analytical repertory of the symptoms of the mind
DESCRIPTION
ANALYTICAL REPERTORY OF THE SYMPTOMS OF THE MIND Dr. Smita Brahmachari The practice of Homoeopathy is a balancing act. We weigh pros and cons to arrive at a prescription; for us differential diagnosis is not only for identifying the disease but also for identifying the drug. In such identification process we gather all the symptoms of the patient, without a prejudiced eye. We do not judge the patient or censor his sayings for we very well know the importance of each and every symptoms – whether it is a mental or a physical symptom. Mental symptoms were used for the final deciding vote rather than for initial identification of medicines, except in a few exceptional cases. Pioneer homoeopaths had this approach to practice that the Mind and Body are not separate but are only different manifestations of the same vital force. The need for such a repertory where the mental concomitants of physical complaints and physical concomitants of mental states are available has been met in Dr.C.Hering’s ANALYTICAL REPERTORY OF THE SYMPTOMS OF THE MIND. This book contains those symptoms of the mind that have been observed in connection with the bodily symptoms. This book is not a collection of mental symptoms as in Synthetic Repertory, Vol-I. Hering being an ardent follower of Hahnemann wanted to revive Hahnemannian concept back into Homoeopathic practice. So, at the end of the ‘Introduction’, he says that through this work, the future Homoeopaths will be able to follow the right way of the true Hahnemannian school, i.e. always to individualize. This is a humble attempt on my part to represent this work of Hering. I have used this book in the OPD only a few times but after going through the whole work, the potentiality of this book can definitely be felt. We all must try to use this book and establish the role it can play in our daily practice.TRANSCRIPT
ANALYTICAL REPERTORY OF THE SYMPTOMS OF THE MIND
Dr. Smita Brahmachari,M.D. (Repertory) from N.I.H., Kolkata.
M.O., Dept. of AYUSH,
Govt. of NCT Delhi.
ENTER FOR DEFAMATION
BEGAN EXPLORATION
FALL INTO FAITHFULLNESS!
CONTRIBUTED A LOT TO
HOMOEOPATHY
TO TREAT THE SICK.
HIS MOTTO WAS “The
force of gentleness
is great”.
Author……Dr. Constantine Hering
(1800-1880)
The "father” of American Homeopathy.
Date and place of birth: 01-01-1800; Oschatz town within
the electorate of Saxony (now in eastern germany).
In 1817 he attended the Surgical Academy of Dresden for 3
years and from 1820 he studied medicine at Leipzig
University where he was favorite pupil of the eminent
surgeon Dr Rabbi, an antagonist of Homoeopathy. Rabbi
was approached by a local publisher to write a book against
Homoeopathy but he referred the publisher to Hering
because of his own lack of time.
Dr. Constantine Hering
While going through Hahnemann’s works he came acrossthe famous “note bene for my reviewers” which
meant…the doctrine appeals chiefly and solely to theverdict of experience – repeat the experiment carefully
and accurately and you will find doctrine confirmed at
every step.
Hering enthusiastically pursued this task, studying thewritings of Hahnemann, repeated the Cinchonaexperiment, and undertaking other practical
experiments as part of his research .
• In 1824 he had a dissecting wound in his right
index finger, doctors advised amputation of his
finger as the wound rapidly became
gangrenous.
• His friend Kummer, a disciple of Hahnemann
persuaded him to take homoeopathic treatment
and gave him Arsenic-alb. After a few doses
he felt better and the gangrene was soon cured
completely. Hering was surprised and became
greatly interested in Homeopathy.
Instead of writing the negative review, he
immediately quit the job and became one of the
most influential proponents of Homoeopathy of all
time.
Hering graduated from the University of Leipzig (in1826). In his doctoral thesis titled, "On theMedicine of the Future", Hering declared himself to
be a homoeopath.
In 10th April 1835 on Hahnemann’s
birthday he established a homoeopathic
school at Allentown, Pennsylvania.
In 1848 he chartered Hahnemann
Medical College of Pennsylvania which
is still considered to be one of greatest
homoeopathic teaching institutions of all
time .
