Local Maladies

Organon Aphorism §199

If the remedy perfectly homoeopathic to the disease had not yet been discovered at the time when the local symptoms were destroyed by a corrosive or desiccative external remedy or by the knife, then the case becomes much more difficult on account of the too indefinite (uncharacteristic) and inconstant appearance of the remaining symptoms; for what might have contributed most to determine the selection of the most suitable remedy, and its internal employment until the disease should have been completely annihilated, namely, the external principal symptom, has been removed from our observation.

Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th edition (Boericke translation, public domain).

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