It is the morbidly affected vital force alone that produces disease1, so that the morbid phenomena perceptible to our senses express at the same time all the internal change, that is to say, the whole morbid derangement of the internal dynamis; in a word, they reveal the whole disease; consequently, also, the disappearance under treatment of all the morbid phenomena and of all the morbid alterations that differ from the healthy vital operations, certainly affects and necessarily implies the restoration of the integrity of the vital force and, therefore, the recovered health of the whole organism.
1 How the vital force causes the organism to display morbid phenomena, that is, how it produces disease, it would be of no practical utility to the physician to know, and will forever remain concealed from him; only what it is necessary for him to know of the disease and what is fully sufficient for enabling him to cure it, has the Lord of life revealed to his senses
It is the morbidly affected vital energy alone that produces disease1, so that the morbid phenomena perceptible to our senses express at the same time all the internal change, that is to say, the whole morbid derangement of the internal dynamis; in a word, they reveal the whole disease; consequently, also, the disappearance under treatment of all the morbid phenomena and of all the morbid alterations that differ from the healthy vital operations, certainly affects and necessarily implies the restoration of the integrity of the vital force and, therefore, the recovered health of the whole organism.
1 How the vital force causes the
organism to display morbid phenomena, that is, how it produces disease, it would
be of no practical utility to the physician to know, and will forever remain concealed
from him; only what it is necessary for him to know of the disease and what is fully
sufficient for enabling him to cure it, has the Lord of life revealed to his senses.
Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery)
considered, as it is by the allopathists, as a thing separate from the living whole, from
the organism and its animating vital force, and hidden in the interior, be it ever so
subtle a character, is an absurdity, that could only be imagined by minds of a
materialistic stamp, and has for thousands of years given to the prevailing system of
medicine all those pernicious impulses that have made it a truly mischievous [non-healing]
art.
There is, in the interior of man, nothing morbid that is curable and no invisible
morbid alteration that is curable which does not make itself known to the accurately
observing physicians by means of morbid signs and symptoms - an arrangement in perfect
conformity with the infinite goodness of the all-wise Preserver of human life.
The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates
our body in the invisible interior, and the totality of the outwardly cognizable symptoms
produced by it in the organism and representing the existing malady, constitute a whole;
they are one and the same. The organism is indeed the material instrument of the life, but
it is not conceivable without the animation imparted to it by the instinctively perceiving
and regulating vital force (just as the vital force is not conceivable without the
organism), consequently the two together constitute a unity, although in thought our mind
separates this unity into two distinct conceptions for the sake of facilitating the
comprehension of it.
The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the invisible interior, and the totality of the outwardly cognizable symptoms produced by it in the organism and representing the existing malady, constitute a whole; they are one and the same. The organism is indeed the material instrument of the life, but it is not conceivable without the animation imparted to it by the instinctively perceiving and regulating dynamis, just as the vital force is not conceivable without the organism, consequently the two together constitute a unity, although in thought our mind separates this unity into two distinct conceptions for the sake of easy comprehension.