Repertory of Herings Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Calvin Knerr was born December 27, 1847, and grew up with a father who was a lay homeopath and an uncle who knew Hering at the Allentown Academy. He attended The Allentown College Institute and graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1869 (along with Cowperthwaite and T.L. Bradford). He then entered the office of Dr. Constantine Hering as his assistant. The diary he kept while living in Herings house became The Life of Hering, published in 1940. From 1873-4 Dr. Knerr studied in Berlin, Vienna, and London. In 1874 he married Melitta Hering, one of Herings daughters, and resumed his duties as Herings assistant.This magnanimous repertory is a compilation from Herings Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica and belongs to the class of concordance repertory. The order of arrangement or method of classification followed in the compilation of this repertory is the one inaugurated by Hahnemann, developed, perfected, and used by Hering throughout his entire Materia Medica work that is, the anatomical or regional division into forty-eight chapters.Key Features:- One important feature of this repertory is that it carries a chapter on drug relationship The organ-wise classification of the first 34 chapters Organ-wise classification follows the following order: Above downwards, From within outwards, Functional symptoms first followed by the organic conditions, First the parts, and then the whole day. Each chapter is alphabetically divided into sections and rubrics The marks of distinction of rubrics are: two double thick II lines are BOLD CAPITALS, single thick I lines are ORDINARY CAPITALS, two thin double II lines is Bold Roman, single thin I line is Roman Italics and the fifth is ordinary Roman