Dear members
Lot said and a lot to be said.
Back to the question what is disease, or as Hahnemann puts it: What is to be cured in disease. –
Here the par.: 71 lines out:
As it is no longer a matter of doubt that the diseases of mankind consist merely of groups of certain symptoms, and may be annihilated and transformed into health by medical substances, but only by such, as are capable of artificially producing similar morbid symptoms –and such is the process of all natural cures--, hence the operation of curing is comprised in the following three following points:
n How is the physician to ascertain what is necessary to be known in order to cure the disease?
n How is he to gain a knowledge of the instruments adapted for the cure of the natural disease, the pathogenetic powers of the medicines.
n What is the most suitable method of employing these artificial morbific agents –medicines- for the cure of natural disease?

Noticeable is, that Hahnemann does not cure the person, No, he cures the disease, and this means, that for Hahnemann disease and person are not identical.
If they were identical treatment would be impossible, as every symptom of the person would be taken into account, normal ones and disease-symptoms as well.
And here is it where the most of the homeopaths fail; by mistaking every expression as a symptom and every symptom –past or present--, as a disease-symptom and every disease-symptom equally important for the selection of the now curative remedy.
Likewise it is the alteration in the mental state compared to the former healthy state, which forms an indication, but NOT if the state of mind did not change with the onset of the disease.

David presents a list of utterances he heard after he gave the ‘’similimum’’
I would call them independent improventsigns as referred to in the organon when applying a remedy similar enough the bring the cure forward. It is not necessarily the ‘’similimum’’ for the case and in my observation, particularity in chronic miasmatic cases, there is no similimum and it takes a few remedies in succession to bring the cure forward.

And finally here is one for Opium or whoever this person might be:
How do you know, after a remedy is given, that the symptom, which has disappeared under its action, was cured? It could just as well be only suppressed, or what is the case in acute disease, have disappeared on its own accord.

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath