Author
:
J.H.CLARKE
DR.CLARKE says this repertory is designed “for use in the
study of the Materia Medica” and as an instrument for finding
out the indicated remedies.
This repertory is compiled as an index to
the dictionary of Materia Medica [3 Vol] by Clarke. This
repertory will enable the practitioner to compare any remedy
with any similar remedy in five different points; all of great
importance in practice.
I . CLINICAL REPERTORY
II . REPERTORY OF CAUSATION
III. REPERTORY OF TEMPERAMENTS, DISPOSITIONS,
CONSTITUTIONS, AND STATES
IV. REPERTORY TO THE CLINICAL RELATIONSHIPS
V. REPERTORY TO THE NATURAL RELATIONSHIP
PART – I CLINICAL REPERTORY
The clinical repertory presented here with constitutes the
index to the heading of “clinical” in the dictionary of
practical Materia Medica. In the dictionary every drug is
described from a number of different point of view. The
clinical point of view is one of these, and under the heading
clinical Clarke has prefixed to each remedy a list of the
affections in which it has been found most frequently
indicated in practice. In compiling these clinical lists
Clarke had in view the project of preparing, later on, an
index of these headings.
Unlike in the dictionary and prescriber the names
of the remedies are italicized in the clinical repertory in
front of a clinical rubric. The drugs which are given in
italics shows that these drugs are also given in the prescribe
and dictionary and those which appear in ordinary print are
the drugs which are added afterwards by the author.
The chief problem of scientific therapeutics consists
in the discovering of indications for remedies. All ways of
finding indications are open to practitioner and the clinical
avenue is one of them. In Homoeopathy any remedy may be
required in any case of any disease. The occurrence of the
name of any remedy under the heading of any disease shows that
in its action it has a general correspondence with the most
marked feature of cases of that disease.
It will frequently happen that the practitioner will have in
mind a number of remedies which more or less closely
correspond to a given case, and when he consults the clinical
repertory this knowledge will enable him at once to pick out
of the list there presented the most similar remedy to his
case. If still any doubt the prescriber has to consult
dictionary, in which each of the remedies named in the
repertory will be bound described individually in detail.
The use of the nosological correspondence is one
method by means of which a similar, if not the most similar
remedy may be discovered. Another method is by ascertaining
the similarity of specificity of seat. Some drugs have a
predominant affinity for certain organs, and these drugs will
often relieve a great variety of affections seated in, or
arising from diseases of these particular organs. In compiling
clinical repertory many general heading such as “liver
diseases of “, spleen affection of, are given. The lists of
remedies given under these headings will show the drugs, which
have been observed to hit these organs hardest, and will there
by give a very important point for comparison.
While the compilation of this work was in
progress Dr.Clarke thought that it would greatly extend the
usefulness of the clinical repertory if he were to add one or
two other indications at the same time. So he compiled indices
under other headings like causation, temperament, and
relationship of remedies.
CLINICAL RUBRICS
FOUND IN PART- I ARE:
PART III - REPERTORY OF TEMPERAMENTS, DISPOSITIONS,
CONSTITUTIONS, AND STATES
In this list are given the remedies,
which have been found to act most beneficially in certain
types of persons, temperaments, sex and age. There are also
included complaints and conditions of particular types of
persons and constitutions. In the dictionary of Materia Medica
these are generally given in the section characteristics under
the description “suited to”
Acute observers, from the time of
Hahnemann onwards, have noticed that some remedies act well on
some types of persons and not at all so well on other. The
respective types of nux vomica and pulsatilla are well known;
but many other remedies have preferences more or less well
marked for particular temperaments.
This index is very important because the
type of constitution is very often determining factor in the
choice of a remedy. There are some patients whose constitution
correspond so accurately to a particular medicinal type, that
the corresponding remedy will cure almost any indisposition
they may happen to have. So this sect6ion becomes a complement
of the clinical repertory. The user of this repertory,
therefore, who may not find the remedy he is in search of in
the clinical repertory, may possibly find it in the repertory
of temperaments, under the heading of the complaint the
patient is suffering from.
