DEPARTMENT OF REPERTORY

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• The word "REPERTORY" originates from the Latin word “repertoir,” which means any store or stock, (e.g. of information), that can be drawn upon.


• “Repertorium,” in French and Latin, means a catalogue or storehouse.


• Repertoire means a collection or an inventory of capabilities (e. g. songs, plays, music. etc.).


• In Homeopathy the word “repertory” refers to books which are compiled indexes of the Homeopathic and Herbal Materia Medicas.


• J. T. Kent said, “It has been built from all sources, and is a compilation of all the useful symptoms recorded in the fundamental works of our Materia Medica, as well as from the notes of our pioneers”


• There have been more than 110 different repertories published as part of homeopathic literature during the last 170 years.


• The first repertory was created by Samuel Hahnemann which he called a “Symptom Dictionary.”


• Later, Jahr and Boenninghausen compiled their indexes to the homeopathic materia medica.


• In modern terms, the repertory represents the clinical and research database for the practice of homeopathic medicine.