharmacy and

Chemistry, and translated many works in relation to the auxiliary sciences
of Medicine, enriching them with many valuable annotations.
"Whilst translating the Materia Medica of Cullen in 1790, he became
disgusted with the labored theoretical explanation of the antipyretic
power of the Peruvian bark, which Cullen had given, and he resolved on
taking half an ounce of the drug himself, for the purpose of finding out
the rationale of its power in suppressing the intermittent fever. A chill
similar to this miasmatic fever followed, and led him to the observation,
that it is the Simility of the symptoms which constitutes the curative
power of the bark.
In 1790, six years later, for the first time in public, he announced his
new principle : Similia Similibus, and dilated upon it as follows :

"You need only know, on the one side the diseases of the human
" bodyjexactly according to their essential character and their casualties,
" and on the other side the pure effects of the remedies, i. e. the essential
"character of the specific artificial disease, usually excited by them,
" together with the casual symptoms originating from the difference of
" the dose, the form, etc., and when selecting for the natural given disease
" a remedy producing a most possibly similar artificial disease, you will
" be able to cure the hardest diseases." (Versuch ueber ein neues Prin-
cip zur Auffindung der Heilkroefte der Arzncisubstanzen, etc., in Kl.
Schr. Vol. I., p. 154.)
"The most possibly similar,'''' he says: that is. similar in quantity as
well as in quality, because he puts the symptoms from the dose together
with the symptoms from the disease ! And even in this early exposition

we recognize the acknowledged value of subjective symptoms which are,

most characteristically, elicited by fine doses.

No less distinct, and to the point, in regard to the fineness of Dose, is

the note which is affixed to the sentence above quoted.
" we mean
If to go to work little by little, as the cautious physician
" should do, we give this ordinary remedy only
in such a dose, as to
" almost imperceptibly show the artificial disease to be expected from it,
" (it still acts after all by virtue of its tendency to excite such an artificial
" disease,) and go up in the Dose by degrees as to be certain, that the
" intended internal change of the bodily system ensues forcefully enough,
" although with manifestations in violence far behind the natural symp-
 106 APPENDIX.

" toms of disease. Thus we shall cure gently and surely. But, if we
"want to act rapidly, provided only, that the remedy be properly and
j " well chosen, we shall also certainly attain our object, though with
I " some danger of life, and effect what amongst peasants is sometimes
" roughly done by erripyricists, and what they call a miraculous cure or a
—
" horse-cure curing a disease lasting for years, in a few days an under- ;

" taking which proves the correctness of my principle, indeed, but at the
" same time the foolhardiness of the operator."
In the same Article (p. 155) he says: "a somewhat large dose of
" Hyoscyamus-juice often leaves behind, as after-action, a great timidity.
" A little dose of opium gives specific and almost instantaneous relief."
Further on, (p. 157) speaking of a dose of Chamomilla, two drops and
a half of the ethereal oil, he contiuues " The dose was much too strong
:

" for her. By this it explains itself, why Cham, is found to be so helpful
"in after-pains, in too great a mobility of the fibre, and in hysteria, if
"employed in doses in which it can not itself perceptibly excite the like
" (therefore in far lesser ones, than the one mentioned)."
And, speaking of Arnica-root, (p. 159) he says: "here, in order to
"become helpful, in diarrhoeas without pus, it must be administered
"only in so little doses, that it does not. manifestly purge"
" From the abuse of an infusion of Arnica-flowers I saw glandular swell-
" ings arise. I should err very much, if with more moderate doses it
" would not cure similar swellings." .... Several instances of curing
by "moderate doses," what was produced by " stronger doses " of the
same substances, are given. „
From a passage in an Article, published in 1797, in Hufeland's Journal
(Sind die Hindernisse der Gewissheit und Einfachheit der praktischen
Arzneikunde unuebersteiglich ? Kl. Schr. Vol. I., p. 16,) it appears,
that Hahnemann, several years before, had cured with simple remedies,
and single doses. "May I confess it, that for several years since, I never

"administered anything else, but one single remedy at a time, and at

1
once, and that I have never repeated it, until the action of the former
'

" dose had expired? May I confess, that I was successful in this
. . .

" manner, and that I have cured to the satisfaction of my patients, and
" that I have seen things which I could not have seen otherwise ?"
In 1799, (p. 227, ) in an Article on the cure and prophylaxis of Scarlet-
fever, he says: "the burning heat, the sleepy stupor, the agonizing
"jactitation, with vomiting, diarrhoea, also accompanied with convul-
" sions, in a very short time (at the most in an hour) was removed by a
" very little quantity of opium," either externally on a bit of paper (ac-
cording to the size of the child, of a half or one inch wide and long,
" moistened with strong opium-tincture, and left laying on the pit of the
" stomach, until it dried up.
"Note. With little and other children who will not keep still so
" long, the paper is kept about a minute's time."
"For external application, I used a tincture of one part of finely pow-
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 107
" dered crude opium, dissolved in twenty parts of thin alcohol within a
" week at a cool place, shaking it at times."
" For internal use I had one drop of this tincture intimately mixed with
11
five hundred drops of strongly watered alcohol, and of this mixture one
" drop, carefully shaken through with Jive hundred drops of again strongly
" watered alcohol. Of this rarified opium-tincture (containing in each
" drop one Jive millionth part of a grain of opium,) one drop for a four-
" years child, and two drops for a ten-years child, was superabundantly
" sufficient to extinguish that state."
(p. 228.) "Note. In what little dose the medicaments acting upon
" the whole system of the animated parts, if in the right place, do accom-
"plish their object, is incredible, at least incredible to those of my fellow
" artists who believe to be compelled, to treat suckling children by half-
" grain doses of the extract of Opium, and who possess skill enough, to
" charge a multitude of other causes with the often rapid asphyxia."
" I gave to this ten-years old girl, already affected with the
(p. 232.)
"first symptoms
of Scarlet-fever, a dose of this plant "—Belladonna—
(tssWit P art °f a grain of the dried juice.)
"Note. A dose all too large for this age, at least if given for pro-
phylactic purposes, but probably just adequate for the symptoms of
" Scarlet-fever already so far progressed, which, however, I know not
" positively. Therefore, I cannot advise an unqualified imitation of this
"case, still not dissuade, since the Scarlet-fever is an infinitely greater
'
evil, than some unpleasant affections from a somewhat strong dose of
'

"Belladonna."
(p. 234.) Prescription for potentiating Belladonna for prophylaxis
(z45sW(irff °f a grain of dried juice in each drop,) one dose to be
P ari
given once in seventy -two hours. •
(p. 239.) Likewise Chamomilla 555V55 P art °f a ffrain of dried
:

juice, in a drop, to be given once a day.

1801. (p. 240 from Hufeland's Journal Ueber die Kraft kleiner
:

Gaben der Arzneien, etc.,) " You ask me urgently 'what, then,
" part of a grain of Belladonna can effect ?
;
y^^
The word can is offen-
'
'
'

" sive to me. Let us not ask the compendia, but let us ask nature what :

" does jurfGW P art °f a grain of Belladonna effect? Even the healthiest
"robust thrasher will be affected with the most violent and dangerous
" symptoms, if this grain, by trituration, is accurately dissolved in much
" water (f. i. two pounds), if their mixtion is made very thoroughly, by
" shaking it in a bottle for five minutes, and if he is taking it by spoon
" fuls within six or eight hours. These two pounds contain about ten
"thousand drops. If,now, one of these drops is mixed again with two
"thousand drops (sis-ounces) of water, under strong shaking, one tea-
" spoonful of that mixture (about twenty drops of it), when given every
" two hours, will cause in a similarly strong man not much less violent
" symptoms, if he is sick. Such a dose amounts to about one millionth
"part of a grain. He will, I say, come near the edge of the grave, from
 108 APPENDIX.

" several teaspoonfuls of this mixture, if lie was fully sick before, and
^K "if his sickness was of that kind, that Belladonna was adapted to it." W
"Infinitely different it is with the solution, and especially with the
" intimate solution. This may be as thin as you please ; it touches, in its
'passage into the stomach, still more points of the living fibre, and
"because the medicament acts not atomically, but only dynamically,
"excites far stronger symptoms than the compact pill can do, which con-
," tains more parts of medicine (remaining inactive.)"
a million times
"Will it, at last, be learned to be understood, how Utile, how
(p. 243.)
"infinitely little" [infinitesimal] "the doses need be in the sick
" state, in order to affect the body strongly ? Yes they affect it strongly, !

