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BOOK REVIEW ON
BOGER
BOENNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARECTERISTICS AND
REPERTORY

PRESENTED BY
Dr. NARJIS P
1ST MD

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• Author:C.M .Boger
• Full name: Boger Boenninghausens’s
characteristics and repertory with corrected &
revised abbreviations & word index
• Publisher:B.Jain publishers, IBPP
• Printers:J.J offset printers
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• First edition: 1905,by Boericke and Tafel
• Second edition: 1937 (first Indian edition)
• Second Indian edition: 1952
• Third Indian edition: 1972
• Price:320
• utilitarian group(based on the concept of particular to
general)

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 Born on may 13,1861
 Western pennssylvania
 Son of Cyrus and Isabella Maxwell
 Early education from Lebanon
 Philadelphia college of pharmacy
 Philadelphia college of medicine
 Hahnemanian homoeopathic medical
college Philadelphia

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 Cont……

• Comes to Parkersburg in1888

• In correspondence with dhawalae

• Died on sep 2 ,1935,at the age of 74

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 CONTRIBUTIONS

• A synoptic key to materia medica-1915

• Translation of antipsoric repertory

• Times of remedies and moon phases-1906

• Card repertory-1928

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 Cont …..

• Proving of samarskite

• 105 pages of additions to Kent's repertory

• Boger’s diphtheria

• BBCR-1905
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• Study of materia medica and art of case taking

• Studies in philosophy of healing

• General analysis-1928

• Repertory of symptoms of ovaries

• Analysis of symptoms in different manner

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 Evolution
• He accepted boenninghausen’s way
• Was against doctrine of grand generalization
• Preferred repertory of antipsoric medicine
• He added many rubrics new chapters and 17
new remedies

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SOURCE BOOKS
Therapeutic pocket book

Whooping cough

Repertory of antipsoric medicines

Aphorisms of Hippocrates

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CONT…….

o Intermittent fever

o Sides of body

o Domestic physician

o Repertory of apsoric medicine

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 EDITIONS

First 1905 Boericke

2nd edition 1937 Roy and 1st Indian

1952 Roy and 2nd Indian

1972 B.Jain 3rd Indian

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PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND

1. Doctrine of complete symptoms

• Location

• Sensation

• Modality

• concomitants

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 Doctrine of pathological general
• General tendencies of the tissues for
abnormal changes

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 Doctrine of causation and time
• Causation in chapter agg & ame

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 Doctrine of clinical rubrics
• To arrive a group of medicines

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 Doctrine of fever totality
• This is the unique contribution of boger
• Time, agg, amel and concomitant follow each
stage of fever
• Blood, circulation and pathological type of
fever
• They helps to repertorise any simple as well as
complicated cases of fever

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 Doctrine of concordance
• For second prescription

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 Plan and construction
• Adopted basic plan of repertory of antipsoric
medicine

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 1. Mind
2. Sensorium
3. Vertigo
4. Head
 Internal
 external

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 5.Eyes
• Eye brows
• Orbits
• Eye lids
• Canthi
• vision

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 6.Ears
Hearing
7.Nose
Smell
Coryza

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 8.Face
Lips
Lower jaw and maxillary
Chin
9.Teeth
10.Mouth
Palate
Throat & gullet
Saliva
tongue

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 11.Appetite
12.Thirst
13.Taste
14.Eructation
15.Water brash & heartburn
16.hiccough

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17.Nausea & vomitting
18.Stomach
Epigastrium
19.Hypochondria
20.abdomen

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21.Inguinal & pubic region
22.Flatulence
23.Stool
24.Anus & rectum
25.Perineum
26.Prostrate gland

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 27.Urine

Sediment

Micturition

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28.Urinary organs
Kidney
Ureter
Bladder
Urethra
meatus

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 29.Genitalia
Male organs
Penis
Glans
Prepuce
Spermatic cord
Testis
Scrotum
Female organs

