Study of Chapter Sensation and Complaints of BTPB

Full Name of the book: Therapeutic Pocket Book For Homoeopathic Physicians To Use At The Bedside And In The Study Of The Materia Medica
Author: Dr.Timothy Field Allen
Introduction: Dr.H.A.Roberts & Dr. Annie C Wilson
Publisher: B.Jain Publishers Pvt.Ltd , New Delhi
Year of Publishing: 1935
Reprint Edition : 1994
First Edition: 1846
Total pages: 503

Construction of the Repertory:

• It is a combination of his 4 books as follows:

• Repertory of antipsoric medicines –1832
• Repertory of medicine which are not antipsoric-1835
• Kinship of homoeopathic medicines -1836.
• All the three masterpieces combined to form the therapeutic pocket book.

PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND: The therapeutic pocket book is based on grouping of symptoms of Hahnemannian teachings based on Boenninghausen’s “doctrines” such as

• Location
• Sensation
• Modalities
• Concomitants

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS:

• Doctrine of Analogy or Grand Generalisation
• Doctrine of Concomitant
• Evaluation of Remedies
• Concordance

EVALUATION OF REMEDIES:

• CAPITALS :  5 Marks (Grade I)
• Bold            :  4 Marks (Grade II)
• Italics          :  3 Marks (Grade III)
• Roman         : 2 Marks (Grade IV)
• (Roman)      : 1 Marks (Grade V)

CONTENTS:

PART I 

Preface

Life History of Boenninghausen

Introduction

• Repertory uses
• The art of the physician in taking the case
• The philosophic background
• Construction of the repertory
• Introduction to different chapters
  • Mind & intellect
  • Parts of the body & organs
  • Sensations & Complaints
  • Sleep & Dreams
  • Fever
  • Alterations of the state of healt

                       -Aggravations according to Tim

                       -Aggravations according to Situations & Circumstances

                       -Amelioration by position & Circumstances

• Relations of Remedies

• Limitations of the Repertory
• Adaptability
• Use of the Analysis
• Preface to the New American Eddition
• Boenninghausen’s original preface

Sensations & Complaints In BTPB

In earlier editions the title was sensations, while in Dr Allen’s edition the name sensation and complaints. This section contains:

1. Subjective symptoms in the way of true sensations
2. Complaints or conditions and
3. Objective symptoms and also a few locations.

No. of Rubrics:  825 Rubrics

No. of Pages:  94 Pages

Arrangement of Rubrics:  It is not divided sectionally, but follow alphabetically

No. of Sections: General

                            Glands

                             Bones

                             Skin

Under the Subjective Symptoms, there are many descriptions of discomfort, as well as the following rubrics:

• Desire for open air
• Aversion to open air
• Intolerance of clothing
• Inclination to lie down
• Aversion to motion
• Desire for motion
• Restlessness
• Sensitiveness to pain
• Inclination to sit
• Illusion to Touch
• Dread of washing
• Dread of water

The symptoms of Location are generalized or directional as follows:

• Symptoms on Left side
• Right side
• Crosswise
• Left Upper and Right Lower
• Left Lower and Right Upper

The Symptoms covering Clinical Complaints are:

• Apoplexy
• Consumption
• Convulsions
• Dropsy
• Emaciation
• Tendency to take cold
• Nervous excitement
• Haemorrhage
• Frozen limbs
• Apparent death (Asphyxia)
• Indurations
• Inflammations
• Paralysis

The Objective Symptoms are:

• Blackness externally
• Carpology
• Clumsiness
• Cracking of joints
• Cyanosis

The Misplaced Rubrics are:

• Air
• Aversion to
• Desire for open air
• Frozen Limbs
• Hair Falling & Nails in Skin

Certain Important Rubrics in this Chapter included are:

• Apoplexy
• Burns
• Carphology
• Carried desires to be (might have been given under Mind)
• Chlorosis
• Clothing Intolerance of
• Cold tendency to take
• Consumption in General
• Convulsions
• Cracking of Joints
• Cyanosis
• Dislocations
• Dropsy Externally & Internally
• Emaciation
• External Parts, Drugs affecting
• Faintness
• Frozen limbs
• Haemorrhage from Internal Parts
• Hysteria
• Immobility of Affected Parts
• Indurations
• Inflammations Externally, internally
• Internal Parts, Drugs affecting
• Labor – like Pains (same rubric can be seen under the Chapter
  Sexual organs)
• Looked at, Aversion To Being (Misplaced – Might be given
  Under the Chapter Mind)
• Motion Aversion, To
• Mucus secretions Increased
• Obesity
• Pain Jumping from Place to Place
• Paralysis – One sided
• Polypus
• Reeling
• Restlessness
• Retraction of Soft Parts
• Scurvy
• Sit Inclination to
• Sprain from lifting
• Ulcerative pain Externally
  – Internally
• Washing, Dread of
• Water, Dread of Whirling (Given in the Mind Chapter)

• Glands:
  The main rubrics include;

• Atrophy
• Indurations
• Inflammation
• Injuries
• Swelling
  – like knotted cords

• Suppuration
• Ulcers
  -cancerous

• Bones:

It includes the following important rubrics

• Healing of Broken Bones
• Inflammation
• Caries
  -of periosteum
• Necrosis
• Softening

• Skin:

• Blood Sweating
• Chilblains
• Colour, Yellow
• Corns
  – Horny
  – Sensitive
• Desquamation
• Eruptions
  – Carbuncles
  – Chicken Pox
  – Furuncle
  – Itch (Scabies)
  – Suppressed
  – With Maggots
  – Measles
  – Pimples
  – Small-Pox
  – Zoster
  – Condylomata
  – Cysts, Sebaceous
• Extravasations
• Gangrene
• Hair of Head Falls Out
  – Beard
  – Moustache
• Nails, Brittle
• Sore, Becomes (Decubitus)
• Stings of Insects
• Tetter in General (Herpetic)
  – Ring Worm
• Ulcers, Varicose
• Wounds in General
  – Old Wounds Break Out