Excerpt from The Chronic Diseases: Their Specific Nature and Homeopathic Treatment It is evidenf that the animal organism is not the type or natu ral order of existence of those subversive forces. Hence there is no bond of union between these forces and the organism, and it must be possible to separate them. As the invasion of the organism by those forces and their attempts at adapting the or ganism to themselves constitute disease, so does the separation of those forces from the organism constitute the cure of that disease.