Boger's Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931 · 302 remedies with a page here
A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
Cyrus Maxwell Boger built the Synoptic Key to be used beside a repertory rather than read. Its remedy sections are terse to the point of shorthand, weighted towards generals, sensations and modalities — the things Boger held to be more reliable than particular local symptoms.
It covers a middle-sized set of remedies in a compressed form, which makes it useful for scanning several remedies quickly when a repertorisation has left you with a shortlist rather than an answer.
Boger died in 1935, which places the work in the public domain in India. The transcription used here carries no title page or imprint and does not state which edition it follows; the catalogue records 1931.
Reach for this one when: You are working from generals and modalities rather than from a striking particular.
Create a free account — read all six books side by sideEvery remedy in Boger
302 remedies. Each page carries what this book says, alongside the other public-domain Materia Medicas that cover the same remedy.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
X
Z
The other books
- Boericke's Homoeopathic Materia Medica — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Allen's Keynotes and Characteristics — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Farrington's Clinical Materia Medica — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Source and copyright status. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it. This is a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.