Homoeopathic pharmacy was the another area ofHering’s interest and which he maintained until hisdeath.
It was Hering who convinced Dr.Samuel dubs to makethe first decimal potencies in the United states.
Hering used nitroglycerine for heart problems 30 yearsbefore it was used in conventional medicine.
Dr. Hering died at 10 p.m. of July 23, 1880. He diedsuddenly of a heart attack while returning from a housecall to a patient. The funeral was held on July 28, 1880the 52nd anniversary of his first Lachesis proving
He proved 72 drugs, out of which the
following are most important ones:
Lachesis, Apis, Cantharis, Colchicum,
Crotalus, Ferrum met, Flouric acid,
Gelsemium, Iodum, Kalmia, Lyssin,
Mezereum, Nux-mosch, Phytolacca,
Phosphoric acid, Platina, Sabadilla,
Sabina, etc.
The Homoeopathic domestic physician – 1835. A Repertory Published in English Language in Allentown
Academy (1838) The Guiding symptoms of our materia medica [10 volumes] Analytical repertory of the symptoms of mind Translation of Gross’ Comparative Materia Medica (1866) Condensed materia medica- 1873He was the chief editor of the :o 'North America Homeopathic Journal‘ (1851- 1853), o 'The Homeopathic News‘ (1854- 1856), o 'The American Journal of Homeopathic Materia Medica‘ (1867
– 1871). o and the journal of his own college.
ANALYTICAL REPERTORY OF THE SYMPTOMS OF
THE MIND
By
C.Hering
(2nd Edition)
INTRODUCTION
This book was first published in the year 1875
with the title “Analytical Therapeutics”.
The second edition of this book “Analytical
Repertory of the Symptoms of the Mind”, was
published in 1881 after the death of Hering (1880).
This book may be regarded as a Digest containing the most
essential results of our proving and the results of our practice.
It contains not only that which was observed in proving but also
that which disappeared after use of the drug.
AIM OF THIS BOOK
To collect the all important symptoms, which are
scattered in various books and journals,
appeared through proving and cured through
practice in one book.
To enable the practitioner to review the whole
subject at a glance and with rapidity find the
curative medicine, even in apparently difficult
cases.
Number of remedies discussed in this
book….670.
Based mainly on provings and clinically verified
symptoms of Therapeutic Pocket Book.
WHY ANALYTICAL?
The root word of Analytical is to analyze.Chamber’s dictionary defines ‘Analyze’ as ‘toresolve or separate things into its elements orcomponent parts.
‘Synthesis’ on the other hand means ‘acombination of separate element of thoughts intoa whole’.
PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK
The Materia Medica requires a constant synthesis
in the mind of a reader, aiming at General…in the
numerous single observations as recorded in the
symptom, while Therapeutic requires a constant
analysis, a constant comparison of all the medicines
which are capable of producing or curing the
similar kind of ailments.
Dr. Hering emphasizes that drug should be
compared on the basis of following points:
1. Influence on organ and part of body as regards the nature,
kind and degree of such action.
2. Peculiar sensations or various types of affections.
3. Functions of organism in their various connection.
4. All the modalities of various symptoms.
5. Concomitants.
PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK
For practical purpose of treatment heemphasizes on:
1.Case Taking
2.Arrangement of symptoms according to
their importance.
PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK
ANATOMY OF THE
ANALYTICAL REPERTORY
The whole book is divided into following sections:
1. Introduction
2. How to use this book
3. The arrangement
4. Chapters (48)
5. Our nomenclature including:-
List of Names and their abridgements
Notes on the list of Names
Nosodes
Remarks
Abbreviations
Marks and Signs
Conclusion.
6. Index
NUMBER OF MEDICINES
There are 749 medicines listed out of which 79 remedies are
repetitions. This has been done to avoid any confusion regarding
nomenclature.
Examples: Achillea --------- Millefolium
Daphne ---------- Mezereum
Creosot ---------- Kreosote
Curcas------------ Jatropha
Diefenbachia ----Caladium
Dryob. -----------Camphora, etc.
