We must look elsewhere to find that kind of healing which turns disorder into order and makes man free. Only the vital principle thus disturbed can give to the organism its abnormal sensations and incline it to the irregular actions we call disease. This is totally different from calling the results of disease the disease, e.g., calling Bright's disease, cancer, or palsy, diseases. Most of the conditions of the human economy that are called diseases in the books are not diseases, but the results of disease. To call a group of symptoms a disease of one part, and another group of symptoms a disease of another part is a great heresy and leads to errors in prescribing that can never be corrected.
Organic change is the result of disease.
We would have no means of perceiving the morbid disturbance of the invisible principle except by morbid sensations, and if these were not present we would have no means of putting the patient in freedom. There are patients so sick that they cannot be put in freedom, those for whom there are no means of cure, and in these, while the internaI structural changes are going on slowly, the morbid symptoms are not present. Such patients continually change doctors and change climates, recognizing, as it were, that no one is capable of relieving them. This is particularly true of the malignant forms of disease results. But those are the symptoms that would manifest to the physician the nature of the remedy, for they give to him the real image of the sickness.