This book review is reprinted from The Homoeopath with permission from Nick Churchill of The Society of Homoeopaths.
1001 SMALL REMEDIES
FREDERIK SCHROYENS
Homeopathic Book Publishers, London, 1995, ISBN 0 9522744-18, 1504 pages, hardback
Reviewed by Robin Logan
This book is an 'inside-out Repertory' in the form of Agrawal's Materia Medica of the Human Mind and anyone who has found that book useful will love this one. It is not exactly a Materia Medica but rather the extraction of the symptoms of 1001 remedies from the Synthesis 5 Repertory. Unlike Agrawal's book, this one is not just 'Mind' symptoms - it includes all the physicals and generals. The 150 largest remedies are presented in the form of unique symptoms only. To do otherwise would turn this single book into several volumes.
For anyone who has not used this sort of book, I can highly recommend it. Even as a computer user with the ability to do remedy extractions in a few seconds, it is very useful having the whole lot in book form on your desk. It is also an invaluable teaching tool.
The book is solidly bound and attractively presented. There is a useful index of remedy names and synonyms and a well thought of innovation of annotations indicating the number of remedies in each rubric, e.g. 'Homesickness - 51'.
All in all a lovely book that would have saved us many hours of Repertory trawling in the days before computers!
The Homoeopath No. 58 1995