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Updated: June 8, 2025
The doctor's theory, that every disease can be cured by the use of the appropriate poison, suggests the aconite and belladonna of the homeopathists and their motto, similia similibus curantur.
"What's the matter, my lad?" said the Doctor. "Mother wants you to come right over to our house. Father's tumbled off the hay-cart; and when they got him up he didn't know nothing; but they gin him some rum, and that kinder brought him to." "No doubt, no doubt," said the Doctor, rising to go. "Similia similibus curantur. Nothing like hair of the dog that bites you."
"Remember the mill the Dutchman had?... Ground salt, and nothing but salt ... Ours won't grind anything but mortgages ... Well, the hair of the dog must cure the bite ... Fight fire with fire ... Similia similibus curantur ... We can't trade horses, nor methods, in the middle of the ford.... The mill has got to go on grinding mortgages until we're carried over; and Hinckley and the Grain Belt Trust must float 'em.
But so many limitations were necessary to justify this new rule, that it would have been better, in my opinion, to enounce it at the outset with a reservation, by saying, Si similibus similia addas similiter, tota sunt similia. Moreover, geometricians often require non tantum similia, sed et similiter posita. This difference between quantity and quality appears also in our case.
"'A hair of the dog that bit him. The 'Thumbograph' is to be applied as a remedy on the principle that similia similibus curantur. Well?" "When I arrested him, I administered the usual caution, and the prisoner then said, 'I am innocent. I know nothing about the robbery." The counsel for the prosecution sat down, and Anstey rose to cross-examine.
It would not be surprising if its whole ground should be taken possession of by these new claimants with their flattering appeals to the imaginative class of persons open to such attacks. Similia similabus may prove fatally true for once, if Homoeopathy is killed out by its new-born rivals.
In rebus tam antiquis si quae similia veri sint pro veris accipiantur is the easy canon which he lays down for early and uncertain events. Even when original documents of great value were extant, he refrains from citing them if they do not satisfy his taste. During the second Punic war a hymn to Juno had been written by Livius Andronicus for a propitiatory festival.
Anything more or less than this is unscientific, and a contrariety to one of God's most beautiful and universal laws 'Similia similibus curanter, 'Like cures like. That is to say, arsenic is the remedy for your wife, because, when taken in material doses, it always produces symptoms identical with those manifested in her case. Hence I meet them with immaterial doses of that drug.
The others had recourse to whiskey, the Klondike, politics, and that similia similibus cure. But, say Hamp, Edith Carr was just about the finest woman in the world high-toned and proud and noble, and playing her ideals to win at all kinds of odds. She certainly was a crackerjack." "After I renounced the world," said the hermit, "I never heard of her again." "She married me," said Binkley.
Similia Similibus Curantur Hahneman does not hold true, since, with them, like cures not like, but only aggravates like. Though, on the other hand, so incurable are the moral maladies of such persons, that the antagonist maxim, contraria contrariis curantar, often proves equally false.
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