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.
HOW TO USE THIS BOOKRULE - I
Each case has to be examined according to Hahnemann’ s advice, Organon, Paragraph 83, etc. i.e.:-A. Let the patients or friends tell their own story, without
interrupting them.B. Write it down in separate symptoms.C. Complete it by questions and observations with regard to
every function.D. Never ask a question which must be answered Yes or No .
Consider yourself a tyro if you do it!E. Inquire with regard to every single symptom, about place,
time, kind of sensation, modalities, and connections.
If this is done, Hahnemann’s says, the most important has been accomplished.
RULE - II
Symptoms have to be arranged according to their importance.
A. Physiological rank, according to the organs affected or the
functions altered is more worthy.
B. Aetiological peculiarities have always a very high rank.
C. In all chronic and lingering cases, the symptoms appearing
last even though they may appear insignificant, are always
the most important.
D. Symptoms of which pathology cannot be related are more
important.
E. Concomitant for confirming one drug from another.
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
In epidemics
Take the most characteristic symptoms
• At the invasion.
• At the height of the disease.
• Lastly during the decline of the disease, i.e., during therecovery.
These three points have to be "covered" by thecharacteristics of the drug. We will find in this way apreventive/"prophylactic," medicine. If it cannotprevent altogether, will make all cases lighter and morereadily curable.
ARRANGEMENT OF THE BOOK
This book is arranged on the same basic plan that was adopted by
Hahnemann in the 2nd edition of Anti-psoric remedies (5th part) published
in 1839.
Abolishment of the alphabetical arrangement except the names of drugs.
Commencing with the mind, he adopted as a general
principle, inner symptoms first, outer afterwards.
Basic rules of arrangement:1. Inner symptoms and functions first, outer and organic
changes afterwards.2. First increased functional activity, then altered, then
decreased.3. First the parts, then the whole body.4. First the upper parts, then the lower.5. All modalities placed to the related function.
Hahnemann in his later editions of Chronic
Diseases finally placed the mental symptoms
first; thus he adopted as a rule, first inner
symptoms, then outer ones. This order has
been uniformly preserved through out the
whole work; functions of each organ are
placed first, then bodily symptoms.
According to the principles and rules laid down in the
foregoing the symptoms, their groups and the names of
diseases, have been arranged and divided in 48 parts.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter – 1MIND AND DISPOSITION
Only such symptoms of the mind are given in this edition, as
have been observed in connection with bodily symptoms. In the
margin of every symptom lists medicines, here four degrees of
Boenninghausen has been followed distinguished by the
following marks:
I…Observed on the healthy; II…..Observed often and repeatedly;
I….Applied successfully with the sick; II….Applied very often
and repeatedly.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
I. Ailments from Emotions and from Exertions of the Mind
(pp.69 - 109)This section includes Happy surprise, Complaints after laughing, Fright & Fear, Shock
of Injury, Home sickness, Love pangs, overexertion of mind and body etc. Also model
cure has been given under various sections.
Ex:- Shock of Injury: Mind; Anxiety as from conscious danger of death: Capsic
Love Pangs: Complaints of girls for grief about faithless lovers: Arsen., Calc., Phosph.,
Hyosc., Ignat.
Homesickness: complains of everything: Mercur.
After mortification: sleeplessness: Coloc.
Anger: excessive irritation of mind: Arnica.
II. Mental Concomitants of Bodily Symptoms (pp. 110 - 344)Head, eyes, ears, nose, face, teeth and gums, taste and tongue, inner mouth, palate and throat, desire for
food and drink, eating and drinking, gastric symptoms, epigastric region, hypochondriac region,
abdomen, rectum and anus, urinary organs, male organs, female organs, pregnancy and parturition,
larynx, respiration, cough, chest and lungs, heart and circulation, neck and back, upper limbs, lower
limbs, all the limbs, position, nerves, sleep, times of the day, relation to weather, fever, changes
according to time, relations to space, sensations classified, tissues, passive motions and touch, skin,
stages of life, relationship with other drugs .
