Dr J T KENT gives following very important advice in “What The Doctor Needs To Know”. I am sharing it here, as I think all young aspiring homeopaths have a lot to learn from this advice:
“The homoeopathic physician has no remedy for the name of a disease.
Homoeopathy is an exact science. It is based upon a natural law, and the true physician must prescribe in accordance with this law of nature.
Homoeopathy has no specific for any disease by name, but it has a true specific for each individual case of disease.
That is, Homoeopathy does not treat fever, or any other disease, in the abstract, but applies medicine to the individual personality in that condition which produces or causes fever.
To apply the homoeopathic remedy properly that condition of the individual patient must be known by the voice of nature speaking through symptoms.
The beneficent Creator has ordained that every diseased condition shall be made known by certain symptoms, and whenever that same condition is present that same set of symptoms will also be present.
Certain symptoms are always present in any given disease ; these point alone to the name of the disease.
In every given disease there is another class of symptoms peculiar to the individual and differing in some way from those of other cases of the same disease ; these symptoms show the individual characteristics of the patient and point unerringly to the curative homoeopathic remedy.
When these symptoms peculiar to the individual patient are known the homoeopathic remedy can be selected that will surely cure every curable disease, whether the disease be tumors, morbid growths, cancer or other skin diseases, or any form of chronic or acute disease peculiar to man, woman or child.
To accomplish this desirable result every case must be individualized, every symptoms from head to feet, must be given, every variation from positive health must be known.
Whatever is not as it should be is a symptom and must be recorded.”