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+====== THE FORMULA OF HOMOEOPATHY======
+{{anchor:s2}}(From <span grade2>The London Monthly Homoeopathic Review,</span> February, 1862.)
+{{anchor:s3}}To think is to <span grade2>thing;</span> a thought is a thing; words are the exponent of the thoughts of speech, articulate man. {{anchor:s4}}Those who do not know the value of words can have but a very imperfect notion of things. {{anchor:s5}}The men, not thinkers, are governed by the words of those who do think; and in most of the quarrels about matters dogmatically treated, the differences result from the misapprehensions of the meaning of words.
+{{anchor:s6}}A dispute about a dipthong once caused disastrous wars and still influences Theology. *
+{{anchor:s7}}* * *
+{{anchor:s8}}Some grand truths are instinctively held, or perceived intuitively as it were; other loom on the mind gradually and are brought nearer and nearer, as the peak of Teneriffe first looks like a cloud as big as a hand, then gradually grows as the voyager approaches.
+{{anchor:s9}}"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"
+{{anchor:s10}}and there is no beauty like that of naked truth, stript of all fig leaves and pigment, simple, sincere, severe in Godlike purity and majesty.
+{{anchor:s11}}We, Homoeopathists, hold that our law <span grade2>Similia Similibus Curentur</span> is such a truth. {{anchor:s12}}The nearer you approach it, the more beautiful it is; touch it, grasp it, cherish it. {{anchor:s13}}The mistakes about things from mistakes about the words used to signify those things has been adverted to. {{anchor:s14}}The very law of Homoeopathy has been subjected to false and vicious interpretations by substituting one letter, one vowel for another, <span grade2>a</span> for <span grade2>e.</span> {{anchor:s15}}Hahnemann was a good though, in the critical sense, not a profound scholar. {{anchor:s16}}The old <span grade2>hero</span> knew very well the value of the words he employed. {{anchor:s17}}He was incapable of the ridiculous solecism, of the <span grade2>ignorance</span> which is perpetuated on the title page of <span grade2>The British Journal of Homoeopathy.</span> {{anchor:s18}}His expression for this law of drug-healing was and is <span grade2>Similia Similibus Curentur</span> not <span grade2>Curantur.</span>
+{{anchor:s19}}His best beloved friend and his reverend pupil the late Rev. T. R. Everest, told us how much Hahnemann was annoyed at the employment of the word <span grade2>Curantur.</span>
+{{anchor:s20}}In the medical sense the Latin verb <span grade2>curo</span> means to take care of, to treat, to <span grade2>doctor.</span> {{anchor:s21}}Hahnemann was too much of a philosopher to arrogate the cure; he proposed the <span grade2>treatment.</span>
+{{anchor:s22}}"<span grade2>Let likes he treated by likes,</span>" that is the formula or expression he adopted for the law of drug-healing. {{anchor:s23}}In that formula he expresses one of Nature's laws of healing — that is a law of God; the expression foisted on him is an impertinence. {{anchor:s24}}Let this formula be adopted,
+{{anchor:s25}}Similia Similibus Curentur.
+{{anchor:s26}}%%___________%%
+{{anchor:s27}}In the second edition of <span grade2>The Organon,</span> in Dresden, 1819, the formula is given Similia similibus curentur — Introd., p. 29. {{anchor:s28}}In the British translation of the fourth German edition of <span grade2>The Organon,</span> and which was reprinted in New York, 1843, with a preface by Dr. Hering, the same reading is given.
+{{anchor:s29}}In <span grade2>The British Journal of Homoeopathy</span>, Vol. I, Introd., and subsequently it is written similia similibus curantur.
+{{anchor:s30}}In <span grade2>The Homoeopathic Examiner,</span> Vol. I, p. 25, it is given by Dr. Hull, similia similibus curantur. {{anchor:s31}}Dunham.
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+====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
+^ Source: | The American Homoeopathic Review Vol. 03 No. 02, 1862, pages 86-87 |
+^ Description: | The Formula of Homoeopathy. |
+^ Author: | Lmonhomeo |
+^ Year: | 1862 |
+^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
+^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |

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