2. Have the patient carefully watched in the interval of your visits.
3. Examine each organ of the body separately, carefully comparing the state of each with the symptoms described by the patient.
4. Note the discrepancies in the statements of the patient as to his symptoms and their known occurrence in real disease.
5. Sometimes ask questions the reverse of his statements, or take his statements for granted, when in all probability he will contradict himself.
6. Remove all bandages and other dressings.
7. The administration of sham physic, or the suggestion of some heroic mode of treatment; the application of the actual cautery may have a beneficial effect.
8. Pay little attention to the reports of bystanders, or of the culprit‘s fellow-prisoners.
9. Anæsthetics may be employed, if necessary, for the purpose of detection.
10. The motives of deception should be inquired into, and borne in mind, in the examination of all cases.