HISTORY OF REPERTORY

BY

DMS, DipNIH, MD(HOM)

PROFESSOR & PRINCIPAL
Fr MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE

AUTHOR: ESSENTIALS OF REPERTORISATION

HOMOEOPATHY & CHILD CARE
• HISTORY OF
MEDICINE IS A
REVIEW OF
ACCOMPLISHME
NTS & 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 • CHRONIC DISEASE

1811- vol 1 1828- vol 1

1816- vol 2 1828- vol 2
1817- vol 3 1828- vol 3
1818- vol 5 1830- vol 4
1819- vol 4
1821- vol 6
 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
BOENNINGHAUSEN
BY
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.
 Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen (contd)
,1831

repertory was an alphabetical record,

could only be of great service in
g up the necessary symptoms of
ne, if very complete, and this perfection
yet to be found in mine.
erefore not to be regretted
remains unpublished. ”

Of Hahnemann , Richard Haehl , M.D. ,

o - 263 , supplement - 124.
 Hahnemann writes to
Boenninghausen (contd)
“A dictionary of symptoms would
occupy 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.
 Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen (contd)

God permits, Jahr will workout the symptom

ionary, and I shall contribute what I can.
s gifted for it, and has unswerving
gence. I think that it will have to be
ted as one large octavo dictionary ,
cramer’s dictionary printed by vieweg.
ill be an immense but valuable work.”

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

I , pg. no - 264 , supplement - 124.
 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.
 ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A
REPERTORY ACCORDING THE
MASTER PLAN OF OUR
MASTER

GROSS RUCKERT JAHR

FINALLY SUCEEDED TO BRING
OUT A REPERTORY

• BOENNINGHAUSEN
 OTHERS WHO WORKED ON
REPERTORY

• HARTLAUB • HERING

• ROUFF • GLAZOR

• LAFFITE • JOSEPH L

• TANNER
• 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
HERING WELL

MASTER FINKE

BOENNING
-HAUSEN
LIPPE QUIN

JAHR DUNHAM

GIOSS STAPH
 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 P SCHMIDT SYNTHESIS 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

GENERALS - PARTICULARS PATHOLOGICAL GENERALS PARTICULARA- GENARALS

PURITAN

CARD

CLINICAL

REGIONAL
• NO WORK OF BOGER CAN BE
CONSIDERED 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
ANTI PS
BTPB
SYNOPTIC KEY
TIME & MOON
KENT’S ADDITION
BBCR
LESSER
CARD
GENERAL
FINAL GENERAL

• ……. TO BE PUBLISHED
 Some of the useful modern
repertories
• A concise repertory of homoepathic medicines
D.R .S.R .PHATAK—1963,2000
• Complete repertory
Roger van Zandvoort—1996
• REPERTORIUM UNIVERSALE
Roger van zandvoort—2003
• Homoeopathic medical repertory
Robin murphy
• Synthesis
Dr fredrick schroyens
• Pheonix repertory Dr J.P.S.Bakshi
• Thematic repertory –J mirrili
• Homoeopathy and childcare—Dr Tiwari
• Various softwares
• FUTURE REPERTORIES