TEMPERAMENTS

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Prescribing on types, or temperaments, is at best a slack method of using the blessings of homoeopathy. It is really keynote prescribing, and then not on any morbific symptoms, but on a general stature that is present from birth. Keynotes may often give us a clue to the indicated remedy, but this clue must not be allowed to overbalance our judgment in weighing the whole symptom picture.

The only real evidence of disease conditions is the deviation from normal–the perversions of function as manifest in mind, body and spirit–the sum total of which provides us with a sound basis for prescription. The basis, then, in all of our procedure, is to find the totality of the morbific symptoms. If we find this, we can meet it through the *Law of Similars with the single indicated potentized remedy. Then we will have cleared the patient of the morbific conditions, and will leave the personality and temperament intact and even guided into a state of healthier attractions, less liable to invasion by morbific influences.

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H.A. Roberts
Dr. H.A.Roberts (1868-1950) attended New York Homoeopathic Medical College and set up practrice in Brattleboro of Vermont (U.S.). He eventually moved to Connecticut where he practiced almost 50 years. Elected president of the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society and subsequently President of The International Hahnemannian Association. His writings include Sensation As If and The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy.
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