What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription
Section 37 — Conclusion
James Tyler Kent · What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription · 12 passages
To mention all diseases, or all phases of disease, would make this pamphlet too long and confuse the patient.
From what has been written the patient will see what is necessary to be given, and that all symptoms, whether great or small, are important.
Nothing has been said of nervousness or weakness, though so common, but the patient will readily see that he is to give the cause of the nervousness or weakness, the condition, the time, the extent, what seems to relieve or aggravate and whether present all the time or only at stated times. So with every other condition or symptom.
This may seem to be useless to those who are accustomed to the practice of physicians who prefer to guess rather than to get at the bottom of the trouble.
The old way may relieve the trouble for a little while ; this complete and careful way is the only one by which diseases, especially chronic diseases, can be permanently cured.
If the patient desires the surest way to a cure, to get full value for his money, he must himself go to some trouble to give his symptoms.
The physician cannot be held responsible when important symptoms are withheld through carelessness or from design.
The reader will remember that all of this pamphlet refers to the sick, or the sick condition, and not to the well.
Everything herein mentioned has been experienced by some sick person, even those parts that may seem very ludicrous.
If these simpler symptoms were of no importance, why do some people experience them while others do not ?
The variations in sick conditions, even though slight, are most important to the homoeopathic physician.
For further explanation or information, write to your physician.