2nd B.H.M.S. ORGANON IMPORTANT EXAM QUESTIONS

This is specially prepared for the benefit of students who are studying 2^nd year B.H.M.S. to prepare for their university examination.

It’s prepared on the basis of syllabus of B.H.M.S.(degree course) applicable from the academic session 2015-2016, as per the guidelines of Central Council of Homoeopathy.

Covers questions from organon of medicine sec 1 to 104 of Hahnemann and homoeopathic philosophy from the works and writings of J. T. Kent, Stuart Close, H. A. Robert.

Covers questions from Evolution of medical practice of the ancients, biography of Dr. Hahnemann, discovery of homoeopathy, logic, early pioneers of homoeopathy etc.

Also covers questions from philosophy, fundamental cardinal principles and homoeopathic prophylaxis.

Contains model questions which are frequently asked in different Indian university examinations.

All the questions are given under their related chapters.

• FQ: Full Question
• SFQ: Semi Full Question
• SN: Short Note

HISTORY OF ANCIENT MEDICINE

1. FQ: Describe in brief, The history and evolution of medicine.
2. SN: Ancient Chinese medicine.
3. SN: Ancient Egyptian medicine.
4. SN: Ancient Greek medicine.
5. SN: Ancient Indian medicine.
6. SN: Prehistoric medicine.

BIOGRAPHY OF Dr. HAHNEMANN AND DISCOVERY OF HOMOEOPATHY

1. FQ: Describe Hahnemann’s early life, education and marriage in brief.
2. FQ: Describe in detail, biography of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
3. FQ: Describe struggles of Dr. Hahnemann to establish the homoeopathic system of medicine.
4. FQ: Who is the founder of Homoeopathic system of medicine? Describe origin of homoeopathy in detail.
5. SFQ/SN: Discovery of homoeopathy.
6. SN: Materia medica Pura.

LOGIC IN HOMOEOPATHY

1. FQ: Define inductive logic. Discovery of homoeopathy is based on inductive logic- justify.
2. SFQ/SN: Logic- it’s application on homoeopathy.
3. SN: Difference between inductive logic and deductive logic.
4. SN: Inductive logic.

EARLY PIONEERS OF HOMOEOPATHY

1. SFQ: Describe Dr. Boenninghausen’s life history in brief and write down his contributions in homoeopathy.
2. SN: Contributions of Dr. Boenninghausen.
3. SN: Contributions of Dr. J. T. Kent.
4. SN: Contributions of Dr. William Boericke.
5. SN: Contributions of Dr. Richard hughes.
6.  SN: Contributions of Dr. Constantine Hering.

HOMOEOPATHY AND ITS FUNDAMENTAL CARDINAL PRINCIPLES

1. FQ: Describe homoeopathy as an art and science.
2. FQ: Describe in detail the cardinal principles of homoeopathy.
3. FQ: Limitations and scopes of homoeopathy.
4. FQ: What are the cardinal principles of homoeopathy? Explain the law of minimum and law of simplex in detail.
5. SN: Doctrine of drug dynamization.
6. SN: Doctrine of drug proving.
7. SN: Law of minimum.
8. SN: Law of Similar.
9. SN: Similar and similimum.
10. SN: Theory of chronic disease.
11. SN: Theory of individualization.

DIFFERENT MODES OF TREATMENT

1. FQ: Difference between homoeopathy and the orthodox system of medicine.
2. SN: Antipathy.
3. SN: Difference between allopathy and homoeopathy.
4. SN: Difference between Isopathy and homoeopathy.
5. SN: Difference between Isopathy and nosodes.
6. SN: Homoeopathy and Homeopathy.
7. SN: Isopathy.
8. SN: When palliation is necessary even in homoeopathic practice?

