HAHNEMANNIAN TALKS

Medicine is a science of experience; its object is to eradicate diseases by means of remedies.

The knowledge of diseases, the knowledge of remedies, and the knowledge of their employment, constitute medicine.

It happens that with the exception of those few diseases that are always the same [tonic], all others are dissimilar [pathic], and innumerable, and so different that each of them occurs scarcely more than once in the world, and each case of disease that presents itself must be regarded (and treated) as an individual malady.

The internal essential nature of every malady, of every individual [versus typical] case of disease, as far as is necessary for us to know it, for the purpose of curing it, expresses itself by the symptoms, as they present themselves to the investigations of the true observer in their whole extent.

When the physician has discovered all the observable symptoms of the disease that exist, he has discovered the disease itself, that is, the individual disease for which no remedy has yet been discovered clinically, he has attained the complete conception of it requisite to enable him to effect a cure.

Regimen is necessary to prevent a relapse where there are predisposing or exciting causes, both of a physical and of a moral nature.