"when chosen wrongly ; . . . . they affect it just as strongly, if chosen

" right.The greatest disease often yields in a few hours."
"The more the disease approximates to an acute one, the lesser doses of
"medicaments (I mean of the best selected) it requires, in order to dis-
" appear. Also, the chronic diseases connected with debility and general
" distemper require no greater doses " ....
(p. 244.) "He who is satisfied with those general hints, will also
" believe me, when I assure him, that I removed several paralyses by the
" use, during several weeks, of a very rarefied Belladonna solution, where
"the whole cure did not require a full one hundred thousandth part of a
"grain of dried Belladonna juice, and some periodical nervous diseases,
" dispositions to furuncles, etc., required not quite one millionth part for
"the whole cure."
1805 (Hcilkunde der Erfahrung Kl. Schr. Vol. II. p. 21.) "Note. A
" medicine which, given to a healthy man, simple and unmixed, in suita-
" bly large dose, brings about a distinct effect, a distinct series of peculiar
'
symptoms, retains the tendency qf exciting the like, even in the least
'

"dose."
(p. 26.) "Equally worthy of admiration is the truth, that there is no
" medicament Avhich, curatively applied, would be weaker than the dis-
—
" ease to which it is adequate no disease-stimulus, to which the positive
"and most possibly analogous medicine-stimulus would not be superior.
"If not only the correct (positive) remedy is selected, but also the
" dose rightly hit {incredibly little doses are sufficient for the curative pur-
" pose) the remedy effects ." . . .

"In this case" [after the homoeopathic aggravation during the first
hour after taking the first dose] "the cure of an acute disease is usually
" finished by the first dose.
" But, when the first dose of the fully adequate curative remedy was
"not somewhat greater tban the disease, and hence nothing followed
" of that peculiar aggravation in the first hour then, still, the disease is ;

" extinguished to the greatest part, and only few always lesser doses are
"required to annihilate it entirely."
"If here always lesser doses would not be given, but equally great or
"greater ones, then, (after the now already disappeared original disease)
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 109

"arise mere medicine symptoms, a kind of an artificial unnecessary

"disease."
(p. 35.) "Neither must it be believed, that this noxiousness of excessive
" doses belongs only to the (curative) remedies positively applied. The
"palliatives expose to equally great injuries by excess of their doses; for
"medicaments are per se noxious substances which only in the comrnen-
"surate dose become remedies by adaptation of their natural pathopoetic
" force to the disease analogous to it (positively or negatively)-"
(p. 36.) Treatment of a girl excessively heated from dancing, with
some hot tea, containing a small quantity of spirits, instead of giving cold
water, or ice, in large quantities.
" Note. This latter example at the same time shows the correctness of
" the position, that, when the state of disease is in the extremest degree
" and only a few hours remain for the cure, then the application of the
"positive (curative) remedies in vert little doses is infinitely prefer-
"able to that application of the palliatives, even if they should at first be
"given in very little quantity. Even if the latter should not do any harm,
"it is, at least, certain, that it helps nothing, whilst the least dose of
"the well adapted curative remedy can save from death, if only a few
"hours remain for the cure." ....
(p. 37.) "But, how much the sensitiveness to medicine-stimuli of the
"body is heightened, of that only the exact observer has an idea. It
"transcends all belief, when the disease has reached a high degree. A
"senseless, prostrated, comatose Typhus patient, deaf against all shaking
"and shouting, is speedily brought to consciousness by the least dose
"of Opium, even if it should be millions of times less than ever prescribed
'
by any mortal.
'
'

"The sensitiveness to medicine-stimuli of the highly diseased body,

"rises in many cases to such a degree, that potencies begin to act upon
"and excite it, of which the existence even has been denied, because
"they show no effect, upon the healthy firm body, and in several diseases
"not appropriate for them."
He, then, alludes to Animalism (Animal Magnetism) as follows
This animal force does not show itself, at all, between two robust,
1
'

" healthy persons, not because it were nothing, but because it is much ic»o
''little, as to become, under the wise intentions of God, perceptible be-

"tween healthy persons, whilst the same influence (entirely impercep-

"tible in the transition from healthy upon healthy) frequently acts only
"more than too violently in those states of morbid sensitiveness and
" mobility, just as very little doses of other curative medicines in a very
"diseased body."
The same he states as to the magnet and contact of metals.
(p. 38.) "On the other hand it is as true as worthy of astonishment,
"that even the robustest persons, being affected witb chronic diseases,
"notwithstanding their general bodily strength, and notwithstanding
their bearing with impunity even noxious stimuli of various kind in
'
'
110 APPENDIX.

"great quantity (over-loadings with food and spirituous drinks, purga-

yet, as soon as the medicine positively helpful for this
'
tives, etc. )
'
;

" chronic evil, is administered to them, experience from the least pos-
" sible dose just as full an impression as if they were suckling babes."
"This dynamical action of the medicines, like the vitality
(p. 39.)
"itself, by which it is reflected upon the organism, is almost purely
"spiritual, most strikingly so that of the remedies used positively
" (curatively), with the singular peculiarity, that the all too strong dose
"may injure and cause considerable disorder in the body, but a little dose
"even the least possible, cannot be unhelpful, if only the remedy is
" indicated."
" To produce the most beneficial effects, always a sole remedy
(p. 43.)
'
' wholly without admixture, if it only is the best chosen, tJie most
is fit,
" adequate in the eight dose."
(p. 46.) "I have already said, that the least possible dose of a positively
" acting medicine is already sufficient for the full effect."
In the same year, 1805, appeared the ffiagmenta de viribus medicamen-
torum positivis, sive in sane corpore humano observatis Lips. Barth.,
where, in the preface, p. 3, he urges the littleness of the dose " (Vel
parva quantitate ingesta.y
1809. (Belehrung uber das herrschende Fieber, from the Deutsch. Allg.
Anzeiger, in Kl. Schr. Vol. II., p. 86.)

"The seed which is capable of producing these symptoms (Nux vom.)

" is, among all known vegetable medicines, the only one which is capa-
" ble of curing a great part of these prevailing fevers within a short time,
'
but only thus, that a very little dose is given of it, at first every four,
'

" afterwards only every six days."

" The least atom of it in powder,, or very little only of a solution, every
" drop of which contains a trillionth of a grain of this seed, is fully
" sufficient for the dose, and commensurable to the intention * * *"
(p. 87.) "How can these high potential medical-substances help it,
'
' that their doses, weighed after our clumsy medicinal weights by drams,
" scruples and grains, are yet much too large for healing purposes ? "
(p. 88.) " But now, if only one-tenth part of a grain of this mineral
" (Arsen. alb.) was often found to be dangerous, that is, in other words,
" all too powerful, what did prevent the physicians, if they only would
'
have thought it over a little, to try whether a thousandth or a millionth
'

