OVI GALLINAE PELLICULA AND OVA TOSTA

In studying the materia medica, special attention should be paid to what are termed characteristic symptoms. Characteristic symptoms are those which distinguish each drug from all others. Taking two or more drugs, capable of producing nearly the same general effects, you will find among them some dissimilar feature which serves to distinguish each one; this dissimilar feature is its characteristic.

DIAGNOSING CASES BY THE ACTION OF THE REMEDY

Remedies sometimes prove diagnostic by their action. Cases of spurious pregnancy are sometimes very difficult to diagnose, and have deceived some of the very best gynaecologists. I was once deceived thus myself, about eight or ten years ago, in a case where there were almost all the symptoms of pregnancy, and in which I was afterwards informed the same mistake had been made some years before by the patients usual physician.