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Homeopathic Books

Reprints of many of the books below - if not all of them - may be had from Indian publishers. There are other publishers in other countries too. Some of the books are on-line. This is a selection. - Tormod Kinnes.

Herbert A. Roberts, MD. The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy
Dr. Roberts:
"We believe that homoeopathy has no standing if it cannot be definitely proven that it stands firmly upon the basis of fundamental natural laws."
"It has been our aim ... to set forth the principles underlying the practice of Hahnemannian homoeopahy (so) that they could be grasped ..."

Glen Irving Bidwell, MD. How to use the repertory
Bidwell uses Kent's Repertory (below) as his basis. He presents gist from Samuel Hahnemann's Organon (below) first, as he considers that knowledge essential for the art and practice leading into individualised attention and so on.

William Boericke, MD. Homeopathic Materia Medica
Spoken well of by presumably most homeopaths today.

Oscar E. Boericke, MD. Repertory
This is the second part of the "Boericke and Boericke" text. The author fondles the idea of one repertory,
"It is only by the persistent use of one repertory, that its peculiar and intricate arrangements gradually crystallizes itself in definite outline, in the mind of the student ..., and thus he attains the ready ease and practical insight ..." - Oscar Boericke.

Professor Selden Haines Talcott, AM, MD, Ph.D. Compendium: Mental diseases and their modern treatment
Dr. Talcott selected sixty-six homeopathic remedies for their alleged work on the mind, on mental symptoms.
When the physical ailments of a Materia Medica are left out, you have a list of mental symptoms. Dr. Talcotts remedies are described in many sources.

Oscar Boericke, MD, MD, Ph.D. Mind Repertory (French: Dossier Psychiatrie Mind - Repertoire de Boericke
The mental symptoms of his repertory are given, and with remedies to look into. It's all presented by Dr Robert Séror and well worth a peep.

James Tyler Kent, AM, MD. Lectures on homoeopathic Materia Medica
Dr. Kent: "Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura, Hering's Guiding Symptoms, and the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica have been the works that have given the most help in these studies. (...) It is tedious and drudgery at best." - Dr. James T. Kent, in his preface.

James Tyler Kent, MD. Kent's Repertory
"The method of working out a case from generals to particulars is the most satisfactory. (...)
After taking the case according to the lines laid down in the Organon (below, §§ 83-140), write out all the mental symptoms and all symptoms and conditions predicated of the patient himself and search the Repertory for symptoms that correspond to these. (...)
Physicians are requested to send in verified and clinical symptoms." - Dr. Kent in his preface.

James Tyler Kent, MD. What the doctor needs to know in order to make a successful prescription
"Homoeopathy does not treat fever or any other disease in the abstract, but applies medicine to the individual personality in that condition which produces or causes fever. (...)
Certain symptoms are always present in any given disease; these point alone to the name of the disease.
In every given disease there is another class of symptoms peculiar to the individual and differing in some way from those of other cases of the same disease; these symptoms show the individual characteristics of the patient and point unerringly to the curative homoeopathic remedy." - Dr. Kent in his introduction

C.M. Boger, MD. Boenninghausens Characteristics - Materia Mecica
One of the most noteworthy of the early practitioners of Homoeopathy was Clemens Maria Franz, Baron von Boenninghausen. He won fame for good thinking.

Timothy F. Allen, AM, MD. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
The professor holds up four ways of getting insight into the effects of homeopathic remedies:

Experiments on healthy individuals for the purpose of noting the affects of the drug [which a potentised remedy evolves from].
Effects observed after poisonous doses (accidentally or maliciously administered).
Symptoms (cautiously admitted) observed in the sick after the administration of the drug.
Symptoms never observed as affects of drug-action [ie chemical action], but repeatedly verified clinically.

"The work is now offered to the profession with the hope that, by its accuracy and completeness, it will advance the healing art". - T.F. Allen in his introduction.

Aldo Farias Dias MD, compiler. Allen's Clinical Hints compiled from T.F. Allen's Handbook
Different homeopath select or prefer remedies differently. They also weigh remedies differently and come up with divergent pinpointings. Have a look at the Allen hints as you like.

Samuel Hahnemann: Organon
The one who started homeopathy wrote in 1810: "The results of my convictions are set forth in this book." He revised them in a sixth edition from ca 1842, a work that unfortunately did not come much to light for a long time.
The fifth and sixth editions are brought together in this volume. It is a historical document.

Samuel Hahnemann. Chronic diseases
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann thought well of his healing system, "Homoeopathy, the great gift of God! (...)
This teaching was founded upon the steadfast pillar of truth and will evermore be so. The attestation of its excellence, yea, of its infallibility (so far as this can be predicated of human affairs), it has laid before the eyes of the world through facts." - Samuel Hahnemann.

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