" of a fraction of a grain, or a lesser yet, becomes a moderate dose, and, if

"so little a fraction of a grain would have been found to be still too
" clumsy a dose of most highpotential of all remedies (which it is
this
—
"indeed), what did prevent them, from lessening the fraction much
"farther yet, until they would have seen, that a sixtillionth of a grain in
" solution becomes to be a mild and still fully sufficiently power-
" ful (in our case specifically curative) dose, being administered —
" once every 5 10 days " * * * —
This brings us up to the year 1810, when the Organon was first pub-
lished, which has had five editions up to the year 1833. In none of these
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. Ill

editions anything is to be found, as to the Dose, not contained in the last

edition.
In those intervening years Hahnemann steadily advanced, true to his
original views of the Infinitesimality of the Homoeopathic Dose. Thus
in his celebrated Dissertation "de Helleborismo Veterum" in 1812,
where he asserted the and fineness of Dose into the very teeth
littleness
of the Leipzig Faculty (" minuta pulveris subtilioris dosis" ''minima —
dosis"") ; and in his Articles "On the mode of Healing the prevailing
nervous or hospital fever" in 1814, and "On the Uncharitableness to
suicides" in 1819; and in his Petition to Government "On the self-
preparing and self-dispensating of medicaments on the part of the homoeo-
pathic physicians," in 1820, and so on.
The latter document, the Petition to Government, contains some
striking passages on our subject, which cannot be omitted, being of great
historical value.
(Kl. Schr. Vol. II., p. 195.) "According to this more perfected mode
'
of healing, I require for the cure, even of the greatest diseases, hitherto
'
deemed incurable, only finest possible doses of simple substances, partly
'
of solutions in mere alcohol of some minerals and several metals, with-
1
out assistance of any acid, (preparations known only to me, but to no
'
chemistry, consequently to no apothecary), partly equally fine doses of
'
vegetable and animal substances, —
always only one dose of a single
1
simple remedy — doses ichich are so little, that, in the usual unmedicinal
'
vehicle (sugar of milk), they are entirely imperceptible by means of the
'
senses and all cogitable analysis
of Chemistry.''''
'
This ineffable littleness of doses of simple medicinal substances, in this
'

'
new art of healing, removes all possible suspicion of a noxious greatness
'
of the dose of simple medicine, which is given to the sick. '

(p. 197.) "And yet this uncommon fineness of doses

of all dynamically
'
acting medicines, unavoidably necessary in this new art, so excellent
is
'
for the purpose of healing every disease, but indispensable for the cure
'
of the chronic diseases, hitherto abandoned as incurable."
(p. 199.) "I hold none to be my follower, who, besides an irre-
'
proachable truly moral conduct, does not exercise the new art at least
'
in such A manner, that his remedy given to the patient contains in an
'
unmedicinal vehicle (sugar of milk or watered alcohol) the medicine
'
in such a little fine dose, that neither the senses, nor chemical analysis
1
could discover in it the least absolutely injurious medicament, even not
4
at all the least properly medicinal thing all of which presupposes a
;

littleness of dose which, beyond contradiction, makes all apprehension

1

'
of every medical state-superintendence disappear."
From 1811—1821, the first edition of the " Materia Medica Pura " ap-
peared in print.
In 1828, the first edition of the " Chronic Diseases" followed.
In 1838, Hahnemann published the fifth, and last, edition of the Or-
ganon, which we may consider as the exposition of his ripest intellect, up
to that time.
112 APPENDIX.

We select the following passages as some most positive statements

of the which is here proved historically.
fact,
(Organon cler Heilkunst, Fifth edition, Dreed. & Leipz. Arnold 1833.
Preface p. VII.) "Homoeopathies, therefore, avoids even the least
" weakening, much as possible, every excitation of pain, because
also, as
"pain also takes away the strength, and therefore, it uses for the cure
" only such medicines, the effects of which in changing and altering
" (dynamically) the disposition, it knows exactly, and then it seeks out
" such a one, the forces of which, changing the disposition, (their medic-
" inal disease) is able to lift the present natural disease by Simility
" (Similia Similibzis), and it gives to the patient the same singly, but in
" rake and fine doses (so little, that without causing pain and weak-
" ening, they just suffice, to lift the natural evil by means of the reacting
"energy, of the vital force) with the success, that, without in the least
"weakening, tormenting, or plagueing him, the natural disease is extin-
guished, and the patient, already during the amelioration, soon gains
" in strength of itself, and thus is cured."
(p. 78.) "§25. But now, the only and infallible oracle of the healing
" art, the pure experience, teaches in all careful experiments, that really
" tiiat medicine which in its action upon healthy human bodies has
" proved itself able to beget the most symptoms in Simility, to be found
" in the case of disease which is to be cured, does, in duly potentiated
"and lessened doses, speedily, radically, and lastingly, abolish and
" convert into health, the totality of the symptoms of this state of dis-
" case, that
is, the whole present disease."

"§26. This rests upon that Homoeopathic Law of Nature,

(p. 94.)
" though not unforboded, but hitherto not recognized, which lies forever
" bottom of all true healing
at the :

"A weaker dynamic affection is in the living organism lastingly extin-

" guished by a stronger one, if this {differing from it in hind,) is very
" similar to that in its manifestation.''''

(p. 95.) "§27. Hence, the healing power of the medicines rests
" (§ 12 — 2G) upon their symptoms similar to the disease and overpoising
" the same in force, thus every single case of disease being most surely,
"radically, and speedily, and lastingly annihilated and abolished, only
" by that medicine which is itself able to beget (in the human system),
" the totality of the symptoms in the most similar and complete manner,
" and which at the same time exceeds the disease in force.''''
(p. 100.) "§34. The greater strength of the artificial diseases to be
"produced by medicines, is, however, not the only condition for their
" power of curing the natural diseases. Just above all, for the cure, it is
"required, that they should be able to beget in the human body an arti-
"ficial disease most possibly similar to the disease which is to be cured,
"so as to put itself, by their simility coupled with a somewhat greater
"strength, in the place of the natural disease-affection, and in this way to
" deprive it of all impression upon the vital force."
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 113

(p. 122.) § 51. " To the able mind of man this Law " (heal by Symp-
tom Simility, § 50) "is revealed by them [symptoms], and they were
"sufficient for that purpose. But, behold! what an advantage has not
"man above rude nature in its accidental occurrences! How many
"thousands more of homoeopathic morbific potencies does not man
"everywhere possess in the medicinal substances which are spread all
" over creation for the help to the suffering fellowmen ? They are to him
"parents of diseases of all possible effect — varieties, for all the innumer-
"able, for all the thinkable and unthinkable natural diseases against
"which they can furnish homceopathical help, morbific potencies [medi-
"cinal substances], the strength of which, overcome by the vital force
" after the completed curative application, disappears by itself, without
" wanting any reiterated help for driving them away again, like the itch,
'''artificial disease-potencies which the physician can rarefy, distribute,
"potentiate, and lessen in their dose, to such a point, that they
" remain only a little stronger than the similar natural disease to be
"cured by them, so that with this unsurpassable mode of healing, it needs
"no violent attack upon the organism, to root out even an old and obsti-
"nate evil; yea, that this mode of healing is merely seen in a gentle,
" imperceptible, and yet often speedy transition from the torturing natural
"sufferings to the lasting health desired."
(p. 133.) § 61 ... . "They [the alloeopathic physicians] would
'
have perceived that ... the homoeopathic application of the medicines
' .

"according to their Symptom Simility must bring about a permanent,

"complete cure, if with it the opposite of their large doses, the vert
" least of all, be given.
§68. "[These incontrovertible truths] show us in homceo-
(p. 138.)
"pathic cures, that upon the uncommonly little doses which were just only
" sufficient, by the simility of their symptoms, to overtune (ueberstimmen),
"and to push away the similar natural disease, though, after the extir-
"pation of the latter, at first some medicine-disease still continues in the
" organism, yet, because of the extraordinary littleness of the dose, so
" transient, so slight, and so soon disappearing by themselves, that the
"vital force needs no more significant reaction against this little artificial
" distemper [Verstimmung] of its state, than is requisite for raising the
"present state to the healthy standpoint, that is, to the full restoration,
" for which end little effort is wanted after the extinction of the preceding
"morbid distemper.
(p. 187.) § 128. "The modern and most modern experiences have
"taught — that when taken
the medicine-substances in their crude state,
"by the proving person for the purpose of proving their peculiar effects,
"do not, by far, utter the full richness of the forces being latent in them,
" as [they do] when, for that purpose they have been taken in high rare-
11
factions [hohen Verduennungen], potentiated by proper trituration and
" succussion, by which simple operation the forces which lay hidden, and
6
 ll-i APPENDIX.

"as it were, dormant, in their crude condition, are incredibly developed

"and awakened into activity."
"Thus, now, even the substances hitherto deemed to be weak, are
"best searched into, regarding their medicinal virtues, by causing the
"proof-person, daily, before meals, to take four to six finest pellets with
''the thirtieth potentiated attenuation of such a substance, moistened with a
" little water, and to continue the same several days."
(p. 188.) § 129. [In proving] "it is very advisable, to make the
" beginning with a little dose of medicine, and, where commensurate
first

"and requisite, to ascend from day to day to a higher and higher dose.''''
(p. 246.) § 230. [In cases of mental or emotional disease, when
" the selected remedies are homoeopathically commensurate] "the . . .

