Mind. – Place all symptoms of mind under this heading, but be sure and leave space on your sheet for symptoms that you may discover at subsequent sittings.
Head. – Here will be placed pains, hair symptoms, movements of head, etc.
Stomach. – This group will include pains, food desires and aversions, eating and drinking, appetite, thirst, nausea, vomiting, eructations and sensations.
Abdomen. – you may place under this heading symptoms referring to constipation, diarrhoea, sensations as pain, pressure, etc., symptoms of urination, defecation, bladder and male genitals.
Menses. – These symptoms are of so much importance to the female case that a separate heading should be made. All symptoms referring to the female generative organs, to child birth, haemorrhage, etc., may be placed in this group.
Chest. – Symptoms referring to coughs, pains and sensations, expectoration, breathing, heart, pulse, breasts, etc., may be place under this head.
Back. – Sensations, pains, etc.
Extremities. – All symptoms as refer to the condition of sleep, dreams, etc.
Generalities. – Here place all symptoms which refer to conditions of modalities that affect the patient as a whole, not already covered by the mentals.
With the symptoms of your case arranged in this orderly manner, from Mind to Generalities, we have a record to which it is easy to refer and from which it is easy to individualize the record for repertory study.
