Hi All,
I'm looking to buy Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book and also, his Repertory.

I already have Lesser Writings .

I found Boenninghausen's Rep on minimum.com - but it costs $135!!!

I found Boenninghausens Therapeutic
Pocket Book (T.Allen) on Ainsworth's site - for only £8!!!! - so I've ordered that one, but it just occured to me - is THIS the one? Hans, Louise?

Does anyone know where to find a copy of Bn's Rep?? If so, could ya let me know - err - for less than $135 - yowsa - a bit steep....

here's hoping,

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Righty! After some more checking...I see there is more than just one. I'm wondering if it the Boger translation that is the best to go for...

Any input welcome ,

PS found a link for shareware - Boenninghausen's Rep software. This isn't the only one - there seemed to be 2 or 3...but I'm gonna give this a try until I can get the book ! http://www.sol.co.uk/u/usher/homeo.exe if anyone is interested

[ 16 June 2001: Message edited by: LisaAnnan ]

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Lisa, if you have the time to wait, B. Jain publishers in India may have this book. They publish the least expensive books on homeopathy available, and they specialise in the old classics.

I can give you an address:
1921, Chuna Mandi, 10th Street
Pahargani, Post Box 5775
New Delhi- 110 055

You may have to rely on snail mail, unless someone else has been able to contact them via email (which they don't print on their books!) but they are worth a try...

Divina

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Thanks Divina ,
I have their catalogue - and am unsure because I don't find the title as I know it . And there is no year that it was orginally published in the catalogue!

Here is what I found:
"Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory Ind, 1262 pgs, hb, Clements Franz Maria von Boenninghausen became one of the most important homeopaths of the 19th century after his tuberculosis was cured by homeo.....This treatise contains a 140 remedy MM with a 963 page Repertory. The Bn method emphasises modalities and the characteristic aspects of symptoms. This Rep has particular utility when the symptoms in the case are incomplete."

No date of publication...just ain't sure about it

BJain's website is bjainindia.com
their email is bjain@vsnl.com

for those who don't have it .....
If I find out more, I'll post here.
I'm realising there are several editions and the newer one - I'm just not interested in (that was the one that is so expensive, BTW - and it isn't because of the cost...just call me a purist )

[ 16 June 2001: Message edited by: LisaAnnan ]

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"The significance of a fact is measured by the capacity of the observer."
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Is this what you were after:

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Displaying books where:
Author is Boenninghausen, Clemens, Baron Von.
Title is BOENNINGHAUSEN'S CHARACTERISTICS AND REPERTORY; Translated, compiled and augmented by C. M. Boger, with a historical sketch of Boenninghausen's life by T. L. Bradford.
Book is used

Matching books for sale Click the price to find out about a choice (Step 3 of 3)

Used Books: 1-1 of 1
# Bookseller Notes Price
1 Reading Matters
via Antiqbook New Delhi. B. Jain Publishers. Revised & enlarged ed., reprinted. 1988. [xx]+1262pp. D/w. Very good. $40.00
( All matching used books shown ) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Go to www.bookfinder.com and type in Boenninghausen's name in the Author (the above was the second search entry) or try www.bibliofind.com. A lot of second hand books can be found there. As the above was listed as $120 as new from BJBain, you could save yourself a lot of money.

Cheers,
S

[ 17 June 2001: Message edited by: Simone ]

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As an aside, I also found this!

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Publisher: 1870.; Boenninghausen, C. von. THE HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF [W]HOOPING COUGH. New York 1870, 199pp. Ex-library. Back strip chipped and torn. Front hinge cracked. First English translation. *** A scarce monograph by the prominent German homeopath.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

For $100 its a rare find apparently.

Cheers,
S

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Got me practically hyperventilating here
Thanks so much Simone!!
Lost my old bookmarks some time back and forgot about those two sites!!!!

