HISTORY OF REPERTORY

BY

AUTHOR: ESSENTIALS OF REPERTORISATION HOMOEOPATHY & CHILD CARE

DMS, DipNIH, MD(HOM)PROFESSOR & PRINCIPAL

Fr MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE

• HISTORY OF MEDICINE IS A REVIEW OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS & ERRORS.

• “BUILT ON THE BEST OF THE PAST”.

OBJECTIVES

• TO UNDERSTAND THE EVOLUTION & CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF REPERTORY

• TO UNDERSTAND THE VARIOUS CONCEPTS

• TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT AND FUTURE TRENDS.

• TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF AVAILABALE LITERATURE.

• “May The Devil Take All The Repertories. They destroy that which belongs together and unite points,which are foreign to each other, only for the sake of adhering to the A,b,c of children’s reading books. In order to be able to form a characteristic picture with its lights and shades from them, one would have to carry in one’s head the whole Materia Medica Pura ready for use, and then the repertories would be of less value than ever.”

SEEDS OF REPERTORY WERE SOWN DURING THE CINCHONA

EXPERIMENT

EXPANSION OF MATERIA MEDICA

• MATERIA MEDICA PURA

1811- vol 1

1816- vol 2

1817- vol 3

1818- vol 5

1819- vol 4

1821- vol 6

• CHRONIC DISEASE

1828- vol 1

1828- vol 2

1828- vol 3

1830- vol 4

NEED OF REPERTORY

• ENLARGING MATERIA MEDICA

YEAR NO. OF DRUGS

1805 27

1921 1600(1300 proved)

1955 2000 (1500 proved)

2001 4200(2277 well known)

2004 4497(2393 well known)

LETTERS TO BOENNINGHAUSENBY

MASTER HAHNEMANN

Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen

• “ The repertory which was announced without my approval is ready, but as I have been on friendly terms with Arnold for 20 years , I can not look for another publisher. ”

• Life History Of Hahnemann, Richard Haehl M.D. vol.-II ,

pg. no - 263 , supplement - 124.

Jan 16th,1831

“ My repertory was an alphabetical record, which could only be of great service in looking up the necessary symptoms of medicine, if very complete, and this perfectionis not yet to be found in mine. It is therefore not to be regretted that it remains unpublished. ”

Life History Of Hahnemann , Richard Haehl , M.D. , Vol.-II , pg. no - 263 , supplement - 124.

Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen (contd)

Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen (contd)

“A dictionary of symptoms wouldoccupy an efficient and very industrious assistant secretary, uninterruptedly for a whole

year”.

Life History Of Hahnemann, Richard Haehl, M.D. , Vol.-II, pg. no - 264, supplement - 124.

“If God permits, Jahr will workout the symptomdictionary, and I shall contribute what I can.He is gifted for it, and has unswerving diligence. I think that it will have to beprinted as one large octavo dictionary , like cramer’s dictionary printed by vieweg. It will be an immense but valuable work.”

Life History Of Hahnemann , Richard Haehl , M.D. , Vol.-II , pg. no - 264 , supplement - 124.

Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen (contd)

Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen (contd.)

If homoeopaths become aware that the repertories are insufficient for the finding of the best remedy in every case of disease, nevertheless they feel secure when they have such a key in hand and calm their minds with the reflection that “ with some probability. ”

Life History Of Hahnemann , Richard Haehl M.D.,

Vol.-II , pg. no - 379 , supplement - 183.

Hahnemann’s effort in making a Repertory

1805 : FRAGMENTA DE VIRIBUS MEDICA MENTORUM POSITIVIS.

• 1817 : A short Repertory hand written 4 volumes of repertory to use in his daily practice, consisting of 4239 pages with slits to hold

1830-32 : Made a voluminous repertory, could not publish.

It is obvious that master Hahnemann strongly felt the need of a repertory, developed it into an idea and started working in that direction, but for various reasons he could not publish it. So the profession had to look upon others for a useful repertory.

GROSS RUCKERT JAHR

ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A REPERTORY ACCORDING THE

MASTER PLAN OF OUR MASTER

FINALLY SUCEEDED TO BRING OUT A REPERTORY

• BOENNINGHAUSEN

OTHERS WHO WORKED ON REPERTORY

• HARTLAUB

• ROUFF

• LAFFITE

• TANNER

• HERING

• GLAZOR

• JOSEPH L

• WEBER PESCHINER

BOENNINGHAUSEN ERA

1832 : Boenninghausen’s repertory of the Anti-psorics with a preface by Hahnemann.

His work also kindled a new interest in the area of compiling repertories and during the next six decades, more than 30 repertories of different kinds were available to the practitioners.

