Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 96

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 96:

'Besides this, patients themselves differ so much in
their dispositions, that some, especially the
so-called hypochondriacs and other persons of great
sensitiveness and impatient of suffering, portray
their symptoms in too vivid colors and, in order to
induce the physician to give them relief, describe
their ailments in exaggerated expression.1
Footnote:

1 A pure fabrication of symptoms and sufferings will
never be met with in hypochondriacs, even in the most
impatient of them - a comparison of the sufferings
they complain of at various times when the physician
gives them nothing at all, or something quite
unmedical, proves this plainly; - but we must deduct
something from their exaggeration, at all events
ascribe the strong character of their expressions to
their expressions when talking of their ailments
becomes of itself an important symptom in the list of
features of which the portrait of the disease is
composed. The case is different with insane persons
and rascally feigners of disease.'

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