The physician looks at the internal environment, the milieu, or bio-terrain as it is now called, through the microscope and with other means. The endobiont is coaxed into changing into a lower valency, the chondrit form. This is the essence of isopathic therapy. If you have been able to follow this essay, you will have come to realize that the term symbiosis is central to the discussion. Symbiosis is the cooperative joint living of two organisms for their mutual benefit in a form which is dependent on this interaction.
Lichens are the most familiar example.
Here, symbiosis exists between free-living bacteria and free fungal forms which in the lichen itself acquire a morphological form and exist in certain circumstances, such as adhering to rocks or tree bark, in a form which is quite different from the existence of each of the contributory organisms on their own. Before revealing this horrible secret, please be warned, dear reader, that the discoverer of the endobiont , an eminent German zoologist, has been maligned, his name virtually effaced from science for the very reason that he made this discovery. It is not a compliment to our ego. Contrary to what you might think or hope, science is not driven entirely by cold and indifferent logic. We have seen that revolutionary ideas have been subjected to long periods of suppression 7 .