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Kneer Repertory :
Full name : Repertory of Hering’s guiding symptoms of our materia medica
Author : Clavin B Kneer ( Son in law of Hering )
First edition : 1896
428 medicines, One volume, 48 chapters

Gradation : 4
II : most frequently verified by cures
I : remedies confirmed or verified on clinical practice
II : occasionally verified
I : less occasionally verified
Hand mark : cross reference]
@ theta mark : standing between the cured symptom and the pathological condition,
--- symptom observed on the sick only
: -- the perpendicular dotted line , marks observation taken from the old school such as harmonize with our law of cure.
t --- toxicological extracts

The basic difference of this repertory from that of Allen,s Symptom Register is that it contain symptoms & remedies which have had not only provings & toxicological pathogenesis, but had also clinical provings & confirmation

Synoptic Key
Full name : A synoptic key of materia medica
Author : C.M.Boger
First edition : 1931
2 parts Analysis part ( repertory ) having 489 medicines
Synoptic part ( materia medica ) having 323 medicines

3 gradations : CAPITAL
Bold roman
roman

Pathak’s repertory :
Full name : A CONCISE REPERTORY OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
Author : Dr. S .R Pathak. An MBBS doctor

Based on Boger’s Synoptic Key
This is an alphabetically arranged clinical type of repertory

First edition : 1963
Second edition : 1977
Third edition : 2000
3 grades : CAPITAL
Italics
roman

Mr.S.L.Kapadi prepared the skeletal work
Dr.Miss Homai merchant, his student type up the copy for repertory.
New additions of the rubrics are marked with ‘ + ’ mark in the third edition.

General modalities are represented in CAPITAL as AGG or AMEL but modality related to particular part in small letters as Agg or Amel

Desires and Cravings are two separate rubrics – under desire we find all mental rubrics, but under cravings we find rubrics regarding food & drink
Indian foods are also given

The modalities regarding position & posture of the patient is so much valuable. This modality is not given in any of the standard repertories
No index of medicines or authors
No authenticity claimed, exact source of words not known

Analytical repertory of Mind
Full name : Analytical repertory of Mind
Author : Hering (Born in Germany) (1800-1880)
Based on Hering’s guiding symptoms
First edition : unknown
Second edition : 1881

He is against alphabetical arrangement
Gradation 4 :
749 drugs, 48 chapters
As the drugs given in the left margin are differentiated on the basis of Mental or Physical concomitant – this repertory is called the analytical repertory.
Star * mark indicate symptom goes from one side to other
Hering graduated from : Leipzic & wuerzburg universities
Hering proved 72 drugs

Repertory of Antipsorics
Full name : A systemic alphabetic repertory of homeopathic remedies
Author : Boenninghausen

First edition : 1832
Second edition : 1833
Third edition : 1900
Preface by Hahnemann. First repertory approved by Hahnemann
Translated to English in 1900 by C.M.Boger

45 chapters, 4 grades
52 drugs ( 50 anti psoric, 1 anti sycotic – Thuja, 1 anti syphilitic Merc )

In this work Boenninghausen given the expiry date of Homeopathic medicines ( medicated globules) as 18-20 years, and also explained the duration of action of medicines.
Main rubrics are given in Bold and sub rubrics in Italics

Repertory of Nosodes
Full name : A repertory of Homeopathic nosodes & sarcodes
Author : Dr.Berkeley Squire
First edition : 1997
Plan as in Boger’s repertory
106 drugs,35 chapters, from 30 sources
No grading
He is against grading nosodes

Symptom register
Full name : Symptom register
Author : T.F.Allen
An index to Encyclopedia of T.F.Allen
Alphabetical repertory
First edition : 1880
820 medicines
4 grading : CAPITAL
Italics
roman
(roman)

Time of remedies and moon phase
Full name : Time of remedies and moon phase
Author : C.M.Boger
First edition : 1931
330 medicines
3 grades : CAPITAL
Bold roman
roman

Bell’s Diarrhoea
Full name : The homeopathic therapeutics of Diarrhoea
Author : Dr.James Bell
First edition : 1820
141 drugs
4 grades : Bold
Italics
roman
(Roman)

Sensation as if
Full name : Sensation as if
Author : H.A.Robert
First edition : 1937
Source : Hering, Allen & Clark
740 drugs
only I grade - Italics

CARD repertories
1892 : W.J.Guernesy – First card repertory ( made in 1888, but available to profession only 1892) .126 drugs, 2500 cards, based on TPB
1912 : M.Tyler . first punched card,1000 cards
1922 : Field , Fist time given code numbers to medicines, called Magnum Opus.6800 cards,360 drugs
1928 : Boger’s card repertory 250 drugs
1948 : Marcos Jeminis, Introduced gradation in cards, perforated cards ,600 cards based on TPB
1950 : Sankaran’s card repertory 4200 cards,292 drugs
1959 : Jugal Kishore – the biggest card repertory
1984 : Sharma’s Cards 3000cards,400 medicines