"least possible doses often are sufficient, to produce the most striking
" improvement in not very long time."
(p. 255.) § 242. "We, then, have to deal only with a psoric intermit-
"tent fever, which usually is vanquished by the finest doses of Sulphur
'
and Hep. sul. calc. in High Potency, rarely repeated.
'

(p. 257.) § 246. "On the contrary, slowly progressing amelioration,

" after one dose of strikingly homoeopathic selection, if it is very fine,
"indeed, also accomplishes sometimes, in its uninterruptedly continuing
" duration of action, that help which this remedy, according to its nature,
"is capable to effect in this case, in spaces of time of forty, fifty, one
" hundred days. But, partly, this is rarely the case, partly it is of much
"import as well to the physician as to the patient, that, if it were pos-
sible, this period could be shortened to one-half, to one-quarter, and
"even more, and that in this manner a much speedier healing could be
"gained. And this, too, can be very successfully carried out, as recent
" and often repeated experiences have taught us, under the conditions :

"First, if the medicine with all circumspection was selected very strik-
'
' ingly homceopathical, — Second, if it is administered in the finest dose
"least revolting and yet duly attuning [umstimmenden] the vital force;
" and, Thirdly, if such & finest forceful dose of the best selected medicine,
"is repeated in commensurate spaces of time."
(p. 259.) Note 1. "Least, I say, since it stands, and will stand, as a
"homoeopathic rule of cure, refutable by no experience in the world, that
" 'the rightly chosen remedy the
of best dose is always the least one
"in one of the High Potentiations (30), as well for chronic as for
—
" acute diseases a truth which is the invaluable property of pure Homoso-
" pathy, which, as long as Allceopathy (and not much less the modern
"mongrel-sect, composed of allceopathic and homoeopathic treatment)
"yet continues to gnaw, like a cancer, upon the life of the sick men, and
" to corrupt them with greater and greatest doses of medicine, which will
"keep remote from the pure Homoeopathy these false arts by an un-
" fathomable gulf."
(p. 269.) § 252. "In the commensurate (least) dose.' 1
''

(p. 270.) § 253. Note 1. "The symptoms of amelioration in min

 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 115
" and spirit are to be expected soon after the taking of the medicine only
" then, when the dose was duly (i. e. most possibly) little."
" . . Here I remark, that this so necessary rule, is mostly sinned
. .

" against by the presumptuous beginners in Homoeopathies, and by the

"physicians going out of the old school over to the Homceopathical
" Healing Art. These, from old prejudices, abhor the least doses of the
" deepest rarefactions [tiefste verduennungen] of the medicines in such
"cases, and they must lack the great advantages and blessings of that
"treatment, which, in thousand experiences, has been found to be the V^W»%^^ft
" most wholesome, and cannot accomplish what true Homoeopathies can, -
" and hence, unjustly palm themselves off as her disciples." ^*"»
™
'

(p. 280.) §269. "The Homoeopathical Healing Art developes for its
" purposes the spirit-like medicine-force of the crude substances by an ope- «»^ % V'v-
^\\V^
" ration peculiar to it, hitherto unattempted, to a degree heretofore unheard v^***V
li
°fi by which they all become only right penetratingly efficacious and
v ^^«\%*
^ «.

"helpful, even those, which, in raw condition, betray not the least medi- -

" cine-force in the human body." *^v V »

(p. 284.) § 275. " The commensurateness of a medicine for a given case
"of disease rests not only upon its striking homoeopathic selection, *^^* W**
"but just as "well upon the requisite correct magnitude or rather -^^ ^ -

"littleness of its dose.

(p. 286.) §278. "Here now arises the question, which is this degree *
s •-.'«,

" of littleness most commensurate for help partly certain, partly gentle ;-»-.*«
"how little, then, the dose op every single remedy, homozopaihi-
il
catty selected for a case of disease, must be for the purpose of the best
"cure?"
" To solve this problem, and, for every medicine in particular to deter-
" mine which dose of it is sufficient for the object of the homoeopathic cure,
"and which is still so little, as to accomplish by it the gentlest and
" speediest cure, to solve this problem, is, as can easily be seen, not the
" work of theoretical guess, not by the speculative understanding, not by subtle
"sophistry the solution of this problem is to be expected; solely pure experi- *» •*-»*
" ments, careful observation, and correct experience, can determine this, and ^^. »y t>
" it would be foolish to adduce the great doses of inadequate (allceopathic) ^
"medicine of the old school-practice which do not homceopathically
"touch the diseased side of the organism, but only attack the parts un-
V "£\KN
'• '

" attacked by the disease, against that, what pure experience pronounces - ** %** V
" on the necessary littleness op dose for the purpose of homoeopathic
"cures."
(p. 287.) §279. "This pure experience shows throughout, that, if not
" evidently a considerable corruption of some important viscera is at the
" bottom of the disease, (even if belonging to the chronic and compli-
"cated ones), and, if in the cure all other medicinal influences, from
" without, upon the patient, have been kept away the dose of the homceo-
;

"paihically selected remedy can never be prepared so little, as not to be still

" stronger than the natural disease, and as not to be capable, partly at
" least, to overtune [ueberstimmen], extinguish, and heal it,, so long, as it
 116 APPENDIX.

" (the dose) is still capable, immediately after taking, to cause its symp-
" toms to be heightened somewhat, however little, above the disease
" similar to it. (Slight homoeopathic aggravation § 157-160.")
(p. 288.) § 280. "This incontrovertible, experiential position, is the
'
measure, according to which the doses of homoeopathic medicine, without
'

" exception, have to be lessened to such a point, that, after taking, they
excite only a hardly perceptible homoeopathic aggravation, the lessening
'
'

" may descend ever so low, and appear ever so incredible to the grossly mate-
'
rial notions of the every -day -physicians. Their talk must grow dumb
^LJHtor " before the verdict of the infallible experience.

r^^^jZ*~ (P- 289.) § 281. "Every patient i9, especially in point of his disease,
44fcftflWW^*' incredibly attunable [umstimmbar] by medicinal potencies, adequate by
fP&f0QtoRkc " Effect-Simility, and there is no man, ever so robust, affected even with a
" cnr0I" c or so-called local evil, who would not soon feel the most desired
^ttdtatdltf-
^si^tlf
" cnan S e m
^^ suffering part, when he has taken the helpful, homceopathi-
^w9Wy^r M cally commensurate medicine in the least conceivable dose, in one
(Ut^/^r QaO" word, whose condition would not be thekebt changed far more, than
" the one day old, but healthy, suckling by the same.
l&fi[^^^h " How insignificant, and ridiculous, therefore, is the merely theoretical
M&4ki&y&£'' un b e li ef against these never failing infallible evidences of experience."
* (p. 291.) § 283. "Now, in order to proceed truly according to nature,
r£0&J0P&& " the true healing artist will prescribe his well selected homoeopathic inedi-
4
|ttjp!MSWtrf " cine exactly in so little a dose only, as is just even sufficient to
>
" overtune and annihilate the disease, in a littleness of dose, by which,
" if human frailty should once have misled him, to apply a less adequate
" medicine, the injury done is lessened to insignificance, the disadvantage
" of its quality being inadequate to the disease, which (disadvantage),
"from the most possibly least dose, is also much too weak, as not
" forthwith to be extinguished and made good again, by the own force of
" the nature of life, and by the prompt opposition of the remedy selected,
a j 4 ^f^ .1-" now in adequate Effect Simility."
^jGmK^f^J (p. 298.) Note. . . . "And when there is reason for applying, to a

lWid"J^^^j
'
' ver y sensiti ve patient, the least possible dose, and to bring about
WEF>wW''^ <l
th e speediest result ; then the mere smelling once is serviceable."

