SYMPTOMS AND SYMPTOM VALUES

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Another point of utmost importance-when a patient says, “Doctor, I have never been well since. ” let your ears be wide open to catch the next words of the patient, for his whole condition may have come on following the death of a loved one (look up ailments from grief in the repertory).”.

Doctor, I have never been well since. . . . ” when completed, this sentence has been the key that has unlocked many a chronic case. Why should this be so? For the reason that the determining and directional morbid impetus was associated with the grief, the fright, the vaccination, the cold ocean bathing, or whatever set the ball rolling.

If we always know the determining cause and the remedy exactly homoeopathic to the cause, many more brilliant results would be achieved.

PHILADELPHIA,.

The more accurately all these symptoms which are easily found endure the various rubrics, are reflected by the case under treatment, the more assured we may feel of the property of the choice of the remedy we have made, and the more confidently may we expect a happy result-BOENNINGHAUSEN.

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Eugene Underhill
Dr Eugene Underhill Jr. (1887-1968) was the son of Eugene and Minnie (Lewis) Underhill Sr. He was a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A homeopathic physician for over 50 years, he had offices in Philadelphia.

Eugene passed away at his country home on Spring Hill, Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, PA. He had been in ill health for several months. His wife, the former Caroline Davis, whom he had married in Philadelphia in 1910, had passed away in 1961. They spent most of their marriage lives in Swarthmore, PA.

Dr. Underhill was a member of the United Lodge of Theosophy, a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He was also the editor of the Homœopathic Recorder.
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