Kishore’s cards :
First edition :1959
Second edition : 1967
Third edition : 1985
Forward by : Majumdar
Size : 9X3 inches
692 medicines, 9192 rubrics
Source 91 books

Lippes Repertory
Full name : Repertory of more characteristic symptoms of materia medica
Author : C.Lippe
Published in : 1879
Based on Hering’ s guiding symptoms
34 chapters, 2 grades

Repertory of fevers
Author : H.C.Allen
Published in : 1880
3 grades Bold
Italics
roman
147 drugs

Repertory of Intermittent fever
Author : W.A.Allen
Published in : 1883
Forward by T.F.Allen
3 grades Bold
Italics
roman
133 drugs

Jahr’s repertory
1835 : 3 volumes, 33 chapters
1847 : Symptom codex 3 volumes
 Preface by Hering , Transalation by Hempel ,Published in USA
1847 : manual of Homeopathic materia medica with repertory

Shrivastava’s repertory
Full name : Alphabetical repertory of characteristics of Homeopathic materia medica
Author : Srivastava & Chanda
Alphabetical repertory
Published in 1990
680 drugs
only I grade – bold roman
No chapters- Kent’s chapters are converted to rubrics


Number of medicines in
Moon phase : 186
Times of remedies : 420
Synoptic key : 489
Card repertory : 250
BBCR : 489
3202 additions to Kent

Clinical Repertory
The concept was evolved by Burnett but first clinical repertory published by J.H Clark
Author : J.H.Clark
Published in 1904
5 sections,1011 drugs (in index 1063 drugs)
2 gradations
Drugs in bracket means Not in Clarks dictionary of Materia Medica
Abbreviations are used largly from Cipher repertory Eg : X for Acids

Clinical repertory by Boerick
Full name : Pocket manual of Homeopathic materia medica with repertory
Author : Oscar .E.Borick
Appended to 9th edition of William Boerick’s Materia medica
Materia medica published in 1906 but repertory in 1927
25 chapters
2 grades Italics , Roman
1409 medicines In index 1414
After the rubrics or subrubrics clinical conditions are given and not the cross references

THEMATIC repertory
By J. A.Mirilli
Having 300 themes like forsaken,death etc..

Important events in evolution of repertories

Fragmenta de viribus : 1805 in latin 4239 pages include 27 remedies
Glazor, first alphabetical repertory : 1833
Weber,repertory of purely pathognomic effects : 1833
Jahr’s repertory : 1835 in German
Lafflie- A Homeopathic repertory of symptamatology : 1843 ( 1st French repertory- Hahnemann died this year)
Clopaer Muller : 1848
Hempel’s repertory : 1847
Brayant : 1851
Hempel’s complete repertory : 1853
Lippe’s repertory of comparative materiamedica : 1854 144pages
Lippe’s repertory of more characteristics : 1879 322 pages
Cipher’s repertory : 1859
Huge’s cyclopedia of drug pathogenesy : 1892
Morgan’s urinary organs : 1899
JH Clark’s clinical repertory : 1904
Minton’s uterus : 1906
Nash repertory : 1906
Raue’s special pathology : 1906
Boricks repertory : 1927
Bell’s Diarrhoea : 1820
Berridge’s eye : 1873
Guernesy’s desire & aversions : 1873
Guernesy’s hemorrhoids : 1880
Moon phase by Boger : 1931
Synoptic Key by Boger : 1931
Sensation as if by H.A.Robert : 1937
Rheumatic remedies by H.A.Robert : 1945
Repertory of fever by H.C.Allen : 1880
Repertory of Intermittent fever by W.A.Allen : 1883
First Indian Repertory Augustus Muller : 1885
English translation of anti psorics by Boger : 1900
T.F.Allen Symptom register : 1880
Hering’s Analytical repertory : 1881
Gentry’s concordances : 1890
Kneer repertory : 1896
N.M.Choudary ‘s material medica with repertory : 1929
In 1838 the first English language repertory was published by C.M.Hering

Computers
First computer repertory : Melanic in 1979
INDIAN SOFT WARE PROGRAMME
Kentopath _ Pune
CIRH - Kerala
Hompath _ Dr. Jawahar shaw
Organon _ 96 (Dr.Dixit,case taking only )
Similia _ Dr.Jose Isacc
Cara _ Sanjeevani creations
FOREIGN SOFT WARE PROGRAMMES
Lamina _ Australia.
Cara _ Computer aided repertory analysis.
VEs _ Vithoulkas expert system.
Radar _ Rapid aid to drug aimed research.
KBex _ Knowledge based expert system.

