Treating diseases with too-few symptoms §172-§203 Organon §172
A similar difficulty [to that of too-few proven medicines] arises when the disease to be cured has all-too-few symptoms. [In both cases, the physician's first prescription is likely to be imperfect.] This circumstance deserves our careful attention since, by disposing of it, almost all the difficulties of this most perfect of all possible medical methods are lifted (except that the apparatus of homeopathically known medicines [i.e. the materia medica] is not yet complete).