BODILY SYMPTOMS CONNECTED WITH THE MIND
CONSTRUCTION INSIDE THE CHAPTER
• Inside each chapter the drugs are arranged vertically along the left margin
in bold with their gradation.
• The arrangement is entirely new and affords great relief to the eyes, as the
motion from above downwards is accomplished with less fatigue and with
more certainty.
• In some sections this list is missing, for example: earache, outer ear, nose
and outer nose etc.
• In the text area sub rubrics are given with differentiating rubrics. In some
places they are also graded.
• Sub rubrics are given in bold .
• Sub-sub rubrics are given in roman with remedies in italics
• At the end of each section model cures can be seen.
• Potency is given rarely as superscript.
• Chapter Sensorium is missing.
Chapter – 3
HEADACHE and AFFECTIONS OF THE INNER HEAD
Headache with anxiousness : sweat, vertigo, staggering : Kali nitricum.
Headache with Ill humour: Everything disagreeable, loss of appetite, drowsy:
Spong
Headache with diminished intellectual power: Unable to speak: Sarsap.
Headache with restlessness: bursting, tosses about for hours, binding head firmly
relieved: Silica.
Rush of blood to the head: low spirited with throbbing of carotids : Arg nit.
Sensation of fullness: restless, changing places : Cantharis.
Chapter – 4
EXTERNAL HEAD
Positions:When bending it forward to the chest, imagines to have a goiter: Zincum
Movements: turning head left or right, with excessive restlessness : Colchicum.
Bones of the skull: pain with stupefaction : Conium.
Scalp: Scratching with great impatience: Natr. Mur.
The whole outer head: swollen, mania: Opium.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter – 5
SIGHT AND EYES
•Sight: Better with closed Eyes: Closing eyes involuntarily, burning pain, anxiety as if he
never would be able to open them: Spigel.
•Eyes: Appearance: Eyes sunken, with entire loss of self-confidence: Sepia
Chapter – 6
HEARING AND EARS
•Hearing: Music unbearable: The sound of church bells moves to tears: Ant. crud.
•Earache: Boring so violent has to scream: Baryt.
Chapter – 7
SMELL AND NOSE
•Nose: Nose bleed after weeping: Nitr. ac.
•Outer nose: Red nose after slightest agitation: Vinca.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter – 8
FACE
•Features, countenance: Dissatisfied with himself; gloomy expressions: Caust.
•Face motions: Loss of all mental functions, with distorted face: Laches.
Chapter – 9
LOWER PART OF FACE
•Mouth open and looks upwards; gets hot and lachrymose: Carbo an.
•Lips: Licks them, with moaning and groaning: Pulsat.
Chapter – 10
TEETH AND GUMS
•Toothache: After emotions: Acon.
•Non appearance of teeth with children and very fretful: Calc. phosph.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 11
TASTE, TALK, TOUNGE
•Taste: Loss of taste, smell and feeling, not of sight or hearing, with mind affection :
Opium
•Talking: Difficult speech with anxiety: Caustic.
Chapter - 12
INNER MOUTH
•Mouth: Child sticks fists into its mouth and screams violently: Ipecac
•Mouth: Spits continually without ejecting any saliva: Stramon.
•
Chapter - 13
PALATE AND THROAT
•Roof of mouth and palate: Dryness in roof of mouth without thirst, with anxious
heat: Nux. vom.
•Throat: After bursting of abscess in quinsy, there remains anxiety in the face: Psorin.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 14
DESIRE FOR FOOD AND DRINK
Ex:- Thirst: Suffocating, has to scream: Arsen.
Hunger: Wants to eat all the time, when thinking of food his mouth waters: Sepia
Desires and aversions: Aversion to food, with weeping mood: Platin.
Chapter - 15
BEFORE-DURING-AFTER EATING AND DRINKING
Ex:- While eating: When beginning to eat, toothache and headache, is overcome:
Euphorb.
