The sole aim of the physician (Homeopath) is to cure the patient rapidly,
gently, and permanently. To achieve this aim he must find out what is curable in
the disease and what is curative in medicine. In a healthy man, the vital force
keeps the entire organism in harmonious order. In a diseased man, this vital
force is deranged and this derangement expresses itself by abnormal sensations
and functions of the organism. These sensations, or disease signs, are called
disease symptoms. For the physician, the disease means the totality of its
symptoms. He needs only to take away this totality of symptoms to take away the
entire