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for us the kingdom of grief. The like is attainable with regard to 

 the bodily train that accompanies every other passion, and in each 

 case the head sign will run through the entire phenomena that be- 

 long to it. This is what we mean by the pathogenesy of the inner 

 man.* 



Now apply this to the action of drugs, and observe that it de- 

 mands two conditions, only one of which is at present fulfilled. For 

 not only are all the symptoms to be recorded and grouped in their 

 places round the organs, but a head symptom must be found which 

 is their common denominator; a principal fact from which the re- 

 mainder flow. When this is done, you will have in your mind a 

 portrait of the drug, as the painter has with him an instinctive 

 limning of the faces of the intellects and passions ; and you will 

 then become acquainted with your pharmacy, be enabled to divine 

 symptoms by insight without cumbersome catalogues of them im- 

 possible to remember, and to apply them with something like genius 

 to the moving facts of each case as it arises. Until this be accom- 

 plished the heart of our drugs is unrevealed to us. First, however, 

 we repeat, it will be better to begin with the study of the healthy 

 body and mind, and with the effects of healthy agents, not only 

 because this is the preesuppositiim of a knowledge of diseased mani- 

 festations, but because the mind's actions are so much more intelli- 

 gible than those of drugs, and the easiest lesson should be learned 

 first. Afterwards, when we have accustomed ourselves to the new 

 mode of working, we may approach the drug problems with a little 

 more chance of success. 



By this means we hope to see that difficulty of practice which is 

 the chief opprobrium of homoeopathy removed, and the handles of 

 the instruments of cure placed in the hands of medical men. This 

 is the more imperative upon us, because our morbid states of mind 

 have the effects of true poisons upon the body, and must be regarded 

 as spiritual drugs, each having a pathological history of its own. 

 Can we doubt, for example, if ignalia or any other medicament be 



=# Perhaps our meaning will be best explained, if we say that we desiderate 

 a new Jahr to give the symptoms of health instead of those of disease ; in other 

 words, a pathogenetic psychology and physiology, which shall stand to homoeo- 

 pathy, as the existing chaotic physiology stands to the old system of medicine. 