Mental states after eating: Very cheerful, inclined to singing and dancing, talking and
laughing: Mezer.
Chapter 16
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS
Ex:- Empty eructation with apprehension: Croton. tigl.
Nausea with every mental emotion: Kali carb.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 17
EPIGASTRIC REGION
Ex:- Anxiety in scrobiculum: When lying down, better after pressure: Stannum.
Vexation is felt in pit of stomach, followed by heaviness in the legs: Lycop.
Chapter - 18
HYPOCHONDRIAC REGION
Ex:- Region of Liver: Disorder, with hypochondriac mood: Podoph.
Praecordial Anxiety: Spasm of the diaphragm after vexation: Staphis.
Chapter - 19
ABDOMEN
Ex:- Colic with anxiety: Loud cries that someone should kill her, the pain is so
intense: Arsen.
Colic and dysentery after vexation: Sulphur
Chronic gastric illness with ill humour: Psorin.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 20
RECTUM AND ANUS
Ex:- Bleeding from rectum, with hypochondriac mood: Psorin.
Itching in anus from worms, causing furor: Stramon,
Chapter - 21
URINARY ORGANS
Ex:- Afraid of wetting the bed, with weak feeling in bladder and sexual organ: Alum.
Anxiety and restlessness before urination: Phosph. ac.
Chapter - 22
MALE FUNCTIONS AND ORGANS
Ex: Sexual irritation during mental derangement: Stramon.
Indifference, low spirits and dullness of mind after onanism: Staphis.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 23
FEMALE ORGANS
Ex:- Emotions aggravate pain in right ovarian region: Laches.
Menses had not appeared for months; violent delirium: Cuprum.
Chapter - 24
PREGNENCY AND PARTURITION
Ex: During Pregnancy: Very sensitive to mental impressions: Staphis.
During parturition: Everything seems strange and horrible to her: Platin.
Chapter - 25
LARYNX
Ex:- Inclination to burst into tears, with chocking in the throat pit: Cotyl.
Involuntary laughing or crying, without the corresponding mood: Sepia
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 26
RESPIRATION
Ex:- Short Breathing: In all positions: Arsen.
Asthma caused by mental emotion: Cuprum, Sepia
Chapter - 27
COUGH
Ex:- Whooping cough, with fear and terror: Spongia.
Cough: From reading and thinking: Nux vom.
Chapter - 28
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS
Ex:- Cramp- like pain in chest, with anxiety, wakens at night: Sepia
Very disagreeable sensation of heat in chest, when walking out-doors: Rhus tox.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 29
HEART AND CIRCULATION
Ex:- Aneurism. Frightened when examined: Spigel.
Great pain near heart and wandering of the mind, with swelling of the whole body:
Naja trip.
Chapter - 30
OUTER CHEST
Ex:- Several successive short stitches in sternum, has to scream: Canthar.
Miliary itching eruption, with derangement of mind: Bellad.
Chapter - 31
NECK AND BACK
Ex:- Spasmodic contraction in the neck so violent she has to scream: Nitrum
Unbearable pain in small of back: Psorin.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 32
UPPER LIMBS
Ex:- Hands constantly active with derangement of mind: Morph. ac.
Cannot hold the pen, anguish: Coffea
Chapter - 33
LOWER LIMBS
Ex: Jerks in the legs, waking from sleep: Magn. Carb
Stinging in the corns, has to scream: Sepia
Chapter - 34
ALL THE LIMBS
Ex:- Restlessness particularly in the bends of the elbows, can bear no covering:
Asterias
Spasms with piercing screams: Cuprum.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 35
REST-POSITION-MOTION
Ex:- When walking fear of falling: Coca, Natrum mur
When lying in bed roaring in ears, with impatience: Platin
Chapter - 36
NERVES
Ex:- Every little noise in the street he supposes to be an alarm of fire: Baryt.
Hastiness in all motions, with fear: Arsen.
Chapter - 37
SLEEP
Ex:- Feels sick all over, with sadness and sleepiness: Ol. Anim.
