ولو كان هذا صحيحًا في جميع الحالات، لثبت المبدأ القائل إن الأحوال قد تُعالَج أحيانًا بأضدادها مما نشأت عنه، وقد تُعالَج أحيانًا بأشباهها مما نشأت عنه.

“And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.”Hippocrates