He knows the natural trend of sickness and instantly recognizes what is strange and unusual. He will not recognize what is strange and unusual unless he knows what is natural. So your books on symptomatology and pathology, diagnosis, etc., will tell you much of this, but as you gain experience in homeopathic practice you will get a much finer idea of this because your Materia Medica teaches you to observe more closely. The Materia Medica man learns to single out and trace every little thing in order to individualize. So it may be said that years of observation in studying disease, studying the sick man along with the Materia Medica, will open to the mind a much grander knowledge of the sicknesses of humanity than can be had by practicing traditional medicine.
Traditional medicine benumbs the ability to observe.
The painful complaints, the head complaints, the bowel complaints. Such an aggravation from motion that he dreads to move. About as marked as we find in Bryonia . Aversion to motion, and aggravation from motion. Aggravation from becoming cold and in cold, damp weather.