AN EXCERPT FROM THE LESSER WRITINGS OF Dr. HAHNEMANN - The medical observer
The capability of observing accurately is never quite an innate faculty; it must be chiefly acquired by practice, by refining and regulating the perceptions of the senses, that is to say, by exercising a sever criticism in regard to the rapid impressions we obtain of external objects,and at the same time the necessary coolness, calmness and firmness of judgement must be preserved, together with a constant distrust of our own powers of apprehension .
The vast importance of our subject should make us direct the energies of our body and mind towards the observation; and great patience, supported by the power of the will, must sustain us in the direction until the completion of the observation.
The capability of observing accurately is never quite an innate faculty; it must be chiefly acquired by practice, by refining and regulating the perceptions of the senses, that is to say, by exercising a sever criticism in regard to the rapid impressions we obtain of external objects,and at the same time the necessary coolness, calmness and firmness of judgement must be preserved, together with a constant distrust of our own powers of apprehension .
The vast importance of our subject should make us direct the energies of our body and mind towards the observation; and great patience, supported by the power of the will, must sustain us in the direction until the completion of the observation.
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