*d&ff&&l*~> (p. 295.) Note 1. " The higher the rarefaction connected with potenv

/.gtJZrZi+L
" tiation (by two succussive strokes), is carried ^the speedier and the, mork
v^&^F^+p '
'
penetrgdiygj appears, medicinally, the effect of the preparation, to givel
" another tune to the vital force, and to change the state, with but little I

" lessened strength, even when this operation is carried very far, in-j
" stead to 30, as usual (and mostly sufficient), now to 60, 150, 300 and)
"higher." *»S
No limit, then, to Potentiation, is fixed by Hahnemann.
(p. 300.) Note 1. " The least homoeopathic dose which, however, often
" works wonders in the proper place. Not rarely the imperfect Homceo-
" pathicians, deeming themselves superfluously wise, overcharge their
44
patients in severe diseases, by doses of different medicines, rapidly suc-
'
ceeding each other, although homceopathically selected and adminis-
'J c

I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 117

41
tered in highpotentiated rarefaction; and thus they place them [the
44
patients] in a state so over excited, that life and death are at war with
" each other, etc."
In the years 1835 and 1839, the second and last edition of the " Chron.
Krankheiten " was published. The following quotations will show,
that Hahnemann went on, in the original and initial direction of the
Infinitesimality of the Dose, and most decidedly and unmistakeably so.
1835. (Chron. Krankh., 2 ed., Dresd. & Lpzg Arnold,
, vol. I, p. 149.)
44
Generally, the physician, next to the unhomceopathic selection of the
44
remedy, cannot commit a greater fault, than firsts, of deeming the doses
41
indicated in every antipsoric medicine and by me moderated so far after
* 4
many fold experiments (necessitated by experience) to be too little;
44
secondly, the incorrect selection of the remedy; and thirdly, the pre-
44
cipitation, not to let it work sufficiently without interruption."
44
Of the first main fault I have spoken just now, and I merely add^
that nothing is neglected if we administer the doses (if it were possible)
STILL LESSER THAN I HAVE INDICATED MYSELF. ONE CANNOT^'
*>* ALMOST, GIVE THEM TOO LITTLE."
4i
1837. (Chr. Krankh. vol. III., p. In treating acute cases,
vi., note.)
44
the homoeopathic physician acts in a similar manner.: He dissolves one
44
(two) globules of the highyotentiated well selected medicine in 7, 10, 15
44
tablespoonfuls of water (without admixtion), by shaking of the bottle,
41
and lets the patient, according as the evil is more or less acute, more or
44
less dangerous, take one or one-half teaspoonful every half hour, or
44
two, three, four, five and six hours."
44
1838. (Chr. Krankh., vol. V., p. iv.) Already, then, in the fiftieth
14
Potency, (the modern wise-acres, hitherto, would scoff at the thirtieth
44
potency already, and they had to content themselves with the low,
44
little-developed, more massive preparations of medicine in high doses,
44
by which, however, they could not accomplish what our Healing Art
44
—
can do) we have got .... medicines of the most penetrating effica-
'
41 1 1
ciousness.'
Further on, in the years 1842 and 1843, we find a report of two cures
by Hahnemann, published by Bcenninghausen in the 44 Neues Archiv fiir
die Homoeopathische Heilkunst Leipzig, Schumann, 1844," vol. I.. 1, p.
79. These cures show most conclusively, that Hahnemann, almost to his
very last breath, (he died in 1843, July 2d, 89 years of age), followed
out the original and fundamental idea of Homoeopathy Infinitesimality, —
which he had discovered and developed to growing perfection, in the
course of a long and eventful life of conscientious labor for the welfare
of mankind.
These prescriptions in the first of these cases were. the following :

(p. 80.) 1842, Sept. 12. Insanity after sunstroke, in a girl fourteen
years old. Bellad. lenified (gelinderte) Dynamization (according to
Bcenninghausen, one globule of the sixtieth Potency) dissolved in seven
teaspoonfuls of water ; of this solution one-tablespoonful dissolved in one
118 APPENDIX.

glass of water (about the size of a tumbler), and, after stirring, one tea-
spoonful of this latter solution was to be taken in the morning.
Sept. 16, the fifth day after, the following dose was ordered : one-
teaspoonful of the last mentioned solution, to be stirred into a second
tumbler of water, and two to four teaspoonfuls (daily increasing by one),
to be taken in the morning.
Sept. 20, the fifth day after, one globule of Bellad., Higher Potency,
dissolved in seven-tablespoonfuls of water, one-tablespoonful to be mixed
in a tumbler of water, and one-teaspoonful to be taken every morning
for six days. »'

Sept. 28, the ninth day after, Hyosc 8*0 in seven-tablespoonfuls of water,
one-tablespoonful mixed in a tumbler of water, and one-teaspoonful to be
taken in the morning.
Oct. 5, the eighth day after, Sacch. lact., prepared and given in similar
manner.
Oct. 18, the fourteenth day after Sulph. {new Dynamization of the least
substance) one globule, potentiated through three tumblers, one-teaspoon-
ful in the morning.
Oct. 22, the fifth day after, Sulph., next Dynamization, potentiated
through two tumblers.
This was used with interruption till November, when the patient was
well.
The other case was that of a man thirty-three years old. Syphilitic
sore throat and Haemorrhoids. The prescriptions were as follows
1843, Jan. 15. Bell, thirty, of the then lowest Dynamization, dissolved in
seven tablespoonfuls of water, of which one tablespoonful was well mixed
in a tumbler full of water, one teaspoonful in the morning after rising.
Jan. 18. Merc. v. one globule of the lowest new Dynamization {which
contains much less substance than the one hitherto made), prepared and
taken in the same way.
Jan. 20. Merc. v. Q) of the second of such Dynamizations, prepared in
the same way, and taken in the morning.
Jan. 30. Sacch lact., prepared and taken the same.
Feb. 7. Sulph. I as above.
Feb. 13. Gave him a smelling dose of Merc, and Merc. v. y, one glob-
ule as above.
Feb. 20. Sacch. lact. as above.
March by olfaction, and Sacch. lact. as above.
3. Nitri ac.

March 20. Nitri ac. by olfaction, by opening a small vial containing

half an ounce of ordinary spirit of wine or brandy, in which one globule
of medicine is dissolved, and smelling for one or two moments. Patient
was then well.
Finally we have the evidence given by Croserio, in a letter to Bcenning-
hausen, dated January 28, 1844, and published in the Neues Archiv, Vol.
I., 2, p. 30. Croserio was, of the Parisian Homceopathicians, the one
most intimate with Hahnemann, visited i..in almost daily, and thus had
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 119

the best opportunity of knowing, how Hahnemann prescribed in his latter

days. The following passages are to the purpose.
" Hahnemann always used on'y the well-known little globules, com-
monly moistened with the thirtieth dilution, as well for acute as for
chronic cases. Of these globules he had one, or at most two, dissolved
and well shaken in a caraffe, containing fifteen tablespoonfuls of water
and one-half or a whole tablespoonful of (French) brandy. Only one
tablespoonful of the solution was put in a tumbler of water, and of
the patient took only by teaspoonfuls, that is to say, on the first
this last
day one teaspoonful, on the second two, o n the third three, and so on.
daily one teaspoonful more, until he noticed effect. He then lessened
the dose, orordered to cease taking medicine entirel y.. In other cases
he ordered a teaspoonful of the first tumbler to be poured into a second
tumbler of water, in others again, from this second a spoonful into a
third, and so on to a sixth tumbler, only one teaspoonful to be taken
from the last tumbler, when he had to deal with very excitable persons.
Only in rare cases he allowed a table or teaspoonful of the first solution
in 8-15 tablespoonfuls of water, to be taken once a day In the
last years of his practice appears to have applied his whole
Hahnemann
dexterity to lessening the doses more and more. Hence in the last years
he made a very frequent use of olfaction. For this purpose he put one or
two globules in a small vial, containing two drachms of alcohol, diluted
with an equal quantity of water, and letthem smell only once or twice
by each nostril, never oftener. In this way my own wife was cured
by him, of a violent pleurisy, within five hours. In chronic diseases,
happen what might, he never let them smell oftener than once a week,
and give nothing besides for internal use, except mere sugar of milk,
and in this manner he effected the most admirable cures, even in such
cases where all others had been unable to accomplish anything ....
I can give you the assurance, he was most fully convinced that in no
case it is necessary, even not of use, to give the medicine in drops, and
that, from day to day more, he satisfied himself of the noxiousness of
LARGER doses."

