BOENNINGHAUSEN’S

CHARACTERISTICS

MATERIA MEDICA

&

REPERTORY

WITH WORD INDEXC.M. BOGER, M.D.

DR SALINI MANDAL B.G

MD REPERTORY

FMHMC

Dr. C. M. Boger Life & Work

DR. C. M. Boger M.D. was a leading practitioner

& prominent homoeopathic physician of U.S.A.

BIRTH: Was born in Western Pennsylvania, son of

Cyrus & Isabelle Maxwell Boger.

EDUCATION: Elementary education in public

school of lebanon

GRADUATION: In pharmacy: from Philadelphia

college of pharmacy . In medicine: from Hahnmann

medical college of Philadelphia

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MEDICAL PRACTICE: Settled in

Parkersburg W.Va in 1888 . During his long

practice &carrier in medical practice

&research, Dr Boger contributed a lot by his

writings & successful treatment of incurable

cases. It is said that patients used to report

to him from various parts of U.S.A. because

of his ability to prescribe right medicine even

in incurable cases marked with common

symptoms.

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MARRIGE: Married thrice:

•1st marriage: 1st daughter died young

•2nd marriage: 4 sons &5 daughters

(lost 3 sons &1 daughter.

3rd marriage: with secretary & constant

helper(Anna M.BogerDEATH: passed away on 2nd Sept. 1935 at

the age of 74. He died from food poisoning

after eating a tin of home-pressured

tomatoes

CONTRIBUTIONS: Boger’s synoptic key

BBCR

The times of the remedies & moon phases

Boninghausen’s antipsorics

General analysis with card index

Bogers diphtheria (homoeopathic therapeutics)

Studies in homoeopathic philosophy of healing

Collected works of Boger (Editor: Robert

Bannan)

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• Dr.C.M .Boger was a leading practitioner

of united states in early part of 20th

century.

• He was student and follower of

Dr.Boenninghausen.

• In 1900 he translated Repertory of

Antipsoric Remedies.

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• During the process of translation work, he got thoroughly acquainted with Boenninghausen’s basic principles, plan and constructions, comprehensibility and practicability.

• Boenninghausen’s characteristics and repertory was published by Boericke and Tafel in 1905, in German language.

• Second Indian edition published in 1952 and third edition in 1972

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This work is a condensation of all

Boenninghausen’s work into a single

volume…

There is 140 remedy Materia medica

along with the repertory…

2 parts…

◦ 1st part – Characteristics of medicines

◦ 2nd part – Repertory proper…

First published in 1905

Need for

In the second half of the 19th

century… Boenninghausen’s work

was of great importance but later

when Kent’s repertory came, it

receded to the back stage, and all his

work was overlooked

Finally Boger brought it back to life by

refining and enriching the

fundamentals and recasting the

structure and methodology…

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Apsorics

Antipsorics

Sides of the body

Repertory part of intermittent fever

Whooping cough

Aphorisms of hippocrates

Materia medica

Deals with the chracteristics of the 140

remedies…

Prominent symptoms in bold

A section called Concordances

which lists the relationship of 125

remedies…

Concept of totality

Changes of personality and

temperamant (Quis)

Peculiarities of disease (Quid)

The seat of the disease (Ubi)

Concomitants (quibis Auxillis)

The cause (Cur)

Modalities (Quomodo)

Time (Quando)

PHILOSOPHICAL

BACKGROUND

• Doctrine of complete symptom and

concomittants.

• Doctrine of pathological general.

• Doctrine of causation and time.

• Evaluation of remedies.

• Fever totality.

• Concordances

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DOCTRINE OF COMPLETE

SYMPTOMS AND

CONCOMITANTS…

Borrowed the idea of complete symptom

from Boenninghausen.

A complete symptom is that which

consists of Location, Sensation and

Modalities.

During the interview unreasonable

attendants of main symptoms are also

noticed in relation to time which are

called concomitants…

The concomitants help in

differentiating one case form another,

and one remedy from another.

