Keynotes and Characteristics With Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica by Henry Clay Allen. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1899 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

"Allen's Keynotes" is one of the most popular and widely read materia medica. The reason for its popularity being its preciseness and comprehensiveness. Keeping in view its usefulness for the students and practitioners of homeopathy.

The Life-Work Of The Student Of The Homoeopathic Materia Medica Os One Of Constant Comparison And Differentiation. He Must Compare The Pathogenesis Of A Remedy With The Recorded Anamnesis Of The Patient; He Must Differentiate The Similar Symptoms.

Dr R P Sangar compiled this reference work from H C Allen's Keynotes and Characteristics. It is a concise, to the point, quick reference guide for prescribing on keynotes and red line symptoms. It is well laid out and very easy to use. Each symptom has a page reference back to "Allen's Keynotes" to enable the practitioner to see the bigger picture as well. The publication of this book fills the need for a concise, to-the-point, quick-reference guide for prescribing on keynotes and redline symptoms. It is very useful for students, beginners and practitioners, especially in situations where one does not have the time or the circumstances to take a detailed case history or go through the process of repertorisation. Symptoms are given under different headings like Mind, Brain, Nerves, Face, Respiratory Organs, Digestive System, Urinary Organs, Genitalia, Skin, Fevers, Constitutional Diseases, Drunkards Diseases, Pregnancy Troubles, Bruises, etc. A quick flick through a few pages will lead you to the required remedy plus the comparative remedies mentioned alongside the symptoms.

This book covers the detailed and extended sympmatology of some important remedies including sarcodes, nosodes and imponderabilia. It covers 16 remedies and includes the proving of X-ray, magnets, electricity. Each remedy starts on mental generals and ending with general symptoms. Division of each remedy is according to head to toe distribution. It provides arrangement of all the characteristic (keynotes) symptoms which have been proved and verified. In each remedy a brief account of prover and proving has been illustrated. The symptoms are unaltered in substance and language of remedies unchanged. Features: Precise and comprehensive; More extended symptomatology of nosodes, sarcodes and imponderabilia; Presents characteristic keynotes symptoms which have been proved and verified; Symptoms are arranged in such a manner that they follow each other in a logical sequence, so that no symptoms are lost to the reader even on casual reading; Useful for students as well as to practitioners of homeopathy.

The perpetual challenge of all students of homoeopathy, whether beginner or experienced, is the overwhelming volume of detailed symptoms in our Material Medicas. We constantly strive to simplify the information, to sort out the clinically useful from the non-distinguishing and general symptoms, to grasp in a single picture the essential features of the remedy. Compounding this difficulty is the fact that most of our sources belong toanother era in time, the rapid changes and unique pressures of modern society have brought froth new facets of our remedies, and even well known symptoms are expressed in a modern idiom which obscures their relationship to the material in older texts. This task of separating the truly essential from the common place and adapting the form to present day expression, has been approached by Roger Morrison with characteristic dedication.