Bönninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket-Book
50 chapters · 749 rubrics published here
The older, smaller repertory built around generals, sensations and modalities rather than particulars.
Clemens von Bönninghausen worked from a different premise to Kent. Rather than indexing every particular symptom, he indexed what he held to be more trustworthy: the patient’s general state, the character of the sensation, and the conditions that make it better or worse — and he allowed a modality observed in one part of the body to count for the whole person.
That makes it a much smaller book and a faster one to work with, and it suits cases where the striking thing is a modality rather than an odd local symptom. It is also why the two repertories can point at different remedies from the same case, which is worth experiencing rather than reading about.
This is T.F. Allen’s English edition of 1891.
Reading the grades. Four degrees, one more than Kent’s — 4 is the highest. A grade here is not the same weight as a grade in Kent.
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The rubrics published here are the main headings — those carrying 25 remedies or more. The full rubric index, and searching across it, is in the app.
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Create a free accountThe other repertory: Kent's Repertory — The repertory most colleges teach from: symptoms arranged from Mind to Generalities, each with the remedies that produced it.