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Concordant Reference
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by
Mr. Frans Vermeulen
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ISBN:
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Subject Code:
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ISBN-13:
9782874910203
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Category:
BJain Archibel Books
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Format:
HB
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Readership:
Medical
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Volume:1
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Series:
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Dimension:
6" × 8.5"
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Color:
Single
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Language:
English
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Illustrations:
No
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Publishing Date:
2011
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Rights:
W
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Edition:
First
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Pages:
2200
pp
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Imprint:
BJA
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Original Price:
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USD 156
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10
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Price:USD
140.00
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About the Book 
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Concordant Reference represents an extensive sifting and culling of the classical homeopathic materia medicas. Remedy source information has been corrected from the original texts. 1209 remedies are included with more proving symptoms from T.F. Allens Encyclopedia to complement the mostly clinical information from Hering; Our lesser known remedies benefit most from Vermeulens work on Concordant Reference.Concordant Reference reflects recent changes in homeopathic techniques and scientific knowledge. By improving the accuracy of the original material and adding scientific classification, Concordant Reference uses the classical materia medica to build a solid foundation for the modern practice of homeopathy. Family Information on Plants, Animals, Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses. Each remedy is broken down into Generals, Mind, Dreams, Body sections, Modalities, Relations and Causation. Sections on Food and Drink, Heart, Limbs in General, Upper Limbs and Lower Limbs for easier reference. Also, each section of the body is further divided into Sensations, Pain and Objective. Sections on Sensation, Mind and Dream reflect the recent developments in case taking, case analysis and prescribing that have shown to be so effective for today’s homeopath. Concordant Reference is a single-volume work of roughly 2,200 pages, beautifully printed and bound to last through years of clinical practice, study and reference. It is the first in Frans Vermeulens new "Reference Series.
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About the Author
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Frans Vermeulen is recognised throughout the homeopathic world as an
author, lecturer and authority on materia medica. Each of the many books
he has authored makes a contribution of major significance to our understanding
of substances and materia medica. His lectures are inspiring and
appreciated for their liveliness, depth of knowledge and breadth of factual
information.
Born in Den Helder, Holland, Frans taught at an elementary school from 1970 to 1978. From
1976 – 1983 he pursued his homeopathic education, while beginning his own practice in 1979.
At this time, he had begun to translate homeopathic books by masters such as Kent, Allen, Tyler,
Vithoulkas, and many others. In 1985 he wrote Kindertypes in de Homoeopathie (Children
types in Homoeopathy) (Sonntag, 1988), based on his experiences as both a teacher and a
homeopath. In 1990 he was appointed Managing Director , Teacher and Administrator of The
School of Homeopathy in Holland.
Frans currently lives in california with his wife, Linda Johnston
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Editorial Reviews:
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I want to have a copy of this book not only on my bookshelf, but also in my clinic, by my bed, in my bag to read on bus or train, and maybe even in the bathroom and
certainly on my laptop as a stand-alone e-book. It is the best single volume materia medica I have ever seen. My first materia medica was a Boericke Pocket Manual,
1927 edition, which looks so like a Bible or prayer book that people on the tube took me to be devout. I soon bought an ancient Clarke Dictionary in 3 volumes, and
later a Margaret Tyler Drug Pictures when I started at college. Tyler quoted copiously from the classics, which I then bought and endeavoured to read in chronological
order of publication. I soon found out which books were originals and which quoted each other – but I had acquired the habit of daily study of materia medica, which is
still with me.
Frans Vermeulen started out with a Concordant in 1994, 1018 pages long. In 1987 it had expanded to 1686 pages and now it has grown to 2074. It is sturdily bound and on
Bible paper and is probably about as big as it can get; hence the need for an e-book. All the remedy names and abbreviations are indexed at the start; pages are shaded
to access the remedies in alphabetical order. The font is small but clear. And as it reaches from 1796 to 1930 a second volume will be needed for the newer medicines.
I do hope that he has started on this.
