While the counter-action of the life principle is perceptible in poisonings, it is rarely perceptible in provings or in the treatment of diseases. 

Each medicinal substance engenders a certain, unique set of symptoms.

Symptoms from poisonings agree with those from provings.

I was the first to blaze this trail with a perseverance that could only arise and be maintained by the great truth speeding humanity that…

Medicinal actions must be studied by observing what alterations of condition are brought forth in healthy persons by moderate amounts of single medicines.

A medicine’s actions cannot be distinctly perceived in a sick person because the the medicinal alterations are confounded with the symptoms of disease.

The symptoms that are engendered by each medicine must be observed by giving the the medicine to healthy people.

The second item of business for the genuine medical-art practitioner concerns the investigation of the implements appointed for the cure of natural diseases, the investigation…

Once the totality of the symptoms that principally determine and distinguish the disease case-in other words, the image of any kind of disease-has been exactly…

Chronic miasmatic diseases are collective diseases with an extremely large totality of symptoms. The wesen of the many different forms of psoric disease is the…

Upon recording the symptoms of several cases of this kind, the sketch of the disease image becomes more and more complete-not larger and more verbose,…

The symptom complex of an epidemic disease only comes to light through the observation of several cases involving different bodily constitutions. 

Take a thorough case when investigating an epidemic or sporadic disease. With few exceptions, each reigning epidemic differs from all previous ones. 

In acute cases, the physician needs to ask fewer questions.

Give the most credence to the patient’s own words, but also investigate the case with circumspection, scrupulousness, knowledge of human nature, cautious inquiry and patience.

Patients of an opposing stamp hold back a host of ailments, characterize them in vague terms, or declare several of them to be insignificant. (They…

Patients differ in how they describe their complaints.

Pay special attention to the smallest details in cases of chronic disease.

Carefully consider circumstances that may act as obstacles to recovery. 

Ask general questions about any areas not mentioned.