HOMOEOPATHY - BOGER BOENINGHAUSENS CHARACTERISTICS AND REPERTORY

2. BOENNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTICS
MATERIA MEDICA
&
REPERTORY
WITH WORD INDEX
C.M. BOGER, M.D.
DR SALINI MANDAL B.G
MD REPERTORY
FMHMC

5. 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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6.  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.Boger
DEATH: passed away on 2nd Sept. 1935 at
the age of 74. He died from food poisoning
after eating a tin of home-pressured
tomatoes

8. 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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10. • 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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11. • 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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12.  This work is a condensation of all
Boenninghausen’s work into a single
volume…
 There is 140 remedy Materia medica
along with the repertory…

13.  2 parts…
◦ 1st part – Characteristics of medicines
◦ 2nd part – Repertory proper…
 First published in 1905

14. 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

17. 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…

18. 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)

20. 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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21. 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…

22.  The concomitants help in
differentiating one case form another,
and one remedy from another.

23. 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..

24. 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.

25. 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

26. 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.

27. CONCORDANCES
 It deals with the relationship of
medicines of only 125 remedies.

29.  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…

30. SOURCES…
 Repertory of antipsorics
 Therapeutic pocket book
 Sides of the body
 Repertory part of the Intermittent fever
and of Whooping cough
 Aphorisms of hippocrates

32. 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

33. 17. NAUSEA AND
VOMITING
18. STOMACH
19. HYPOCHONDRI
A
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

34. 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

35. 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. CONCORDANCE
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36.  54 – WORD INDEX…

37.  The chapters can be classifies in 2
groups:
◦ General section
◦ Regional section
 Location
 Sensation
 Modalities
 Concomitants
 Cross refernces

38. Subsections in a chapter
 Location
 Sensation
 Time
 Aggravation
 Amelioration
 Concomitants
 Cross - Reference

39. 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

40. 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

44. SPECIAL FEATURES
 Complete symptom
 Fever chapter
 Pathological generals
 Aggravation and amelioration in
general
 Cross refernce