CONSTITUTIONS:
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Asthmatic.
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Bilious.
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Broken down.
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Carbo nitrogenoid.
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Debilitated.
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Delicate.
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Dry.
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Feeble.
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Gouty.
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Hydrogenoid.
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Lax, fibre with.
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Leucophlegmatic.
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Nervo-sanguine / sanguinine.
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Nervous.
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Neuralgic.
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Phthisical.
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Psoric.
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Scorbutic.
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Scrofulous.
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Slow, torpid.
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Weakly.
DISPOSITIONS:
1.Affectionate.
2. Gay.
3. Gentle.
4. Hasty.
5. Haughty.
6. Haughty, when sick.
7. Irritable.
8. Malicious.
9. Melancholic.
10. Mild.
11. Sad.
12. Spiteful, malicious.
13. Tenacious & Irrascible.
14. Voluptous.
15. Yielding.
TEMPERAMENTS:
1.
Bilious.
2.
Brunette.
3.
Choleric.
4.
Excitable.
5.
Hasty.
6.
Hysterical.
7.
Impatient.
8.
Indolent.
9.
Irresolute.
10.
Irritable.
11.
Lax,
12.
leucophlegmatic.
13.
Lymphatic.
14.
Lyphatic – Nervous.
15.
Melancholic.
16.
Mild.
17.
Mischievous.
18.
Nervous.
19.
Phlegmatic.
20.
Restless.
21.
Sanguine.
22.
Sensitive.
23.
Slow, torpid.
OTHER RUBRICS FOUND UNDER PART- III
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Accomplishes little though busy all the time.
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Acidity, colic or spasms with, of infants.
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Aged persons.
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Agitation, nervous.
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Alcoholism, chronic insomnia of.
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Anaemia.
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Animal heat diminished, constitutions with.
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Assimilating power lack of.
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Babies, colic of.
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Big bellied children.
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Body has a filthy smell, not removed by washing.
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Breathlessness & fatigue, with flushed cheeks.
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Bronchitis in old persons.
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Cancers & glandular enlargements.
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Catarrh, disposed to.
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Chalky look, persons of.
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Children:
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Abdomen, large with.
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Big bellied
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Big heads with.
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Chubby, fat.
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Clumsy.
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Convulsions of.
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Cross, outrageously.
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Dainty & capricious.
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Delicate, sickly.
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Emaciated.
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Excitable.
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Fair.
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Fat & bloated.
18. Damp, cold changes persons who take cold from.
19. Debility, nervous after influenza.
20. Defective nutrition.
21. Despair of perfect recovery.
22. Destructive tendency, persons of.
23. Diarrhoea:
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Chronic sufferers, from.
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Early, stages of.
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Profuse, watery, of old people.
24. Diathesis:
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Gouty.
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Lithic or sycotic.
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Psoric.
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Rheumatic.
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Scrofulous.
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Scrofulous or Mercurial.
