Materia Medica
An alphabetical listing of remedies and their symptom pictures or therapeutic drug actions. This information is derived mainly from provings.
Repertory
An index of symptoms derived from
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the material medica
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clinical data
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toxicological (poisoning) data
It is like an index to a book: rather than laboriously flipping through a book page by page to find information, the specific symptom can be looked up in the index.
THE MATERIA MEDICA IS COMPARIBLE TO THE WHITE PAGES
AND THE
REPERTORY THE YELLOW PAGES
OF THE TELEPHONE BOOK
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