Philosophy and the Repertory (1934)



The physical body contains a certain amount of stored energy. When you give a
remedy, you tap that stored energy through an equalisation of its distribution in the body.
In that way you restore harmony, just as surely as you can tap electric current by pushing
the button.

There is one point I didn’t bring out in the paper as fully as I should have done, and
that is that we can’t all see resemblances as well as we should. Sometimes my mind is
fitted so that I can see certain resemblances and the other fellow can’t and sometimes it is
the other way about, and the other fellow sees the resemblance and I can’t see it, even
when it is pointed out to me. That is an inherent factor of the mind.

I want to recite briefly an experience I had not long ago, right along that line. A man
came to me from a distant city and said he hadn’t had any benefit at all from the treatment
he received there. He had generalised eczema from head to foot, and those cases are
always very difficult..I hesitate to prescribe for them because, I am free to say, my
success is not invariable.

I sat and talked to him awhile. He had it so badly that the skin was cracked in places
and exuded a nasty, offensive, sweet odour. His face was bluish, and all together he was a
rather forbidding sight. The longer I talked to him the more I became convinced that he
was an exact replica of poisoning by Rhus venenata. I didn’t look up the materia medica
for that at all, but gave a single dose of Rhus venenata MM. potency.

I said, “Don’t take this tilt you get home, because something is going to happen.” He
waited until he got home and took it. The third or fourth day he began to sweat all over.
Then it was confined to the left chest. It had the odour of rotten smoke. He had gout
stones in the lobules of both ears. Those both dropped out and he cleared up, all over,
peeled off all over.

Now, that Rhus venenata didn’t cure him, because after a while it came back a little,
but it didn’t come back enough to worry about and I didn’t repeat the dose. I am going to
let him ride along and see how much reserve force he has back there to stabilise this thing
again.

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