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30.Sexual impulse
31.Menstruation
Leucorrhoea
32.Respiration
Impeded by
33.Cough
Excited/agg by
expectoration

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 34.Larynx & trachea
35.Voice & speech
36.Neck & external throat
nape

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 37.Chest
Inner
External
Axilla
Mammae
Nipple
Heart & region

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 38.Back
Scapular region
Back proper dorsal
region
Lumbar region
Small of back in general
Sacrum & coccyx
Spinal column &
vertebra

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39.Upper extremities
40.Lower extremities

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41.Sensation & complaints
in general
42.Glands
43.Bones
44.Skin & exterior of the
body

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45.sleep(falling asleep)
Position during
Walking
Dreams
46.Fever pathological
types

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47.Blood
Circulation
Palpitation
Heart beat
pulse

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 Chill
Partial chill
Coldness
Partial coldness
Shivering
48.Heat & fever in general
49.Sweat
Partial sweat

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 50.Compound fever
Beginning with chill
Beginning with shivering
Beginning with heat
Beginning with sweat

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 51.Conditions in general-
time
52. Conditions of agg & ame
in general
53.concordance

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 Arrangement of rubrics
• Rubric in general
• medicines are capable of producing different
types of symptoms in relation to the organ or
location.

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 Chapter division
• Location
• Sensation
• Time
• Aggravation
• Amelioration
• Concomitants
• Cross-references

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•Main rubrics in bold letter

•Sub rubrics in italics

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 BOGER’S CONCEPT OF TOTALITY
• Change of personality and temperament
• Peculiarity of the disease
• Seat of the disease
• Concomitants
• The cause
• Modality

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ABOUT BOOK IN DETAIL

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 CONTENTS
• FOREWORD H.A ROBBERT

• INTRODUCTION TO BBCR H.A ROBERT

• LIFE HISTORY OF BOENNINGHAUSEN T.L BRADFORD

• PREFACE C.M BOGER

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 CONT…..
• CONTENTS
• MATERIA MEDICA PART
• REPERTORY PROPER
• WORD INDEX S.P ROY

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 In reprint edition
• Boger’s life history tiwari

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 A COMMENTARY BY TIWARI
• Introduction
• Philosophic back ground
• Plan and construction
• Arrangement
• Importance and use of sub section
• Pathological general

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• Referring some important rubrics
• Boger’s concept of totality
• Methods of repertorisation
• Cases worked out with bbcr
• special features of repertory

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• Mental rubrics in bbcr
• Criticism
• List of medicines used in BBCR&TPB
Medicine index: S.K Tiwari

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 FOREWORD
• Evaluation of remedies in relation to individual
symptoms
• Doctrine of concomitants
• Bbcr is based on antipsoric repertory

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Introduction to bbcr

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 Life history of boenninghausen
• T.L Bradford

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 preface
• On the use of repertories
• Choosing the remedies
• The repetition of the dose
• The homoeopathic prognosis

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 On the use of the repertories
• Repertory is essentially an index and is used
for discovering particular symptoms and
grouping remedies containing similar
combination in pathogenesis.

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• Such groups are thinned out by eliminating all
the remedies which lack essential, general and
special regional condition.

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 Choosing the remedies
1. Change of personality and temperament
2. Nature and peculiarity of disease
3. Seat of disease
4. Concomitants
5. The cause
6. Modalities
7. Time

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 Change of personality and
temperament
• Alteration in personality and temperament
• Moral and intellectual characters

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 Nature and Peculiarity of the disease
• To exclude medicines which do not
correspond to the nature of disease.

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 Seat of the disease:
• To select medicines which are capable of
acting on that particular organ.

