hallo Felix
george Dimitriadis version of the Therapeutic pocketbook bears about the same relationship which is between Synthesis and Kent's rep.
Gradings have been changed, rubrictitles changed, the rubrics have been reorganized, and the remedy relationships replaced by much cruder ones published 1854. complete rubrics have dissapereared. By right it should be named Dimitriadis repertory and used in its own right.
there is however no Original version available in English at the moment. the Allen's version suffers the same problems like the dimitriadis version. My students therefore work with a facsimile reprint of the original german version 1846 and write the rubrictitles over the german ones.
i feel that in a tool developed to such a highly sophisticated standard it is neccesary to first know the exact meaning of the grading, the rubrics etc. before making any changes. the accuracy and therefor reliability is easily destroyed with efforts like dimitriadis,s and Allen's. Likewise the Boennrep computerprogram suffers too many mistakes to be called reliable.
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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath
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