DOCTRINE OF

PATHOLOGICAL GENERALS General changes in the tissues amd

part of the body.

It tells us the state of the whole body

and its changes in relation to the

constitution.

They help us to concentrate on more

concrete changes to select the

similimum.

“SENSATIONS AND COMPLAINTS”

Eg..

DOCTRINE OF CAUSATION

AND TIME From the point of view of Boger,

causation and time factors are more definite and reliable in cases as well as in medicines.

In each chapter he has included time aggravation.

gives more importance to Causation and General modalities followed by General sensations which hold the key in the remedy as well as in the person.

EVALUATION OF REMEDIES

He introduced the grading of

symptoms into five ranks by the use of

different typography:

CAPITAL – 5

Bold – 4

Italics – 3

Roman – 2

(Roman) – (1) – rarely used

FEVER TOTALITY

Unique contribution of Boger.

Each stage of fever is followed by

Time, Aggravation, Amelioration, and

Concomitants.

They should be arranged properly in

order to get similimum with the help of

Bogers repertory.

CONCORDANCES

It deals with the relationship of

medicines of only 125 remedies.

Boger found so many difficulties in day

to day use of Therapeutic Pocket

Book, and so he tried to modify the

structure and content of the book by

adding many medicines and rubrics

drawn from his own experiences and

other sources…

SOURCES…

Repertory of antipsorics

Therapeutic pocket book

Sides of the body

Repertory part of the Intermittent fever

and of Whooping cough

Aphorisms of hippocrates

1. MIND

2. SENSORIUM

3. VERTIGO

4. HEAD

5. EYES

6. EARS

7. NOSE

8. FACE

9. TEETH

10. MOUTH

11. APPETITE

12. THIRST

13. TASTE

14. ERUCTATION

15. WATERBRASH AND HEARTBURN

16. HICCOUGH

17. NAUSEA AND VOMITING

18. STOMACH

19. HYPOCHONDRIA

20. ABDOMEN

21. INGUINAL AND PUBIC REGION

22. FLATULENCE

23. STOOL

24. ANUS AND RECTUM CONDITIONS

25. PERINEUM

26. PROSTATE GLAND

27. URINE

28. URINARY ORGANS

29. GENITALIA

30. SEXUAL IMPULSE

31. MENSTRUATION

32. RESPIRATION

33. COUGH

34. LARYNX AND TRACHEA

35. VOICE AND SPEECH

36. NECK AND EXTERNAL

37. CHEST INNER

38. BACK SCAPULAR

39. UPPER EXTRIMITIES

40. LOWER EXTRIMITIES

41. SENSATIONS AND COMPLAINTS IN GENARAL

42. GLANDS

43. BONES

44. SKIN AND EXTERIOR

45. SLEEP(FALLING ASLEEP)

46. FEVER PATHOLOGICAL

47. BLOOD

48. HEAT AND FEVER IN GENERAL

49. SWEAT

50. COMPOUND FEVER

51. CONDITIONS IN GENERAL

52. CONDITIONS OF AGG AND AMEL IN GENERAL

53. CONCORDANCES

54 – WORD INDEX…

The chapters can be classifies in 2

groups:

◦ General section

◦ Regional section

Location

Sensation

Modalities

Concomitants

Cross refernces

Subsections in a chapter

Location

Sensation

Time

Aggravation

Amelioration

Concomitants

Cross - Reference

ARRANGEMENT…

In most of the chapters… it starts with

general rubric…

Location rubrics are followed by

subdivisions of parts

Sensations in alphabetical order

Time, aggravation, amelioration,

concomitant and cross reference as

separate sub sections

TYPOGRAPHY

Main rubrics: Bold letters

Sub rubrics: italics

In regional sections: abbreviations of

locations are mentioned in italics.

Right and left given as L or R (26)

Side affinity for some medicines as (l)

or (r) – pg 260

SPECIAL FEATURES

Complete symptom

Fever chapter

Pathological generals

Aggravation and amelioration in

general

Cross refernce