The facts speak for themselves. Anybody who desires still more facts,
can find them in numerous other passages of the works of Hahnemann,
besides those here presented. They all establish our position.
They prove, as a matter of history, that the Minimal Dose, the Infinite-
simal Dose, belongs to Homoeopathy, as originally and properly as the
Simility of Symptoms.
They prove as a fact, that the founder of Homoeopathy founded it

equally on both the Infinitesimality and the Symptom Simility.

They prove, that he, from the very inception, established, and over and
over again confirmed, the fact, and the rule based upon it, that the Least
Dose of a Simile, a Minimum of it, is sufficient to effect the cure ; and that
 120 APPENDIX.

he lessened the dose from little to less, from less to least, constantly on
the same principle.
They prove, that both, the quantitative and qualitative elements, in
natural and inseparable union, form the original and innate character of
the Homoeopathic Remedy, and so much so, that such remedy is impossi-
ble to be homceopathical, if not a Minimum and Simile at the same time.
They prove, that this peculiar quantitative character of Homoeopathy,
its Posology, is the very nature and criterion of it, distinguishing it from
all other arts and manners of healing whatever.
They prove, that the principle of Infinitesimality is historically, from
first to last, the leading idea of Homoeopathic Posology.
They prove, historically, that the infinitesimal dose is homoeopathic.
And that being true, it is, in the converse, equally true, that the homoeo-
pathic dose is infinitesimal!

To conclude : Infinitesimality is, in verity, as fundamental, and as

essential to Homoeopathy, as Simility is. Both are equally inherent and
proper to Homoeopathy, and both have been so from the beginning
throughout. This is a fixed fact, a historical fact, incontestable, and un-
alterable by afterthoughts, theories, trimmings, and criticisms.
The consequences are irresistible. No pretended Homoeopathy can
hold its ground against true Homoeopathy. Development may modify ;

but a changeling has no legitimate title. Systems may be built and

rebuilt but the foundation remains the same.
; Opinions may differ but ;

they cannot alter the nature of the thing. Sophisms may shine but they ;

cannot unsettle the fact. Secession may try but the Union must be ;

preserved.
Previous to Hahnemann nobody had ever found, thought, or practised,
the fundamental Law of Homoeopathy, covering both the quantification
and the qualification of the remedy. Hippocrates never thought of
Potentiation. The Galenic school always cared and sought for the limit
of the Maximum Dose. The new medicine, directly opposite, cares and
seeks for the limit of the Minimum Dose. This is Hahnemann's work.
Hahnemanniau Homoeopathy is} only Homoeopathy known to. History.
lit-

After him, others may attempt to change, trim, appropriate, or falsify, the
must prevail. It was Hahne-
results of his labor, but the truth of history
mann, who established it as a fact, that the homoeopathic remedy, a Sim-
plex, to be curative, must be a Simile and Minimum at the same time.
He it was, too, who for that purpose invented Potentiation, as the practical
mode and method of lessening the quantity of medicine, so as to make
it as fine as possible, and to obtain the proper remedial quantity, the
minimal or infinitesimal dose.
Now, by the Least Dose of a Simplex according to Symptom-
to cure
Homoeopathic Law of Cure, and the whole of it. In
Simility, this is the
its entirety it forms the very basis and nature of Homoeopathy. The
Principle of the Dose is contained in it.
 I. —A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. 121
This principle is the postulate of common enough is suffi-
sense, that
cient, and here as much as necessary ; that no more, and no greater
quantity of medicine, is required for the cure, than there is just sufficient
to change disease into health and that, therefore, the ; least quantity of
medicine, or an infinitesimal dose of it, if a Simile, is sufficient, and all
that is required, for the cure.
Scientifically speaking, the Least Plus,, ceteris paribus, is sufficient for
the change ;
and, since the Least Plus is infinitesimal by nature, the infi-
nitesimal must necessarily be sufficient ; and, since here the sufficient dose
is all that is necessary, it follows, that the infinitesimal dose is all that ia
necessary for the cure.
The practical question in the given case, how much of the homoeopathic
remedy is sufficient for the cure, resolves itself into the question : how little
is necessary ? This
determined by experiment.
is History shows, that
experience, gradually, proved less and less to be sufficient. From our
own experience we are satisfied, that a Homoeopathic Potency as high as
one hundred thousand, centesimally, is a quantity still great enough,
and not too little, to be efficacious.
When we can accomplish the purpose by a little infinitesimal dose,
why should we try to do it by large or massive administrations, taxing
the system more than is required for the purpose ?
Better no medicine, than too much
But better the least infinite-
of it !

simal dose of a homoeopathic medicine, than no medicine at all Strictly !

following Hahnemann in the preparation and dose, as well as in the selec-

tion of the remedy, and thus only, we shall be able to uphold Homoeo-
pathy in its integrity, and to fulfil the higher ethical duties of the
conscientious physician as a true friend of mankind.
Whoever Law of Cure, and acts upon it
recognizes the Homoeopathic
in his profession, Homoeopathy and is a Homoeopathician.
professes
Whoever professes Homoeopathy, is, by his own act, concluded against
disputing its Law, or breaking it, or repudiating any essential part of it.
Such an essential part is the Law of the Dose, contained in its Law of
the Cure. The Homoeopathic Posology is, and always has been, a con-
stituent and integral part of Homoeopathy and, in fact, it is its diacritical ;

element.
Is it, then, admissible or excusable in any man, professing Homoeo-
pathy, to accept its Materia Medica alone without its Posology ? Is it

sense for any man, who owns a thing, to throw off one half of it, and at
the same time to claim, that he keeps the whole of it ?

And yet, this is precisely what many of our brethren, in Europe and in
this country, are attempting to do. Charity compels us to believe it to
be a sad honest mistake. But it is a strange infatuation indeed If per- !

sisted in, through misplaced Liberty, it destroys the innate Unity of Homoe-
opathy. Leading to a Sectarianism or Schism, as wanton as disgraceful,
it would much impede our progress, because opening the door to a spirit
of exclusivity and proscription. The end of it may be, perhaps, that the
122 APPENDIX.

bisecting and dimorphous half-homoeopathicians fraternize, and by and

by coalesce, with the half-allceopathicians,
and that both together subside
in the space gradually yielded up by the improvements going on in the
allceopathic school, and perchance, by degrees, form a beautiful new
compound, unknown to fame and without a name as yet, but clearly not
entitled to the name or estate of Homoeopathy.
However, magna est Veritas, et prtmalebit /
 APPENDIX.
ii.

GEOMETRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
OF TUB

HOMCEOPATHIC REMEDIAL PROCESS,

PROBATIVE AND CURATIVE.

Let aemblables se gtierissent des semblablea

Des Cartes.
Man Tsann et mit der Diagonale zweier Krcefte vergleichen.
Herinq.

According to the Observations 21 and 22 in the Fourth Series:

" The Laws of Motion serve as the mathematical principle of Ho-
moeopathy ;" and "Under these laws the homoeopathic remedial process,
probative and curative, is geometrically demonstrable, being, as Hering
observes, comparable to the diagonal of two forces, and the parallelo-
gram of forces is its geometrical illustration."*

The organism is a material point, formed, preserved, and propelled

in the Universe, on ourplanet, by a system of cosmological and biologi-
cal motions or forces, representing motions, according to the Laws of
Motion, formulized by Newton, as follows
"Lex I. Corpus omne perseverare in statu quo suo quiescendi vel
movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogi-
tur statum ilium mutare.
"Lex II. Mutationum motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae
et fieri secundum lineam rectam, qua vis ilia imprimitur.
" Lex III. Actioni contrariam semper et sequalem esse reactionem
sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuo semper esse sequales et in
partes contrarias dirigi." (Principia. London, 1687, p. 12.)
Thus the organism presents in its healthy condition a system of uniform
biological motions, in a normal state of oscillating equilibrium, which is
the equalization of all the physical and tension-forces, or, what Draper
well designates as the mechanical and chemical equilibrium of the sys-
tem of man.

* See page 47, ante.

124 APPENDIX.

ir.