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 Concomitants
• Rarely found with main condition or under
same condition in proving
• Belonging to another sphere
• Distinctive features of some drug

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 cause
• Internal • External
• Miasms • External impression

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 Modalities
• Natural modifiers of disease

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 Time

• 1. Periodical return of the symptoms after a

• 2. The hour of the day, when they are better

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 The repetition of the dose
• A single dose is necessary.
• Primary & secondary action repeat
alternatively
• Not in scarlet fever ,small pox

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 Follow-up
• Change in state of illness
• It remains the same

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 When it is >
• Wait
• At first >, then no change same
remedy

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 When it is <
• Homoeopathic < wait
• Severe < antidote
• No antidote smaller dose of same
medicine

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 Change in symptom complex
• Prescription must be changed
• Remove obstacles to cure

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• For want of receptivity give smaller dose of
medicine for deficient reaction

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 The homoeopathic prognosis
• if the reaction remains absent or the
symptoms which are foreign to appear during
the operation of the drug the prognosis is
most grave.

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 The signs used
• * paragraph from BTPB as altered
by Dunham copy
• + new paragraph
• ‘ attached to single abbreviations &
has been inserted as true pathogenetic
symptoms.

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 Contents
• List of medicines.
• Name of chapters and subchapters

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• Medicine index by S.K Tiwari

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 MATERIA MEDICA PART
• No of medcine:140
• Grade :2
• Italics and ordinary roman

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• Symptoms of each drug from mind to fever
section
• Allied remedies
• Complimentary
• Antidote

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 Duration of action of remedies
• From the notes of herring confirmed by
boenninghausen

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 5 types
1. Shortest action:eg aconite,coffea etc
2. Briefaction:arnica,bry etc
3. Medium duration of action:ambr,anac etc.
4. Long acting remedies:ars,ferr etc
5. Very long and deep acting remedies:calc-c,sul
etc

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 Important hints
• 12 observations of Kent

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 Repertory proper
• 53 chapters , actually 58
• 359 medicines
• 464 medicines as index prepared by Tiwari
• But actually 478
• 125 medicines in concordance section

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 5 grades
• CAPITAL : 5 MARK [ARS}

• Bold roman: 4 mark [ars]

• Italics :3 mark [ars]

• Ordinary roman:2 mark ars

• (Roman parenthesis):1 mark (ars)

• Cancerous cachexia :(radium)

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• Name of chapters in dark capitals at the
centre of the page
• Subsection name of chapters at the
top of the page left side.
• Subchapters on the right side
• Sub chapters in ordinary capital
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 Word index
• S.P Roy

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 Merits

• Complete symptoms in each chapter

• Pathological rubrics in advanced cases

• Fever section

• Rubric infant affections for the problems of

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 Cont….
• Very elaborate concomitant sections
• Cross ref of each subsection
• New rubrics in mind chapter

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 Demerits
• 125 medicines in concordance
• No definite order for the arrangement of
chapters
• Similar rubrics in different sections
• Some in formation available in synoptic key is
not found in repertory

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 Cont……
• Nosodes are not well represented
• Chapter with out subchapters (stomach,
prostrate)
• Concomitants only in 22 chapters
• Cross reference only in 18 chapters
• Sensorium is not alphabetical in order

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• No general rubric for pain

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 Working method
• According to Boger when symptoms are
pointing to one particular remedy and if
modalities do not agree it will not be indicated
and we have to select another remedy having
same modalities

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 Evaluation of the symptoms
• Modalities
• Mind
• Sensations
• Objective aspect
• Part affected

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 Modalities
• Causation, time, temperature, weather, open
air, posture, motion, eating and drinking,
sleep, if alone, pressure, touch, discharge.

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 Mind
• Irritability, sadness, fear.

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 Sensations
• Burning, cutting, cramping, thirst

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 Objective aspect
• Demeanor, restlessness, nervous excitability,
facial expression, torpor, secretion, color,
odour

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 Parts affected
• Organ, right, left

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 Robert’s method
• We consider complete symptoms

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 Reference
• BBCR
• A REFERENCE TO REPERTORIES FOR
HOMOEOPATHIC STUDENT BY Dr. siju p.v
• REPERIRE
• SYNOPTIC KEY

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