Distinction Between Symptoms and Results of Disease

<p>Distinction between symptoms and results of disease</p><p>It is clear that Hahnemann wishes to teach that it is a disorder of the activities of the internal man, a lack of harmony or lack of balance, which gives forth the signs and symptoms by which we recognize disease.</p><p>This immaterial vital principle, this simple substance, everywhere pervades the organism, and in disease this disorder everywhere pervades the organism, it pervades every cell and every portion of the human economy.</p><p>We will see in course of time that the change in form of a cell is the result first of disorder, that the derangement of the <br>immaterial vital principle<br> is the very <br>beginning of the disorder<br>, and that with this beginning there are <br>changes in sensation<br> by which man may know this beginning, <br>which occurs long before there is any visible change in the material substance of the body<br>.</p><p>The patient himself can feel by his sensations the changes.</p><p>So it is when there is the inflowing of a simple substance that has the form or essence of a disease. It is in its essence an evil that is flowing into the economy, but it is a simple substance.</p><p>By removing the signs and symptoms in an orderly way, by converting disorder into order so that the symptoms no longer have a cause (for as we have already seen when the economy is turned into order it ceases to give forth symptoms), we place our patients in freedom, both physical and mental.</p><p>This is totally different from calling the results of disease the disease, e.g., calling Bright&#x27;s disease, cancer, or palsy, diseases.</p><p>Most of the conditions of the human economy that are called diseases in the books are not diseases, but the results of disease.</p><p>Organic change is the result of disease.</p><p>Morbid disturbances can be perceived solely by means of the expression of disease in the sensations and actions !</p><p>There are patients so sick that they cannot be put in freedom, those for whom there are no means of cure, and in these, <br>while the internaI structural changes are going on slowly, the morbid symptoms are not present.</p><p>Such patients continually change doctors and change climates, recognizing, as it were, that no one is capable of relieving them.</p><p>the physician who is not capable of seeing that this is different from the group of pathological symptoms that represent the so-called fixed diseases, if he cannot make a distinction between the symptoms that represent the disease per se and the symptoms that represent the result of disease, he will never practice Homoeopathy successfully.</p><p>If he cannot understand it he had better work at it until he does understand it ; he must continue to labour until he can discriminate between the organic symptoms associated with the results of disease and the pure signs given forth by nature.</p><p>To think of remedies for cancer is confusion, but to think of remedies for the patient who appears to have cancer is orderly, and you will be astonished to know what wonderful changes will take place in these conditions when remedies that correspond to the conditions before the cancer began are administered.</p><p>Cancer is the result of disorder, which disorder must be turned in order and must be healed.</p><p>The patient tells the physician his sensations, of the numbness of his fingers, of the pricking in his skin, of the pain in his stomach, etc., all the sensations of any part of which he is reminded.</p><p>The healthy man is not reminded of his parts.</p><p>He passes his stool without pain in the part.</p><p>If he have pain or bleeding he is reminded of this part.</p><p>If he passes his urine without sensation we say it is normal and he is in freedom, but if burning and smarting and tenesmus follow he is reminded of it, and these sensations constitute symptoms.</p><p>If the patient is waxy and pallid, has papules and pustules, or swollen and varicose veins with red face, red eyes, etc., these the physician can see and note down.</p><p>Again there are things that the physician cannot see and that the patient cannot tell, that the mother, sister, husband or wife should relate to the physician at his office.</p><p>The physician must learn the changes all along the line, from beginning to end ; what symptoms represented this sick man ten years ago, and what symptoms represent him now.</p><p>The symptoms do not lie, they do not exist from opinions of men who have thumped and pounded over the human body to find out what is going on inside, which is in many instances confusing even to the best diagnosticians.</p><p>The physician should be conversant with anatomy and physiology, but by studying the symptomatology he acquires a knowledge of physiology which it is impossible to obtain in any other way ; he acquires a knowledge of the functions and operations of arteries, nerves and muscles because they call attention to themselves when in disturbance, and he sees therefore how the symptoms manifest themselves.</p><p>By studying the symptom in the recorded pathogenesis one may learn much about true pathology.</p><p>Source book…</p><p>LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY..</p><p>BY</p><p>Dr. J.T. KENT…</p>