HAHNEMANIAN PROVINGS (1924 –1959) -A MATERIA MEDICA & REPERTORY JAMES STEPHENSON M.D.
• Author: James Stephenson M.D.
• Published in: 1963
• Published by: B. Jain Publishers, New Delhi
• TITLE PAGE:
• Author’s name and publishers address given.
B. PREFACE
• Given by the author. In this he deals about provings & gives some new terminologies.
• Although ancient in practice, the science of testing medicines on healthy humans was first formulated by Hahnemann and has remained within the homeopathic discipline ever since, save during the past 25 years when it was rediscovered by non-homeopathic physicians such as H. Gold and H. Beecher, who called it, variously, Clinical Pharmacology or Human Pharmacology.
• We homeopathic physicians have called it, simply, Provings, from Hahnemann's term PRUFUNG, German for test or experiment. HYGANTHROPHARMACOLOGY, from the Greek HYGEIA, health; ANTHROS, man; PHARMAKON, medicine and LOGOS, discourse on, would appear to be suitable both in content and form, since it is descriptively complete & internationally understood.
• A family of related terms may also be derived to describe other aspects of pharmacology, such as:
• HYGIZOOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on healthy animals.
• HYGIPHYTOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on healthy plants.
• And from the Greek NOSOS, disease:
• NOSANTHROPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on ill persons.
• NOSOZOOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on ill animals.
• NOSOPHYTOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on ill plants.
• NEED FOR THIS BOOK:
• This book really consists of two books, a Repertory and a Materia Medica. The Repertory is an attempt to bring Kent's Repertory up to date, as no new medicines have been added since 1924.
ABOUT THE REPERTORY
• As a result, the many medicines, which have been proven since then, have not been used as fully as possible.
• Of a total of 59 new provings, which have been reported in both Occidental and Oriental homeopathic medical journals since 1924, 37 were performed on at least three test subjects.
• These 37 medicines have been included in this volume.
• Although the selection of at least three provers as a minimum criterion was an arbitrary one, on checking the original proving data of a number of remedies omitted by Kent from his Repertory (such as Bacillinum, Electricitas, Luna and Thyroidinum) none was found to have been tested on three provers or more.
• Therefore Kent appears to have used a similar criterion.
• The subject divisions and grading of symptoms used by Kent have been followed whenever possible.
• However, particularly among the mental symptoms, the descriptions reported directly by the provers have often been used if there were no suitable synonyms in Kent.
• Also, in addition to the proving symptoms, graded as by Kent into regular weight type (without clinical confirmation), italics (with scattered clinical confirmation and bold type (with frequent clinical confirmation), two other groups of symptoms were included:
• Toxicological, resulting from accidental provings (indicated by a superscriptt after the medicine [e.g. cad-mt ]).
• Clinical, representing symptoms, which had apparently responded to the particular medicine but had not been produced by provings or poisonings (indicated by enclosing brackets [….] e.g. [arist-c]).
• If the symptoms, graded as by Kent in italics or bold type, represented clinical confirmations of homeopathically proven symptoms no superscript was used.
• If they were clinical confirmations of toxicological symptoms then a superscript t was used, e.g. corticot
• If they were clinical confirmations of both toxicological and proven symptoms then both superscripts e, for experimental, and t were used, e.g. x-ray e,t.
• In other words, where Kent included clinical confirmations of already proven symptoms only, have also included clinical responses to succussed or unsuccussed dilutions of unproven medicines, enclosed in brackets [ ... ]. Or, to present this concept from the other direction, eight types of medicine designation are possible:
• lat-m a proven symptom
• lat-m a proven symptom with scattered clinical confirmation
• lat-m a proven symptom with frequent clinical confirmation
• lat-m t a toxicological symptom with scattered clinical confirmation
• lat-m t a toxicological symptom with frequent clinical confirmation
• lat-m e, t a proven and toxicological symptom with scattered clinical confirmation
• lat-m e, t a proven and toxicological symptom with frequent clinical confirmation.
• (lat-m) an unproven clinical response.
• Also included under clinical responses were a group of symptoms, which frequently occurred among patients who had responded well to Carcinosin. These symptoms might more correctly be called "clinical indications" and actually should not have been included under clinical symptoms, but were included there in order to keep the medicine categories as few as possible.
• This volume is a beginning. There are certainly some medicines proven before 1924 omitted by Kent which might be included in future revisions, as well as medicines proven since then but not available at this time.
• If Kent's Repertory is revised, as should be done, all these new medicines could then be included in the revision.
• In an effort to satisfy present day laboratory oriented physicians all laboratory data has been gathered together under one heading in the section on Generalities.
