1) The physician's highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy, to cure, as it is called.
The primary purpose and focus of the physician shall be to make the sick healthy. The focus shall not be in studying the disease, or the symptoms, or to catalog knowledge so much as it is to apply what is known to aid the ill person. Personal gain nor reputation of the physician is of primary importance.
2)The highest ideal of the cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable [in-seeable] principles.
The ideal cure is one which restores health permanently, by means which have the least negative impact on the client. The goal is to provide rapid and gentle relief using sound data and principles to find the quickest and most reliable cure.
3) To be a genuine practitioner of the medical art, a physician must:
1. clearly realize what is to be cured in diseases, that is, in each single case of disease (discernment of the disease, indicator),
2. clearly realize what is curative in medicines, that is, in each particular medicine (knowledge of medicinal powers),
3. be aware of how to adapt what is curative in medicines to what he has discerned to be undoubtedly diseased in the patient, according to clear principles.
In this way, recovery must result.
To be a genuine practitioner of the art of medicine, a true physician must clearly see that which needs to be cured in each case of disease. They must understand the qualities and curative properties of each particular medicine. They must also be able to combine their understanding of the disease of the patient with their knowledge of medicines according to clear principles. In this way, recovery must result.
Adapting what is curative in medicines to what is diseased in patients requires that the physician be able to:
1. adapt the most appropriate medicine, according to its mode of action, to the case before him (selection of the remedy, that which is indicated),
2. prepare the medicine exactly as required,
3. give the medicine in the exact amount required (the right dose),
4. properly time the repetition of doses.
Finally, the physician must know the obstacles to recovery in each case, and be aware of how to clear them away so that the restoration of health may be permanent.
[If the physician has this insight, discernment, knowledge and awareness] then he understands how to act expediently and thoroughly and he is a genuine practitioner of the medical art.
Correlating that which is curative in medicines to what is diseased in patients requires that the physician must be able to select the most appropriate remedy for the case at hand. The physician must be able to prepare the medicine exactly as required and give the correct dose. They must also time the repetition of doses correctly.
It is crucial that the physician understands which obstacles may prevent recovery in each case, and to be aware of how to overcome them in order to permanently restore health to the patient. This insight, discernment, knowledge and awareness brings understanding of how to act expediently and thoroughly and is an indicator of a genuine practitioner of the art.
4) He is likewise a sustainer of health if he knows the things that disturb health, that engender and maintain disease, and is aware of how to remove them from healthy people.
A physician is also an advocate of sustaining health. The knowledge of that which threatens good health, or which perpetuate or exacerbate disease should be combined with the knowledge of how to remove them from healthy people.
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