Aph 94 - Organon 6

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

§ 94
While inquiring into the state of chronic disease, the particular circumstances of the patient with
regard to his ordinary occupations, his usual mode of living and diet, his domestic situation, and
so forth, must be well considered and scrutinized, to ascertain what there is in them that may tend
to produce or to maintain disease, in order that by their removal the recovery may by prompted.1
1 In chronic diseases of females it is specially necessary to pay attention to pregnancy, sterility,
sexual desire, accouchements, miscarriages, suckling, and the state of the menstrual discharge. With
respect to the last-named more particularly, we should not neglect to ascertain if it recurs at too
short intervals, or is delayed beyond the proper time, how many days it lasts, whether its flow is
continuous or interrupted, what is its general quality, how dark is its color, whether there is
leucorrhoea before its appearance or after its termination, but especially by what bodily or mental
ailments, what sensations and pains, it is preceded, accompanied or followed; if there is
leucorrhoea, what is its nature, what sensations attend its flow, in what quantity it is, and what
are the conditions and occasions under which it occurs?