COMPLETE REPERTORY TO THE HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA  DISEASES OF THE EYES  
By E.W. BERRIDGE

 

This repertory was published in 1873.

The main basis of this repertory is Hering’s Materia Medica. It also includes additional symptoms from later provings, cases of poisonings and clinical symptoms from experience.

 

Berridge says – “Hahnemann and Boenninghausen insisted upon necessity of having the medicines in a repertory distinguished by different types to show their relative value, but such classification has been entirely arbitrary. The plan I propose is based entirely on the proving, not on the clinical experience of any one individual and shows the relative frequency with which any symptom has been produced compared with every other symptom of the Materia Medica.”

 

Plan given by the author for future adoption:
Count the number of distinct Pathogenetic symptoms of each medicine obtained from different provers irrespective of their conditions and concomitants, those symptoms being considered distinct which are given as such in this repertory.
Thus if ' dilated pupils ' has been produced by a medicine on 20 different provers, it is counted as 20 different symptoms ; but if 20 times in the same prover only as one, even though the conditions and concomitants should vary each time .

 

TYPOGRAPHY

5 marks – ITALIC CAPITAL

4 marks – PLAIN CAPITAL

3 marks - Italic

2 marks – Roman letter

1 mark – Roman (Bracketed) – doubtful symptom

 

If the total number of provers upon whom a symptom of any medicine has occurred amounts to 1- 25th of the total number of symptoms of the medicines obtained (as stated above), the medicine producing that symptom is placed in the first rank.
If from 1 - 50th to 1 - 25th …..2nd rank
If from 1 - 75th to 1 - 50th …..3rd rank
If below 1- 75th …… 4 rank

 


CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOOK:

·         Preface

·         Synonyms

·         List of medicines

 

Section 1 - Symptoms
A – Functions
B – Anatomical regions
C – General character, sequence, direction

D – right side
E – left side

Section 2 - Conditions
Aggravations
Ameliorations

·         Appendix

·         Index

 

The total number of medicines used in this repertory is 1171.

 

As our Materia Medica is still incomplete, we are often obliged to select the remedy to a certain extent by analogy; hence we require a collective view of the medicines acting on any organ which agree as to specific character, anatomical regions, general character, sequence, direction, sides and conditions.

 

To make the 'conditions ' as useful as possible, one requires to show -

·         The conditions belonging to any symptom in the whole body

·         Those belonging to the organ generally

·         Those belonging to each anatomical region

·         Those belonging to each variety of symptom in the organ irrespective of the sub region to which it belongs

·         Those belonging to each symptom separately



 

DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)

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