Treating diseases with an inadequate stock of medicines §162- §171 Organon §162
Making the first prescription with an imperfect medicine.
Because there are still only a moderate number of medicines which are exactly known as to their true, pure action, it sometimes happens that only a portion of the symptoms of the disease to be cured are met within the set of symptoms of the still best-fitting medicine. Consequently, this imperfect medicinal disease potence must be employed for lack of a more perfect one.