A major change is that the rubrics have been re-translated from the German. In October 2000, the English version, The Boenninghausen Repertory: The Pocket Book Method (TBR), edited by George Dimitriadis was released. It is pocket-book in size, beautifully printed and bound, and it adheres to the layout of the previous editions of the work. med Klaus-Henning Gypser published the German Therapeutic Pocketbook, Revised Edition 2000. The only additions which have been made were gleaned directly from Boenninghausen’s later writings and from additions he made to his Repertory as reportedly collected by Carroll Dunham. Therefore, all the Allen additions have been removed from this edition. This edition is the work of a group of six homeopaths and has taken more than five years to come to fruition.Īlthough Allen added a good number of remedies to his translation (and took a few out), the group thought that none of these additions could be confirmed and it was unknown whether Boenninghausen would have added the same remedies in the same places. Hayes, in an obituary of Erastus Case, said of him: “Apparently he used all repertories, using one or another to some reason of his own, not accepting the belief that Kent’s swallowed all the others…Of Boenninghausen’s, ‘I use Kent’s every day at my desk, but for hard chronic cases I always go to Boenninghausen.'”Īfter years of disuse, The Boenninghausen Therapeutic Pocket Book has finally been resurrected. Knerr is the least of all available and the most reliable.”Īnd Royal E. Boenninghausen is less available, but more reliable. Kent is the most readily available and the least, to me, reliable. We have three repertories, Kent, Boenninghausen, and Knerr. It is indispensable to us, but I never rely on prescribing on it.
Alfred Pulford compared repertories: “I bought seven copies of Kent’s Repertory and I wouldn’t be without it as an index. I had Lee’s Repertory long before Kent’s was ever published and never could make a great use of it and when I got Kent’s I didn’t make so much more use of it, at that.”ĭr.
Boger says, “I am free to say I have never been able to follow Kent literally at all, but Kent less than Boenninghausen. In an article about repertories in the Homoeopathic Recorder in October 1932, Cyrus M. Yet, on the other side, we see some of the past great prescribers have had similar problems with the Kent book. Yet on the other side, we see that some of the past great prescribers have had similar problems with the Kent book. Kent, in his writings, admits that he could not use the Boenninghausen method and it made no sense to him. Part of the problem is that the two books approach casetaking in a very different way. Allan Sutherland, and when he died in 1980, instruction in the book ceased at the NCH course in Millersville-the training ground for most American homeopaths at the time.Īlthough Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard wrote a useful piece called “Rubrics in Boenninghausen Not to be Found in Kent” in the August 1956 issue of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, those who have tried to use the Pocket Book as they would the Kent Repertory became lost and discouraged. The last of the Boenninghausen users in the USA was Dr. The method, as described in the introduction, is not very clearly stated.
Yet, despite its accessibility as a book, the use of the book had remained fairly inaccessible unless one was fortunate enough to study with an old prescriber who knew how to use it. The recent Indian editions are of the same book. Roberts, a devotee of Boenninghausen, wrote a long article about how to use the book which was included in all subsequent printings of the Allen work by Boericke and Tafel. It was translated into English by a number of people-Okie in 1847, Hempel in 1847, T. The Boenninghausen Therapeutic Pocket Book was first printed in 1846, and was the end result of Boenninghausen’s work. Now, it is fitting that the first repertory to be printed in this new millennium is again by Boenninghausen. The first homeopathic repertory ever printed was the Repertory of Anti-Psoric Medicines by Boenninghausen in 1832.