Jahr's New manual of homoeopathic practice (Volume 2).

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1841-1842
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    will be found sufficient to enable the practitioner finally to select two or three medicaments for detailed examination. Having established a Record of symptoms froni an exami- nation of the patient, the practitioner should directly look to the Cli?iical Remarks to ascertain whether the Cause of the malady in ay be Cold, Loss of fluids, &c., or whether the KIND of Affection may be Rheumatism, Intermittent Fever, or Typhoid, Syphilis, Ring-worm, Sec, and then, by a careful survey of the registered medicaments, he can rea- dily select those which best accord with the affection he desires to treat. Having distinguished, in this manner, two or three medicines which appear to merit a preference, he can next have a recourse to the Text io ascertain which medicament entirely corresponds with the totality of symp- toms. Thence, in very marked acute cases, he will most frequently and readily reach the most suitable medica- ment. In chronic diseases, and in Jlffections, of which the seat and kind are doubtful, the subject, it is true, is ordinarily more complicated ; and frequently cases will be present- ed where the Clinical Remarks do not afford sufficient in- dications to distinguish, at once, a small number of medi- caments for consultation, according to the mode of having recourse to the symptoms of the Repertorj^ To abridge the researches as much as possible, in this instance, the practitioner should take only two or three salient points in the table of symptoms, such, for example, as the Cause which engenders the malady, the salient pathognomonic symptom, the extraordinary co?iditio?i under which the symp- toms are aggravated or ameliorated, or, finally, the charac- teristic co7icomitant symptom. By investigating the medi- caments which correspond to each one of these three points, we shall soon reach, in the majority of cases, a sufficiently limited number to carry out our ulterior re- searches in the Text. The difficulty does not always consist in finding what we seek : the essential point is to find what we ought to seek; and this has always proved a stumbling block to be- ginners. Nothing, in fact, can be more difficult than es- tablishing a perfect correspondence between the symp- toms of the patient and those of the medicament. It is generally said that the characteristic symptoms ought to accord ; but what are the characteristic symptoms % What are the essential points to which we should direct our at- tention % Is it the cause which produces the malady % Are they the pathognomonic symptoms 1 The organ wound-