The document discusses the importance of developing observational skills for medical students. It outlines several key points: 1) Medical students must learn to observe phenomena objectively, accurately describing physical symptoms and their progression without bias or preconceived notions. 2) Developing observational skills requires focusing one's mental and physical energies solely on observation, with patience, concentration, and a willingness to suspend judgment. 3) The best way for students to hone these skills is through self-experimentation with medicines to carefully observe how their own body responds to different treatments. 4) With continued practice of self-observation and attention to even subtle details, students can become adept at observing complex symptoms and making accurate assessments

1. The medical observer
By
Dharmesh Bhadja
the student of homoeopathy

2. In order to be able to observe well…
 What is not to be met with
 The capacity and habit of noticing
carefully and correctly
 Both the phenomenon, …taken place in
natural diseases and …also the morbid
states artificially excited by medicines.
 And ability to describe them in most
appropriate and natural expressions.

3. Come out of ourselves and attach ourselves
with all our powers of concentration upon
it
And for that…
“Sound senses”

4.  Poetic fancy
 Fantastic wit
 Speculations
 Forced interpretations
 Tendency to explain away things
… must suspended and suppressed for a
while.

5. The duty of observer is only…
 To take notice of the phenomena
and their course;
 “…What he observes be
understood exactly as it is”

6. The reinforcement for learner…
This capacity can be innate faculty;
it must be chiefly acquired
By
PRACTICE

7. Exercising a severe criticism in regard
to the rapid impressions
With
Coolness, calmness and firmness of
judgment must be preserved
With
Constant distrust of our own powers of
apprehension

8. Direct our energies of body
and mind towards the
observation; great patience,
supported by power of will,
must sustain us in this
direction until the completion
of the observation.

9. In order to develop this faculty…
 Greek and Romans philosophy
 …to attain directness in thinking and in
feeling
 …Also appropriateness and simplicity
of expressing our sensation
 The knowledge of mathematics
also…

10. What is THE MEDICAL OBSERVER?
…THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
ALL- BOUNTIFUL FATHER AND
PRESERVER…
TO MINISTER HIS BELOVED
HUMAN CREATURES
…The holy and sincere spirit…

11. Which is the process…
To achieve this faculty…?
The best opportunity for excursing
and perfecting our observing
faculty…is afforded by instituting
experiments with medicines upon
ourselves.

12. By continuing this careful
investigations…
Experimenter attains the capability
of observing all the sensations, be
they ever so complex, even the
finest shades of alteration of his
health.

13.  The only possible process for
beginner to make pure, correct
and undisturbed observations.
 He will thus acquire practice to
enable him to make equally
accurate observations on others
also.

14. …no portrait painter was ever so careless as to pay
no attention to the marked peculiarity in the features
of the person he wished to make a likeness of, or to
consider it sufficient to make any sort of a pair of
round hoes below the forehead by way of eyes,
between them to draw long-shaped thing directed
downwards, always of the same shape, by way of a
nose, and beneath this to put a slit going across the
face, that should stand for the mouth of this or of and
other person; no painter, I say, ever went about
delineating human faces in such a rude and careless
manner..

15. Naming of the disease…diagnosis
 To describe them with such
superficial expression
 And neglecting the striking ness and
individuality of the disease.

16. …so true it is
that
the careful observer alone
can
become
a true healer of diseases

17. Thank you