Authors’ response: we must distinguish symptoms caused by the medicine from other symptoms

Homeopathy 2007; 96(04): 275-276
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2007.08.004

Flávio Dantas

¹Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil

²Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

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Peter Fisher

³Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, London

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D.P. Rastogi

⁴Central Council of Research in Homeopathy, India

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Hélio Teixeira

¹Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil

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José Eizayaga

⁵Universidad Maimonides, Argentina

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Maria Eugenia Pulido Alvarez

⁶Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatia, Mexico

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Philippe Belon

⁷Institut Boiron, France

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Luc Louis Maurice Weckx

²Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

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