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| According to this practical advice of Hahnemann, we have endeavored to find out the characteristics of our drugs. | According to this practical advice of Hahnemann, we have endeavored to find out the characteristics of our drugs. | ||
| - | What are the ways our School has followed ? The first is, we allow the //possibility// that symptoms may follow when a drug is taken in health, and that these symptoms are produced conjointly by the drug and the prover. | + | What are the ways our School has followed? The first is, we allow the //possibility// that symptoms may follow when a drug is taken in health, and that these symptoms are produced conjointly by the drug and the prover. |
| "Could Cinchona bark produce altered sensations on myself, if I took it now in health ?" This was the question which induced Hahnemann to make his first proving, in 1790. The answer was, he felt a group of symptoms exactly such as he had when he suffered from intermittent fever, twenty years before, in Siebenburgen. Was he satisfied with this observation? Certainly not. He repeated his experiment, and he repeated it several times with exactly the same result." I stopped taking it, and got well," he says. | "Could Cinchona bark produce altered sensations on myself, if I took it now in health ?" This was the question which induced Hahnemann to make his first proving, in 1790. The answer was, he felt a group of symptoms exactly such as he had when he suffered from intermittent fever, twenty years before, in Siebenburgen. Was he satisfied with this observation? Certainly not. He repeated his experiment, and he repeated it several times with exactly the same result." I stopped taking it, and got well," he says. | ||
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| Many years ago, for the benefit of the students at Allentown, the following little scheme was written on the blackboard in the lectures on Materia Medica: | Many years ago, for the benefit of the students at Allentown, the following little scheme was written on the blackboard in the lectures on Materia Medica: | ||
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| The characteristic may be found in one or more of these. Three points of rest, according to mathematics, being enough to support any object, we may assume that three characteristics should be sufficient to make a cure very probable. | The characteristic may be found in one or more of these. Three points of rest, according to mathematics, being enough to support any object, we may assume that three characteristics should be sufficient to make a cure very probable. | ||
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| The original text of Dr. Hering's arrangement has been modified to reflect the actual font types used in the digitalized version of the work. The additions are given in []. | The original text of Dr. Hering's arrangement has been modified to reflect the actual font types used in the digitalized version of the work. The additions are given in []. | ||
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| Is the same as that in the "Analytical Therapeutics " and in the "Condensed Materia Medica." A more complete and concise review of the arrangement will precede the Repertory, which is to follow close upon the last volume of this work. | Is the same as that in the "Analytical Therapeutics " and in the "Condensed Materia Medica." A more complete and concise review of the arrangement will precede the Repertory, which is to follow close upon the last volume of this work. | ||
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| * %%|%% Is the lowest, and designates an occasionally confirmed symptom. It is omitted in most cases, and is sometimes used to mark a difference of value in the same line. [Normal type is used.] | * %%|%% Is the lowest, and designates an occasionally confirmed symptom. It is omitted in most cases, and is sometimes used to mark a difference of value in the same line. [Normal type is used.] | ||
| - | * %%|%%| Symptoms more frequently confirmed. [Blue italics type is used.] | + | * %%|%%| <span grade2>Symptoms more frequently confirmed.</span> [Blue italics type is used.] |
| - | * **%%|%%** Symptoms verified by cures. [Blue bold type is used.] | + | * **%%|%%** <span grade3>Symptoms verified by cures.</span> [Blue bold type is used.] |
| - | * **%%|%%|** Symptoms repeatedly verified. [Red bold type is used.] | + | * **%%|%%|** <span grade4>Symptoms repeatedly verified.</span> [Red bold type is used.] |
| - | Indicates an approved characteristic [Red bold type is used.], but is seldom used, by reason of our not wishing to appear authoritative. It is to be hoped that the combined experience of many practitioners, solicited from all sides, will enable us in a future edition to designate many more symptoms with this mark. | + | {{:en:black_right_pointing_index.png?nolink|}} indicates an approved characteristic [Red bold type is used.], but is seldom used, by reason of our not wishing to appear authoritative. It is to be hoped that the combined experience of many practitioners, solicited from all sides, will enable us in a future edition to designate many more symptoms with this mark. |
| θ The Greek letter "theta" stands between the cured symptom and the pathological condition, or the physiological general state, f. i., pregnancy or climacteric years. This by no means excludes the characteristic nature of the symptom in other forms of disease. [~ character is usead instead of theta] | θ The Greek letter "theta" stands between the cured symptom and the pathological condition, or the physiological general state, f. i., pregnancy or climacteric years. This by no means excludes the characteristic nature of the symptom in other forms of disease. [~ character is usead instead of theta] | ||
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| r. Right. l. Left. [Right and Left are fully written instead of abbreviations, to facilitate the search.] | r. Right. l. Left. [Right and Left are fully written instead of abbreviations, to facilitate the search.] | ||
| - | %%<%% Increase, or aggravation; worse. [agg. is used instead, to to facilitate the search] | + | %%<%% Increase, or aggravation; worse. [agg. is used instead, to facilitate the search] |
| - | %%>%% Decrease, or amelioration; better. [amel. is used instead, to to facilitate the search] | + | %%>%% Decrease, or amelioration; better. [amel. is used instead, to facilitate the search] |
| - | Π The Greek " pi" stands before symptoms observed only on the sick. | + | Π The Greek "pi" stands before symptoms observed only on the sick. |
| Like all employers with a good conscience, we are not governed by "strikers." | Like all employers with a good conscience, we are not governed by "strikers." | ||
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| CONSTANTINE HERING. | CONSTANTINE HERING. | ||
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| + | ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== | ||
| + | ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 | | ||
| + | ^ Description: | Author's Preface to The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica | | ||
| + | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | | ||
| + | ^ Year: | 1879 | | ||
| + | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | | ||
| + | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |} | ||
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