Examination of the Patient

Organon Aphorism §96

Besides this, patients themselves differ so much in their dispositions, that some, especially the so-called hypochondriacs and other persons of great sensitiveness and impatient of suffering, portray their symptoms in too vivid colors and, in order to induce the physician to give them relief, describe their ailments in exaggerated expression.

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

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