25. Elderly persons.
26. Emaciated children.
27. Exhausted by disease.
28. Exercise, mental / physical, aversion to.
29. Extremities, cold, sallow people with.
30. Fasting, persons who have bowel complaints from.
31. Fear, terror & timidity.
32. Feeble, digestive powers.
33. Feet, soles of, hot.
34. Glands affections of, Persons having.
35. Gouty complaints.
36. Growth children of, irregular.
37. Haemorrhagic patients
38. Hands, fetid sweat on.
39. Imbecility.
40. Indolent persons.
41. Infancy, complaints during.
42. Jealous.
43. Jovial.
44. Jaundiced complexion.
45. Keen intellect with feeble muscular development.
46. Lack of animal heat.
47. Lack of reaction.
48. Lean persons.
49. Marasmus, children with.
50. Memory weak, persons of.
51. Milk, children who cannot take.
52. Neuritis, traumatic.
53. Nose-bleed of children.
54. Newborn children.
55. Obesity.
56. Old age.
57. Old looking children.
58. Pale children.
59. Pallor, lips of.
60. Perception quick.
61. Quick tempered persons.
62. Quinine, cases previously maltreated with.
63. Rapid progress of disease.
64. Red face.
65. Relaxed fibre.
66. Sallow people with cold extremities.
67. Scorbutic conditions.
68. Sedentary habits, persons of.
69. Tea drinkers, colic of.
70. Teething children.
71. Timid persons.
72. Tired feeling extending into limbs.
73. Ulcers, deep, thin patients with.
74. Urine, red sediment in.
75. Uterine disorders.
76. Vaccination, ailments from.
77. Venous constitution with tendency to haemorrhoids.
78. Warts on the palms.
79. Weak children.
80. Weakened by long sickness.
81. Wrinkled skin.
82. Yawning, complaints which are concomitant to.
83. Yellow skin.
84. Yellow saddle across nose, pot bellied mothers with.
PART IV REPERTORY TO THE CLINICAL RELATIONSHIPS
This section of the repertory gives in tabular form the chief
clinical relations of all remedies of the Materia Medica so
far as they have been noted. They are included under the
following heading:
1.
Complementary remedies
2.
Remedy follows well
3.
Remedy is followed well by
4.
Compatible remedies
5.
Incompatible remedies
6.
Remedy antidotes
7.
Remedy is antidoted by
8.
Duration of action
The term compatible is generic term and includes all the
remedies of the first three columns. Some remedies have been
observed to prepare the way for other remedies; some to follow
other well such remedies are termed compatible remedies. Some
spoil the effects of other, and such are called incompatibles.
When a remedy has done well and has ceased to be indicated,
the choice of the remedy to follow will be greatly assisted by
knowledge of clinical relationships. In comparing the table
Dr. Clarke has made use of the excellent table published by
Dr. Gibson Miller.
PART V - REPERTORY OF NATURAL RELATIONSHIP
The homoeopathic Materia Medica consists potentially we
may say, of anything and everything that may be found in the
universe. Man himself epitomises the universe, and nothing in
the universe can therefore be said to be unrelated to him.
The repertory of natural
relationships shows at a glance the place in nature of any
remedy in question mineral, vegetable or animal and how it
stands in regards to its closest congeners. In the dictionary
is given the natural order of each plant. In the repertory
will be found an alphabetical list of all the natural orders
represented, and under each is given In alphabetical order a
list of all the plants of that order included in the Materia
Medica
But there is also given a list of the natural orders in their
systematic or evolutionary order; so that very order is here
given in juxtra position with its allied orders. In this list
a number is prefixed to each order; and in the alphabetical
list is given each order the same number.
The following list shows remedies belonging to
different kingdoms of nature arranged in order of their
natural kinship. The list will enable readers to find how
almost any given remedy in Materia medica is related to any
other remedy in nature. The list comprise:
1)
Metals or elements.
2)
The Vegetable kingdom.
3)
The Animal kingdom.
4)
Sarcodes.
5)
Nosodes.
1. Metals or elements
An alphabetical list of the elements
represented is given, each with its symbol & atomic weight.
Prefixed to each name is a number. This number shows its
position in the succeeding list, which gives the elements in
the order of their atomic weights. In addition to this
distinguishing number in the second list is affixed the letter
“G “ & a Roman numeral. This refers to a third list – a list
of the Mendeleeffian Groups; & the numeral shows in which of
these groups any given element is to be found. E.g.
Alphabeticl list
10. Aluminium ……….Al 27.10
44. Aurum……………..Au 197.20
48. Bismuthum…………Bi 208.50
28. Bromium……………Br 79.96
33. (Cadmium) …………Cd 112.40
16. (Calcium) …………..Ca 40.10
etc.
Note: The numerals prefixed to the names in this list show the
place of each element in the list following, arranged in the
order of the atomic weights.
The brackets signify that the element named is
represented in the materia medica only by its salts.
