Mode of proceeding when we make trial of them on other persons. The experiments of the healthy physician with medicines upon himself are the best. The investigation of the pure effects of medicines in diseases is difficult. Only from such investigations of the pure effects of medicines on healthy persons can a real materia medica be formed. The most appropriate therapeutic employment of medicines known in their pure effects.
Important diseases have a number of symptoms.
Cause of the freedom from disturbance of such cures. Cause of the slight exceptions to this. Inquiry into the treatments previously employed. The other preliminary inquiries necessary for thc apprehension of the morbid picture of the chronic disease. Treatment of the so-called mental or emotional diseases.