Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pocket Manual of Materia Medica with Repertory (American edition) William Boericke, MD List price: $41.99 Our price: $41.99

This is one of the most popular introductory materia medicas and repertories. Special American edition has stronger binding, better paper, and clearer printing. Normal retail price is $41.95.

Boericke's Materia Medica
Reviewed in American Homeopathist,
September, 1901.
Frank Kraft, MD, ed.

There can never be too many homeopathic materia medica text books, especially when they come to us from so eminent a student, teacher, and practitioner as is this Boericke, who is already well known and famous for his many other ultra-homeopathic books.

This little book is marvelously compact, considering that it carries all the remedies with which the well-read homeopath is familiar certainly as to name, though not always, or very rarely, with all the alleged virtues. In the very brief compass of half a page the author gives the most important point of each of all the remedies, and the rest thereupon becomes easy. We are reminded to say now, what we have frequently said before, that these little text-books are not to be considered as books from which to study a remedy. They are more in the nature of an encyclopedia, which teaches by suggestion rather than from the volume of matter contained.

Having studied Arum, for instance, and then not used Arum for a year or more, the points of the remedy will, in great part, fall out of the memory; but a reference to one of these splendid books instantly, by association and suggestion, recall the larger study, and thus our memory is kept alive. No one for a moment supposes that Dr. Boericke intends to put this book on the market as a substitute for the larger and more necessary study of the remedies, as we all need in our lives to study and assimilate the remedies of our profession; it is merely in the light of an assistant, to recall the knowledge that we have stored away about our clothes; also to suggest to the busy man where he may find the remedy which he was not taught while at school; and so look it up and study it.

The first few sentences under each remedy are alone worth the price of the book. They are range finders. After that the minute selection of the remedy becomes measurably easier. Needless to add that we admire the little pocketbook, and recommend it to our readers and good homeopaths everywhere.

Review in the Homeopathic Recorder, July, 1901

From Hering and Breyfogle, of old times, down to Fahnestock, "A, B, C," Clarke, and Boericke of the current year, what a host of "pocket" and "condensed" Materia Medicas have been issued. And unless the authors have re-proved the remedies (which they haven't), what new can they have to say?
Yet they are one and all useful little books, for the very life of homeopathy is its Materia Medica; for minus that it has no reason for being, and we cannot have too much attention paid to this subject.

Dr. Boericke's book is a very handsome production, printed on "bible paper" and fitted for size in the pocket.

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