A young physician once brought me his patient who was suffering from periodical congestive headaches which came on every seven days. Many remedies had been given but no change had been made in the case. The patient was then more carefully examined and it was found that regularly Sunday evening and night he suffered from this headache. It was soon seen to be not a periodical headache, but one that came after eating beef. All the facts in the case should be gathered before prescribing.
Hasty conclusions are as dangerous as any form of negligence.
Our remedies will cure when they are similar to all the symptoms in the case. Some years ago it was necessary to listen second hand, through a well-disposed woman, to the complaints of her sick sister. The sister was under the care of an eminent Old School specialist for some deep seated uterine trouble, which was called, in a letter from the doctor to his patient, endometritis. Local treatment had gone on many months and still the sister failed. The odor of the room is awful from her feet.