Thirteenth Lecture

Now, in fact, there is hardly a goiter that iodine cannot cure completely; and that is not all. A new remedy first attacks a person's weak points, but it spreads like cancer, and so iodine has already attacked scrofula and diseases of the uterus, and there is no doubt that it will continue to spread from there. Remedies are like intelligent people: many years can pass before anyone thinks of using them; one hardly knows that they exist; but once they have shown their skill in one thing, one gradually piles so many functions, honors, and dignities upon them, whether they are suitable for them or not, that, because they cannot do everything at once, they now do nothing at all and merely live off their old reputation. The iodine has not yet reached this stage; it must still be vigorous and active before it can retire. Support it in this, and you will have the pleasure of being able to move on to another remedy. However, it is unnecessary to make any special admonitions in this regard, since in recent times it has already become possible to chase a remedy through all diseases until it finally stands exhausted; Moreover, we now have the advantage of achieving results twice as quickly as before, because while a remedy for half of all diseases is prescribed by allopathy, it is always used at the same time by homeopathy for all diseases of directly opposite nature, so that no disease can easily escape it. So we will certainly soon see that some recommend iodine for obesity because it makes people thin, and others for consumption, also because it makes people thin: and since iodine can therefore have two completely opposite effects for this reason, I do not know what in heaven and on earth iodine should not be able to achieve, simply because it makes people thin.