Dr. Asa Hershoff presents two contrasting cases of children: one an extroverted entertaining child, the other a surpressed fearful child. Though they present with different, nearly opposite symptoms, personalities and family dynamics, the simillimum that cured tem comes from the same plant family. He describes the parallels between remedies and remedy families even though the pathology may look very different. He discusses the solancea family of remedies as they apply to child development and growth, and describes the themes and meanings in this biological group.