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Good copies, slightly browned. Gute Exemplare, leicht gebräunt. - - "The need for the repertory comes from the character of homeopathy itself. Homeopathy means medical action according to the law of similars of Hahnemann (1755-1843): similia similibus curentur. According to this law the drug picture and the characteristic symptoms of the patient have to agree to an optimum degree. Thus we seek the simillimum for the patient. In the Homeomethodology the homeopathic materia medica is the means by which the results of drug provings and clinical observation of drugs are classified. In practice the choise of a drug needs the classification of drugs according to symptoms. The repertory serves that purpose. The materia medica contains the symptoms of drugs and the repertory relates the drugs to the symptoms. Through the repertory the doctrine of drugs and therapy according to symptoms comple- ment each other. In the beginning of homeopathy the drug symptoms had already increased to such a degree that it seemed impossible to bear them all in mind. Therefore in 1817 Hahnemann developed the first of his two "symptomdictionaries", which was the first repertory. Compared with the partial information of the materia medica remembered by chance, the repertory permits the choice of a drug through exten- sive homeopathic knowledge. Until now almost 110 repertories have been published. The "Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica" by J. T. Kent (1849-1916) is the most appropriate, most complete, and most reliable of all. Kent used older works of the materia medica and clinical observations, but refused numerous insufficiently confirmed symptoms and drugs. Until his death he added by hand into his own copies new symptoms and drugs, and classified them according to his own experience into various degrees.To keep the repertory continually up to date requires the preservation of symptoms and drugs not listed in Kent's repertory, and also their confirmation by cures. It is also of great importance to make available the primary and repeated provings of younger authors. Supplements to general and particular symptoms result in a multitude of material which requires a decision as to whether we should limit the number of authors and headings, or whether we should list only the general symptoms. Since the general symptoms will affect the choice of drugs for chronic patients, this Synthetic Repertory is limited to general symptoms. For particulars Kent's "Repertory" is still the best reference book.According to the hierarchy of general symptoms the Synthetic Repertory is separated into the following three volumes: Vol. I contains the mental symptoms, Vol. II contains the general symptoms in a more selective way. The symptoms for food and drink which in Kent's repertory are separated into different chapters and headings according to aggravation, improvement, aversion and desire, are now summed up in one single heading. Vol. III contains the chapters of sleep symptoms and dreams, as well as the male and female sexual symptoms." ISBN 9783776008920