Kent’s Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica

A repertory is an index to the Materia Medica, not a book of prescriptions. You look up a symptom, find the remedies under it, and the remedies that keep appearing across the symptoms you chose are the ones worth reading about properly. James Tyler Kent arranged his by region, from Mind at the front to Generalities at the back, with the modalities under each.

Kent weighted his remedies in three degrees, and the weighting is the part beginners skip. A remedy in the highest degree was confirmed repeatedly in provings and in cure; one in the lowest appeared once or twice. Treating all three as equal is the commonest way a repertorisation goes wrong.

The other thing worth knowing before you start: a large rubric is a weak one. A symptom carried by two hundred remedies barely separates them, and a small characteristic rubric will do more work than several general ones. The pages here show the count for exactly that reason.