The malarial state is now brought into observation for the purpose of cure. It cannot be cured when complicated, for the remedy cannot be clear that will be similar enough to wipe them out. The first prescription antidotes the drug and liberates the patient from the drug disease, and then you see the most acute or last appearing natural disease which comes back first. This is in accordance with fixed law, the last miasm or the last symptoms that have been made to disappear will be the first to return and go away to appear no more. The more violent the drug disease that can be established upon the body the greater the changes in the chronic disease.
Violent treatment alters the nature of the chronic diseases.
Quinine is capable of engrafting upon the economy its own disease form which will last for years and may not stop until it has been antidoted by a medicine similar to its symptoms. That story is so common that any homoeopathic physician who has been doing sound prescribing for years has lots of records of just such cases. The malaria was subdued only because the quinine was capable of producing a more violent disease than malaria. In some cases we have a complexity of horrible things, like one built upon another, and when this is so, in treating them the last group which was removed will appear first, which shows that the remedy has done its work, and we then go on to the next, and so on, the different groups sometimes appeared one after another in distant form. They must disappear in the reverse order of their coming, as if put on in layers, one piled upon another.