(1861-1935)
Dr. Cyrus Maxwell Boger was
born on May 13, 1861 in western Pennsylvania, the son of Cyrus and Isabelle
Maxwell Boger.
He graduated in pharmacy
from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and later in medicine from Hahnemann
Medical College of Philadelphia.
He settled in Parkersburg in
1888 and engaged himself in the practice of medicine, patients consulting him
from neighboring states and from distant states and countries.
He devoted all his time to
teaching and writing but never gave up his practice. However, he frequently
lectured before scientific audiences at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati
and was a teacher of philosophy, Materia Medica, and repertory study in the
American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School from 1924 until his
death.
CONTRIBUTION
v
He was a devoted
follower of the Boenninghausen method of a repertory study. Boger, a German
scholar, brought Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the
English Language in 1905 - Boger Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
v
Edition of
Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book
v
Boenninghausen's
Antipsorics
v
Studies in the
Philosophy of Healing
v
Study of Materia Medica
and Case Taking
v
Boger's Diphtheria, The
Homoeopathic Therapeutics of
v
A Synoptic Key of the
Materia Medica
v
General Analysis with
Card Index
v
Samarskite-A Proving
v
The Times of the
Remedies and Moon Phases - which characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of
the Symptoms and their Remedies
v
Alphabetic Repertory of
Homoeopathic Remedies
v
Editor of Homoeopathic
Recorder
He died on September 2,
1935, aged 74, from food poisoning after eating a tin of home-preserved
tomatoes.
DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)
www.homeopathyspace.com