*Single symptom prescribing is gambling*
Many remedies he knows only by keynotes.
If these keynotes are used as a reference to materia medica study they serve well,
but they are very dangerous for a basis in prescribing.
If he prescribes solely on the keynote he may and often does, remove the conspicuous symptoms; but this may serve only as an obstacle to cure by deflecting the current of symptomatology and thus distorting the picture of the patient himself.
~ H Roberts
