Repertory

Scope or advantages of Kent’s Repertory:
1. This is the only Repertory that covers rubrics pertaining to mental generals, physical generals, and particulars that constitute the totality of symptoms. No others Repertory has emphasized all these sections equally.
2. The philosophy behind this Repertory synchronizes with that of Dr. Hahnemann which is from generals to particulars. The general rubrics are not given first which are further modified under sub-rubrics as:
a) Location.
b) Sensation.
c) Modalities.
d) Concomitants.
e) Extension or radiation.
f) Adaptability.
g) Unexpected deviation feature.
h) Cause.
i) Alternating with.
j) Various types.
k) Onset.
l) Sensation as if. and
m) Side.
3. The mind which plays a vital role in Homoeopathic prescription has been high lightened only in this Repertory. The role of the mind in the evolution of the symptomatology of a patient has been equivocally accepted in Homoeopathic pedagogy.
4. A rich source of mental symptoms.
5. Large section on generalities.
6. More medicine than Boenninghausen’s and Boger’s Repertory.
7. Practical gradation of the medicine.
8. Rich in the cross-reference.
9. Each particular rubric is being delineated in regard to the above-mentioned characteristics as far as practicable so it is helpful for cases where there is an absence of general symptoms.
10. The arrangement of rubrics in each section is mostly anatomical and alphabetical.
11. The language is comprehensible except in the mental chapter where there are some rubrics that are not easily fathomable.
12. This Repertory is complementary to BTPB. Kent’s work is only a desirable extension of Boenninghausen.
13. Kent has evolved his own method of analysis and evolution of symptoms based upon them and some thought he has formulated for his Repertory. So one who analyses and evaluates the case as per Kent’s method, finds Kent’s Repertory easier to handle and to work out.
14. As it has encompassed all the anatomical parts, organs, and systems of the body it is very useful for prescribing for acute diseases.
15. It is useful for repertorisation on the basis of eliminating rubrics.
16. Kent’s final arrangement of the Repertory is novel in the respect that he has collected all the particulars with their modalities separately.
17. Dr. A. H. Grimmer says Kent’s Repertory is best adapted to meet the requirement of the Homoeopathic prescriber for the following reasons:
a) Kent is the only unbridged Repertory.
b) By reason of a later edition it is the most recent and therefore contains remedies in relation to symptoms not found elsewhere.
c) Its construction confirms to the Hahnemannian concept of the totality of the patient in that the arrangement of rubrics is from general to particular.
18. A long index helps for the neophytes to find the rubrics.
19. It brings a lot of poly-crest remedies.
20. It brings new drugs.
21. This Repertory is handy to use.
22. This Repertory contains perhaps a large number of rubrics.
23. This Repertory is expansible.
24. Pierre Schmidt says “this is a golden book.”
25. This book has fingerprints.
26. Each rubric contains a maximum number of characters so there is a large number of rubrics.
27. Concomitants have been delineated in individual chapters.
28. All rubrics have been discussed from generals to particulars. Hence it justifies the theory of “Individualization”.