ABBREVIATIONS
• The abbreviations for the reproven medicines are the same as those used by Kent, as are also the punctuations of all the abbreviations save that, for the sake of simplicity; the periods after non-hyphenated abbreviations (such as carcin, alIox) have been omitted.
• ABOUT MATERIA MEDICA:
• The Materia Medica offers, in one place, information on provings scattered throughout the homoeopathic of the world.
• The general format follows that of J. H. Clarke's DICTIONARY OF THE MATERIA MEDICA, with certain modifications.
• The symptoms of each medicine were listed under one or more of the following headings:
• Experimental Symptoms, referring to symptoms of Provings.
• Toxicological Symptoms, referring to symptoms of poisonings.
• Clinical Responses, which arc self-explanatory.
• In preparing this volume it was necessary to translate into English certain provings which had not before appeared in English.
• They were: Araneus ixobolus, Aristolochia clematis, Bellis perennis, Buthus australis, Calcarea fluorica, Cobaltum nitricum, Cytisus scoparius, Hedera helix, Laburnum allagyroidcs, Lophophora Williamsii, Magnesium sulfuricum, Mandragora officinarum, Natrum fluoriaticum and Viscum. album.
• The English translations of most of these provings appeared in various numbers of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy since 1957.
• The specific numbers have been included under the medicines to which they apply, following the reference to the original article in the foreign journal or book.
• Some excluded medicines with their authors name and source are given.
• The multi-lingual synonyms for each medicine have been included in order to simplify the interchange of homoeopathic knowledge throughout the world.
• In addition to its symptoms each medicine is described from as many vantage points as possible, so that readers might more easily see the correspondences which characterize a particular substance as it is considered chemically, pharmacologically, historically, homoeopathically, botanically, zoologically, and so on.
NOMENCLATURE
• The names used for the particular medicine have been, as far as could be ascertained, those used by the most up-to-date international authorities.
• Botanical names are based on Gerth van Wijks DICTIONARY OF PLANT NAMES, Stapfs INDEX LONDINENSIS and Hill's INDEX KEWENSIS;
• Zoological names from Willis Gertsch, head or the spider division of the Museum of Natural History;
• Chemical names on latinized versions of the terms in Kingzett's CHEMICAL ENCYCLOPOEDIA and Hodgman's HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS;
• Pharmacological names correspond to those in the U. S. PHARMACOPOEIA.
• The names of those new provings of older medicines (such as Bellis per) are same as those in the U. S. HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACOPOEIA.
• A few of the names used by the authors of original provings did not correspond to the official nomenclature and were, therefore, corrected. Because this might confuse some readers these corrected names have been listed below with their corresponding - official designation:
• AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL
TERMINOLOGY TERMINOLOGY
ACTH corticotropin
Aranea ixoloba Araneus ixobolus
Besenginster (Eng. Broom) Cytisus scoparius
Cytisus laburnum Laburnum anagyroides
Fluss-spat calcarea fluorica
Lignum nephriticum Eysenhardtia polystachia (Ortega)
Peyote Lophophora Williamsii
Prionnris australis Buthus australis
Sarcolactic acid dextrum lacticum acidum
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• In particular he appreciates Dr. Edward Whitmont of New York City for his vital aid in translating a number of the German provings;
• Dr. Julius Mezger of West Germany for his many helpful suggestions;
• Miss Hall, librarian at the New York botanical gardens for her unfailing courtesy and help;
• Many members of the staff of the Museum of Natural History of New York City, in particular to Dr. Willis Gertsch of the Arachnoid department.
• Also, thanks to Dr. W. L. Templeton of London and Dr. Grimmer of Chicago for reviewing the manuscript, as well as Mr. Dudley Everitt of Nelson and Sons in London. Professor Pearl Wilson of the Classics Department of Hunter College helped with the neologisms.
DEDICATED TO
• Honored to dedicate this book to Dr. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard of New York City - Preceptor, mentor and friend - because of whose interest and encouragement the author first discovered the wonders of homoeopathy.
• C. MATERIA MEDICA PART:
• Drug name, synonyms in different language, substance used, source of provings, chemical formula and the symptoms are arranged Kent’s anatomical schema.
• Each page is given in double column both in repertory and materia medica.
• BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• After materia medica sources are given as per alphabetical order of author’s name.
D. REPERTORY PART
• It starts after materia medica part.
• Starts from page 103 and ends in page 147.
• Total number of pages: 45 pages.
• MEDICINES & THEIR ABBREVIATIONS;
• No of drugs – 37
• Drugs arranged in alphabetical order as per the abbreviations.
