Sore aching from the region of the gall bladder to the left scapula, better lying on the stomach, as of a lump under the sternum, then the mouth white with foam. Very foul black stools. Prolapsing, bleeding piles, nails very thin, split and turn black. Dry skin. Anaemic, emaciated and very weak. Constantly caves in. Aggravation from pressure of clothes and from fat foods. Four doses of Leptandra, in different potencies, have in three months, returned her to nearly normal flesh and strength. The nails are absolutely normal again, her colour is quite good and an old, very foul leucorrhoea has returned in spite of which she keeps right on gaining.
DISCUSSION
Dr. Stearns: Dr. Boger’s papers are always so good that nothing is left to discuss. I remember the first meetings of the I. H. A. I ever attended, where because of his knowledge and wisdom, I always wanted to touch the hem of his rainment. I asked him to-day “How do you fee1 about your prescribing each year as compared with the last?” He said, “I think I am getting better all the time.” That is something to live for —to feel from year to year that you are getting a deeper and deeper understanding of the art of prescribing.
Dr. Boger is wonderful in his paper, and I think it would help, if he would tell us where he finds his odd keynotes. I cannot remember all the characteristics of our most used drugs.
Dr. Loos, interrupting: If you did that you would know all that Dr. Boger knows.
Dr. Boger, answering: I have an insatiable desire to read and have a good memory for what I read.
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