QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM MASTERS

41. The small booklets from Kent,"Use of the Repertory" (43 pages) and from Margaret Tyler, "Different Ways of Finding the Remedy" (22 pages) provide rich advice that even veterans will benefit by repeated study. Students are strongly advised to read and absorb the invaluable hints given by them. Yet, I cannot resist the temptation to quote a few note worthy instructions.

      (a) "No great work has ever been done without great effort and great self-sacrifice. Homoeopathy is no art for the lazy and the dullard (Tyler).

(b) "Totality does not mean that every little symptom, depen­dent on some gross pathological lesion, has to be covered.

      (c) A drug picture, to complete, does not consist of strings of little symptoms, but of broad outlines of mental and peculiar symptoms; peculiar to one drug, distinguishing it from all others.­

(d) When you have taken a case on paper, you must settle the symptoms that cannot be omitted.

(e) Do not expect the remedy that has the generals to have all the little symptoms. It is a waste of time to run about for the little symptoms.

      (f) Get the strange, strong, peculiar symptoms, and then see to it that THERE ARE NO GENERALS IN THE CASE THE OPPOSE OR CONTRADICT.

     (g) The general symptoms, reactions to temperature and weather, to foods, to environment generally must be very definitely marked in the patient, to be used at all, and if so marked and definite, they could correspond in impor­tance of type with the drugs in their rubrics

      (h) You may cover the superficial drug picture, but you have to go ultimately, for the peep DISTURBING CAUSE (T.B., syphilis, etc.) before you can get maximum results.

     (i) Supposing the patient is liable to fits of depression, and yet cannot endure any attempt at consolation; that he become a fiend even if you enquire what is amiss; in short you find him worse from heat and worse from consolation, which have got to be in equal type in the patient, and in the drug, you have reduced your area of search to Lil-t, Nat-m and Plat you will gradually find, as you work down the rubrics in the repertorial chart, that one drug stands out more and more prominently - it may not be in all the rubrics, but it has GOT TO BE IN ALL THE IMPORTANT ONES - those best marked in the pa­tient, and of highest grade.

     G) The use of the repertory in homoeopathic practice is a necessity if one is to do careful work. Our materia medica is so cumbersome without a repertory that the best pre­scriber must meet   with only indifferent results (Kent).