• But the drugs are given in small letters in repertory proper.
• PHILOSOPHICAL ARRANGEMENT:
• Generals to particulars.
• CLASSIFICATION OF REPERTORY:
• Logico utilitarian General book form repertory.
• ARRANGEMENT OF CHAPTER:
• As per Kent’s repertory chapters are arranged in anatomical schema.
• Chapter name given in bold capitals on the top center of the page.
• The chapter name is repeated in respected pages.
• After the chapter is over the next chapter continues immediately.
• Biggest chapter- Generals
• Smallest chapter – Prostate gland.
ARRANGEMENT OF RUBRICS
• Certain general rubric are found in chapters like vertigo, cough, chill, and fever.
• Main rubric is given in bold capital, followed by ‘,’ next word is given in ordinary roman then followed by ‘:’ drugs are given alphabetically in their grades.
• Sub rubrics are given 3 indentations inner to main rubric in ordinary roman.
• Sub sub rubrics are given 2 indentations inner to sub rubric in ordinary roman.
• As per Kent first time modalities given followed by rubrics in alphabetical order.
• Abbreviations used:
• amel –for better or decreasing
• agg-for worse or increasing.
• Mistakes found:
• Page 110, unconsciousness rubric found in inner from its margin.
• Page 131, cramping: no drugs given.
• Page 136, eruptions, filthy wrongly placed.
• INDEX TO REPERTORY:
• Few words with page numbers are given for easy reference.
• E. INDEX TO THE MATERIA MEDICA:
• Drug names with page numbers are given.
• SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Generalities chapter deals with diseases, laboratories, history, poisonings rubrics that will be very useful.
• A good attempt to have a repertory for provings of mid time in homoeopathic field.
• Rubric and sub rubrics are well arranged for easy reference.
• Being in Kent format makes it user friendly, as we are more accustomed to Kent repertory.
• Knowledge regarding rare drugs is availed from this.
6. Additions to Kent repertory can be made from this.
7. With the aid of this repertory rare drugs can be prescribed.
8. Materia medica part is also available for easy reference.
• CRITICISM:
• Drugs represented are very few.
• Few technical errors are found.
• Cannot be used for repertorizing all types of cases.
• Drug typography is too much complicated.
• Index to materia medica should have been given prior to repertory part.
• Table of contents not given.
• Published in: 1963
• Published by: B. Jain Publishers, New Delhi
• TITLE PAGE:
• Author’s name and publishers address given.
B. PREFACE
• Given by the author. In this he deals about provings & gives some new terminologies.
• Although ancient in practice, the science of testing medicines on healthy humans was first formulated by Hahnemann and has remained within the homeopathic discipline ever since, save during the past 25 years when it was rediscovered by non-homeopathic physicians such as H. Gold and H. Beecher, who called it, variously, Clinical Pharmacology or Human Pharmacology.
• We homeopathic physicians have called it, simply, Provings, from Hahnemann's term PRUFUNG, German for test or experiment. HYGANTHROPHARMACOLOGY, from the Greek HYGEIA, health; ANTHROS, man; PHARMAKON, medicine and LOGOS, discourse on, would appear to be suitable both in content and form, since it is descriptively complete & internationally understood.
• A family of related terms may also be derived to describe other aspects of pharmacology, such as:
• HYGIZOOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on healthy animals.
• HYGIPHYTOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on healthy plants.
• And from the Greek NOSOS, disease:
• NOSANTHROPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on ill persons.
• NOSOZOOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on ill animals.
• NOSOPHYTOPHARMACOLOGY, the testing of medicines on ill plants.
• NEED FOR THIS BOOK:
• This book really consists of two books, a Repertory and a Materia Medica. The Repertory is an attempt to bring Kent's Repertory up to date, as no new medicines have been added since 1924.
ABOUT THE REPERTORY
• As a result, the many medicines, which have been proven since then, have not been used as fully as possible.
• Of a total of 59 new provings, which have been reported in both Occidental and Oriental homeopathic medical journals since 1924, 37 were performed on at least three test subjects.
• These 37 medicines have been included in this volume.
• Although the selection of at least three provers as a minimum criterion was an arbitrary one, on checking the original proving data of a number of remedies omitted by Kent from his Repertory (such as Bacillinum, Electricitas, Luna and Thyroidinum) none was found to have been tested on three provers or more.
• Therefore Kent appears to have used a similar criterion.
• The subject divisions and grading of symptoms used by Kent have been followed whenever possible.
