But he has done more than this.Īll the symptoms of a medicine have not the same value. He has grouped under the same headings all the medicines that have any particular symptom in common, however variously expressed by provers. In the Pocket-Book Boenninghausen has reduced the materia medica to its lowest denominator. Unless the prescriber can mentally reduce the one and the other to what may be called the lowest common denominator, he is very likely to miss the correspondence. One may have a burning pain, and the other may say he feels as if he were being branded with a hot iron. One of the greatest difficulties in finding in the materia medica the corresponding symptom to that met with in the patient lies in the form in which the prover and the patient respectively express their sensations. This is the work which Boenninghausen has accomplished, and its embodiment is to be found in the volume before us. No one has done more than he to make the homeopathic materia medica workable and intelligible* Doubtless provings in the healthy form the foundation of the materia medica but the test of clinical experience must be applied in order to provide a critical commentary upon and amplication of the provings. But Boenninghausen possessed another gift in addition to those of the prescriber and the student he had the faculty of putting his experience in such a form as to make it available for all other labourers in the same field. ISBN 10: 8131902994 ISBN 13: 9788131902998Īmong the followers of Hahnemann there have been few such accurate and successful prescribers and few such intelligent and profound students of the materia medica as Boenninghausen. Reviewed in The Homoeopathic World – Volume 26, 1891
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