One can usually never find the remedy in a case when one simply looks at the totality of the symptoms in a flat way, without making an evaluation of them.
Every case has some depth, has individuality, has peculiarity but most of all a center of action.
This, then, is the information that has to be underlined three times. Then other symptoms need to be underlined twice, or there may be some which are not strongly expressed by the patient and will need only one underline. The same is true when I am taking a case. What are the symptoms that are expressed with the greatest intensity and how are these symptoms being expressed. Sometimes important symptoms can be hidden, as when a person withholds information because he or she fears ridicule as a mental case.