Supported repertories:
- Complete Repertory 2016 by Roger van Zandvoort – CR2016
- Complete Repertory Classics 2009 by Roger van Zandvoort – CRCLASS
- Kent’s Final Repertory with additions and corrections – Kent ++ (exclusively in Mercurius)
- Boger-Boenninghausen’s Repertory with corrections (Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory)
- Boenninghausen’s Repertory with corrections (Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocketbook)
- Boger’s Synoptic key
- Boger’s General Analysis and Card Index Repertory
All Mercurius repertories list the rubrics in alphabetical order, regardless of original ordering of that particular repertory, thus making them much easier to use, without the need to learn an arbitrary structure of that particular author.
In order to provide a fair comparison of the most widely used repertories, please see the table below where the leader in each category is provided in bold text.
Repertory | Kent ++ | CR 2011 | CR 2012 | CR 2014 | CR 2016 | Synthesis 9.1 |
Number of rubrics with remedies | 64 230 | 185 127 | 187 739 | 190 164 | 202 721 | 139 714 |
Number of remedies | 624 | 2 488 | 2498 | 2509 | 2 519 | 2 373 |
Number of remedies that occur in at least 100 rubrics | 362 | 1298 | 1335 | 1345 | 1402 | unknown |
Number of remedies that occur in at least 1000 rubrics | 157 | 505 | 521 | 534 | 563 | unknown |
Number of remedy occurrences |
503 145 | 2 247 311 | 2 308 011 | 2 384 717 | 2 573 414 | 1 066 987 |
Grade 1 | 338 879 | 1 561 126 | 1 614 919 | 1 586 219 | 1 656 300 | 816 612 |
Grade 2 | 129 362 | ** 83 549 | ** 85 524 | ** 103 864 | ** 198 798 | 201 295 |
Grade 3 | 34 904 | 413 207 | 416 383 | 499 087 | 519 312 | 48 610 |
Grade 4 | 0 | 189 429 | 191 185 | 195 547 | 199 004 | 470 |
Number of additions clinically verified (grade 2 + 3 + 4) | 164 266 | 686 185 | 693 092 | 798 498 | 917 114 | 250 375 |
Clinically verified, % of total | 32,65% | 30,53% | 30,03% | 33,48% | 35,63% | 23,47% |
Number of references and cross-references | 0 | 263 323 | 266 846 | 268 376 | 282 653 | 28 744 |
Average number of remedies per rubric | 7,83 | 12,14 | 12,29 | 12,54 | 12,69 | 7,64 |
Compensated repertory model | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
COMPLETE REPERTORY 2016
This is the latest and largest repertory from Roger van Zandvoort, released April 2016.
A lot of work went into this yearly release of the Complete Repertory version 2016. After years of mostly concentrating on remedy additions from cured cases, an original materia medica and repertory, Carl Friedrich Trinks’ Handbuch der homoöpatischen Arzneimittellehre from 1847, has been added. A primary Materia Medica much like Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura, Trinks provides more remedy provings and toxicology.
A very nice detail in Trink’s opus is the fact that all remedies have been graded using Bönninghausen’s grade system (of course), resulting in lowest degree, plain type, and second degree, italics, additions. These additions, combined with already available info from practice (cured cases) will often up the grading from lowest or second degree (i.e. provings/toxicology or single cured case-additions without proving/toxicology) to third or even fourth degree additions (provings/toxicology AND cured) which will make analyses with the programs that include this information, i.e. include Complete Repertory 2016 more refined.
Next to Trinks’ work, around 760 more articles from the Homoeopathic Recorder and to a lesser degree from the British Homoeopathic Journal have been read and remedies from these have been added into the Complete Repertory.
During a repertory-workshop with George Vithoulkas in Alonnisos for those working on Repertories, it was concluded that much more cured case-info should be added into the existing repertory material. For the Complete Repertory nearly 3 000 sources have been consulted since then to update the repertory with more cured material.