Examination of the Patient
Organon Aphorism §88
If in these voluntary details nothing has been mentioned respecting several facts or functions of the body or his mental state, the physician asks what more can he told in regard to these parts and these functions, or the state of his disposition or mind, but in doing this he only makes use of general expressions, in order that his informants may be obliged to enter into special details concerning them.
Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th edition, translated by William Boericke (1922, public domain). Checked word for word against the 1922 printing in October 2026.
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