A repertory for veterinary practitioners: Richard Pitcairn and Wendy Jensen’s New World Veterinary Repertory, with the anatomy changed to animal terms.
It rests on the Boger-Boenninghausen Characteristics Repertory, with further rubrics drawn from Kent, Jahr and Boger’s Synoptic Key. The emphasis is on concomitants, aggravations and ameliorations. The authors note that human repertories hold much that only humans can communicate, such as sensations and types of pain.
- Anatomy. Human body parts give way to their animal equivalents, so “ankle” becomes “hock”, “wrist” “carpus” and “arm” “foreleg”. Menses is described as Heat (reproductive cycle).
- Order and definitions. The authors reordered rubrics where the original sources were inconsistent, and added definitions for older or technical terms.
- Cross references. Rubrics with similar meanings but different remedy lists were not merged. Each carries a note pointing to its counterpart, so you can compare the lists before choosing a rubric.
The work took the authors three years. The publisher’s page has screenshots of the repertory in RadarOpus.
