Synthetic Repertory

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The Synthetic Repertory by Horst Barthel and Will Klunker, was published in 1973. Here you will find almost 1000 more medicines than are found in Kent's Repertory along with their reference sources.

This 3-volume set includes Vol. 1 Psychic (mental), Vol. 2 Generals, Vol. 3 Sleep and Sex. No other parts of the body are included. This was the first attempt to utilize information from the literature not present in Kent. As such, very useful rubrics are found within these pages that were found nowhere else.

Up until this time almost 110 repertories had been published with Kent's the most appropriate. The Synthetic aims to preserve the symptoms and drugs not used in Kent's Repertory where confirmed through clinical success.

Foreshadowing future efforts (Synthesis Repertory) author references are listed for the presence of remedies in rubrics. Some of the sources of the Synthetic include Kent, Knerr, Boenninghausen and Boger, Jahr, Schmidt, Boericke, Allen, Clarke, Kunzli, and Hahnemann.

Grading of drugs in rubrics is based on a 4 level system. 1594 drugs are mentioned in these volumes with corrections of spelling and abbreviation.

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Heritage

Three volumes compiled from the work of all the other repertory authors:

Vol. 1: Mental Symptoms (1102 pages),
Vol. 2: General Symptoms (774 pages)
Vol. 3: Sleeping and Sexual Symptoms (611 pages).

Seemingly a very complete work, it has not resolved the problems that Kent found when trying to synthesize the repertories of his day.

Although the sources of the rubrics are fully documented and the headings are in several languages, the work is more of a final reference rather than a day to day usable repertory.

Julian Winston writes: The first attempt at synthesizing information that is found in the literature but not found in Kent's Repertory. It was the publication of this work that made people aware that other information was available that was not in Kent's repertory. Although it was difficult to use in daily practice, it formed the basis of a good portion of the computer repertories that were soon to come.

From:
The Heritage of Homoeopathic Literature
copyright 2001 by Julian Winston
Reprinted with the permission of the author

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