Memory Tips for Mental Symptoms Hi Friends Let’s memorize guiding symptoms of Argentum Nitricum through name of Medicine ‘ARGENTUM’. ARGENTUMA Apprehension and anxiety There is a great apprehension which Master Kent in his voluminous Repertory kept in the sub rubric: anxiety, anticipating an engagement (Arg. N 1, Gels 3, Medo 3). Anxiety and apprehension when…
Memory Tips for Guiding Symptoms Hi Friends Let’s memorize guiding symptoms of Apis Mellifica through name of Medicine ‘Apis Melifica’. APISMELA Ailments from : Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad-news. grief (Ref. Clarke). Bad effects of acute exanthema –imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.), from measles, scarlatina, urticaria, etc. [1] P Pains : Dr. E.…
Aphorism 99 § 99 On the whole, the investigation of acute diseases, or of such as have existed but a short time, is much the easiest for the physician, because all the phenomena and deviations from the health that has been put recently lost are still fresh in the memory of the patient and his…
Aphorism 98 § 98 Now, as certainly as we should listen particularly to the patient’s description of his sufferings and sensations, and attach credence especially to his own expressions wherewith he endeavors to make us understand his ailments – because in the mouths of his friends and attendants they are usually altered and erroneously stated,…
Aphorism 97 § 97 Other individuals of an opposite character, however, partly from indolence, partly from false modesty, partly from a kind of mildness of disposition or weakness of mind, refrain from mentioning a number of their symptoms, describe them in vague terms, or allege some of them to be of no consequence.
Aphorism 96 § 96 Besides this, patients themselves differ so much in their dispositions, that some, especially the so-called hypochondriacs and other persons of great sensitiveness and impatient of suffering, portray their symptoms in too vivid colors and, in order to induce the physician to give them relief, describe their ailments in exaggerated expression.1 1…
Aphorism 95 § 95 In chronic disease the investigation of the signs of disease above mentioned, and of all others, must be pursued as carefully and circumstantially as possible, and the most minute peculiarities must be attended to, partly because in these diseases they are the most characteristic and least resemble those of acute diseases,…
Aphorism 94 § 94 While inquiring into the state of chronic disease, the particular circumstances of the patient with regard to his ordinary occupations, his usual mode of living and diet, his domestic situation, and so forth, must be well considered and scrutinized, to ascertain what there is in them that may tend to produce…
Aphorism 93 § 93 If the disease has been brought on a short time or, in the case of a chronic affection, a considerable time previously, by some obvious cause, then the patient – or his friends when questioned privately – will mention it either spontaneously or when carefully interrogated.1 1 Any causes of a…
Aphorism 92 § 92 But if it be a disease of a rapid course, and if its serious character admit of no delay, the physician must content himself with observing the morbid condition, altered though it may be by medicines, if he cannot ascertain what symptoms were present before the employment of the medicines, –…