• However, particularly among the mental symptoms, the descriptions reported directly by the provers have often been used if there were no suitable synonyms in Kent.
• Also, in addition to the proving symptoms, graded as by Kent into regular weight type (without clinical confirmation), italics (with scattered clinical confirmation and bold type (with frequent clinical confirmation), two other groups of symptoms were included:
• Toxicological, resulting from accidental provings (indicated by a superscriptt after the medicine [e.g. cad-mt ]).
• Clinical, representing symptoms, which had apparently responded to the particular medicine but had not been produced by provings or poisonings (indicated by enclosing brackets [….] e.g. [arist-c]).
• If the symptoms, graded as by Kent in italics or bold type, represented clinical confirmations of homeopathically proven symptoms no superscript was used.
• If they were clinical confirmations of toxicological symptoms then a superscript t was used, e.g. corticot
• If they were clinical confirmations of both toxicological and proven symptoms then both superscripts e, for experimental, and t were used, e.g. x-ray e,t.
• In other words, where Kent included clinical confirmations of already proven symptoms only, have also included clinical responses to succussed or unsuccussed dilutions of unproven medicines, enclosed in brackets [ ... ]. Or, to present this concept from the other direction, eight types of medicine designation are possible:
• lat-m a proven symptom
• lat-m a proven symptom with scattered clinical confirmation
• lat-m a proven symptom with frequent clinical confirmation
• lat-m t a toxicological symptom with scattered clinical confirmation
• lat-m t a toxicological symptom with frequent clinical confirmation
• lat-m e, t a proven and toxicological symptom with scattered clinical confirmation
• lat-m e, t a proven and toxicological symptom with frequent clinical confirmation.
• (lat-m) an unproven clinical response.
• Also included under clinical responses were a group of symptoms, which frequently occurred among patients who had responded well to Carcinosin. These symptoms might more correctly be called "clinical indications" and actually should not have been included under clinical symptoms, but were included there in order to keep the medicine categories as few as possible.
• This volume is a beginning. There are certainly some medicines proven before 1924 omitted by Kent which might be included in future revisions, as well as medicines proven since then but not available at this time.
• If Kent's Repertory is revised, as should be done, all these new medicines could then be included in the revision.
• In an effort to satisfy present day laboratory oriented physicians all laboratory data has been gathered together under one heading in the section on Generalities.
ABBREVIATIONS
• The abbreviations for the reproven medicines are the same as those used by Kent, as are also the punctuations of all the abbreviations save that, for the sake of simplicity; the periods after non-hyphenated abbreviations (such as carcin, alIox) have been omitted.
• ABOUT MATERIA MEDICA:
• The Materia Medica offers, in one place, information on provings scattered throughout the homoeopathic of the world.
• The general format follows that of J. H. Clarke's DICTIONARY OF THE MATERIA MEDICA, with certain modifications.
• The symptoms of each medicine were listed under one or more of the following headings:
• Experimental Symptoms, referring to symptoms of Provings.
• Toxicological Symptoms, referring to symptoms of poisonings.
• Clinical Responses, which arc self-explanatory.
• In preparing this volume it was necessary to translate into English certain provings which had not before appeared in English.
• They were: Araneus ixobolus, Aristolochia clematis, Bellis perennis, Buthus australis, Calcarea fluorica, Cobaltum nitricum, Cytisus scoparius, Hedera helix, Laburnum allagyroidcs, Lophophora Williamsii, Magnesium sulfuricum, Mandragora officinarum, Natrum fluoriaticum and Viscum. album.
• The English translations of most of these provings appeared in various numbers of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy since 1957.
• The specific numbers have been included under the medicines to which they apply, following the reference to the original article in the foreign journal or book.
• Some excluded medicines with their authors name and source are given.
• The multi-lingual synonyms for each medicine have been included in order to simplify the interchange of homoeopathic knowledge throughout the world.
• In addition to its symptoms each medicine is described from as many vantage points as possible, so that readers might more easily see the correspondences which characterize a particular substance as it is considered chemically, pharmacologically, historically, homoeopathically, botanically, zoologically, and so on.
NOMENCLATURE
• The names used for the particular medicine have been, as far as could be ascertained, those used by the most up-to-date international authorities.
• Botanical names are based on Gerth van Wijks DICTIONARY OF PLANT NAMES, Stapfs INDEX LONDINENSIS and Hill's INDEX KEWENSIS;
• Zoological names from Willis Gertsch, head or the spider division of the Museum of Natural History;
• Chemical names on latinized versions of the terms in Kingzett's CHEMICAL ENCYCLOPOEDIA and Hodgman's HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS;
• Pharmacological names correspond to those in the U. S. PHARMACOPOEIA.
