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01/29/2017

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What is Simillimum?
Definition
the simillimum is the single remedy that matches one's symptoms the best.
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What is a characteristic symptom?
Definition
a characteristic symptom is a rare or unique symptom.
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What is a common symptom?
Definition
a common symptom is a symptom such as the measles.
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Why is grading symptoms important in casetaking?
Definition
it iis important to grade symptoms so tht they match the same grading found in the repertory
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What did Dr. wright from Maryland say regarding the Spanish Flu?
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I have never strayed from homeopathy in treating influenza, and the spanish flu should renw one's trust in it's capabilities.
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Can more than one remedy be taken at once?
Definition
According to classical homeopathy, no ... only one remedy should be taken at one time.
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Miranda Castro says ... symptoms are for dummies.
Definition
common
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T/F: Of great interest to the homeopath is whether a complaint, such as asthma, is better or worse from sea air.
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true
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What is the difference between the Materia Medica and the Repertory?
Definition
Materia Medica is a compilation of the remedies, while the reperatory is a compilation of the symptoms.
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What is a rubric?
Definition
is found within a repertory and is the description of one symptom.
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One factor of a virus jumping the species barrier is ...
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xenotransplantation
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When an infectious disease occurs in a given area, it is a/an ...
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epidemic
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When it causes destruction on a worldwide scale, it is called a ...
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pandemic
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Three types of viruses that cause influenza are ... and ... and ... of these ... is more Virulent.
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A, B, C, A
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... is the most destructive of influenzas and occurs ... the winter months.
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Influenza A, outside
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Traditionally, influenza kills the very young and the old. What age group did the 1918 Spanish Flu take?
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20-40 year olds
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T/F: Two places on the globe escaped the Spanish Flue, St. Helena and New Guinea.
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true
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The spanish Flu hit in 3 waves and was the worst medical catastrope of all time.
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true
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Of all the drugs used during the Spanish Flu, the most harmful was ... which took the allopaths 45 more years to learn.
Definition
aspirin
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The Spanish Flu took the lives of ... people worldwide.
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20-50 million
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T/F: Slow onset and low fever marked the Spanish Flu.
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false
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Influenza is typically accompanied with vomiting and diarrhea.
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false
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Sudden ... affected almost 1/2 of all Spanish Flu victims, and they would often lose as much as a pint of blood at a time.
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nose bleeds
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The name for flu in France is ...
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la grippe
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T/F: It took four years for the Bubonic Plague to spread across Europe.
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true
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T/F: It took four months for the first wave of the Spanish Flu to circle the globe.
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true
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T/F: Influenza is strictly a respiratory disease.
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true
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Which country was eventually blamed for the start of the Spanish Flu?
Definition
Spain
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List 3 remedies for sudden onset influenza.
Definition
Aconite, Belladonna, Arsenicum
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List 3 remedies for gradual onset influenza.
Definition
bryonia, gelsemium, spongia
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List the levels of the Hierarchy of Health.
Definition
mental, emotional, physical
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List the following symptoms in accordance to the Hierarchy of health from deepest to the periphery: heart murmur, sadness, forgetfulness
Definition
Mind: forgetfulness
emotional: sadness
physical: heart murmur
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List the following symptoms in accordance to the Hierarchy of Health from deepest to the periphery: delusions, arthritis, irritability.
Definition
Mind: delusions.
Emotional: irritability
physical: arthritis
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Which of the following is an acute illness?
Definition
sore throat
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Which of the following is a chronic illness:
Definition
arthritis
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WHich of the following is NOT a general symptom?
Definition
craving eggs
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