Keynote prescribing HA Roberts

2. •MANY AT THE PRESENT TIME USE A REPERTORY
SIMPLY AS A PECULIAR AND UNUSUAL SYMPTOM.
•HIS HAS A CERTAIN VALUE, IF WE ARE SO
FORTUNATE AS TO FIND THE SIMILLIMUM BY SOME
OUTSTANDINGLY PECULIAR SYMPTOM.

3. •BUT MOST OFTEN THIS IS NOT ENOUGH, AND IT HAS
LITTLE MORE VALUE THAN SELECTING AT RANDOM
ANY ONE REMEDY FROM A GROUP KNOWN TO HAVE A
CERTAIN SYMPTOM IN THE PROVINGS.

4. •WE MUST NOT FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE VALUE
OF THE TOTALITY OF THE SYMPTOMS

5. •THIS MUSTTAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE CHIEFCOMPLAINTS,
THOSE OF WHICHTHE PATIENT MOST OFTEN COMPLAINS, PLUS
THEPECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS OF THEPATIENT.
•IF BOTH THESEELEMENTSARE PRESENT, WE MAY BE SURE
PATIENT ON THERIGHT TRACK.

6. LET US CONSIDER A FEW CASES.

7. •A YOUNG WOMAN COMPLAINS OF
TENSION,STIFFNESS AND LAMENESS THROUGHTHE MUSCLESOF
HER BACK, PARTICULARLY BETWEENTHE SHOULDERSAND IN THE
NAPE OF THE NECK.

8. •THE STIFFNESS CAUSING A PULLING SENSATION OF THE MUSCLES EVEN
INTO THE CHEEKS.
•SHE CANNOT TURN HER HEAD WITHOUT DISTRESS; BENDING THE BODY
OR RAISING THE ARMS, ESPECIALLY THE LEFT, AGGRAVATES THE CONDITION

9. CHIEF COMPLAINT IS NOT ENOUGH ON WHICH
TO BASEYOUR PRESCRIPTION IFYOU WISHTO
BE SURE OF CURINGYOUR PATIENT.

10. •UPON FURTHERINQUIRY THAT SHEALSO HAS A LEUCORRHŒA.
•THIS SYMPTOM ALSO MIGHTCOME INTO A NUMBEROF
REMEDIESTHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY HASTILY CONSIDERED AS
APPLICABLE TO THECASE, BUTIN ITSELF IT HAS NO VALUE AS A
DIFFERENTIATING SYMPTOM.

11. •THEPATIENT VOLUNTEEREDTHAT HER LEUCORRHŒACOMES ON
ONLY WHENSITTING; SHE IS ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM IT AS SOON
AS GETS UPON HER FEET, EITHERSTANDING OR WALKING.
•HEREIS A TRULY AUXILIARY SYMPTOM THAT HAS A UNIQUE
VALUE: LEUCORRHŒAONLY WHENSITTING.

12. IN THIS CASE
•CHIEF COMPLAINT - TENSION OF THE MUSCLES,THELAMENESS.
•CONCOMITANT SYMPTOM –LEUCORRHŒA> WHILE STANDING
OR WALKING, < SITTING. IT WAS THESYMPTOM .
WHICH, TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE OTHERMORE COMMON
SYMPTOMS.

13. THEMOST CHARACTERISTIC AND PECULIAR SYMPTOMSOF
FAGOPYRUM, THELEUCORRHŒAONLY WHILE SITTING.
WE KNOW BEYOND ANY QUESTION THAT WE HAVE FOUND THE
SIMILLIMUM.