Examination of the Patient

Organon Aphorism §89

When the patient (for it is on him we have chiefly to rely for a description of his sensations, except in the case of feigned diseases) has by these details, given of his own accord and in answer to inquiries, furnished the requisite information and traced a tolerably perfect picture of the disease, the physician is at liberty and obliged (if he feels he has not yet gained all the information he needs) to ask more precise, more special questions.

Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th edition (Boericke translation, public domain).

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