Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 84

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 84:
The patient details the history of his sufferings;
those about him tell what they heard him complain of,
how he has behaved and what they have noticed in him;
the physician sees, hears, and remarks by his other
senses what there is of an altered or unusual
character about him. He writes down accurately all
that the patient and his friends have told him in the
very expressions used by them. Keeping silence himself
he allows them to say all they have to say, and
refrains from interrupting them1 unless they wander
off to other matters. The physician advises them at
the beginning of the examination to speak slowly, in
order that he may take down in writing the important
parts of what the speakers say.
Footenote:

1 Every interruption breaks the train of thought of
the narrators, and all they would have said at first
does not again occur to them in precisely the same
manner after that.
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