Second edition -- revised , rearranged , and very much enlarged . 

About the author :
Bachelor of medicine and surgery of the university of London ;
Doctor of medicine ( by examination ) of the Homeopathic college of Pensylvania;
Formerly resident medical officer to the Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary. 
His works : 
Author of 1. " Index to cases of poisoning in the Allopathic  journals".
2.  Pathogenetic record.
3. Contributions to the' American Journal of Homeopathic materia medica '.
4. N. A. Jornal of Homeopathy.
5. Hahnemannian monthly.
6. Hering's complete materia medica.
7. Monthly Homeopathic review.
8. Gregg's Homeopathic quarterly.
9. British Journal of Homeopathy.
Published by B. Jain Publishers. New Delhi . 

CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOOK :
Preface.
Synonyms.
List of medicines.
  Section 1
A - functional symptoms.
B – anatomical regions .
C – general character ,sequence, direction.
            D – right side .
E - left side.
Section 2 - conditions .
A - aggravations .
B - ameliorations. 
Appendix.
           Errata .
Index.

Preface : 
Each chapter of this repertory is divided into 2 sections .
1 -- The symptom themselves.
2 -- Their conditions ( including concomitants )  
Section 1 : Further divided into 5 subsections.
A) Functional symptom.
B) Anatomical region.
C) General character, sequence. Direction.
D) Right side.
E) Left side.
 
Section 2 : divided into two subsections.
A) Aggravations.
B) Ameliorations. 
All the symptoms in these subsections are arranged alphabetically, excepting the 'peculiar symptoms' , which not falling under any general heading are placed last.
All symptoms of a nearly identical meaning are placed under the same rubric, according to the table of synonyms.

 The conditions including the concomitants are arranged in 22 groups as follows :
1. Time.
2. Situation and external influences.
3. Posture.
4. Touch.
5. Motion.
6. Head ( including mental symptom )
7. Eyes.
8. Ears.
9. Nose.
10. Face and front of neck.
11.  Teeth.
12.  Mouth and throat.
13.  Abdomen. (including stomach, anus, and all functional symptoms there of )
14.  Urinary organs .
15.  Sexual organs.
16.  Chest and larynx .
17.  Back and nape of neck.
18.  Arms.
19.  Legs.
20.  Sleep.
21.  Fever ( chill, heat, sweat )
22.  Generalities ( including skin, bones, convulsions, other drugs etc.) 

The arrangement of the symptom in section 2 is in every aspect exactly the same as that of section 1 . 
In the subsections 1 C - Direction : the symptoms are given in the chapter belonging to the organ in which they commence. 
Eg: shooting from eyeball to head …..>
Look in subsection ! C of the chapter on eyes , but not in that on 'head'. 
Sometimes in a complex group of symptoms one symptom follows another ,in this case if they are both in the same organ, they are given in section 1 , subsection C ;
If in different organs -- in section 2 . 
Eg : Blindness followed by heat in eyes -
Would be given in section ! C, under the rubric -- "   symptoms changing character "
But blindness followed by heat in head --
Would be given in section 2 , under rubric --
2 A Head ….> " Before head symptom sight impaired ".

As our materia medica is still incomplete , we are often obliged to select the remedy to a certain extent by analogy ; hence we require a collective view of the medicines acting on any organ which agree as to specific character, anatomical regions, general character , sequence, direction , sides and conditions .
In order to give collectives according to specific character, following plan adopted –  
Under every rubric in 1 A ,and in the principal subdivision of 1. B, are placed all the medicines from all the other subdivisions which agree in that particular point, and also all the varieties of that symptom which are given separately -- enclosed in brackets.
  Eg : ' shooting in eye ball ' are ----> separately
Or shooting in right or left eye separately , or shooting in any subregion of eye
( eg - orbit ) , or shooting in any direction in eye or shooting to or from eye or to any other organ .
When a symptom refers to one sub region only -
 Eg - closing of eye lids - this collective is given there .
ie -- I. B. Eye lids , movements, closing.
  In I.A.& I.B, the medicines not bracketed affects both sides simultaneously. If
 either is affected separately it is given in subsection I.D.or I.E Right or left .

