Woodbury List
As recorded by Julian Winston in his Heritage of Homeopathic Literature, Benjamin Woodbury read his paper, The Literary Armamentarium, to the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society in 1931.
In that address, he recommends a group of essential titles that would fit on a homeopath's Five Foot Bookshelf.
It's now more than 70 years later, and WHN Books is offering many of his timeless choices.
| Allen H — Keynotes of the Materia Medica with Nosodes Based entirely on Hering's Guiding Symptoms and pared down to the characteristic features of the most important remedies, this work is essential to students and practitioners. |
| Allen T — Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book Edited by T.F. Allen, this work is often prized for its section on concordances; describing similarities between medicines. The current resurgence of interest in the Boenninghausen method has practitioners giving this gem a second look. |
| Allen T — Handbook of Materia Medica Primarily derived from T.F. Allen's Encyclopedia and his clinical notes it offers great value in a library of limited space. |
| Bell — Homeopathic Therapeutics of Diarrhea This was originally prepared as a labour-saver, and as a receptacle for clinical observations, which was then enriched with gleanings from other practitioners and periodicals. |
| Boenninghausen — Lesser Writings of Boenninghausen This book contains all the magazine articles penned by Boenninghausen, as well as a few of the smaller pamphlets. |
| Boericke W — New Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica This is a reformatted version of Boenninghausen's classic pocket manual. |
| Boericke W — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica - India Boericke is often the first real materia medica to be studied; he offers a satisfying amount of information about a goodly number of remedies. A boon to inexperienced homeopaths. |
| Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica - US Comprising of the Characteristic and Symptoms of All Remedies (Clinical and Pathogenetic). Often the first real materia medica to be studied; it offers a satisfying amount of information about a goodly number of remedies making it a boon to inexperienced homeopaths. |
| Boger — Boenninghausen's Characteristics MM and Repertory Essentially a collection of all of Boenninghausen's work into one book, this treatise contains both a Materia Medica and a Repertory. The Boenninghausen method emphasizes modalities and the characteristic aspects of symptoms and has particular utility when the symptoms in the case are incomplete. |
| Boger — Synoptic Key to Materia Medica Contains a short repertory and a summary of 323 remedies, complete with region of affinity, modalities, and specific symptoms, all graded as to degree. |
| Carlton — Homeopathy in Medicine and Surgery Emphasizing the practical and the clinical but never eschewing his staunchly Hahnemannian roots, gem after gem flows from the pen of this second generation, American born homeopath. |
| Choudhury — Study on Materia Medica and Repertory In Choudhuri's capacity as the Principal of the Bengal Allen Homoeopathic Medical College he had to deal very largely with Materia Medica, and this treatise is the outcome of the lectures delivered to the students. Almost all the known remedies have been embodied in this volume with the exceptions of a very few minor ones of empirical and unauthenticated nature. |
| Clarke JH — Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica Offering over 1000 remedies with information about indications, keynotes, relationships, alternative names, causations, affinities, and more. Every homeopath should be familiar with this 3-volume set. |
| Clarke JH — Homeopathy Explained Clarke tells us 'There is an Art of cure, but it must be learned and practiced with brains...The object of this work is to put the facts of the case before the public.' |
| Close — Genius of Homeopathy Of particular importance are the sections on case taking and the nature of symptoms. These essays are as relevant now as when first penned. |
| Dewey — Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics This is an excellent and handy reference with reliable remedy differentials for treating a veritable host of ailments. |
| Dudgeon — Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Homeopathy These lectures, given about eight years after the death of Hahnemann, draw from the author's correspondence with masters like Hering, Lippe and Gross and capture the Zeitgeist of what was a new medical revolution. |
| Dunham — Science of Therapeutics A collection of writings on the principles of cure have been placed together, while clinical cases illustrating these principles have been put side by side; evidence of a mind ever progressive and hospitable to truth. A classic! |
| Farrington E — Clinical Materia Medica These lectures are presented exactly as delivered, except where a change was suggested by Farrington’s manuscript or by his published writings. Remedies are grouped in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, with many comparisons cross-indexed by disease and remedy. |
