To cure any condition we must base the prescription on the totality of the signs and symptoms and not on the pathology. The cancer is the ultimate. The symptoms from the first are the outward image of the patient. If they have been suppressed or changed by drugs that are not homoeopathic, there is nothing left for the homoeopath to do and the surgeon can do no better. Palliation and prolonging life are not curing.
All curable diseases make themselves known to the intelligent physician in signs and symptoms.
Pathological conditions, as also the patient, are incurable when there are no signs and symptoms, and so long as there are no signs and symptoms these remain incurable . In proportion as the pathology progresses the signs and symptoms decrease. This is marked in cancer, in tuberculosis, in diabetes, in Bright's disease, and in all of the organic conditions of the body. Phosphorus was given in high potency, as I had not then learned better, and there followed a high fever, involuntary diarrhoea, and sinking. It was apparent that this patient would soon die, but Arsenicum antidoted the over-action of Phosphorus and the patient lived several months.