Critique . to the systemic disturbance, by name, but to this individualwho is afflicted with a systemic disorder. Have you not looked at your patients in this way ? Thenyou have not had sucecssful homeopathic prescribing, what-ever the form of your medicines may have been. To heal the ulcer, dispel the inflammation, ease the pain,remove the sleeplessness, quiet the delirium or nervous excite-ment, relax the tension and improve the function of any or-gan are each and all, desirable and proper. These results aremost effectively gained by adjusting the remedy (only one ata time), to the entire pa


Critique . to the systemic disturbance, by name, but to this individualwho is afflicted with a systemic disorder. Have you not looked at your patients in this way ? Thenyou have not had sucecssful homeopathic prescribing, what-ever the form of your medicines may have been. To heal the ulcer, dispel the inflammation, ease the pain,remove the sleeplessness, quiet the delirium or nervous excite-ment, relax the tension and improve the function of any or-gan are each and all, desirable and proper. These results aremost effectively gained by adjusting the remedy (only one ata time), to the entire patient affected by these symptoms,Take into consideration also, what influences occasion and con-tinue these manifestations. Consider first things first. Thepatient is first in disorder and the disorder in the patient willcontinue to occasion the same or similar disturbances repeated-ly if the remedies are related merely to the tissue condition orused to deaden the sense of pain. When the individual thereby. 86 THE C R IT IQ U E will suffer loss of power, loss of general comfort and the lastcondition will be worse than the preceding. Is there any better satisfaction than we have when thepatient confesses that after treatment the internal heavinesshas disappeared, there is more ambition felt, business cares arenot oppressive, conditions of environment prove less irritatingand the disorder which appeared in all the w^orld is perceivednot to have been in the world but ones own condition? Withthis improvement, we know that the bodily disturbances willchange to order; the fever, chill, inflammation, pain, etc., willdisappear. Is it strange that such internal changes are notrealized except when the patient is the basis of the prescription ?Such is the truth. Careful prescribing requires large knowledge of the ma-teria medica, familiarity w-ith good repertories and carefulcomparison, but most of all, success in prescribing requires at-tention to and clear perception of, the patient as


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