I found a system in Dr. A.S. Allen Dingies office in Medica, and Dr. Carroll Haines office in Philadelphia, where there is such a system.
This is a great help to my work. I have seen all the other system that have come out and to me this is the best. I like it best, I have at this meeting ordered two of these, one for my bag and one for my office, and I am sure my associates will want the same thing.
DR. ROBERT FARLEY [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Answering Dr. Grimmer somewhat, I will name some of the symptoms which I have chosen. We have such mentals as aversion to company, aversion to sweets, tendency to be industrious and busy. We have what Kent listed as “Hurry”.
DR. GRIMMER : Restless.
DR. FARLEY: It is hurry, being pushed.
DR. GRIMMER: “Restlessness” is broader. If you have restlessness along with a cold or hot patient, you have a pretty good start.
DR. FARLEY: Yes, a very good start. Desires are here: desires acids, salts, milk, sweet, uncovering while sweating; and bland discharges, acrid discharges; tendency to be easily startled, homesickness, impatience-which our friend here talked so well about.
DR. GRIMMER: Effects of grief.
DR. FARLEY: We have that, too. When you begin to pick out only generals, mental and physical, you can get up to 150.
DR. GRIMMER: You have a pretty good case.
DR. FARLEY: The type of pain, tendency to suppression of menses, copious menses, scanty menses, or irregular or intermittent; numbness in single parts; pains that appear and disappear suddenly; pains that have shifting and wandering, pulsating internally, pulsating externally, sensitive, over-sensitive, easily offended.
And then, at the end of these stacks or decks I have incorporated twenty of the cards similar to the ones you have scattered through that have not been punched, so as Dr. Whitmont found, one can work with certain tools, certain rubrics. I work with certain tools and certain rubrics. You are inclined to work with the ones you know best, and somebody else with the ones he knows best, so while I have attempted to give a broad coverage, I dont find it possible to give a particularly personal coverage.
DR. GRIMMER: You have a good composite of the patients and that is what we want.
DR. FARLEY: That is right, but in addition to that, as Dr. Whitmont found, there were fifteen cards he could use because he was most familiar with them, and that any man can do. Remington- Rand have pretty broad coverage and they are very much interested in this. They thought it was original. It wasnt too original, but it was to them, and they wanted me to put it on wires so they could present it to all their salesmen. I wanted to wait until I knew a little more about how it would work.
DR. GRIMMER: My criticism was not on your work. I think it is excellent. I was trying to warn the case-taker to be careful.
DR. FARLEY: I had already done that in my paper.
DR. GRIMMER: If you could have something inserted with each one of these things you send out, as a reminder, it would be a big help.
DR. FARLEY: Yes, of course, for this kind of deck it was rather a problem. I found that some of the oil companies had credit cards inserted between plastic, so I asked the Remington-Rand salesman if he could help me out, so he devised this method of protecting it, so that you can even photograph it. That made it quite stable. This card has taken quite a beating and yet it is still good, but I put in my instructions in the title page the equivalent of an introduction or reference, and gave information, and gave credit to the people I got the work from, and tried to give information which would be valuable to the user.
DR. GRIMMER: It is a real step and you can add more cards from time to time.
DR. FARLEY: So far as marketing this thing, I look it up with the group of pharmacists who were here, and suggested to them I would like it very much if they would have their salesmen handle the selling of these cards and decks. It would do two things: I am sure if they took it in to an old school man faintly interested in homoeopathy, it would arouse his curiosity, and that ought to be good. The price at which it can be sold commercially is about equivalent to the basis on which a book would be sold, so they could make some money, too. The cost of production, of course, is still an unknown quantity because we dont know how many to print or how many to make, but I am quite sure that it can be sold at a reasonable price, under 20 dollars, and give the pharmacists an opportunity to make a little money for their trouble.
DR. GRIMMER: And it would be spreading homoeopathy, too.
DR. FARLEY: That is true.
