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   Homoeopathic Diet and the Sketch of a Complete Image    
   of the Disease so as to Make Possible its Cure by Homoeopathy.    
      
   Published for the Lay Public.    
      
   Second Augmented Edition, Miinster, 1833.    
   Priedrich Regentberg.    
      
   Preface.    
      
   In answer to a frequently expressed wish, we have in this re-    
   print of the two pamphlets which formerly appeared separately    
   (namely, on Homoeopathic Diet and the sketch of this complete    
   image of the disease) joined the two together, after having made    
   such additions and changes as appeared useful or necessary.    
      
   The continued lack of Homoeopathic physicians, in spite of the    
   continued spread of this curative method, may have been the    
   cause why a large edition of these pamphlets was so soon ex-    
   hausted, and that there is a frequent call for the work. Patients    
   who live at a distance from Homoeopathic physicians have contin-    
   ual need both of the one pamphlet and the other, since the Ho-    
      
      
      
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   moec^thic physicians are so busily occupied that it is absolutely    
   impossibk for tbem to satisfy all the calls for information on    
   these heads by written direction.    
      
   It is of course always best if the physician can see the patient    
   himself, as he will then notice many things which cannot so well    
   be expressed so distinctly and definitely in any report; he will also    
   then be able to confine himself to some few questions which will    
   decide the choice of the remedy that is most suitable. Such a sep.    
   aration of the essential from the non-essential cannot be expected    
   from one who is not a physician, and he must on that account    
   communicate everything at all morbid which he has observed in    
   himself. Nevertheless it is always advisable that the physician,    
   wherever it is at all feasible, should draw up the first sketch of    
   the image of the disease (especially in chronic troubles), after    
   this by the help of this guide the later communications can easily    
   be given with the necessary completeness.    
      
   As to diet, of late a certain indulgence has been granted, which    
   is not always to be approved of, and where there is any doubt, it    
   is surely better to be a little too strict than to be too indulgent, as    
   experience has frequently shown that the injuries caused by in-    
   dulgence are diflScult to repair.    
      
   Miinster, June, 1833.    
      
   C. V. B.    
      
      
      
   General Homoeopathic Diet.    
      
   '' In view of the minimal doses of medicines which are at once    
   so necessary and so useful in Homoeopathic treatment, it may easily    
   be understood that everything in the diet and the order of man's    
   life must be removed which might at all have a medicinal e£Fect,    
   in order that the minimal doses may not be overcome and extin-    
   guished or at least be disturbed.*' — S, Hahnemann's Organon,    
      
   §259.    
      
   It is not the diet which the Homoeopathic physician prescribes    
   which restores the patient's health. Only gross ignorance or the    
   intentional spreading of an untruth can claim that, as opponents    
   of this curative method sometimes do, that it is merely the Ho-    
   moeopathic diet which avails; to which the humiliating answer is    
   frequently given that in such a case the allopaths act in an inde-    
   fensible manner in not imposing an equally strict diet.    
      
      
      
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   270 HOMCBOPATHIC DIET.    
      
   Although it is undeniable that certain diseases (limited in their    
   period) pass over without danger if the proper diet is observed,    
   yet this cannot be called a cure, since its duration is not short-    
   ened in this manner. But these very diseases are the ones which    
   most allopaths keep for themselves, while they are willing to    
   hand over the chronic diseases (/. ^., those diseases which, with-    
   out a healing medicine at most, only change their form, but only    
   come to an end with the last breath of the patient), for they    
   know that the cure in such cases is difficult and can be expected    
   to result not from the diet, but only from an effective medicine.    
      
   The paragraph of the Organon which we have quoted above    
   gives us the only point of view from which the Diet of Homoeo-    
   pathy is to be considered. This ought to bring back man, espe-    
   cially th^sickmdJi, to a natural mode of living and should prevent    
   the disturbance of the action of the medicine prescribed for his    
   cure by other medicinal irritants. On this account there is no    
   prescription as to the quantity of food to be taken, since the    
   wants and the inclination of the patient in this respect supply the    
   correct standard. Only the kind of food to be taken is defined by    
   the physician, and this the more since in the usual mode of living    
   of civilized people the medicinal condiments, with articles of food    
   otherwise harmless, are so customary that we seldom find them    
   pure. And yet it is plain that every article of food ought to be    
   free from medicinal virtue, since this causes variations in his con-    
   dition, and thus must make healthy men more or less ill, even if    
   this should be only transitory.    
      
   Starting from this position. Homoeopaths in their dietetic    
   directions would at first naturally forbid many things which    
   later experience caused ihem to see are less injurious. The long    
   continued use of many medicinal substances in many cases dulls    
   the susceptibility for them, so that the vital force eventually is no    
   more affected thereby. Even more important in this direction is    
   the observation frequently made, that as a rule only such medici- •    
   nal substances act in a disturbing manner, on substances given    
   before as have Homoeopathic relation to it, /. e,, which have the    
   virtue and tendency of producing similar effects on healthy per-    
   sons. On this alone the antidotal virtue rests which a number of    
   medicines show, and by this may be explained how it comes    
   that many an otherwise antidotal substance passes by without caus-    
   ing any disturbance, if it only leaves untouched the present mor-    
   bidly excited parts of the organism on which the medicine is in-    
   tended to act.    
      
      
      
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   Otherwise it has become known by many facts and observa-    
   tions that even the potencies which are at this day carried higher,    
   and which are the especial offence and object of ridicule of in-    
      
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