(1.) The biological system of motions which is the healthy state of

the organism, may be represented, by the sum of these motions in oscil-
lating equilibrio, as a force impressed in a rec-
Fig. 1.
upon a point representing the
tilinear direction
organism, which is the resultant or diagonal
of the parallelograms of all the forces, con-
stituting this equilibrium, and it may, as such,
be projected in a perpendicular line, A B, (Fig.
1,) let fall upon the plane of existence X.
This direction we will call the biotic line.

(2. ) Any force or agent, whatever it be aeti-

ologically, may cause a change of the direction
of the biotic line, by acting upon it, on either
side, at any angle, thus causing an alteration
of this direction.
This we will call a pathematic line or force
or potency, AC, AC, (Fig. 2.)

Fig. 3
(3.) If a force or potency, AC, (Fig. 3,) be
impressed and act upon one side of the biotic
line in a given angle, the direction of the biotic
will change in the direction of the resultant of
the potency and of the biotic, AD.
This represents the perturbation of health
of the organism, and we will call this force or
potency the pathopoetic force or potency.

(4. ) If another equal force or potency AC

(Fig. 4,) be impressed, and and
act, opposite
on the contrary side to the biotic line, and at
the same angle with the pathopoetic, and at
the same instant, then the original direction
of the biotic line, A B, will be sustained or
immediately restored.
This represents the restoration of health in a prototype, and we will,
therefore, call this force or potency hygiopoetic.

(5.) If the resultant of the pathopoesis, (Fig. 3,) after it has lasted
without any counteraction a given time, be represented by A D,
 II. — GEOMETRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 125
Fig. 5.
(Fig. 5,) and if a hygiopoetic force be applied
in the same angle in which the pathopoetic
force A
C "was impressed, on the contrary side,
then these two forces or potencies, being equal
and opposed, will neutralize each other, and
enable the changed biotic to resume its normal
healthy action A P, as shown in the parallel
AB, (Fig. 3,) and AF, (Fig. 5.)
This represents the restoration of health, by
a potency, after the disease has lasted a given
time, and illustrates the homoeopathic curative
process proper.

(6.) If the pathopoetic force A C be such

upon the organism with an intensity
as to act
exceeding the biological forces by their own a-
mount,and more, then the organism will, under
the preponderating power, be carried, entirely in
the direction of the pathopoetic force, out of
the plane of its existence AG, AG', (Fig. 6.)
This would represent death by accident,
poisons, lightning, suffocation, etc.

(7.) If the organism be exposed to the ac-

tion of the pathopoetic force A C, (Fig. 7,) for
a length of time, and then it should be acted
upon by another pathopoetic force, A C, in
the shape of a remedy, at an angle different
from that of the pathopoetic with the biotic,
then the result will be another oblique line,
AH.
This would represent the allceopathic method of treating disease.

(8.) If the organism be impressed by a

pathopoetic force, A C, (Fig. 8 J and if
another pathopoetic force, A I, of the
same magnitude, be opposed diametri-
cally to the resultant oblique line then ;

the latter will be neither changed nor

restored, but remain in statu quo as long
as the forces be equal, and move in the
direction of the greater one, if the one
preponderates over the other.
This would represent the enantiopathic
method of treating disease.
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(9.) If the pathopoetic action A C, (Fig. 9,)
decrease AC, AC", AC", under the co-
operation of the biological forces A B, by the
assimilation and neutralization of the same,
then, by virtue of its self-preservation, sus-
tained by the biological forces, the organism
will tend to resume, and finally actually regain,
the perpendicular normal biotic line AB, by
imperceptible degrees.
This would represent the process of spontaneous recovery.

III.

(1.) It makes no difference, whether the potency impressed on either

side of the biotic line A B, (Fig. 2,) be impressedby nature, accident,
poison, drug, experimentally, or otherwise. The potency will, in either
case, be pathopoetic (as in the probative process) or hygiopoetic, (as in
the curative process,) and the difference is only in the application of the

one or the other to the one or the other contrary side of the biotic line.

(2.) Consequently, if the two forces or potencies, pathopoetic and

hygiopoetic, and their sides of application, were exchanged, the result
would be exactly the same, in the converse, as above described.

(3.) Hence the same force or potency is neither pathopoetic nor hygio-
poetic per se, but it becomes either the one or the other only by rela-
tion, that is to say, according as it is applied to one side of the biotic
line, (e. g. to the healthy organism as proving,) or to the contrary side,
(e. g. to the diseased organism as remedy,) and vice versa.

(4.) Hence the said pathematic forces are equivalent, interchangeable,

and convertible, agents and reagents, making and unmaking the disease,
as the case may be.

(5.) Now, the very property and nature of a substance which is known
as a homoeopathic potency, is this, that, if applied to the healthy, it acts
pathematically causing the symptoms of the disease which are similar to
:

those which appear in the diseased organism as the disease, in the given
case, (Fig. 3.)

(6.) Therefore, the same homoeopathic potency, if applied to the dis-

eased organism, must, naturally and necessarily, act pathematically again :

causing a removal of the symptoms of disease which are similar to those

which appear by its application to the healthy organism as disease, in
the given case, or causing the production of the symptoms of health
 II. — GEOMETRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 127

which are similar to those which appear in the healthy organism as

health, in the given case, (Fig. 5.)

(7.) And, therefore, the homoeopathic potency is homoeopathical and

homceodynamical, pathopoetic and hygiopoetic, making and unmaking
the disease, as the case may be.
Q. E. D.

IV.
Fig. 10.
(1.) The parallelogram of the pathopoetic
and hygiopoetic forces drawn out, exhibits and
illustrates, in each given case, (Fig. 10.)

Mutual Action,

Simility,

Contrariety, and

Infinitesimality

(2. ) The Mutual Action is, that either force, A C and A C, is impressed,
and acts together with the other, upon the same organism, and that the
same organism is affected by both at the common point A, (Fig. 5.)

(3.) The Simility is in the equality of the angles y and z of the patho-
poesis ADand hygiopoesis A E, (Fig. 10) ; in the equality of the angles
of the pathopoetic and hygiopoetic lines CAB, CAB; in the paral-
lelism of the restored perpendicularity of the biotic with the original AF
one A B in the equality of the pathopoetic parallelogram A B D C with
;

the hygiopoetic A B E C / and in the simility of the pathopoetic and

;

hygiopoetic parallelograms to the parallelogram of the conjoint Mutual

Action of the biotic pathopoetic and hygiopoetic forces and ABDC
ABEC <-> ADFE.
The reason, why these parallelograms are always unequal, though
similar, lies in the susceptibility of the diseased organism for the hygio-
poetic force.
This susceptibility varies in proportion to the assimilability of the
remedy by the organism. When the assimilability of the remedy is

greater, then the susceptibility of the organism is higher ; and vice verm,
the susceptibility of the organism is lower, when the assimilability of the
remedy This depends upon the degree of Simility of the patho-
is lesser.

poetic pictures, (derived from natural and experimental disease,) and

upon the potentiality (Leistungsfaehigkeit) of the organism.
128 APPENDIX.

The varying therapeutical relation, or Proportionality between Suscep-

tibility and Assimilability of organism and remedy, is expressed by having
the resultant E of the hygiopoesis lengthened, (Fig. 11,) or shortened,
(Fig. 12,) as the case may be.

Fig. n. Fig. 12.

For, the line of the changed biotic force is already, by composition of

the biotic with the pathopoetic force, larger than the original one. Hence
the hygiopoesis, to be effective in overcoming the pathopoesis, must be
proportioned to that quantity, which is represented by the changed biotic
force, (Fig. 10.)
From this apportionment, then, necessarily, results the Simility of the
two parallelograms, pathopoetic and hygiopoetic, with the parallelogram
of the conjoint Mutual Action of all the forces concerned.

(4.) The Contrariety is, that the two forces are impressed, and act, in

opposition, and on contrary sides, to the organism, and to each other.