Collectives of medicines agreeing with regard to anatomical regions, the chief division of the functional symptom, general character and sequence, direction and sides are given under their respective rubrics. And in these collectives doubtful symptoms only are bracketed . 
In these collectives also , the principal one contains the less, thus under the general rubric " Eye to Face " -- are given all the medicines which have any variety of the above . Eg - : " Eye to lower jaw " -- to make the collective complete. But shooting from eyeball to lower jaw -- is given under the latter rubric only and not under both.  
In the rubrics " changing or alternating in character, or place in eye " -- Collectives as to the varieties of change of character or place are also given ,thus we have collectives of " Eyeball then orbit " ;
" Heat then shooting " etc. 
In the rubrics " Right then Left " , " Above then below and the reverse, clinical symptom are marked with an asterisk, to facilitate the application of Hering's law of Inverse directions.

To make the 'conditions ' as useful as possible, we require to show,
1. The conditions belonging to any symptom in the whole body.
2. Those belonging to the organ generally.
3. Those belonging to each anatomical region.
4. Those belonging to each variety of symptom in the organ irrespective of the sub region to which it belongs.
5. Those belonging to each symptom separately .
 Eg : Under the rubric ' By reading ' -- we have

1. the medicines found under this condition which have reference to any part of the body.
2. Those belonging to entire organ.
3. Those belonging to each anatomical region eg - orbit.
4. Those belonging to each variety of symptom.
5. Those belonging to each individual symptom. 

In the last -- the General chapter, the arrangement is similar to that of the preceding ones.
 1. first - arrangement according to specific character, the medicines to which belong any variety of symptom .( eg - shooting ) in any part of the body being arranged under their respective rubrics.
2.  According to tissues. ( eg- glands, skin, bones, entire body etc. ) which corresponds to the anatomical regions of the preceding chapters.
3. Followed by general character, sequence and direction , right side , left side, just as before.
 In the conditions of this chapter, the same rule is observed.
In this chapter only doubtful symptoms are bracketed.

 With regard to the abbreviations of the names of the medicines, the author has adopted a uniform and scientific method of ciphering.
The cyphers of the elements and simple haloid salts are the same as their chemical symbols.
The 'ate ' salts are ciphered by adding -- ' a '
And ' ite ' salts by adding - ' i ' to the ciphers of the
corresponding haloid salt.
The ' ic ' acids are ciphered by adding -- 'x ' .
The - ' ous ' acids by adding -- ix
The hydracids by adding -- hx to the cipher of the element or
compound radical from which they are formed.  
Eg --   Na - sodium.
Na. S - sulphide of sodium.
Na. Sa - sulphate of sodium.
Na . Si - sulphite of sodium.
S - sulphur
S. x - sulphuric acid.
S . ix - Sulphurous acid .
S . hx - sulphydric acid .

  In the medicines derived from the animal and vegetable kingdom, each genus is invariably expressed by a different cipher and by that only. 
[ Even though Hahnemann and Boenninghausen insisted upon the necessity of having the medicines in a repertory distinguished by various types to show their relative value, but here there is no such classification.  
Because the plan author proposed is based entirely on the provings, not on the clinical experience of any one individual, and shows the relative frequency with which any symptom has been produced, compared with every other symptom of the materia medica.] 

Plan given by the author for future adoption :
  Count the number of distinct Pathogenetic symptoms of each medicine obtained from different provers irrespective of their conditions and concomitants, those symptoms being considered distinct which are given as such in this repertory.
Thus if ' dilated pupils ' has been produced by a medicine on 20 different provers, it is counted as 20 different symptoms ; but if 20 times in the same prover only as one, even though the conditions and concomitants should vary each time .

1st rank -- Italic capitals.
2nd rank -- plain capitals .
3rd rank -- Italics.
4th rank -- Roman letter.
 Clinical symptoms never rise above the 4th rank and all doubtful symptom are bracketed.
 [ If the total  number of provers upon whom a symptom of any medicine has occurred amounts to 1- 25th of the total number of symptoms of the medicines obtained ( as stated above ) , the medicine producing that symptom is placed in the first rank.
 If from 1 - 50th to 1- 25th …..> 2nd rank .
 If from 1- 75th to 1-50th …..> 3rd rank.
 If below 1- 75th …… > 4 rank .

C. Hering's materia medica, which is the most in arrangement and execution of any yet published, has been used so far as it has extended ( i.e. upto formica ) as the basis of this repertoty. The author has also added some additional symptoms from later provings. Also added many valuable symptom
from cases of poisoning, reported in the allopathic journals.        

SYNONYMS  are given . 
For eg -- pressing out in the head general is = bursting .
Pressing out in the fore head = to pressing forwards
Pressing out in the occiput = to pressing backwards
Pressing out in the vertex = to pressing upwards
  Contractive = compressive , constrictive, grasping.

 LIST OF MEDICINES :
 From a - acetyl …….> Zr - zirconium metallicum.
Total of 1171remedies.

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