Anxious hot feelings prevent sleep: Pulsat.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 38
TIMES OF THE DAY
Ex: - Morning: absence of thought when alone: Phosph. ac
All Day: Repeated attacks of anxiety: Chamom.
Chapter - 39
RELATIONS TO WARMTH, AIR AND WATER; WIND AND WEATHER;
SEASONS
Ex:- Warm cloths applied lessens violent pain in belly and anxiety: Phosph.
During a thunder-storm more anxious than before: Nitr. ac
Chapter - 40
FEVER
Ex: Whistles during the heat: Capsic.
Wants to sit alone with closed eyes during heat: Conium
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 41
CHANGES ACCORDING TO TIME
Ex:- Spells of anxiety, with sweat in face, lasting fifteen minutes: Nitr. Ac
Mental symptoms worse every other day: Laches.
Chapter - 42
RELATIONS TO SPACE-CHANGES ACCORDING TO SPACE
Ex:- With full moon increasing mania: Arg. Nitr
During high tide, in full moon, difficult comprehension, which is better in low tide:
Sol. mam
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter – 43…….SENSATIONS CLASSIFIED
All the different sensations are brought into a comprehensible
order and divided into seven classes, which is as follows:
A----- Increased, exaggerated activity ----------------------------1
a. Fixed, i.e. without motion ------------------------------2
steady motion --------------------------------3
B ----- b. Moving - steady motion in relation to space -----4
pulsating, wavering, oscillating motions --5
c. Destructive action, as if the integrity of the tissues
was disturbed---------6
C ----- Decreased activity ----------------------------------------------7
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 44
TISSUES
Ex:- The bones of the head become so painful when lying down, it makes low
spirited: Aurum
Mental depression, with beginning atrophy: Coca
Chapter - 45
PASSIVE MOTIONS AND TOUCH
Ex:- Starts from sleep with a scream when touched ever so lightly: Ruta
Fearful and restless when riding; vertigo and short breathing: Sepia
Chapter - 46
SKIN
Ex:- Itching causes sadness: Psorin.
Itching with irritability: Stramon.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
Chapter - 47
STAGES OF LIFE
Ex:- Children: Fear: Afraid of everyone who approaches him: Cuprum
Women: Flies from her own children: Lycop.
Old people: Great weakness of mind and body of old men: Baryt.
Chapter - 48
RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER DRUGS
Ex: Grief, with despair after Graphit: Arsen.
Stupor, madness or rage from Bellad.: Hyosc.
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS WITH EXAMPLES
ABRIDGEMENT OF NAMESAccording to the main rule of this whole work – to enable the eye
to bring to the mind with “rapidity, certainty and ease” what is givenin print – the abridgement of names had to be made different fromany other similar work.
The rule is- in general two syllables in length since errors havebeen frequent in single syllable abbreviations, as in Ang., Arg.; Arg.,Arn.; Bell., Hell.; and many others.
The cases in which even two syllables are not sufficient, e.g.Anac., Anag.; Asar., Asaf.; Cinnam., Cinnab.; etc. have beendistinguished by a third syllable, at least in margin or in some otherway.
Again some abridgements are ambiguous, as Crot., may be eitherCrotalus or Croton tig; Cocc. for Coccionella or Coccus cacti.
Systemic repertorization is not possible.
Chapters are not arranged properly and no clear
demarcation at the end of each chapter.
Rubrics are not arranged properly and sub rubrics are
not following an order it is difficult to search.
Sub rubrics containing very few remedies.
Drugs, of which we possess neither proving nor
sufficient clinical observations, have been omitted.
Chapter sensorium is missing.
Different type of symbols are used for representation
in the different sections, thus confusing.
LIMITATION
NOTES TO THE LIST OF NAMES
Definite reasons have been sighted about the selection of the
nomenclatures of certain drugs; some examples like
Acteae racemosa and not Cimicifuga,
Calcarea ostrearum Hahnemanni and not Calc. acetica (since Hahnemann
prepared this medicine by dissolving oyster shells in vinegar.)