ORGANON OF MEDICINE AND IT’S DIFFERENT EDITIONS

1. FQ: What is organon of medicine? Describe ground plan of 6^th edition in detail.
2. SN: Augmented edition/ 2nd edition.
3. SN: Difference between 1^st and 2^nd edition of organon of medicine.
4. SN: Difference between 5^th and 6^th edition of organon of medicine.
5. SN: Difference between footnote and aphorism.
6. SN: Ground plan of organon of medicine.
7. SN: Importance of 6^th edition of organon of medicine.
8. SN: Organon of medicine/ Posthumous edition/ 6th edition.
9. SN: Relation between organon of medicine and homoeopathic Materia medica.
10. SN: What do you mean by “Tolle Causm”?
11. SN: What do you mean by ‘Aude Sapere’? where do you find it? Discuss its significance in Hahnemann’s life.

MISSION OF PHYSICIAN

1. FQ: Discuss what is the mission of the physician?
2. SN: The Mission
3.  SN: The Sick

BASIC CONCEPTS OF HEALTH, DISEASE AND CURE

1. FQ: Write down the essay on disease.
2. SN: Characters/ indications of health.
3. SN: Curanter and Curenter.
4. SN: Difference between cure and recovery.
5. SN: Health– the modern and homoeopathic concept.

HIGHEST IDEAL OF CURE

1. FQ: What are the conditions that must be fulfilled for an ideal cure?
2. FQ: What is the highest ideal of cure? Discuss.
3. SN: Cure and ideal cure.
4. SN: Easily comprehensible principle. 
5. SN: Cito tito etjucunde.

KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSICIAN AND PRESERVER OF HEALTH

1. FQ: Knowledge required by physician to cure the patient rationally and judiciously?/What should a homoeopath know to treat his patients judicially and rationally?
2. FQ: What is the requisite knowledge of a physician in order to be a practitioner of the healing art?
3. FQ: When a physician become a preserver of health?
4. FQ: Who is true practitioner of healing art?
5. SN: Duty of physician?

UNPREJUDICED OBSERVER

1. FQ: What do you mean by unprejudiced observer? Why the physician should be an unprejudiced observer? How to become an unprejudiced observer?
2. SN: Unprejudiced observer.

CAUSES OF DISEASE

1. FQ: What are the causes of diseases? Write down their importance in selection of remedy.
2. SN: Accessory circumstances.
3. SN: Causa occasionalis.
4. SN: Causes of the diseases.
5. SN: Difference between fundamental and exciting cause.
6. SN: Fundamental cause of the disease.
7. SN: Maintaining cause.
8. SN: Prima Causa Morbi.

TOTALITY OF THE SYMPTOMS

1. FQ: Describe in detail the totality of symptoms.
2. FQ: Describe the homoeopathic concept on symptoms.
3. SN: Portrait of the disease.
4. SN: Symptom’s totality.
5. SN: Symptoms and Totality of symptoms.
6. SN: Indisposition

VITAL FORCE

1. FQ: Concept of homoeopathic philosophy is fruitless without conception of vital force explain.
2. FQ: Describe in detail the role of vital force in health, disease and cure.
3. FQ: Explain the concept of spiritual vital force. Why it is called autocratic?
4. FQ: Homoeopathy can remove symptoms but the disease remains-who said this? Do you agree with statement? If not why?
5. FQ: What is dynamic influence?
6. FQ: What is the practical utility of the knowledge of vital force?
7. FQ: What is vital force? Describe role of vital force in health.
8. SN: Hufeland’s criticism.
9. SN: Simple substance according to Dr. Kent.
10. SN: Trinity of homoeopathy by Robert Hobert.
11. SN: Vital force.
12. SN: Vital principle
13. SN: What do you mean by “Materia pecans”? (materialism of medicine).

PRINCIPLES OF CURE

1. FQ: Cure can never take place with the help of dissimilar medicines-explain.
2. FQ: Describe in detail the nature’s law of cure.
3. FQ: Explain the therapeutic law of nature.
4. FQ: How medicines are stronger than natural disease?
5. FQ: Sick making properties of drug are the sick curing properties-justify.
6. FQ: What do you mean by complex disease? How does it arise explain with example?
7. FQ: Write briefly what happens when two dissimilar diseases meet together in human body?
8. SFQ: Describe Hering’s law of cure in detail.
9. SFQ: Modus operandi of homoeopathic cure.
10. SN: Double Complex disease.
11. SN: Medicines act unconditionally-justify.