BOENNINGHAUSEN ERA

Boenninghausen’s era continued for many years and his repertory gave birth of different concepts of repertories, like -

• - Repertory of Characteristic symptoms• - Nososlogical repertory• - Alphabetical Repertory• - Regional Repertory• - Mechanically Aided Repertories like

- Card Repertory

CONTEMPORARIES

AEGEIDI

WELL

FINKE

QUIN

DUNHAM

STAPHGIOSS

JAHR

LIPPE

MASTER

HERING

BOENNING-HAUSEN

APPRECIATED BOENNINGHAUSEN’S WORK

•HAHNEMANN

•DUNHAM

•ALLEN

•JAHR

•LIPPE

•BOGER

MODIFIED BOENNINGHAUSEN’S WORK

•ALLEN

•OKIE

•H A ROBERTS

•HEMPEL

•ADOLPH LIPPE

CRITICS OF BOENNINGHAUSEN

•KENT

•HERING

FR AGUSTUS MULLER S J

• MANUAL OF HOMOEOPATHY

MANUAL OF HOMOEOPATHY

INTRODUCTION

REPERTORY

THERAPEUTICS

MATERIA MEDICA

INDEX

INTRODUCTION

SICK PERSON

CONSTITUTION

HYGIENE

DIET

AUXILLARY MEASURES

DIAGNOSIS

POSOLOGY

REPERTORY

CONSTITUTION PAIN

PAIN (Agg & Amel) MORAL SYMPTOMS

THERAPEUTICS

• ARRANGED IN ALPHABERICAL ORDER.

• REPERTORIAL PART IS ADDED AT THE END OF CERTAIN THERAPEUTIC PARTS

• Eg: HEADACHE

Materia medica

INDEX

CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW

• Important years 1832 : Boenninghausen’s repertory of the

Anti-psorics with a preface by Hahnemann. 1833 : Glazor -- First alphabetical pocket

repertory. 1833 : Weber-Pescheir -- Repertory of

purely pathogenetic effects prefaced by Hahnemann.

1835 : Boenninghausen -- Repertory of medicines,which are not Anti-psoric

1835 : Dr.Jahr’s symptom repertory, 3 volumes in German language. Later he published a repertory on the glands, bones, mucous membranes, ducts & skin disorders.

1836 : Boenninghausen -- An attempt at showing the relative kinship of homoeopathic medicines

1838 : A repertory published in Allentown academy by C . Hering.

1846 : Boenninghausen’s therapeutic pocket book. 1847 : Hempel -- Boenninghausen’s repertory. 1848 : Clofar muller -- Systematic alphabetical

repertory. 1851 : Bryant -- An alphabetical repertory. 1853 : Possart -- A repertory of characteristic

Homoeopathic remedies.

1854 : Lippe -- A repertory of comparative materia medica.

1885:Fr.Muller--Manual of homoeopathy 1859 : Cipher -- Repertory by English

homoeopaths, Enlarged edition in 1878 , Drysdale dudgeon , Atkins and Stokes.

1879 : C . Lippe -- Repertory of the more characteristic symptoms of the materia medica .

1880 : T.F.Allen -- Symptom register. 1881 : Hering -- Analytical repertory. 1890 : Gentry -- The repertory of

concordances in six volumes . 1896 : Knerr --The repertory to Hering’s

guiding symptoms .

Various other repertories

• 1869—Repertory of diarrhoea by Bell • 1873—Repertory of eyes by Berridge• 1883—Uterine therapeutics by Henry

Minton• 1888—Guernsey’s Boenninghasen

slips• 1894—Repertory of rheumatism by

Pulford

but during the last quarter of the 19th century, the area of repertory became over crowded. This

created chaos & confusion

• chaos & confusion in the profession prepared a suitable ground for the emergence of a repertory, well organized, systematically planned , and based on sound philosophy. This was successfully accomplished by Kent in 1897.

KENT’S REPERTORY

EVOLUTION

KENT’S REPERTORY

CORRECTED EVOLVED

R P PATEL SYNTHESISP SCHMIDT MURPHY

KENT’S REPERTORY WIPED AWAY ALL OTHER REPERTORIES

ADVENT OF BOGER

RESUSCITATION BY BOGER

• HE GAVE LIFE TO THE FORGOTTEN CONCEPTS OF BOENNINGHAUSEN

BOGER’S CONTRIBUTION

1900 – Translation of “A systematic alphabetic repertory of homoeopathic remedies-Boenninghausen.

1905 – Boenninghausen’s characteristics and repertory.

1906 – The times of remedies and moon phases.

1915 – Synoptic key. 1928 – Card index repertory & general

analysis LAST WORK: ADDITION TO KENT’S

REPERTORY

CLASSIFICATION OF REPERTORY

CLASSIFICATION

UTILITARIAN

PURITAN

CARD

CLINICAL

REGIONAL

GENERALS - PARTICULARS PATHOLOGICAL GENERALS PARTICULARA- GENARALS

• NO WORK OF BOGER CAN BECONSIDERED AS HIS FINAL WORK.

• HENCE THERE IS A NEED TO COMBINE ALL THE WORKS FOR A BETTER PURPOSE.

PROJECT BOGER

BOGER’S FINAL GENERAL REPERTORY

• ……. TO BE PUBLISHED

FINAL GENERALGENERALCARDLESSERBBCRKENT’S ADDITIONTIME & MOONSYNOPTIC KEYBTPBANTI PS

Some of the useful modern repertories

• A concise repertory of homoepathic medicinesD.R .S.R .PHATAK—1963,2000• Complete repertory Roger van Zandvoort—1996• REPERTORIUM UNIVERSALE

Roger van zandvoort—2003• Homoeopathic medical repertory Robin murphy• SynthesisDr fredrick schroyens• Pheonix repertory Dr J.P.S.Bakshi• Thematic repertory –J mirrili• Homoeopathy and childcare—Dr Tiwari• Various softwares

• FUTURE REPERTORIES