WHAT IS
REPERTORY
Homeopathy
is a science and an art and the repertory is the artistic composition of the
result of scientific proving of medicines recorded in the Materia Medica and
then reproduced in the repertory.
HISTORY OF
REPERTORY
Some important
repertory are
Fragmenta de
viribus medicamentorum positive 1805 ( origin of repertory came with index of,
written in Hahnemann handwriting.)
Short
clinical repertory 1817 (written in Hahnemann handwriting)
Hahnemann
also used handwritten copy of Jahr’s repertory.
The
Repertory of Antipsoric 1832 – Boenninghausen ( first printed repertory,
published in Munster)
First
Alphabetical repertory with 165 pages - Glazer
The
repertory of the medicine which are not Antipsoric 1835 – Boenninghausen
The relative
kinship of Homeopathic Medicine 1836 -
Boenninghausen
A Repertory
published at Stuttgart 1837 – Ruoff
A
Homeopathic Repertory of Symptomatology – 1843 – Laffitte
A Repertory
of Nosology – 1845 - Ruoff
The Therapeutic
pocket book – 1846 – Boenninghausen
Boenninghausen’s
Repertory – 1847 – Hempel
Systematic
Alphabetical repertory – 1848 – Clofer Muller
Repertory of
comparative mataria medica – 1854 – Lippe
Repertory of
eyes – 1873 – Berridge
The
repertory to Hering’s Guiding Symptoms.- 1896 – Knerr
Kent
Repertory – 1897 – kent
Regional
repertory
Repertory of
eyes – 1873 – Berridge
Desire and
Aversion by Guernsey – 1873
Repertory of
fever by H. C. Allen – 1880
Repertory of
intermittent fever by W. A. Allen – 1880
Headache by
Knerr – 1894
Bell’s
Diarrhoea – 1906
Boger’s Time
of Remdies – 1906
Boericke’s
Repertory – 1906
Repertory by
Sarkar – 1906
Clark’s
Clinical Repertory -1904
Boger’s card
repertory – 1928
Repertory with
Synoptic Key – 1931
Sensation as
if by Roberts – 1937
Jugal Kishore’s
Card Repertory – 1959
Barthel and
Will Klunker’s Synthetic Repertory – 1982
( Dr.Constantine
Hering published first repertory in English in 1838)
TYPES OF
REPERTORY
There is
various type of repertory available in the printed form for use. Many more are
likely to come up.
The following
are various kinds of repertories that are commonly use:-
(A) GENERAL
REPERTORY BASED UPON THE ANATOMICAL DIVISION OF THE BODY
Repertory of
Homoeopathic material medica by Dr. J. T. Kent
Boenninghausen’s Theraputic Pocket Book
translated by Dr. T.F. Allen
Repertory of
the more Characteristic Symptoms of Mareria Medica by Constantine Lippe
General
Repertory appended to Encyclopedia of Homeopathy by Dr. B.P.Gupta
Boenninghausen’s
Characteristics Repertory Corrected and Translated by C.M.Boger
Synthetic
Repertory by H. Barthel
(B) CLINICAL
REPERTORIES
A Clinical
Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica by J.H. Clark
Clinical Repertory – appended to Handbook of Homoeopathic
material medica by Dr William Boericke
Bell’s
Diarrhoea
Sensation as
if by H.A. Roberts
Sensation as
if by Dr J.W.Ward
(C) CONCORDANCE
REPERTORIES
Knerr’s
repertory
Gentry’s
Concordance of Materia Medica
(D) CARD REPERTORIES
Boger’s Card repertory
Card repertory
by Dr. P. Shankaran
Field’s Card
Repertory
Kishore’s
card repertory
Card repertory by Dr. Sharma
(E) MECHANICALLY
AIDED REPERTORIES
Auto visual
Repertory by Dr Patel
Computerized
Repertory by various dealers.
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