Part of e-education in homoeopathy:e-book:aphorism no 7

Now, as in a disease,from which no manifest exciting or maintaining cause( causa occasionalis) has to be removed,we can precieve nothing but the morbid symptoms,it must (regard being had to the possibility of a miasm, and attention paid to the accessory circumstances, $5) be the symptoms alone by which the disease demands and points to the remedy suited to relieve it-and moreover,the totality of these its symptoms,of this outwardly reflected picture of the internal essence of the disease,that is , of the affection of the vital,must be the principle,or the sole means,whereby the disease can make known what remedy it requires-the only thing that acan determine the choice of the most appropriate remedy-and thus,in a word,the totality of the symptoms must be the principle indeed the only thing the physician has to take note of in every case of the disease and to remove by means of his art in order that the disease shall be cured and transformed into health.

Part of e-education in homoeopathy:e-book:aphorism no 6

The unprejudiced observer-well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience-be his powers of penetration ever so great,takes note of nothing in every individual disease,except the changes in the health of the body and of the mind(morbid phenomena,accidents,symptoms) which can be percieved externally by means of the senses;that is to say,he notices only the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual,which are felt by the patient himself,remarked by those around him and observed by the physician.All these perceptible signs represent the disease in its whole extent,that is,together they form the true and only concievable portrait of the disease.