This process creates the totality of the symptom ultimately ending with the selection of the appropriate remedy.About the Author Eminent US homoeopath, born in Westminster, Vermont. Boenninghausen felt that the older repertories scattered symptoms among different rubrics making the comprehension of the totality difficult.To remedy these identified defects he gathers together all the affected localities, all the sensations, all the aggravations and ameliorations, all the concomitants, each fitting into its own place in the case.
Body parts listed without sensation, omitted aggravations and ameliorations, the absence of concomitants, etc. Thus permitting the busy practitioner to select from the remedies generally indicated the one most homeopathically suitable, without too great a loss of time.He felt that other repertories were incomplete due to the listing of partially complete symptoms. Though extensively used by some of our most gifted practitioners-Lippe, Case, etc., others such as Kent disparaged its value.In his Preface Boenninghausen says, "There is no doubt that a diligent and comprehensive study of the pure materia medica cannot be thoroughly accomplished by the use of any repertory whatever."At the same time he recognized the need for a reference that contained the characteristic symptoms.
He used 5 grades to differentiate symptoms in this repertory, from 'doubtful' to 'proving symptoms repeatedly verified'. Allen's translation came out in 1891.This opus is the quintessential Boenninghausen, presenting his ideas in their most effective manner. About the Book The Therapeutic Pocket Book (For Homeopathic Physicians, to be Used at the Bedside of the Patient, and in Studying the Materia Medica Pura) by Clemens von Boenninghausen, was first published in 1846.
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