Breath – Concomitant Complaints (Respiration, Accompanying Troubles of, p. 114).
Cough – Concomitant Complaints (Troubles Associated with Cough, p. 120).
Yawning – Concomitant Complaints (Associated Troubles, p. 240. See Aggravation, Yawning, p. 310).
Complaints Preventing Sleep (Sleep Prevented by Various Symptoms, p. 240).
Waking – Concomitant Complaints (Waking, Associated Symptoms p.241. See Aggravation, Waking, p. 306).
Sleepiness in the Daytime – Concomitant Complaints (Sleepiness During the Day, Associated Symptoms, p. 243).
Sleep – Concomitant Complaints (Associated Symptoms, p. 245. See Aggravation, Sleep, During, p. 300).
Sleeplessness – Complaints Causing (Symptoms Causing Sleeplessness, p. 246).
Fever, Cold Stage – Concomitant Complaints (Symptoms During Chill, p. 256).
Heat – Concomitant Complaints (Heat, Associated Symptoms, p. 259).
Perspiration – Concomitant Complaints (Sweat with Associated Symptoms, p. 265.)
Compound Fevers – Concomitant Complaints, Before, – During, – After the Fever (Compound Fever, – Before, – Before, – During, – After, p. 268).
These concomitant rubrics, as well as the concordances, appeared originally in the Therapeutic Pocket – Book. They were, unfortunately, either unappreciated or soon forgotten – probably both.
No other repertory contains anything that approaches them. Partial rubrics of this kind, in other repertories, have been evidently copied from Boenninghausen.
Being unique, practical and accurate, it would seem that the help of both the concordances and concomitants should be invoked, when possible, – first, because of the saving of time their use insures; second, because of the accuracy their use adds to the prescription, and, lastly, because the precision derived from their use also adds a scientific element to the prescription which is, unfortunately, too often lacking.
Those physicians who are able to elicit characteristic symptoms in every case, at whatever stage the case may be, have, of course, no need nor use for either the Boenninghausen concordances or concomitants.
Many of us, on the other hand, have to cure, if possible, chronic, and sometimes, acute, diseases occurring in patients whose symptoms are devoid of characteristics, no matter how carefully we examine or question them, either at the first scrutiny or later, when the action of the remedy has ceased. At such times the concomitants or the concordances may be of great help.
There seems to be no valid reason for avoiding these aids in prescribing, which have, by Boenninghausens genius, been worked out and arranged and which are available for our use and assistance. All that is required of us is to learn how to make use of them.
I trust that what I have given here may help some one in the use of both the concordances and concomitants. The aid given by them is too valuable to be ignored, too important to be neglected. While they are not needed in every case yet the accordances and concomitants in those cases to which they are suited is something which every physician longs for and for which every physician should strive.
With these prescription aids in Boenninghausen at hand, and a knowledge of the ease with which they may be applied, it is one step nearer to that ideal simplicity in prescribing which all in the profession desire.
