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The generals are sometimes made up of particulars. … After you have gathered the particulars of every region of the body, and you see there are certain symptoms running through the particulars, those symptoms that run through the particulars have become generals, as well as particulars. [2]
While we cannot hope to cure a patient without strong general symptoms, yet conditions of aggravation or amelioration may in themselves become generals, if they appertain in the same way to several parts of the body; they then become conditions of the man as a whole, or general symptoms, even though they seemingly express themselves in local parts. For instance, if a headache is < by motion; if the pain in the knee is < by walking or stepping; if there is pain in the shoulder from raising the arm; then the < from motion becomes a general as of the whole man, although it seemingly appears in dissociated parts. [1]
The things of which [the patient] says, I feel, are apt to be generals…. When the patient tells things of his affections, he gives us things that are most general. [2]
In analysis of the case, the value of symptoms must be taken into consideration on several points. First, the personality of the patient, the individuality of the patient, must stand out pre-eminently in the picture. [1]
The menstrual period gives us a state which we may call general….Her state is, as a rule, different when she is menstruating. [2]
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred you can leave out the particulars, for the particulars are usually contained within the generals. If there be but one remedy that has the numerous generals, and covers those generals absolutely and clearly and strongly, that will be the remedy that will cure the case. [2]
The Totality is an ideal not always to be realized. As a matter of fact, in practical experience it often impossible to complete every symptom, or even a large part of the symptoms. [3]
Boenninghausen's famous Therapeutic Pocketbook was devised primarily to deal with [incomplete cases.] The materia medica contains a great number of incomplete symptoms…. He discovered that many if not all of the modalities of a case were general in their relation, and were not necessarily confined to the particular symptoms with which they had first been observed. [3]
1. Roberts, Herbert A., M.D., The Principles and Art of Cure by Homeopathy.
2. Kent, James Tyler, M.D., Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy
3. Close, Stuart, M.D., The Genius of Homeopathy
