Grading of Symptoms (1925)

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In other words, if you don’t get in the correct relationship with our patient dynamically, as it were, we cannot use these tools that we have at our discretion, satisfactorily. And this was presented, it seems to me, in a most masterful fashion by Dr. Boger in this remarkable paper.

Dr. Boger: Let me emphasize one point not in the paper; it is the greatest art which the physician can attain: the art of quick adjustment. If you can grasp what I mean. To see Nux vomica in this case and Nux vomica in the next, even if the pictures are different. The flash comes before you, one after another, just like the motion pictures, and you adjust yourself as the flash comes and goes.

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C.M. Boger
Cyrus Maxwell Boger 5/ 13/ 1861 "“ 9/ 2/ 1935
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies
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