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JUGAL KISHORE'S CARD REPERTORY

By- Gauri
MD Part-- II

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Name of the Repertory: The Kishore Cards-
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A Homoeopahtic Card Repertory

Authors: Dr. Jugal Kishore BSc, DMS, MD (Hom)
And Dr. Arvind Kishore MBBS, MF (Hom) London

Publishers: Kishore Card Publications, New Delhi

Year of Publishing: First Edition 1959

Second Revised and Enlarged Edition 1967

Third and Enlarged Edition 1985

Printers: M/S Powers – Samas (First Edition)

M/S Kanpur Printing Press (Second Edition)
Agricole Printing Agency (Third Edition)
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 Contents
Part I

Introduction

1. Forward to the second edition

2. Preface to the first edition
3. Preface to the second edition
4. Preface to the third edition
5. Practical Analysis
6. List of remedies and their code numbers

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PART II

Rubrics and their code numbers

Forward to the second edition: It is written by J.N.

Mujumdar MSc, MB (Cal), LRCP (London), FRCS (
Edin), DMS (Homoeo).

He appreciates Dr. Jugal Kishore for making this

laborious work, in spite of his busy Professional
practice.

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION:

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The Author says that it took about seven years
to complete the first edition of the Card
Repertory.

 About 579 medicines and 3497 rubrics were

included in the repertory.

 The rubrics are arranged in the alphabetical

order and they are numbered from 50.

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 He admits that there are certain remedies, which do
not appear under any of the rubrics; are included and
assigned code number, so as to enable practitioner to
add such remedies in suitable rubrics; when his
experience and study dictate their inclusion.

 Most of the rubrics from Kent’s and Boenninghausen’s

Repertories were included in this repertory.
 The repertory is so constructed that a Practitioner can
use it either according to the Boenninghausen method
or Kent method.
 Information from about 91 books was included in this
card repertory.

 These cards are primarily meant for quick elimination

of remedies without the risk of excluding similimum.
The elimination is a mechanical process.
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 The rubric number is stamped on the top of

each card. For quick reference a table of
contents of some important rubrics are given at
the beginning of index.
 He admits that it is not a complete one. Cross-
references are also given. Meanings of some
rubrics are also given. For example; code
number 1570 – Fever: Zymotic. The meaning of
Zymotic has been given within brackets – Fever
due to specific virus.

 He gives some directions for reading certain

rubrics; for example, Rubric number 1714 “ Bore
head in pillow” should be read as Head,
affections and sensations, motions of head,
bores in pillow.
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 The rubric number 0832 “ Waking on” the

correct way to read this rubric is “ Cough, in
morning, on waking ”.

 Rubric number 0577 read of “ Periosteum” -

should be read as “ Bones, sensitiveness of
Periosteum”

 Rubric number 1618 read simply “ right” should

be read as “ Head, parts and regions of, internal
forehead, eyes, above right”

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 The letter “Cf” or “C” which is used as a short

form for “see” indicates the Cross-references or
related rubric. For example; rubric 1617 “
Flatulence in general” – we see that rubric
number 2666(rubric in Abdomen) is referred to
with the letter C. With the help of this
Practitioner can select the most similar rubric.

 For evaluating remedies he has used two types

of holes; round/ square holes and oval/ figure of
eight holes. The latter indicate the high grade
and the former indicate the lower grade
remedies.
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WORKING METHOD:
 After case taking, the rubrics are arranged in the
descending order of their importance. “Red line”
rubrics are considered at the upper most.

 The respective code numbers are written against

each other rubrics. Then pick out the cards for the
corresponding numbers, put them in the order of the
list; one behind the other, leaving aside (for the time
being) the cards of less importance or those rubrics
with very few remedies.

 After arrangement; look for the synchronizing of the

holes..
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 Not more than three holes could be seen

through the upper most (first) card. He notes
down the holes of the cards.
 Decode those remedy numbers; by using the
code numbers and list of remedies. We can also
note down the second group of remedies which
are not all through but are most tarns –
illuminant.
 In certain cases, there may not be any hole
going through the all the cards. In such cases,
the most illuminant holes should be noted down
and decoded.
 There is an isolated punched hole at the top of
left corner of the card. It is only meant for
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION:

 Some mistakes of the previous editions were
corrected in this second edition.

 Especially those medicines with their symptoms

taken from Kent’s New Remedies (for example,
Aur.sulph) were found to have not reliable and
were excluded.

 Concomitants of Boger’s Repertory especially,

concomitants of menses are given as rubrics in
the second edition.