It is both an expansion and a revision of the earlier books. New developments in nomenclature and family classification are there. 10 sources are used plus Vermeulen’s
own additions, comments and corrections: Boericke; Boger – both his own Synoptic and the Boennighausen; von Lippe’s Key Notes and Red Line Symptoms; TF Allen’s Primer;
Alfred & Dayton Pulford’s Graphic Drug Pictures; Cowperthwaite’s Textbook; Kent’s Repertory and Lectures; Clarke; Hering’s Condensed and Guiding Symptoms; and finally
TF Allen’s Encyclopedia. The distinction is well made between cured or clinical symptoms – as sourced from Hering; and proved symptoms from Allen. These distinctions
and many more are carefully referenced in the text. This is what distinguishes Vermeulen’s work from rival modern materia medica, a regard for the transmission of
carefully documented information.
Vermeulen has been fastidious and conscientious. What we have erroneously called small remedies, the little guys apparently entered as afterthoughts in Boericke, have
been liberated. Inside every small remedy is a polychrest struggling to escape. These less well-known remedies have their own entry with much more information than
before, with a retained identity of the source. He is aware of the value of such background information as the friendship of Compton Burnett with Clarke. Clarke added
Burnett’s comments to his work, which in turn has been included here. Chemical formulae are cited, as are botanical and animal families in both older and modern
versions. He has not graded the symptoms in the main, as their inclusion in itself is a sufficient indicator of their value. His focus is ‘to stay focused on symptoms
and tune out gradations’. Categories of symptoms like concomitants, alternating, extensions, better, worse are all signified with neat symbols. Relationship of
remedies is derived from Clarke, even if considered complicated and vexatious. I shall not go on into even more detail but to remark that there is a thorough 6-page
introduction, which has not left me with any questions.
Samuel Johnson, creator of a famous modern dictionary of English in the 18th century therein defined a lexicographer as ‘a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge’.
Here is an example of most fruitful drudgery. The result is a pleasure to read and study. I have solved a few cases on the Homeopathic Helpline this week by leaving my
copy close to the phone.
Reviewed by: Francis Treuherz, MA RSHom FSHom London
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I have always been a huge fan of Frans Vermeulen’s work. It is clear, objective and covers the subject as deeply as humanely possible. The Concordant Reference does
not stray away from this tradition. From its beginnings, when it was called the Concordant Materia Medica, to this latest edition, it collates the informations about
remedies from the old, classical authors, those that time and continuous use have vouched for, removing multiple quotes but including trusted sources, even for small
remedies that are almost never used, often because they were buried under the massive, repetitive writings about the most common remedies. Boericke, Boger, Lippe,
Allen, Cowperthwaite, Kent, Clarke, Hering and Vermeulen himself are the sources of this Materia Medica. They definitely can be trusted. After a short introduction and
an explanation about the structure of the book, 1209 remedies are reviewed in alphabetical order, with their common names, Latin names and family when warranted. If
you only know or search for the common name, that will be difficult to find as there is no index or cross-reference; so you need to consult another book to find the
proper name first. That is one very annoying shortcoming. I have another issue though, which has been ongoing since the first publication: a lack of order in the sub-
rubrics. If I look up Sepia, Female, first come the sensations; fine, that was in the explanations at the beginning of the book; then we swing from ovaries, to uterus,
to tubes, to menses, to discharges, to labour, to flushes, back and forth apparently without any logic. So if I want to check everything that is related to “Ovaries”,
I have to go through a full page of small font disorderly symptoms packed together. Why not put some order there? Trying to read that page, my eyes kept slipping away
and I realised that I was at high risk of skipping some important information if I was really looking up the remedy for a patient. That being said, I have nothing but
praise for this book. If I was to work in a remote place and be allowed to bring only one Materia Medica, this would be the one. I do not use many of the newly proved
modern remedies in my practice; therefore the information contained in the Concordant would still allow me to prescribe successfully in most of my cases. The students
might be quite overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge carried in this book. For them, while learning, I would still recommend a simpler materia medica, like the
Synopsis, to get acquainted with the remedies, and then read the full text in the Concordant, first as an illustration, then as a way of getting a deeper knowledge.
The Concordant Reference is a must for every practicing homeopath.
Reviewed By: Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD
Originally published: Hpathy, December 2012 and The Homeopathic Heritage Feb 2013Heritage.
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Reviews:
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My mouth is watering to have my hands on this book. I am using the older version of Concordant and it is such a great help in practice, to find a strange symptom not listed in other condensed Materia Medica (I mean Borike, and Kent etc). Having all the vast information in one place greatly reduces your work to search through different books and energy saved can be used to more clearly understand the case and the remedy. I hope to get this book soon.
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29-Mar-2012
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