A

REPERTORY

OF

HERING'S GUIDING SYMPTOMS

OF OUR

MATERIA MEDICA

BY

CALVIN B. KNERR, M.D.

PHILADELPHIA:

Published by the F. A. Davis Co. for the Estate of Constantine Hering.

"Separate, Yet Combined."

COPYRIGHT, 1896, W. E. HERING.

In Memoriam

OF

Constantine Hering,

THE MORE THAN FATHER, FRIEND, ADVISER, TEACHER,

IN

RECOGNITION OF HIS UNTIRING EFFORTS TO INSPIRE HIS FELLOW MEN

WITH A HIGHER KNOWLEDGE OF HOMŒOPATHY

AND A

DEEPER REVERENCE FOR THE GENIUS

OF

Hahnemann,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY AND REVERENTLY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

THE order of arrangement, or method of classification, followed in the compilation of this repertory is the one inaugurated by Hahnemann, developed, perfected and used by Hering throughout his entire Materia Medica work, viz.: the anatomical, or regional division into forty-eight chapters.

It is the only alphabetic arrangement possible that will not scatter and separate what should be collective and contiguous. Each chapter is alphabetically divided into sections and rubrics sufficient to allow full scope for analysis of the matter contained therein without destroying consistency as a whole. Like to a fugue, a musical composition in which the lesser parts repeat the motive of the entire composition, repetition is progress by evolution or development, or, as expressed by Hering in the introduction to his Analytical Therapeutics, "the comprehension of general principles, ruling the whole in every part, enables the mind to find the way through thickets of endless varying symptoms."

The division of the page into double columns is deemed most convenient for the eye and is most advantageous to economy of space.

The section word is repeated down the column in preference to the customary ——, which, like all marks of abbreviation, ciphers, signs, etc., are apt to become confusing and are not as space-saving as might be supposed. The words right and left, better and worse, etc., etc., to avoid possible error, are printed out in full.

The rubric word, or heading to each paragraph, printed in somewhat bolder and blacker type and followed by a : (colon), applies to each symptom in the paragraph, that is, the black-letter word is to be mentally repeated for every sentence rounded with a semicolon. It will be observed that the symptoms under each rubric follow in alphabetic order.

The four marks of distinction, [single light line], [double light line], [single heavy line], [double heavy line], have the same significance as set down in Guiding Symptoms: [single light line], the lowest, a single light line, designating an occasionally confirmed symptom; [double light line], a double light line, a symptom more frequently confirmed, or, if but once confirmed, strictly in character with the genius of the remedy; [single heavy line], a single heavy line, symptom verified by cures; [double heavy line], a double heavy line, symptom repeatedly verified. These degree marks tally in the main with the four styles of type used by Bœnninghausen in his Repertory. I have also made use of them in giving prominence to the relative values of remedies occurring in groups, under a general rubric, like dysmenorrhœa, restlessness, rheumatism, etc.

θ, the Greek "theta," standing between the cured symptom and the pathological condition, or the physiological general state, throughout the Guiding

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Symptoms, is dispensed with here, mainly for the purpose of economizing space, by enclosing the pathological or physiological term in parentheses; it is to be remembered that the presence of the term by no means shuts out the usefulness of the symptom in other forms of disease. The prescriber has to deal with both objective and subjective facts, but should always bear in mind that individualization is the life of therapeutics.

[perpendicular dotted line], the perpendicular dotted line, marks observations taken from the Old School, such as harmonize with our law of cure.

†, toxicological extracts. (printed as a dagger-like small cross; the preface sign for "toxicological extracts")

π, symptoms observed on the sick only. (Greek pi)

[pointing hand], the hand directs in cross-reference to related symptoms, diseases and conditions. As no rule of classification is without exceptions, and no single term can be made to cover all shades of related meaning, the synonymic feature of this work should commend itself to the busy practitioner. In tracing these synonyms, which like search-lights are intended to throw light upon the case from all directions, the author has spent much time and labor, but he thinks it time and labor well spent.

The repertory is supplemented by a complete index of localities and terms.

As in the Guiding Symptoms, so in the repertory, original readings, the words of the prover and the clinician are preserved to the letter, it being thought preferable to retain the most delicate shades of meaning, occasionally even different wordings of the same symptom, by taking refuge in an extra rubric or cross-reference, sooner than amalgamate, fuse or commingle in vague generalization at the sacrifice of individuality.

Although the repertory is a faithful reproduction of the Guiding Symptoms, its contents classified and indexed, as a matter of course, in no way can it take the place of the larger work. In a repertory we have separation by analysis for the purpose of classification and ready reference; in Materia Medica, combination by synthesis to enable us to study drug-effects in their grand unity and relationship.

Grateful acknowledgment from the author is due to all who in the last four years have helped him bring the work to completion; to Dr. Joseph C. Guernsey, for valuable assistance with the proofs; to Dr. W. H. Phillips, Messrs. Douty, Ziegler and Field, his son Bayard and others of his family, for clerical assistance; and last but not least, to his brother-in-law, Walter E. Hering, under whose experienced and skilful management, aided by his old and reliable foreman, Wm. Baetzel, the unusually difficult composition and presswork have taken shape.

In a work of this kind the author can lay but small claim to originality.

We have only given the precious stones their setting. They have come from many mines. They have received the polish of years of clinical verification at the hands of our practitioners. Some shine with more brilliancy than others, all reflect the light of wisdom by which we are guided in healing the sick.

CALVIN B. KNERR.

N. E. Cor. Spruce and Twelfth Sts., Philadelphia.

(Abbreviations list, page 1: heading "ABBREVIATIONS." — see abbreviations.json)

(Abbreviations list continued, running head "LIST OF REMEDIES." — see abbreviations.json)

(Abbreviations list continued, running head "LIST OF REMEDIES." — see abbreviations.json)