Case taking in homoeopathy in the 19th and 20th centuries^{[ * ]}

Abstract

There has been a lack of research into the effect alternative medicine's comprehensive taking of patient histories has had on practice. Significant practitioners who influenced homoeopathic case taking are discussed and the continuity and tradition of taking patient histories emphasised.

Keywords

Case taking - Patient Histories

^* This article is an expansion of a paper delivered at an international conference on the history of case histories organised by the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation (Stuttgart) and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow in 1991.