• The names of those new provings of older medicines (such as Bellis per) are same as those in the U. S. HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACOPOEIA.
• A few of the names used by the authors of original provings did not correspond to the official nomenclature and were, therefore, corrected. Because this might confuse some readers these corrected names have been listed below with their corresponding - official designation:
• AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL
TERMINOLOGY TERMINOLOGY
ACTH corticotropin
Aranea ixoloba Araneus ixobolus
Besenginster (Eng. Broom) Cytisus scoparius
Cytisus laburnum Laburnum anagyroides
Fluss-spat calcarea fluorica
Lignum nephriticum Eysenhardtia polystachia (Ortega)
Peyote Lophophora Williamsii
Prionnris australis Buthus australis
Sarcolactic acid dextrum lacticum acidum
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• In particular he appreciates Dr. Edward Whitmont of New York City for his vital aid in translating a number of the German provings;
• Dr. Julius Mezger of West Germany for his many helpful suggestions;
• Miss Hall, librarian at the New York botanical gardens for her unfailing courtesy and help;
• Many members of the staff of the Museum of Natural History of New York City, in particular to Dr. Willis Gertsch of the Arachnoid department.
• Also, thanks to Dr. W. L. Templeton of London and Dr. Grimmer of Chicago for reviewing the manuscript, as well as Mr. Dudley Everitt of Nelson and Sons in London. Professor Pearl Wilson of the Classics Department of Hunter College helped with the neologisms.
DEDICATED TO
• Honored to dedicate this book to Dr. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard of New York City - Preceptor, mentor and friend - because of whose interest and encouragement the author first discovered the wonders of homoeopathy.
• C. MATERIA MEDICA PART:
• Drug name, synonyms in different language, substance used, source of provings, chemical formula and the symptoms are arranged Kent’s anatomical schema.
• Each page is given in double column both in repertory and materia medica.
• BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• After materia medica sources are given as per alphabetical order of author’s name.
D. REPERTORY PART
• It starts after materia medica part.
• Starts from page 103 and ends in page 147.
• Total number of pages: 45 pages.
• MEDICINES & THEIR ABBREVIATIONS;
• No of drugs – 37
• Drugs arranged in alphabetical order as per the abbreviations.
• But the drugs are given in small letters in repertory proper.
• PHILOSOPHICAL ARRANGEMENT:
• Generals to particulars.
• CLASSIFICATION OF REPERTORY:
• Logico utilitarian General book form repertory.
• ARRANGEMENT OF CHAPTER:
• As per Kent’s repertory chapters are arranged in anatomical schema.
• Chapter name given in bold capitals on the top center of the page.
• The chapter name is repeated in respected pages.
• After the chapter is over the next chapter continues immediately.
• Biggest chapter- Generals
• Smallest chapter – Prostate gland.
ARRANGEMENT OF RUBRICS
• Certain general rubric are found in chapters like vertigo, cough, chill, and fever.
• Main rubric is given in bold capital, followed by ‘,’ next word is given in ordinary roman then followed by ‘:’ drugs are given alphabetically in their grades.
• Sub rubrics are given 3 indentations inner to main rubric in ordinary roman.
• Sub sub rubrics are given 2 indentations inner to sub rubric in ordinary roman.
• As per Kent first time modalities given followed by rubrics in alphabetical order.
• Abbreviations used:
• amel –for better or decreasing
• agg-for worse or increasing.
• Mistakes found:
• Page 110, unconsciousness rubric found in inner from its margin.
• Page 131, cramping: no drugs given.
• Page 136, eruptions, filthy wrongly placed.
• INDEX TO REPERTORY:
• Few words with page numbers are given for easy reference.
• E. INDEX TO THE MATERIA MEDICA:
• Drug names with page numbers are given.
• SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Generalities chapter deals with diseases, laboratories, history, poisonings rubrics that will be very useful.
• A good attempt to have a repertory for provings of mid time in homoeopathic field.
• Rubric and sub rubrics are well arranged for easy reference.
• Being in Kent format makes it user friendly, as we are more accustomed to Kent repertory.
• Knowledge regarding rare drugs is availed from this.
6. Additions to Kent repertory can be made from this.
7. With the aid of this repertory rare drugs can be prescribed.
8. Materia medica part is also available for easy reference.
• CRITICISM:
• Drugs represented are very few.
• Few technical errors are found.
• Cannot be used for repertorizing all types of cases.
• Drug typography is too much complicated.
• Index to materia medica should have been given prior to repertory part.
• Table of contents not given.
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