Original case reports, provings and observations from the journals of 1820 to 1920, for studying a remedy in the words of those who first recorded it.
Frans Vermeulen read his way through more than 100 American, English and German homeopathic journals, about 80 per cent of them American: roughly a million pages. He selected the articles that belong to Materia Medica, and Vista Vintage is the result, about 7,500 pages covering both well-known remedies and little-known ones. Some of the remedies have no information in the usually available materia medicas.
- Case reports: 2,914
- Clinical observations: 365
- Effects and poisonings: 650
- Materia medica summaries: 36
- Provings: 296
- Self-experimentations: 325
- Snippets (brief cases): 1,414
That makes 6,000 entries from 1,703 authors, among them Berridge (97 contributions), Boger (60), Hale (57), Kent (49), Allen (44), Case (43), Hering (26) and Clarke (14). Coverage can run deep: counting full cases, brief cases and other articles, Belladonna has 81 items and Gelsemium 55.
The wording is unabridged, so the patient’s and prover’s own language is preserved. Because the original wording is kept, you can trace a repertory rubric back to what the patient or prover actually said. About half the remedies open with a “Vantage Point” by Linda Johnston, a summary of the whole section. The publisher’s page has screenshots and a tutorial.
