Now, in order to act really in conformity with nature the true physician will prescribe his well selected homoeopathic medicine only in exactly as small a dose as will just suffice to overpower and annihilate the disease before him in a dose of such minuteness, that if human fallibility should betray him into administering an inappropriate medicine the injury accruing from its nature being unsuited to the disease will be diminished to a mere trifle; moreover the harm done by the smallest possible dose is so slight, that it may be immediately extinguished and repaired by the natural vital powers, and by the speedy administration of a remedy more suitably selected according to similarity of action, and given also in the smallest dose.(a).
Library · Organon of Medicine (5th & 6th Edition)
Aphorism 283
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