Right....going hunting now - wish me luck

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Hi Lisa,

As far as I know, there are various old editions of the Bonninghausen's repertory:
1. The original one: 'Therapeutic Pocket Book' (TPB), first published in 1846. Translated into English by various people. I have one translated by Allen - this seems to be a fairly common one in the market. (It costs me only A$5 here in Sydney!!!)

2. Then there is the Boger's edition. It has many additions. Commonly known as the Boger-Bonninghausen Repertory. This is quite huge in size usually, thicker than a typical notebook.

I got Allen's TPB last year but find it very difficult to use because of the lack of a table of content. Then it sits on the shelf for some time. Until last month, I went to a seminar given George Dimitriadis, a Sydney homeopath. It's the BEST homeoopathic seminar I've been to in the last 2-3 years, because...

George has spent 5 years going through the entire original TPB, verify every remedy under each rubric and make a lot of corrections. He has work with a group led by G-H Gypser in Germany. Finally, their work come out last year with a German edition by Gypser and an English edition by G Dimitriadis. In the seminar, I (and many other students and experienced homeopaths) are well impressed by his meticulous hardwork. He has reorganized the whole repertory to make it more sensible and accessible, written notes for corrections and explanations of EACH rubric, documented all the changes he has made to the book. His aim - was to bring the TPB back to its deserved accuracy as first developed by Bonninghausen.

Dimitriadis claimed that he has been using solely the Bonninghausen's method and the TPB only in the last few years with significantly increased success. The accuracy of the method, the logic of the method was well explained in the seminar (and also in the introduction of the book).

I have been using this new this last month for whatever case I come across (not too much, though, as a final year student and not practising yet). The results and working process are much effective than before.

If you're after an accurate Bonninghausen repertory, I do suggest you seriously look at Dimitriadis's edition. It's not cheap though. A$180 or so!! But I do not regret. I gain more confidence and success in treating friends and family members, and pretty sure with my future clients.

The book is currently sold only through Hahnemann Institute, Sydney. Email: theborep@nextcentury.com.au I think they can send you an introduction of the book.

Best regards,

Thanks for that info Arden . I read something about George's work on Minimum.com - written as a book review for Homeopathy Today (Julian Winston).... I believe it is the same book....and their price is $135 (US).

I would like to hear from someone I trust (ha!)- I suppose. I mean - these books come out and so and so says they have done this or that - and it all sounds good...then we find out later, maybe it isn't so accurate? I dunno. I'm not saying THIS book wasn't researched - but I guess I was thinking, it would be good to get an older edition - learn that..and then move to the newer version when I can actually judge for myself if it seems to be accurate.

All this talk about how so many mistakes are in the repertories is really niggling at me!! Also, this isn't the first time I've heard about using the TPB method and one's practise becoming more successful (as in cures) as a result. It seems to me, that this method is 'Hahnemannian'....and Kent's is a slight variation - e.g. the change in the grading of symptoms, etc... (Not saying Kent is 'bad' just that hearing all this stuff about him adding rubrics on clinical experience without actually having proved substances amongst a few other things...well...... And hey, let's face it - his philosophy lectures are brilliant, imo, but I just want to see things as they really are - not lean only 'one way' or the 'other'.)

Anyhow, I want to learn what I can from all these sources, but it seems to me at this point in my studies, that Boenninghausen understood what Hn meant in Par 153- and most subequent Homeopaths have complicated the process in their efforts to simplify it!! Talk about irony .

I'm also wondering how useful Kent's Rep is (or isn't)....just so much to really think about at this stage of my studies. I guess it will really be a matter of researching this sort of thing for myself - and learning it all, literally, on my own.

I'm grateful for those who do know something about this though. And I appreciate that they are willing to share the fruits of their own path to understanding this! Hans is one - but there are some others (not on this bb) that I've come into contact with as well.

sign me,
wistful sigh...will I ever get there ?

Lisa - don't get hung up on Reps. All they do is guide you towards remedies. Then the hard work begins of reading up all your MMs for that ready and seeing if it matches your patient. Also like DavidK says I often combine remedies that come up in the top few like Calc and Silica making Calcium Silicata and then you have Bingo!!!

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