HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF REPERTORY

1. History And Evolution
Of Repertory
Dr. Sandip Gurchal MD (Hom)
Assistant Professor
Repertory And Case Taking Department

2. Indispensable To Homeopathic
Practitioner Ie. Repertory

3. COMPUTERISATION OF
REPERTORY
⇢ Today Repertory Has Almost Become An
Indispensable Aid To Homeopathic Practitioner. The
Advent Of Repertory Has Facilitated The Maximum
Utilization Of The Fact Recorded In The Numerous
Pages Of Homeopathic Literature.
⇢ In Practical Application These Numerous Facts Remain
Almost Inaccessible Or Infrequently Utilized For Want
Of A Suitable Device.
⇢ The Utility Of Repertory Has Even Led To Its
Computerization

4. Hahnemanns Efforts
In Making Repertory
As Early As In 1805 His Book
Fragmenta De Viribus Medica
Mentorum Positivis Contained
An Index In Second Part.

5. Hahnemann's
Efforts In Making
Repertory
⇢ He Also Published Another Short
Repertory Aperture Repertory
Symptom Dictionary In 1817 In
Latin
⇢ Dr Richard Hael Wrote About
Master’s Love For REPERTORY
For Professional Use In Consulting
Room And At The Bedside, He
Required And Promoted In Every
Possible Way The Issue Of
Repertories Arrange On Definite
And Clear Plan

6. Hahnemann's Efforts In Making Repertory
⇢ He Had Several Such Ideas Drawn Up
By Himself And Partly Compiled By His
Student In Accordance With His
Instruction.
⇢ In Materia Medica Pura He
Demonstrated Working Of Two Cases
Which Give Some Idea About His
Concept Of Repertorization
⇢ He Wrote In Preamble To Materia
Medica Pura, For The Convenience Of
Treatment We Require Merely To Jot
Down After Each Symptom All The
Medicines Which Can Produce Such A
Symptom With Tolerable Accuracy
Expressing Them By Few You Letters

7. Repertorization By Hahnemann
⇢ Also To Bear In Mind The Circumstances Under
Which They Occur That Have A Determining
Influence On Our Choice And Proceed In The Same
Way With All Other Symptoms Noting By What
Medicine Each Is Excited. From The List So
Prepared We Shall Be Able To Perceive Among The
Medicine Which Homeopathically Covers Most Of
The Symptoms Present Specially The Most Peculiar
And Characteristics Ones And This Is The Remedies
Sought For..He Has Shown How A Repertorization
Can Be Done.

8. Hahnemann's Efforts In Making
Repertory
⇢ Hahnemann's Pupil
⇢ Dr Gross Compiled
To Volume Of
Repertory Which
Never Appeared In
Print

9. Hahnemann's Efforts In Making Repertory
⇢ Another People Pupil
Doctor Record
Appointed By
Honeymoon To
Compile A Repertory
After Working Hard On
It For 8 Years In 1830
Hit Paid One But It
Was Not Found Up To
Mark

10. Hahnemann's Efforts In Making Repertory
⇢ There After Hahnemann
Employed Dr Jahr For
Compiling A Repertory And
He Wrote If God Permits Jahr
will Workout symptom
Dictionary And I Shall
Contribute what I Can
⇢ At A Time Jahr Was
Preparing For His Final
Examination So He Could Not
Afford Much Time For This
Work

11. EARLY REPERTORIES
⇢ Jahr’s repertory Was
Finally Published In 1835
In German Language It
Was three volumes And
Contained 1052 And 1254
And 200 Pages
Respectively
⇢ His Repertory Was
Improved With Successive
Edition Which Made Some
Doctor Believe It To Be
Precursor Of Kent
Repertory

12. Early Repertories
⇢ After Unsuccessful Efforts Of
Dr Gross ,Dr Ruckert Dr Jahr
Von Boennninghausen The Most
Intimate The Disciple of
Hahnemann Made A Serious
Attempt In This Direction Under
Hahnemann's Instruction, His
Pioneering Work Repertory Of
Anti-psoric Medicine Published In
Year 1832 Was Not Only
Successful But It Became
Progenitor Of All The Later
Repertories'

13. Repertory Of Anti-psoric Medicines
The First Repertory Published
⇢ Title
⇢ Systematic Alphabetic Repertory
Of Homeopathic Remedies
⇢ 1832
⇢ Preface By CM Boger
⇢ Introduction By Dr Hahnemann
⇢ Chapter 49
⇢ Gradation 5
Repertory Of Antipsoric Remedies

14. Few Early Repertories
⇢ Dr Hahnemann -Fragmenta De Viribus Medica Mentorum Positivis-
1805
⇢ Dr Hahnemann -A Short Repertory 1814
⇢ Dr Hahnemann - Repertory 2 Volume In German Manuscripts 1828
⇢ Dr Ruckert - A Repertory 1829
⇢ Dr Boenninghausen Repertory Of Anti-psoric Medicines 1832
⇢ Dr Boenninghausen Repertory Of Medicines Which Are Not Anti
Psoric 1835
⇢ Dr Boenninghausen An Attempt At Showing Relative Kinship Of
Remedies
⇢ Dr Boenninghausen Therapeutic Pocket Book 1846