§ 75
These inroads on human health effected by the allopathic non-healing
art (more particularly in recent times) are of all chronic diseases the most deplorable,
the most incurable; and I regret to add that it is apparently impossible to discover or to
hit upon any remedies for their cure when they have reached any considerable height.
Only for natural diseases has the beneficent Deity granted us, in
homœopathy, the means of affording relief; but those devastations and maimings of the
human organism exteriorly and interiorly, effected by years, frequently, of the unsparing
exercise of a false art, with its hurtful drugs and treatment, must be remedied by the
vital force itself (appropriate aid being given for the eradication of any chronic
miasm that may happen to be lurking in the background), if it has not already been too
much weakened by such mischievous acts, and can devote several years to this huge
operation undisturbed. A human healing art, for the restoration to the normal state of
those innumerable abnormal conditions so often produced by the allopathic non-healing art,
there is not and cannot be.
§ 76 Sixth Edition
Only for natural diseases has the beneficent Deity granted us, in homœopathy, the means of affording relief; but those devastations and maimings of the human organism exteriorly and interiorly, effected by years, frequently, of the unsparing exercise of a false art,
1 with its hurtful drugs and treatment, must be remedied by the vital force itself (appropriate aid being given for the eradication of any chronic miasm that may happen to be lurking in the background), if it has not already been too much weakened by such mischievous acts, and can devote several years to this huge operation undisturbed. A human healing art, for the restoration to the normal state of those innumerable abnormal conditions so often produced by the allopathic non-healing art, there is not and cannot be.1 If
the patient at length succumbs, the practiser of such a treatment is in the habit of
pointing out to the sorrowing relatives, at the post-mortem examination, these
internal organic disfigurements, which are due to his pseudo-art, but which he artfully
maintains to be the original incurable disease (see my book, Die Alloopathie, ein Wort
deh Warnung an Kranke jeder Art, Leipzig, bei Baumgartner [translated in Lesser
Writings]). Those deceitful records, the illustrated works on pathological anatomy,
exhibit the products of such lamentable bungling. Deceased people from the country and
those from the poor of cities who have died without such bungling with hurtful measures
are not opened up through pathological anatomy as a rule. Such corruption and
deformities would not be found in their corpses. From this fact can be judged the value of
the evidence drawn from these beautiful illustrations as well as of the honesty of these
authors and book makers.
Those diseases are inappropriately named chronic, which persons incur
who expose themselves continually to avoidable noxious influences, who are in the
habit of indulging in injurious liquors or aliments, are addicted to dissipation of many
kinds which undermine the health, who undergo prolonged abstinence from things that are
necessary for the support of life, who reside in unhealthy localities, especially marshy
districts, who are housed in cellars or other confined dwellings, who are deprived of
exercise or of open air, who ruin their health by overexertion of body or mind, who live
in a constant state of worry, etc. These states of ill-health, which persons bring upon
themselves, disappear spontaneously, provided no chronic miasm lurks in the body, under an
improved mode of living, and they cannot be called chronic diseases.
The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a
chronic miasm, which when left to themselves, and unchecked by the employment of those
remedies that are specific for them, always go on increasing and growing worse,
notwithstanding the best mental and corporeal regimen, and torment the patient to the end
of his life with ever aggravated sufferings. These are the most numerous and greatest
scourges of the human race; for the most robust constitution, the best regulated mode of
living and the most vigorous energy of the vital force are insufficient for their
eradication.
§ 78 Sixth Edition
The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, which when left to themselves, and unchecked by the employment of those remedies that are specific for them, always go on increasing and growing worse, notwithstanding the best mental and corporeal regimen, and torment the patient to the end of his life with ever aggravated sufferings. These, excepting those produced by medical malpractice (§ 74), are the most numerous and greatest scourges of the human race; for the most robust constitution, the best regulated mode of living and the most vigorous energy of the vital force are insufficient for their eradication.1
1 During
the flourishing years of youth and with the commencement of regular menstruation joined to
a mode of life beneficial to soul, heart and body, they remain unrecognized for years.
Those afflicted appeal in perfect health to their relatives and acquaintances and the
disease that was received by infection or inheritance seems to have wholly disappeared.
But in later years, after adverse events and conditions of life, they are sure to appear
anew and develop the more rapidly and assume a more serious character in proportion as the
vital principle has become disturbed by debilitating passions, worry and care, but
especially when disordered by inappropriate medicinal treatment.
§ 79
Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic miasmatic disease, which when uncured ceases only with the termination of life. Sycosis (the condylomatous disease), equally ineradicable by the vital force without proper medicinal treatment, was not recognized as a chronic miasmatic disease of a peculiar character, which it nevertheless undoubtedly is, and physicians imagined they had cured it when they had destroyed the growths upon the skin, but the persisting dyscrasia occasioned by it escaped their observation.