List in order of Atomic weights
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G I – Hydrogenium ----- 1.008
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G I – Lithium -------------- 7.03
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G III – Boron -------------- 11.00
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G IV – Carbon ------------ 12.00
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G V - Nitrogenium ----- 14.04
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G VI – Oxygenium ----- 16.00
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G VII – Flurinum -------- 19.00
Etc.
Note: The letters “ G I” refers to the list following & show
the group of elements to which the particular element belongs.
Groups according to Mendeleeff ( Group I – Group VIII)
Group I
Lithium
a Natrum
Kali
Hydrogenium
b Cuprum
Argentum
Aurum
Group II
Magnesium
a Calcium
Strontium
Barium
Zincum
b Cadmium
Mercurius
Etc. till Group VIII
II –VEGETABLE
KINGDOM
There are two lists given in this
section – a list of natural orders in alphabetical order & a
list of natural orders in systematic or evolutionary order.
In the first or alphabetical list, under the name of each
order, all the remedies of the order are given, also
alphabetically. The alphabetical list is distinguished by
numbers which correspond with the numbers of the systematic
list, so that the place of any remedy in each list can at once
be found. E.g.
NATURAL BOTANICAL
ORDERS
1) Alphabetical list of natural
botanical orders represented in materia medica
Algae (119)
Fucus vesiculosus
Amaryllidaceae (101)
Agave Americana
Narcissus
Anacardiaceae
Anacardium
Occidentale
Anacardium
Orientale
Comocladia
Rhus Aromatica
Rhus Diversiloba
Rhus Glabra
Rhus radicans
Rhus Toxicodendron
Rhus venenata
Schinus
Berberidaceae (5)
Berberis aquifolium
Berberis vulgaris.
Caulophyllum
Podophyllum
Cistaceae (11)
Cistus Canadensis
Droseraceae (38)
Drosera.
Etc.
Note: The number affixed to each natural order shows the place
of the order in the systematic arrangement given in the
succeeding section.
2) List of natural
Botanical orders represented in the materia medica in
systematic arrangement.
Division 1 – Phanerogamia
Sub-Division 1 – Angiospermia
Class 1 – Dicotyledones
Sub-class 1 – Polypetalae
Series 1 – Thalamiflorae
(1)
Ranunculaceae
(2)
Magnoliaceae
(3)
Anonaceae
(4)
Menispermaceae
(5)
Berberidaceae
(6)
Nymphaeaceae
Etc. till (19)
Series 2 – Disciflorae
(20) Linaceae
(21) Zygophyllaceae
(22) Geraniaceae
Etc till (32)
Series 3 – Calyciflorae
(34) Leguminosae
Papilionaceae
Mimoseae
(35) Rosaceae
Drupaceae
Pomeae
Roseae
(36) Saxifragaceae
Etc till (50)
Sub class 2 – Gamopetalae (or Corolliflorae)
Series 1 – Inferoe
(or Epigynoe)
(51) Caprifoliaceae
(52) Rubiaceae
(53) Valerianaceae
Etc till (55)
Series 2 – Superae
( or Heteromerae)
(56) Ericaceae
(57) Plumbaginaceae
(58) Primulaceae
Series 3 – Dicarpiae
(60) Oleaceae
(61) Jasminaceae
(62) Apocynaceae
Etc till (75)
Sub class 3 – Monochlamydeae (or incompleteae)
Series 1 – Curvembryeae
(76) Chenopodiaceae
(77) Phytolaccaceae
(78) Polygonaceae
etc till (95)
Class 2 – Monocotyledones
(96) Orchidaceae
(97) Zingiberaceae
(98) Musaceae
etc till (102)
Division- 2
(103) Liliaceae
(104) Smilaceae
(105) Melanthaceae
etc till (113)
Sub division 2 – Gymnospermia
(114) Coniferae
(115) Gnetaceae
Division 2 – Cryptogamia
(117) Filices
(118) Lycopodiaceae
III – ANIMAL
KINGDOM
PART –I -
CLINICAL RUBRICS.
