CYRUS MAXWELL

BOGER

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 CYRUS MAXWELL BOGER

► DATE OF BIRTH: 13TH MAY 1861

► DATE OF DEATH: 2ND SEPTEMBER 1935

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► HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:

► BORN: WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

► GRADUATED FROM: PHILADELPHIA
COLLEGE PF PHARMACY
► MEDICAL DEGREE: 1888 – HAHNEMANN
COLLEGE IN PHILADELPHIA
► GERMAN SCHOLAR

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► LITERARY WORKS:
► 1905:BROUGHT BOENNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTICS AND REPERTORY IN TO
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
► 1915:SYNOPTIC KEY AND REPERTORY
► PUBLISHED A LIST OF ADDITIONS TO
KENT’S REPERTORY A TABLE OF TIMES OF
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► PROVING OF SAMARSKITE
► 1993:ROBERT BANNAN – PRODUCED
COLLECTION OF ALL BOGER’S WRITINGS
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► 1904:BOGER IHA PRESIDENT
► 1931:BOGER – GENERAL ANALYSIS AND
CARD REPERTORY
► HE WAS ON FACULTY OF AFH
POSTGRADUATE COURSE FROM 1924
UNTIL HIS DEATH
► AT AGE OF 74:DIED FROM FOOD
POISONING AFTER EATING TIN OF HOME
PRESERVED TOMATOES

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► DR. BOGER BECAME WELL KNOWN
THROUGH A LARGE NUMBER OF LEARNED
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HOMOEOPATHIC
LITERATURE

► HIS AUTHORSHIP OF SEVERAL SCINTIFIC

TEXTBOOKS, HIS REPERTORY
CONSTRUCTION, TRANSLATION OF
SEVERAL MEDICAL BOOKS FROM NOTABLE
GERMAN AUTHORS AND HIS LABOUR IN
RESEARCH WORK MADE HIM
RECOGNISABLE
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 BOGER’S SYNOPTIC KEY
► NATURAL MODIFIERS OF SICKNESS –
MODALITIES

SCHEMA
► 1. VITALLY IMPORTANT INFLUENCES
TIME, TEMPERATURE, OPEN AIR,
POSTURE, BEING ALONE, MOTION, SLEEP,
EATING AND DRINKING, TOUCH, PRESSURE,
DISCHARGES
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 HOW DID THE CONCEPT OF
KEYNOTE EVOLVE?
► INFLUENCED FROM BOENNINGHAUSEN’S
REPERTORY

► REPERTORY WAS BASED ON

HAHNEMANN’S WRITINGS

► HE USED THE CONCEPT OF

GENERALIZATION GIVEN BY
BOENNINGHAUSEN
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► 2. MENTAL STATE:
IRRITABILITY/SADNESS/FEAR

3. SENSATIONS

4. OBJECTIVE ASPECT OR EXPRESSION OF

THE SICKNESS
FACIAL EXPRESSION, DEMEANOR,
NERVOUS EXCITABILITY, SENSIBILITY,
RESTLESSNESS/TORPOR, STATE OF
SECRETIONS
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► LOCATION: PART AFFECTED

► 3 PARTS:
► 1ST PART:MATERIA MEDICA
317 REMEDIES

2ND PART:REPERTORY
77 CHAPTERS

3RD PART: MISCELLANEOUS

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 IGNATIA
► REGION: ► AGG:
► MIND ► EMOTIONS – GRIEF
► NERVOUS SYSTEM ► CHAGRIN
► WORRY
► FRIGHT, SHOCK
► AIR – OPEN/COLD
► TOUCH
► COFFEE
► TOBACCO

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IGNATIA
► AMEL:
► POSITION CHANGE OF
► POSITION LYING ON
PART
► URINATION
► PRESSURE

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► ERRATIC, CONTRADICTORY, SPASMODIC
EFFECTS
► RIGIDITY, TWITCHING
► SENSE OF A LUMP
► HYSTERIA
► OVERSENSITIVE TO PAIN
► SPASMS FROM PUNISHMENT

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► BROODING GRIEF
► SILENT , SAD
► INTOLERANT OF CONTRADICTION –
REPRIMAND
► ANGRY WITH HIMSELF
► DELICATELY CONSCIENTIOUS
► WEAK AND EXCITABLE
► ALERT, OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS
► HIGHLY EMOTIONAL
► MOODY
► CHANGEFUL
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► SIGHS, WEEPS OR LAUGHS BY TURNS
► UNHAPPY LOVE
► GRIEF BROODING
► ONE CHEEK RED
► SWALLOWS OVER A LUMP >SOLIDS
► EMPTY SINKING OR SPASMODIC ACHE IN
STOMACH
► PAIN SHOOTS UP RECTUM
► TAKES DEEP BREATHS
► CHOKING
► VIOLENT SPASMODIC YAWNING
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► RELATIONSHIPS:

► COMPLEMENTARY: AUR, NAT-M, PHOS-AC,

SEP

► RELATED: CIMI, NUX VOM, SEP

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 CONCLUSION-MY EXPERIENCE
► FOCUSED ON PATHOLOGY AND VARIOUS
PATHOLOGICAL GENERALS

► KEY IMPORTANCE GIVEN TO REGION/LOCATION

AND MODALITIES

► REPRESENTED THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL

SALIENT FEATURES THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF
GENERALISATION GIVEN BY BOENNINGHAUSEN

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