Carbo vegetabilis and not Betula alba
Cinchona officinalis and not Peruvian bark since it is in no way related to Peru
Tabasheer – Silicea calami indici, the silicious deposit in the knots of the
bamboo, obtained in favour of Mahendra lal Sircar, M.D. In Calcutta
NOSODES
Certain Nosodes like Anthracin,
Hydrophobinum, Medorrhinum, Psorinum,
Secale cor, Ustilago maydis, Vaccinin,
Varionlinum etc. are represented in this work.
ABBREVIATIONS
H. means Hahnemann,
B. means Boenninghausen,
B.R. means Boenninghausen’s repertory.
Model cures have the name of the clinician, if known
r. and l. – right and left side
r. to l. or l. to r. – signify the symptoms observed on the healthy going from r. to l.
or vice versa.
If an * is added, it signifies that the symptoms went from one side to
the other with the sick and is supposed to have been cured by the named
medicines.
C.C.C., conditions, connections and concomitants.
The initials of the words in the headings are sometimes given in the text instead of
the whole word.
a.m.m. indicates: and many more.
S. ……see or compare.
REMARKSSome remarks about the translation of certain words from the
German Materia Medica:-
‘East wind’ in midst of Europe means a dry wind, but signifies ‘West wind’ in
America.
Again ‘West wind’ in Europe means moist wind. So, all the terms have been
avoided here and simplified as ‘dry’ and ‘damp’ wind.
Similarly ‘cold’ and ‘warm’ wind is used instead of North or South wind.
Bread in Germany means rye bread.
Bread and butter means sandwiches.
‘Suppe’ is not soup in Germany, but means all dishes taken with the spoon.
‘Gurken’ does not mean pickles, but either raw cucumber or such as have
undergone vinous fermentation.
MARKS AND SIGNS
In the margin lists, four degrees of Boenninghausen have
been distinguished by the following marks:
I…..Observed on the healthy
II…..Observed often and repeatedly
I…..Applied successfully with the sick
II…..Applied very often and repeatedly
In most margin lists the sign I has been omitted and appear only
when it seems necessary to make a distinction from others of less
value.
Sometimes intermediate or higher degrees are signified by II or III.
At the end of the book there is
Appendix to few chapters
Index to the model cures with the authors, drug and page number.
Index to the remedies.
Index to the symptoms is also given.
MODEL CURES
One of the unique feature of this book is that at the end of most
of the chapters we will found some cases cured after using this
method of analysis. Some of such examples are given below:
1. After continued loss of sleep, night after night, long-lasting
anxiety, overexertion of mind and body, from nursing the sick;
great anguish of mind from the loss of his dearest friend: Nitr.
ac.-HAYNEL
2. Great restlessness, confused memory. Red face and staring eyes.
Sadness, weeping, thoughts of dying. Stammering, gets the
words out with great difficulty. Cold feet, restless sleep with
wrong visions. Fear of wild animals and black dogs: Stramon. –
BETHMANN
3. After over-study clicking noise in left vertex, on walking and
during stool; also in occiput on walking, especially in evening,
when tired: Conium – E. W. BERRIDGE
4. Fear he will be impelled to destroy his life, with asthma, mid
night till morning, has to leave the bed. Eight successive nights:
Arsen. One dose cured. – L. WHITING
5. Cardiac anxiety, fearfullness, frightful dreams; religious
melancholy from pangs of conscience after a misdeed; weeping,
praying; great lassitude, emaciation and sweat in the morning;
painful menstruation: Aurum. - SEIDEL
MODEL CURES
CONCLUSION
All those who complain of it being too much for them, all who say“No man’s brain is large enough to hold it,” we refer to the
pamphlet “ The Last Events of 1867,” Boericke, Philadelphia,pp.20,21 and the advice: “Look to the brain of Leidy (Americanpaleontologist), containing not only this, but a great deal morebesides.”
If we never learn to unite all of these symptoms, we never canarrive by careful induction at characteristics, which is the true
Hahnemannian way.
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