Samuel Hahnemann 
Chronic Diseases [PDF ebook] 
Their Peculiar Nature and Their HomA opathic Cure

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. What would men have risked if they had at once followed my directions in the beginning, and had made use of just these small doses from the first? Could anything worse have happened than that these doses might have proved inefficient? They surely could do no harm! But in their Injudicious, self-willed applica tion of large doses for homoeopathic use they only, in fact only once again, went over that roundabout road so dangerous to their patients in order to reach the truth, which I myself had already successfully passed over, and indeed with trembling, so as to save them this trouble; and if they really desired to heal, they were nevertheless at last compelled to arrive at the only true goal, after having inflicted many an injury and wasted a good part of their fair life. All thisi had already laid before them faithfully and frankly, and had long before given them the reasons.