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1001 Small Remedies
by Frederick Schroyens
Cost: $135.00 hardback, $90.00 softback.
reviewed by Karl Robinson, MD

Frederik Schroyens, editor of Synthesis Repertory, has generated a second tome from the computer program "Radar version 5." This one he calls 1001 Small Remedies. "Essentially, this book is a twin of Synthesis," writes Schroyens in his foreword. "It contains the same information presented in another form. It has no pretension of being a Materia Medica, nor of a Keynote book, because it just gives crude facts."

This volume, which runs 1504 pages, contains 150 major remedies and 851 minor ones. The 150 major remedies have 50 to 100 unique symptoms presented. These are symptoms having only one remedy. For the minor or lesser known remedies Schroyens has extracted all the symptoms. This is where the book can prove invaluable. For the first time, it is possible to find all the symptoms of, say, Alumina phosphorica, in one place. Schroyens calls these "crude facts." I call them "invaluable facts." It is now certainly possible to prescribe minor remedies with greater precision using 1001 Small Remedies than it ever was before. It makes prescribing little known remedies quite a bit more feasible.

If Schroyens decides to come out with a second edition I would suggest that the 150 major remedies be dropped as they are well covered elsewhere and, for reasons of space, purposely not well covered in this volume.

RESONANCE JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1996