The Exploding Materia Medica

"No one can know everything, and that is why in all honesty one must admit that no conscientious homoeopathic doctor can practice homoeopathy in a serious and really scientific way without a repertory." Repertories had to be made to serve as ready index to the vast structure of homoeopathic symptomatology. This is why men like Boeninghausen applied their mind to the discovery of better methods of selecting the simillimum. To meet the challenge of the exploding Materia Medica, the Homoeopathic Repertory was born.

- Dr. Jugal Kishore's comments and quote of Dr. Pierre Schmidt
in Kishore's "An Index to the Kishore Cards" (Second Edition, 1967).

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