SYMPTOMATOLOGY

1. FQ: Describe the complete symptom with examples.
2. SN: Concomitant symptom.
3. SN: Difference between pathogenic symptoms and pathognomic symptoms.
4. SN: Keynote symptoms.
5. SN: Negative general symptoms.
6. SN: Paucity of the symptoms.

EVALUATION OF THE SYMPTOMS

1. FQ: What is evaluation of the symptoms? Write down various methods of evaluation of symptoms. Describe Kent’s method of evaluation of symptoms.
2. FQ: Write down an essay on the value and grading of the symptoms.
3. SN: Determinative symptoms of Boericke.
4. SN: General symptoms of Kent.

CONSTITUTION

1. FQ: What do you mean by Constitution? What is the therapeutic importance of constitution? Discuss.
2. SFQ: Types of constitution.
3. SN: Carbonitrogenoid constitution.
4. SN: Constitutional diagnosis
5. SN: Gravoulg’s classification of constitution.
6. SN: Hydrogenoid constitution.

SUSCEPTIBILITY

1. FQ: What are the circumstances under which the degree of susceptibility varies from person to person?
2. FQ: Write down an essay on susceptibility.
3. SFQ: Describe the role of susceptibility in drug proving, cure and disease.
4. SN: How is susceptibility is modified?

BASICS OF PSYCHOLOGY

1. SN: Branches of psychology.
2. SN: Define depression. Discuss different causes of depression.
3. SN: Define motivation. Discuss different components of it.
4. SN: Define motivation. Write down different components of motivation.
5. SN: Memory.
6. SN: What are psychosomatic disorders? How will you differentiate from somatic disorders?
7. SN: What is anxiety? Write down different types of anxiety disorders.
8. SN: Write down different types of dreams.

CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES

1. FQ: What is disease? How Hahnemann has classified diseases? Briefly describe each of them.
2. FQ: Write down Hahnemann’s nosological classification of diseases.
3. FQ: Write down the classification of diseases. Describe epidemic diseases in detail.
4. FQ: Write down varieties of acute diseases with management.
5. SN: Acute case management.
6. SN: Artificial chronic disease.
7. SN: Difference between acute and chronic diseases.
8. SN: Difference between individual disease and epidemic disease.
9. SN: Epidemic disease
10. SN: Non-miasmatic chronic disease.
11. SN: Pseudo-chronic disease.

INTRODUCTION TO MIASMS

1. FQ/SFQ: What are the symptoms of three chronic miasmatic maladies?
2. SN: Difference between acute Miasm and chronic Miasm.
3. SN: What is Miasm? Write a short note on it.

CASE TAKING

1. FQ: A well taken case is half cured- justify.
2. FQ: Case taking- Describe a clear outline according to organon of medicine.
3. FQ: Case taking in homoeopathy is completely different from any other medical science-describe.
4. FQ: Write down Dr. Hahnemann’s guide lines of case taking of chronic disease.
5. FQ: Write down the aim and objects of case taking.
6. SN: Importance of past history in case taking.
7. SN: Mental symptoms.
8. SN: Obvious cause.
9. SN: Personal history in case taking.

ACTIONS OF MEDICINE

1. FQ: Describe primary and secondary action of the drug with examples. Discuss the role of vital force during these two types of action.
2. SN: Difference between primary and secondary action.
3. SN: Difference between secondary curative and counter action.
4. SN: Dynamic action.
5. SN: Dynamic influence or dynamic power.
6. SN: Physiological action.
7. SN: Secondary counter action.
8. SN: Secondary curative action.

HOMOEOPATHIC PROPHYLAXIS

1. FQ: What are the different methods of homoeopathic prophylaxis?
2. SN: Define specific prophylaxis with genus epidemicus in detail.
3. SN: Write down Genus epidemicus with its utility.