Minutus

Friends,

A colleague asked me if I know of any articles reviewing the history, philosophy and methodology of the various schools of thought in homeopathy?
...either book length or simply an article?

I could not think of one. Can anyone else?
--Dana Ullman

Dear Dana
There is a book we had at college - and very useful it was, too!
It's called "A Guide to the Methodologies of Homeopathy" and it's by Ian Watson.It covers a lot of different schools of thought and approaches, from classical/Kentian to arborvital, isopathy, layers, organ remedies, sequential prescribing etc etc. There are 19 different approaches discussed.
I highly recommend it.
Liz

Only 19? Does that include his method whereby if you give the wrong remedy by mistake (e.g you weren't wearing your glasses and you meant to give Cham but picked up the Chel bottle instead), it will cure the patient anyway. I love that one.
Chris

thanks for the laugh--it felt good this morning.
tanya

How about "A Guide to the Methodologies of Homeopathy" by Ian Watson?

Mary Ann Gilmore

--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Dana Ullman, MPH wrote:

Principles of Prescribing by K.N.Mathur is a good book. I have read the first edition of the book and it carries information pre 1980 era.

I am not sure if even the latest edition has anything of the newer periodic tables, delusions and other Bombay school developments.
Contents as given in an online review

Contents

Prescribing on the Basis of Specifics -- 1
Prescribing on the Basis of Prophylactics and Genus Epidemicus -- 49
Prescribing on the Basis of External Applications -- 62
Prescribing on the Basis of Totality of Characteristic Symptoms -- 70
Prescribing on the Basis of Keynote Characteristic Symptoms -- 99
Prescribing on the Basis of Constitutional or General Characteristic Symptoms -- 126
Prescribing on the Basis of Psycho-somatic Symptoms -- 171
Prescribing on the Basis of Repertorisation -- 203
Prescribing on the Basis of Causations -- 253
Prescribing on the Basis of Causations Immediate -- 61
Prescribing on the Basis of Causations Remote -- 280
Prescribing on the Basis of Removal of Suppressions -- 292
Prescribing on the Basis of Drug Miasms -- 351
Prescribing on the Basis of Miasm of Vaccinosis -- 353
Prescribing on the Basis of Miasm of Consumptiveness of Burnett -- 357
Prescribing on the Basis of Miasm of Psora -- 372
Prescribing on the Basis of Miasm of Sycosis -- 386
Prescribing on the Basis of Miasm of Syphilis -- 400
Prescribing on the Basis of Nosodes and Bowel Nosodes -- 407
Prescribing on the Basis of Blood Investigations -- 424
Prescribing on the Basis of Auto-therapy, Auto-Haemotherapy, Dowsing, Emanometric Research, and Radesthesia -- 431
Prescribing on the Basis of Relationships of Remedies -- 446
Prescribing on the Basis of Alternations and Combinations of Remedies -- 454
Prescribing on the Basis of Tautopathy -- 477
Prescribing on the Basis of Organopathic Remedies -- 486
Prescribing on the Basis of Ladder-like Remedies -- 491
Prescribing on the Basis of Law of Directions of Cure -- 506
Prescribing on the Basis of Dispositions and Lack of Reaction -- 521
Prescribing on the Basis of Allergy -- 554
Prescribing on the Basis of Potency, Repetition and Placebo -- 604
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Dana Ullman, MPH" wrote: