The third proposition in this paragraph is that medicines will not act curatively, or in a way to turn the body into order and turn off disease, unless potentized to correspond to the degrees in which the man is sick. Such as are sick in a middle plane are sick from that plane to the outermost. Such as are sick in the interior planes are sick throughout to the outermost. Stich is the order of psora, syphilis and sycosis. The nutritive plane is entirely in the outermost, that is, in the tissues.
Assimilation goes on in the tissues.
And hence necessarily man cannot be cured except by drugs attenuated until they have become similar to the nature or quality of disease cause. We can arrive at similar causes by studying the effects that are similar. When we examine into a case and find a certain group of symptoms and in the effects produced by a certain drug we see like symptoms, we have a right to presume that the quality or nature in both is similar. The causes must be similar if the effects are similar in nature and quality. He must pass judgment upon the symptoms, he must be an artist in application and capable of discerning the finer shades of difference and similitude.