| Gross — Comparative Materia Medica Counted as one of the materia medica essential to the Homeopathic Five Foot Shelf, Gross offers hundreds of comparisons between remedies. |
| Guernsey — Keynotes to Materia Medica This work is based upon lectures given at Hahnemann Medical College and an article published in the Hahnemann Monthly called The Key-Note System. |
| Guernsey — Obstetrics A solid reference for over 100 years and still popular today, this work contains details of female anatomy and physiology as well as excellent information on neo-natal care and childhood diseases. |
| Hahnemann — Chronic Diseases Theoretical Part This is Hahnemann's seminal work containing the basic concepts of miasmatic theory, extracted from the two-volume set- Chronic Diseases. |
| Hahnemann — Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann Edited by R.E. Dudgeon, this collection of essays and letters remains an important and vital testament to Hahnemann's extraordinary powers of intellect. |
| Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura Hahnemann's investigations of a host of substances morphed between 1811 and 1833 to become the venerable mother of all our materia medica; ultimately containing 53 remedies. |
| Hahnemann — Organon 6th ed. (Boericke) This Boericke translation, published in 1922, is based on Dudgeon's 1893 version with only Hahnemann's corrections between the 5th and 6th being translated. It remains a favourite among some homeopathic educators. |
| Hering — Condensed Materia Medica Forerunner of Guiding Symptoms, this book was prepared with the help of Hering's students Farrington and Korndoefer. |
| Hughes — Manual of Pharmacodynamics Hughes was an impeccable scholar who lectured on materia medica to the British Homoeopathic Society in London. These are the transcriptions of his lectures. |
| Jahr — Forty Years Practice Hempel noted that 'although this volume was intended for beginners in Homoeopathy, yet it will likewise prove an acceptable guide to physicians of riper experience.' |
| Kent — Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy - India Transcriptions of the lectures Kent gave to his classes in the study of the Organon. |
| Kent — Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy - US Transcriptions of the lectures Kent gave to his classes in the study of the Organon. |
| Kent — Lectures on Materia Medica Transcribed by his students from the lectures he presented at his Post-graduate School of Homeopathics in Philadelphia. |
| Kent — New Remedies, Clinical Cases, Lesser Writings Compiled after Kent's death, the book is comprised from letters, published artticles and lectures. This work contains all Kent's aphorisms and precepts so often quoted. |
| Kent — Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica - lg The archetypal and definitive repertory of several generations, Kent's repertory serves as the kernel of most of the modern repertories. |
| Kent — Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica - med The archetypal and definitive repertory of several generations, Kent's repertory serves as the kernel of most of the modern repertories. |
| Kent — Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica - mini The archetypal and definitive repertory of several generations. Kent's repertory serves as the kernel of most of the modern repertories. |
| Knerr — Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms A valuable reference because of the uniqueness of some its material, it remains a book to be studied at leisure rather than used in practice. Compiled by his son-in-law from Hering's 10 volumes. |
| Lilienthal — Homeopathic Therapeutics Probably one of the best of all the therapeutic manuals; it offers a vast array of ailments and conditions with thorough and reliable remedy differentiations. |
| Lippe C — Repertory to the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia Medica This smallish repertory from the son of Adolph Lippe, was the basis from which Kent began his repertory. |
| Nash — Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics Nash lays the foundation for solid understanding. While some symptoms are of inestimable value; some are of absolutely no value at all, because they are not the effects of the drug claiming to have been proven. |
| Pulford — Leaders in Pneumonia The appalling mortality rate among pneumonia patients circa 1928 led to the publication of this little gem. |
| Raue — Special Pathology and Diagnostics An excellent text created by Raue for his classes in pathology and diagnostics at Hahnemann College in Philadelphia. |
| Shedd — Clinical Repertory and Time Modalities Cited by Woodbury as a necessary item in the Homeopathic Armamentarium. |
| Worcester — Repertory to the Modalities This booklet considers the remedies affected by Temperature, Air, Water, Winds, Weather, and Seasons. |
