THE THERAPEUTICS OF INTERMITTENT FEVER:

- Dr. HENRY CLARK ALLEN ( 1836- 1909)

Dr. HENRY CLARK ALLEN
 He was born in 1836 at Brantford, Ontario.
 He qualified from the college of Physicians and surgeons of Canada.
 He graduated from Eleveland Homoeopathic College in 1861.
 He accepted the professorship on Anatomy in his Alma Master at Cleveland.
 He resigned and accepted same chair in the Hahnemann College of Chicago.
 On 24th December, 1867, he got married in Brantford Ontario.
 In 1880, was appointed Professor of Materia Medica at University of Michigan and moved to Ann Arbor.

Dr. Allen was an honorable member of:
The American Institute of Homoeopathy
The International Hahnemannian Association
The Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association
Honory Member of the Homoeopathic Society of Calcutta, India

Contributions: He was owner and editor of Medical Advance for many years. His literary contributions include:
 Keynotes of Leading Remedies.
 The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent Fevers.
 The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of Fevers.
 Therapeutics of Tuberculous Affections.
 Boenninghausen’s Slip Repertory, arranged for rapid and practical work.
 A Treatise on the Nosodes, completed a short time before his death.
Henry Clark Allen got the inspiration for the book ‘The Therapeutics Of Intermittent Fever’, after going through the Bell’s Diarrhoea. In the classification of repertories, this repertory falls under the title of Regional Clinical Repertory
EDITIONS: 1ST EDITION IN 1879
2ND EDITION IN 1884
GRADATIONS: GRADE 1- BOLD ROMAN
GRADE 2- Italics
GRADE 3- Ordinary
Some remedies after a question mark in brackets(?) are present. These are doubtful in origin.

PLAN AND CONSTRUCTION
 Preface
 Hypothetical causes prevailing that time
 Malarial Theory:
 The Psoric Diathesis
 Similia- Examination of the patient
 The Genus Epidemicus
 The Similimum
 The Potency

REPERTORY PROPER
Number of remedies: 147
Arrangement of Rubrics:
 In alphabetical order in Bold Roman
 Sub- rubrics given after indentation in ordinary roman
 Sub-Sub-Sub rubrics with more indentation given with a comma after each rubric word
 Cross References also mentioned
Sections: In Bold Capital Roman
 Type- Covers 5 pages.
 Time- covers 7 pages.
 Cause- Covers 4 pages.
 Prodrome- Covers 6 pages.

INDEX

 Administer the remedy, when to
 Index to Repertory