6. External stimuli: Touch, hard or light, pressure, rubbing, constriction (clothing etc.), jar, riding, stepping, light, noise, music, conversation, odors.
7. Eating: In general (before, during after,m hot or cold food or drink), swallowing (solids, liquids, empty), acids, fats, salt, salty food, starches, sugar and sweets; green vegetables, milk, eggs, meat, fish, oysters, onions, beer, liquor, wine, coffee, tea, tobacco, drugs, etc.
8. Thirst, quantity, frequency, hot, cool or iced, sours, bitters, etc.
9. Sleep: In general (before, during, on falling asleep, in first sleep, after, on waking)
10. Menses (before, during, after, or suppressed)
11. Sweat: Hot or cold, foot-sweat, partial or suppressed.
12. Other discharges:Bleeding, coryza, diarrhoea, vomitus, urine, emissions, leucorrhoea, etc., suppression of same.
13. Coition, continence, masturbation, etc.
14. Emotions: Anger, grief, mortification, fear; shock, consolation, apprehension of crowds, anticipation, suppression of same.
f. Strange, rare and peculiar symptoms.
III. The patient as a whole: MENTAL GENERALS (to be studied last for convenience), Physical Generals.
PHYSICAL GENERALS.
a. The constitutional type of the patient (endocrinology-co- homoeopathic correspondences, lack or excess of vital heat, lack of reaction, sensitiveness, etc.
b. Ailments from emotions (see also mental general); suppressions (emotions: discharges such as menses, sweat, leucorrhoea, catarrh, diarrhoea, etc.; eruptions; diseases such as malaria, rheumatic fever, exanthem, syphilis, gonorrhea, etc.; of pathology such as haemorrhoids, fistulae, ulcers, tonsils, tumors, other surgical conditions, etc.); from exposure to cold, wet, hot sun, etc.; from mechanical conditions such as overeating, injury, etc.
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c. Menses, date establishment, regularity (early or late), duration, color, consistency, odor, amount, clots, membrane, pain (modalities of), concomitants, aggravation or amelioration before, during or after (both physically and mentally), menopause (symptoms of).
d. Other discharges, (see II e. 12) cause colour, consistency, odor, acrid, or bland, symptoms from suppression of, symptoms alternating with, hot or cold, partial discharges as of sweat, laterality, better or worse from discharges (before, during or after).
e. Sleep, better or worse from, position in, aggravation after, difficulty in getting to sleep, waking frequently or early, at what hour, somnambulism, talking in sleep, dreams (see Mentals), restless during.
f. Restlessness, prostration, weakness, trembling, chill, fever etc.
g. Aggravations and ameliorations applying to patient as a whole as under II. e. 1 to 14.
h. Objective symptoms such as redness of orifices, superfluous hair, applying to patient as a whole.
i. Pathology which applied to patient as a whole, such as tendency to tumors, wens, cysts, polypus, warts, moles, individual and family tendency to certain diseases or weakness of specific organs or tissues (also related to a above and to physical examination), frequent of catching cold.
Mental Generals.
a. Will: Loves, hates and emotions (suicidal, loathing of life); lasciviousness, revulsion to sex, sexual perversions: fear; greed, eating, money, emotionality, smoking, drinking, drugs; drams; homicidal tendencies, desire or aversion to company, family friends; jealousy, suspicion, obstinacy, contrariness, depression, loquacity, weeping laughing, impatience, conscientiousness.
b. Understanding: Delusions, delirium, hallucinations, mental confusion, loss of time sense.
c. Intellect: Memory, concentration, mistakes in writing and speaking.
IV. Quick review of condition of every system and organ beginning with head and following order of Kent;s Repertory.
V. Past history of patient in seven year periods.
VI. Family history.
VII. Physical examination and laboratory tests.