LATEST REPERTORIES
1987. Kent's Repertorium General by Kunzli.
1987. Synthesis by Dr.Fredericke schroyens based on RADAR.
1996. Comparative repertory of Homoeopathic MM by Dockx & Kokelenberg.
1993. Homoeopathic Medical Repertory by Robin Murphy.
1996. Complete Repertory by Roger Von Zandervoort.
2004. Repertorium Universalice by Roger Von Zandervoort

Hahnemann & Repertory
In foot note to aphorism 153 he mentioned the Repertory of Jahr & Boenninghausen
Case taking : $ 83-104
Chronic case taking : $ 94- 98
Acute case taking : $ 99-102
When patient coming directly : $ 83-90
When patient coming from other physicians : $ 91-93
A concise idea about case taking : $ 5
General directions in case taking : $ 83-93
Incomplete information can be made complete : $ 86
When the case taking come to a dead end : $ 88
Nature of consultation : $ 84
Every new expression in fresh line : $ 85
Don'ts in case taking : $ 87
Discounting symptoms : $ 91
Case taking in fulminate acute disease : $ 92
Exaggerating patients : $ 96
Modest patients : $ 97
Epidemic diseases : $ 100

Method of identification of chronic miasmatic disease : $ 103
Acute exacerbation : $ 215-216
Mental disease : $ 208-230
Leading questions : $ 88
Classification of diseases : $ 72-81
Types of acute disease : $ 73
Types of chronic diseases : $ 74
Artificial chronic diseases : $ 75
False chronic diseases : $ 77
True natural chronic diseases : $ 78
Record keeping : $ 104
One sided disease : $ 173
Local maladies : $ 185
Intermittent diseases : $ 231
Alternating diseases : $ 232
Intermittent fevers : $ 235

Materia medica pura by Hahnemann : 1811-1821
Hahnemann’s thesis in 1779 – A consideration of etiology & therapeutics of spasmodic affections.
Translation of cullen’s materia medica : 1790
He got MD at the age of 24- 10th April 1779
Essay on new principles ….: 1796
Medicine of experience : 1805
Chronic disease : 1828 5 volumes
Hahnemann graduated from : Erlengan University
Hahnemann never graded symptoms except rare,uncommon peculiar and commons. But he only want that symptoms of the patient should match with materia medica.Hahnemann died of bronchial catarrh.

Record Keeping :
Aphorism 104
Dr.Boenninghausen was the first to publish the case histories recorded by Hahnemann
Hering recommend loose sheets instead of bound journal
Hering always notes the weather condition and position of moon in each visit.
Lutzes firstly recommended ingenious filling slip system.
Without case records you are at see without a compass or rudder : Kent.J.T

Cross references in various repertories
Kent’s repertory : Against the rubric in bracket
Boger’s repertory : At the end of chapter
Kneer repertory : Hand sign
Boerick Repertory : After the medicines
Synthetic repertory : Under (below) the rubrics in italics
Synoptic Key : After the remedies
TPB: No cross reference

Converted Homeopaths
Kent converted to Homeopathy due to the complete cure of insomnia of his first wife by Dr.Paheln by Lachesis.He treated Clara Louise for a long and finally married (second wife) He died of Brigths disease
Boenningahusen converted to Homeopathy due to the complete cure of his purulent tuberculosis by Dr.Weigh by Pulsatila. He died of Apoplexy
Hering converted to Homeopathy due to the complete cure of gangrene by Ars.alb. He died of Paralysis of Heart
Dunham converted to Homeopathy due to cure by Lachesis

Relations
Complement : Complete the cure which others begin
                      Similar symptomatology but opposite modalities
Antidote : Modify the effect of wrongly selected remedy
                Similar symptomatology but acting in opposite direction
Inimical : Very similar, not follow each other
               Seems to mix up the case

Miscellaneous
Father of Indian Homeopathy : Rajendrala Duta
Ranking of symptoms first given by : Gibson miller
Concept of anti type medicines : R.P.Patel
Concept of EET (essential evolutionary totality) : M.L.Dhawle

CCH act - 1973
CCRH - 1978
NIH Calcutta - 1975
PG regulations - 1989
DHMS regulations - 1983

PDF is considered for prescription but not for actual mathematical calculations – to differentiate the group of remedies.

Classical method of repertorisation is the Total addition method
Modern method means Repertory chart technique

Dr.Boenninghausen ; Group is more important than a single symptom no matter how much peculiar it is

H.A.Robert :No single symptom, no matter how strong rare and peculiar can strong without the support of well taken case and the likeness of whole patient of the remedy

Heinroth started a monthly journal Ant-Organon in 1810

Paradoxical symptoms means symptoms which are self contradictory or opposite in nature – Contradictory symptom Eg. Sleepy but cannot sleep

Anamnesis means medical history of the patient
Catamnesis means study of the follow up of the case
Associative anamnesis means interpersonal or intrapsychic case taking

Rearranging totality in terms of repertory is called Reportorial totality
First Homeopathic medical college in India was established in Kolkatta in 1880
Annotated copies means corrected handwritten copies

J.H.Allen :The isolated study of drugs in homeopathic materia medica is a meaningless exercise. It has to be studied in relation to areas of similarity and dissimilarity

Repertory is essentially an index _ C.M.Boger

The more the allopath grows old,the more he is pessimistic .The more the homeopath grows,the more he is enthusiastic and optimistic : P.Schmidt
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