(5.) The Infinitesimality is shown in the gradual neutralization of the

pathopoetic and hygiopoetic forces, and in the least possible quantity of
action, effecting the change, and represented in the cure by Homoeo-
pathic High Potencies.
This is demonstrable by the following train of reasoning :

If the biotic force AB, (Fig. 5,) and the pathopoetic force AC, solicit
the organism in A with
equal and invariable velocity, then these forces
will continually and gradually neutralize each other, acting upon the
organism in the direction of the resultant F. A
This proceeds, under Leibnitz's Law of Continuity, by infinite, succes-
sive, infinitesimal equalizations of the Mutual Action of the said forces,
acting upon the organism.
Thus the hygiopoetic force, if applied at an equal angle with the patho-
poetic force, vanishes together with the latter in the restored normal
 II. — GEOMETRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 129
oscillating equilibrium
of the biological forces, growing "smaller by de-
grees and beautifully
less," as pointed out sub. II., under the head of
spontaneous recovery.
If, according
to a t rigono metrical proposition applied to Mechanics,
(
ig. 10 »)_AP=
:P =
v/( a 2_)_ & 2_|_2rt5cos. *), as the resultant of the biotic,
pathopoetic and
hygiopoetic forces in a given time, then the resistance or
reaction of the organism
R to these forces will be ~R=p ^/ (02 52 2 aft — + +
cos. *)=0, that is to say,
the Mutual Action of the biotic, and pathopoetic
and hygiopoetic forces is the least possible
quantity of action required to
effect the change in the given
case, and, therefore, the organism then
will be in oscillating cquilibrio, composed of
all the biological motions,
which constitute the human organism.
On the strength of the Equality of action and reaction alone, it is not
conceivable, by Newton's Laws of Motion, how a body could move at
all.But we deduce from Maupertuis' demonstration of the Least Quan-
Action, that action and reaction themselves eire effected by the Least
tity of
Plus {incrcment)bcing added to the mutual action on cither the positive or
the negative side.
This Least Plus, the Plus per se, is, essentially, an infinitesimal
quantity, and is always the Minimum of the given action.

Hence, when action takes place, the equilibrium of the moving body
must be disturbed by some force, and that, on close examination, appears
to be only the last term of an infinite increasing series of prior actions
and reactions, or equalizations of mutual actions.
Thus it is, that no equilibrium ever presents itself in reality, but what
presents itself at the moment of observation, is, actually, the Least Phis,
which runs, eternally, in a perpetual flux, through all things, mediating
the motion of all things, large and small.
The equation of action and reaction is, in strictness, only a psycholo-
gical fact,an abstraction, furnishing the means for assigning to the flow-
ing quantities (Newton's Fluxions) a calculable limit which, in reality,
nowhere exists.
To illustrate
Denoting the series of Mutual Actions which make up the motion of a
given body, furnishing the moving force or the motor, by «, and the Least
Plus by a, and the body moved in consequence of the motion of a, by b,
and supposing a and b to be equal or in equilibrio after the motion, it is
proposed, that b would not have moved, as a consequence of the action
and reaction of a and 5, if a had been wanting in this Mutual Action of
a nn<] b ; for « + ot<^ before the motion, and therefore,
a + a =0 1.)

—
Remark. It does not matter, whether we take a to be an impelling
mass, or a force of equal magnitude for, whilst the shock is given to b,
;

the shocking mass certainly constitutes the whole force acting upon b.
Here the motion of b would cease. If now, in infinitesimal time

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130 APPENDIX.

another <x willbe added to it, the mutual action of a and b, which con-
stitutes the motion of J, continues as long as <x lasts ;

« + 2a="2 n.)
And so on, if the motion of b is to continue, successive innumerable tt's
will have to be added, which, in an infinite series, give the finite motion,
amenable to mathematical computation ;

a na=b n
+ III.)
The mathematical details, calculations, and proofs, for this, belong to the
province of Analytical Medics. Here it is sufficient to state, that O,
which is commonly understood to be equivalent to nothing, is, in fact,
not nothing, but an unassignable quantity, that is, virtually, the least
assignable quantity. Taking the formula of the Resultant of two
component forces acting upon a material point, for an example ;

—
R =p y (a 2 + b 2 + ab cos.4>) =0 does not imply nothing, but implies an
equalization, of innumerable forces, for an infinitesimal element of time,
plus the least quantity necessary, to keep up the action for the following
equalization, in another infinitesimal of time, and so on. This notation,
O, contains and covers, in fact, our infinitesimal Plus, which is the inter-
medium of all motion.
The curative action of a Homoeopathic High Potency is, actually, such
an Infinitesimal Plus, being a least possible quantity added to the motions
and actions of the given organism, and producing a change of the same.
Thus, a Homoeopathic High Potency, being analytically an Intermedium,
and practically a Bemedium, is always efficacious as an Infinitesimal.

(6.) Now, Mutuality, (supra ad 2)

Simility, (supra ad 3)
; Contrariety,;

(supra ad 4) and Infinitesimality, (supra ad 5), are the very essential

;

and constituent elements of the Mutual Action, which constitutes the

homoeopathic process, probative and curative. (See Observ. Ser. III., 9,
31,42, 73.)

(7.) And thesame are represented by the parallelograms of forces, as

herein above drawn and explained.

(8.) Therefore, the parallelogram of forces is a geometrical illustra-

tion of the Homoeopathic Remedial process, probative and curative.
Q. E. D.

NOTE.
The parallelogram of forces has never been satisfactorily explained.
We are inclined to believe, that a better result would be obtained, if the
physiological views, based upon Homceosis or Universal Assimilation,
which are presented in our Observations, be accepted.
The material point which is acted on by the component forces, has
always been considered as a mathematical point, because the mass of a
 II. — GEOMETRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 131

body may be supposed to be concentrated at its centre of gravity. In

consequence the materiality of this point has been altogether lost sight
of. If two or more forces act upon a body at an angle, the body, by its
constitution as a resistant body, reacts upon the forces in the same way,
1

as the forces act upon him, viz. by Mutual Action." Hence results a series
:

of Mutual Actions, or equalizations of actions, which, being mediated by

the Least Plus, move the body This resultant is,
in the diagonal line.
therefore, the equivalent of the Mutual Action between the body and the
component forces, standing in the relation of assimilables and assimi-
latives.
Hitherto Science considers tbe body mostly with regard to its Inertia,
as simply overcome by the forces. But this is a barren idea, incom-
patible with the reality and with the third Newtonian Law. Inertia is
a negative conception. It is simply a negation of force and motion.

Hence, by Inertia to account for motion, and for force as the cause of
motion, is as illogical, and impracticable, as it is, to create something out
of nothing. Ex nihilo nihil fit. Kepler's coupling "w"
with " inertia"
does not help matters much. For " vis inertia," if not a mere figure of
speech, is a contradiction in terms.
Homoeopathic Physiology seems to be destined to furnish a truer ex-
planation of the principle of the parallelogram of forces.
Every component force may be analyzed and decomposed into infinitely
many infinitesimal forces, acting simultaneously and continually.
The
same may be done with the action of any single force upon any body.
Force, strictly speaking, has only a psychological reality, being a
mere
logical term, to signify the resultant of a series of equaliza-
abstraction, a
of bodies, mediated by
tions of actions and reactions, or of Mutual Actions,
Hence we may consider force as opposite to, and contra-
the Least Plus.
considered, force may
distinguished from, the body acted on by it. Thus
ceases after application, or
be equal to the body, if the action of the force
it may be greater than the
body acted on, if the motion, imparted to it by
the force, continues. For, with the same right
with which we, above, took
the component force to be composed of infinitely
many infinitesimal forces
and continually we may, also, consider the body
acting simultaneously ;

particles, so little in magni-

to be composed of infinitely many infinitesimal
tude as to equal the infinitesimal particles of force,
and endowed with cor-
resultant of a series
responding acting forces, constituting the body, as the
of equalizations of actions and reactions, or Mutual Actions, of forces",
of the
mediated by the Least Plus. Just so, the equilibrium is the result
destruction of many forces which reciprocally combat and destroy the
actions which they mutually exercise upon each other, (Lagrange.) In
this view, force and body appear to
be convertible terms, and like quan-
tities acting on each other*, and
their comparison and calculation clearly

fall within the dominion of Mathematics.

* Sea article "Potencies," iu the_Hahnemannian Monthly, Vol. I., p. 59.
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