Organon of Medicine

§ 17 Sixth Edition:

Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the perceptible signs and symptoms of the disease the internal alteration of the vital principle to which the disease is due – consequently the whole of the disease – is at the same time removed,1 it follows that the physician has only to remove the whole of the symptoms in order, at the same time, to abrogate and annihilate the internal change, that is to say, the morbid derangement of the vital force – consequently the totality of the disease, the disease itself.2 But when the disease is annihilated the health is restored, and this is the highest, the sole aim of the physician who knows the true object of his mission, which consists not in learned – sounding prating, but in giving aid to the sick.

Foot Note 1:
A warning dream, a superstitious fancy, or a solemn prediction that death would occur at a certain day or at a certain hour, has not unfrequently produced all the signs of commencing and increasing disease, of approaching death and death itself at the hour announced, which could not happen without the simultaneous production of the inward change (corresponding to the state observed internally); and hence in such cases all the morbid signs indicative of approaching death have frequently been dissipated by an identical cause, by some cunning deception or persuasion to a belief in the contrary, and health suddenly restored, which could not have happened without the removal, by means of this mortal remedy, of the internal and external morbid change that threatened death.

Foot Note 2:
It is only thus that God the preserver of mankind, could reveal His wisdom and goodness in reference to the cure of the disease to which man is liable here below, by showing to the physician what he had to remove in disease in order to annihilate them and thus re-establish health. But what would we think of His wisdom and goodness if He has shrouded in mysterious obscurity that which was to be cured in diseases (as is asserted by the dominant school of medicine, which affects to possess a supernatural insight into the nature of things), and shut it up in the hidden interior, and thus rendered it impossible for man to know the malady accurately, consequently impossible for him to cure it?

Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain the Importance of Totality of the Symptoms for prescription point of view. It is the Nature, which brings out the symptoms to show the disturbed internal derangement i.e. actual disease through which we understand the person is diseased & he needs your help. If we remove this totality of symptoms on toto, we achieve the Cure & bring back the Health of a Diseased Individual. It is so simple.
But the old practitioners instead of using this simple method& giving an aid to the Sick, tries to discuss on finding out the material cause of the disease or some pathological change in the body. Actually, it is impossible to find out the Dynamic Cause of the disease for which they waste their time & talent against which He criticized in this aphorism.
Foot Note 1:
In order to explain the Dynamic Cause of the Disease, he has given an beautiful example of the dream as the cause of disorder. A person getting a warning dream about his death might get all the signs & symptoms approaching the death. Here nothing material enters the body still he suffers. This is his question that where is that material cause of the disease which they are finding inside the human beings? So, this state of this diseased individual cannot be removed by any material medicine but only by dynamic entity. Anything which used to produce similar features either by cheating the patient & producing in him a frightened state by telling him something frightening will remove the whole diseased state in total or by giving him a dynamic Homoeopathic Medicine but not by any Material Medicine.
Foot Note 2:
As already mentioned in the explanation of this aphorism, the Nature or the God or the Preserver of Health i.e. Vital Principle, tries to throw away a disease on the exterior of the Human Being in order to save the internal vital organs. It is our duty to understand this language of the disease & need for help of the Vital Principle to get the right Similimum to get an Ideal Cure. But the old practitioners to find out cause of the disorder inside in the form of some material or in the form of some pathology & tries to remove the unknown cause by means of the hazardous measures as using Emetics, Purgatives, Blood Letting etc. Because of those measures, the vitality of the diseased person gets weak due to loss of Vital Juices & naturally the symptoms on the exterior diminishes & becomes vague without getting cured the internal disease (which they considers as cure). Due to which, a disease which was easy to cure on the basis of Symptom Similarity, now becomes difficult because of lack of symptoms. The Curable Disease can become Incurable due to this method.
What Dr Samuel Hahnemann have explained 200 years back is applicable even today. Only the methods are different in Allopathy. Now they are using Immuno-suppressive drugs or Antipathic drugs in their management to remove the symptoms without removing the internal dynamic cause & disease & making the disorders more incurable.