Explanation of Aphorism 86
What to ask after patient had described his suffering.
When the patient along with attendant have ceased to narrate the suffering, physician reads the whole record carefully as if it was related to him and tries to elicit more precise and finer symptoms; examples of questions to be asked is mentioned in the text like-
1.At what period did this symptom occur?
2.Was it previous to taking the medicine that he had been using? .
3.While taking the medicine? Or only some days after leaving off the medicine?
4. What kind of pain, what sensation exactly, was it that occurred on this spot?
5. Where was the precise spot?
6. Did the pain occur in fits and by itself, at various times? Or was it continued, without intermission? How long did it last? At what time of the day or night, and in what position of the body was it worst, or ceased entirely?
7.What was the exact nature of this or that event or circumstance mentioned - described in plain words?
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