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 {{anchor:​s126}}77. A High Potency is an infinitesimal quantity of such a remedy — <span grade2>​Simile Contrarium Minimum.</​span>​ {{anchor:​s126}}77. A High Potency is an infinitesimal quantity of such a remedy — <span grade2>​Simile Contrarium Minimum.</​span>​
  
-{{anchor:​s127}}78 In the views here taken, it appears that the formula, <span grade2>​contraria contrariit,</​span>​ as applied to curative action, is the converse of and tantamount to our for mala, <span grade2>​similia similibus,</​span>​ and this is as much as was observed by Hering as early as 1826, and by Goeschel in 1832, and recently acknowledged by Von Grauvogl and Politini. {{anchor:​s128}}Either formula is much like a proverb which, somebody remarked, is a short sentence, grammatically saying one thing and essentially meaning another. {{anchor:​s129}}But both formula combined would avoid the ambiguity and make the formula more complete: — <span grade2>​Contraria Similia Similibus Contrariis Curantur.</​span>​+{{anchor:​s127}}78 In the views here taken, it appears that the formula, <span grade2>​contraria contrariit,</​span>​ as applied to curative action, is the converse of and tantamount to our formula, <span grade2>​similia similibus,</​span>​ and this is as much as was observed by Hering as early as 1826, and by Goeschel in 1832, and recently acknowledged by Von Grauvogl and Politini. {{anchor:​s128}}Either formula is much like a proverb which, somebody remarked, is a short sentence, grammatically saying one thing and essentially meaning another. {{anchor:​s129}}But both formula combined would avoid the ambiguity and make the formula more complete: — <span grade2>​Contraria Similia Similibus Contrariis Curantur.</​span>​
  
 {{anchor:​s130}}79. This equipollency of both formulas of medical treatment was indeed known, to and appreciated by Hippocrates,​ in whose book <span grade2>​de locis in homine,</​span>​ both methods, that per similia as well as that per contraria, are laid down as being proper treatment, as both being "​contrary"​ modes; and where it is stated by him, that "<​span grade2>​the most contraries are not the most contraries,</​span>"​ and that "<​span grade2>​as any body's nature is changed and perverted, complaints are produced and cured by contraries</​span>​ "and it is emphatically added that "<​span grade2>​thus by both contrary modes health is restored, and if it was the same in all cases, the matter would be understood and thus these would be remedied by the contraries whatever they are, and by whatever they are produced, but these by similars, whatever they are, and by whatever they are produced</​span>"​ {{anchor:​s130}}79. This equipollency of both formulas of medical treatment was indeed known, to and appreciated by Hippocrates,​ in whose book <span grade2>​de locis in homine,</​span>​ both methods, that per similia as well as that per contraria, are laid down as being proper treatment, as both being "​contrary"​ modes; and where it is stated by him, that "<​span grade2>​the most contraries are not the most contraries,</​span>"​ and that "<​span grade2>​as any body's nature is changed and perverted, complaints are produced and cured by contraries</​span>​ "and it is emphatically added that "<​span grade2>​thus by both contrary modes health is restored, and if it was the same in all cases, the matter would be understood and thus these would be remedied by the contraries whatever they are, and by whatever they are produced, but these by similars, whatever they are, and by whatever they are produced</​span>"​
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