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Defining the problemOnce the case is taken well, interpreted, and recorded properly the physician should be in a position to define the problem precisely. The record should guide him to understand the person and his disease. The sickness of the person gets expressed at his various levels, and to bring all such expressions together to get a whole picture, requires a clear understanding of what Hahnemann stated “ what is to be cured in a disease, that is to say in every individual case of disease “.To define a problem means to define the individual who is facing the problem. The individual is fully revealed to a physician from the effects of different events associated with the individual as well as from the related data collected from various sources. Diagnosis of the disease, which is of crucial importance, would segregate the peculiar characteristic expressions from the common ones. Thus, only by precisely defining the problem, a physician would be in a position to go ahead further in the right direction. Classification and evaluation of symptomsIt is a well-known fact that all the symptoms in a case are not equally important. After taking the case, a physician faces quite a big number of symptoms which are required to be analyzed, classified, and evaluated in order to arrange such symptoms hierarchically. Dr. Elizabeth Wright has given a very practical solution to this problem:” As soon as the case is taken and the physician sits down to study it, he will find it useful to run down the list of symptoms and mark with M opposite the Mentals, G opposite Generals, PATH opposite the Pathology , P opposite the particular and O for Objectives. For further clarifying , he may under line and peculiar symptoms in red “. This exercise undoubtedly is very useful for beginners, but it can prove equally beneficial to all the practitioners. However , the experienced and seasoned practitioners do it mentally. Analysis and classification give an idea about the case in respect of its nature and the type of symptoms, and therefore, evaluation can be done by different methods. The schema of the order of importance of symptoms according to Kent is :- Mental : Will ( Emotion ) Understanding Intellect Physical generals : Time, temperature, weather, position, motion, external stimuli, eating, drinking, sleep, clothing, and bathing. Particulars : Strange, rare and peculiar and particular modalities. While Boger specially stresses pathological general, Boenninghausen gives more importance to concomitants and modalities. All the three evaluation methods are to help the physician, and not to confuse him. After the case is well taken, evaluation of symptoms according to the case would not be difficult. The case may have different dimensions, which may prove useful to find out the similimum. The objective of all these methods is the same, i.e. to find out a correspondence, but case should be analyzed and evaluated by different methods and techniques to facilitate the process of finding out the similimum The three standard methods of classification and evaluation propounded by Boenninghausen, Kent and Boger are of practical use in repertorisation. |
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