SIGNIFICANCE OF MENTAL SYMPTOMS

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The modern trend in medicine is directed towards an early diagnosis and treatment constituting a preventive medicine. If we are to treat patients early we have to pay more and more attention to the mental symptoms and syndromes. Modern medicine takes the patient as a unity of mind and body, and as an individual, tending towards psycho-somatic medicine and a medicine of the individual.

Whereas the organ symptoms are practically the same in each case, the mental symptoms as an expression of the highest organized system reveal the individuality. If we are to treat a patient thoroughly, and individually, we have also for this reason to observe his mental set-up and his individual behaviour.

Homoeopathy, which has always stressed the clinical significance of the mental symptoms has recognized in a practical way the importance of emotional factors for the etiology of diseases. It also finds itself–as could be shown–in accordance with the modern trend towards a preventive and a psycho-somatic medicine and demonstrates at the same time the practical possibility of the most interesting, the pharmacological approach towards the highest goal of medicine, the therapy of the personality.

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