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The Complete Repertory /Mind

by Roger van Zandvoort

IRHIS, Leidschendam, Holland.
Hardcover 449 p. 150. -Guilders/ w thumb index 180.
Reviewed by Beat Spring

I am happy to review the 'other giant repertory' of today, the 'Complete', which together with 'Synthesis' will set the mark stones for the future. In this first volume of the Mind thousands of additions have been made (total of 18'994 rubrics and 87'456 remedies compared with 5'138/33'889 in Kent's Final repertory). Additions have been carefully verified on the basis of their original sources and advice from experienced contemporary homoeopaths like Kunzli, Eizayaga, Kokelenberg, Morrison, Sherr etc. has been gained (e.g. a group supervised by the late Kunzli worked for years on the additions and corrections based on Boger/Boenninghausen). As such this repertory is a true teamwork of todays homoeopathy. Corrections so far published have been integrated.

Little can be criticised on this great work. The book is handy and well bound, the layout nicely presented. To have the remedies in a just slightly smaller font than the rubric would make it even more readable; on the other hand to have the cross-references after the remedy adds much to its clarity. To have the corresponding page numbers of the rubric in Kent/SynRep and Generale is a true gem for a lecturer in a time when all these different repertories are used by students. I still dare to hope that we may have one day only one standard of the authors abbreviation, and here I prefer the combination of numbers with letters of the name.

I am glad that up to now I do not have to recommend one repertory over the other. This first book of the Complete incorporates so many new rubrics, sub rubrics, cross-references and remedy additions, which makes it to probably the most extensive repertory of the mind available. It is therefore a good supplement to whatever repertory one uses. The other sections of the Complete will be available in Spring 1995.

Homoeopathic Links - Fall 1994