It is the morbidly affected vital force alone that produces disease, 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
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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