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 Additions of medicines were made from reliable

sources like British Homeopathic Journal.

 Author has made some combination or

synthesis of rubrics.
Example,
“ Fear of darkness and fear of robbers in
children” are combined together to form a single
rubric.
“ Desire for highly seasoned food and desire for
pungent food” are included under a single
rubric.

 The number of rubrics increased to 9063 and

the number of medicine increased to 590.
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 Almost all symptoms of Mind chapter from Kent’s

repertory is included.

 The modalities of particulars which were absent in the

first edition have been included.
Here there is an option to select three types of
evaluation of remedies, by paying an additional cost.

 The numbers of old rubrics (in the first edition) are

indicated in Italics.

 The number of new rubrics and the number of cross-

references are given in straight type.

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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION:

 129 new rubrics and 102 new remedies were

added. So that the total number of rubrics in
the third edition is 9192 and the total number
of remedies is 692.

 Jugal Kishore’s son Arvind Kishore has given

his contributions in this edition.

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PRACTICAL ANALYSIS:
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A description of the ‘ Rubric card’ (Kishore
Cards)
A card has 80 vertical columns; numbering from
1 to 80 from left to right. They are numbered at
the bottom and top in small type. Each vertical
column from above downwards contains
number from 0 to 9. The first four vertical
columns are kept apart (without being divided
by vertical lines). They are meant for punching
the number of rubric. The rest of the vertical
columns are meant for the coded remedies,
which have these particular symptoms.
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 The remedies are indicated by the punched holes. The

punched number (any number from 0 to 9) is placed
against the small digit number placed at the bottom or top
of the column; containing that particular hole and that
gives us the number of the remedy.
 The remedy can be made out from the list of ‘ Remedies
and their code numbers’. The code number of remedies
starts from 50.
 The total number of remedies that can be punched on this
card is 800; but since we are utilizing first four columns for
the number of rubric, the available space on the card is
only for 750 remedies.

 On the top of the card is printed the name of the rubric

along with its code number.

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SOME SPECIAL RUBRICS:

1. Appendicitis 0025
2. Ascites 0959
3. Addison’s disease 3269
4. Aggravation pregnancy 0250
5. Arteriosclerosis 9084
6. Bubo 0032
7. Cancerous affections 0586
8. Confinement aggravation 0226
9. Cracks of nipples 0627
10. Chest, excoriation, nipples 0633
11. Children, especially remedies for 0093
12. Cold remedies of Dr.Gibson Miller 3731
13. Collapse 0779
14. Cataract 1347
15. Climacteric ( Menopause) 1837
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 15. Climacteric ( Menopause) 1837

16. Death , apparent ( appearance, as if dying)
0900
17. Encephaloma 0587
18. Enteritis 0031
19. Gonorrhea 3293
20. Hemorrhage and tendency to hemorrhage
1650
21. Hodgkin syndrome 9115
22. Immobility of affected parts 1749
23. Intussusception 0033
24. Iron after abuse of 6539 19
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 25. Jaundice 2854

26. Labour,effects of ( maternity) 6541
27. Lean people 1794
28. Leprosy 1084
29. Mastoiditis 4758
30. Leukaemia 1822
31. Metastasis 1879
32. Mesenteries 1878
33. Mesenteritis 1878
34. Mothers (nursing) 0214
35. Nursing children ( infants in arms) 2427
36. Opacity of cornea 1387

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 37. Otitis media 1009

38. Pemphigus 1094
39. Peritonitis 0031
40. Petechiae1095
41. Purpura haemorrhagica 2885
42. Spina Bifida 3879
43. Septicaemia 2671

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MERITS OF KISHORE CARDS:

1. Third edition contains 692 medicines and

9192 rubrics

2. Almost all rubrics in the Kent’s repertory are

incorporated in the Card repertory

3. This repertory can be used in two methods,

Kent’s and Boenninghausen.

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4. Many of the rubrics in the Boenninghausen’s

repertory are made available, up to date and
complete.

5. Elimination is a mechanical process. We can

save the time taken for writing down all the
rubrics, medicines and adding their marks.
Hence useful for very busy Practitioners

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 6. The rubrics and the cards are arranged in

alphabetical order; so easy to find the required
rubric. Table of contents of rubrics with their
code numbers is given in the index.
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7. Contents of the medicines with their code
numbers are given in the index
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8. Cross-references are helpful in finding the
related and similar rubrics

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9. Evaluation of medicines can be done with

changing the shape of the holes

10. New remedies are added from the reliable

source like British Homoeopahtic Journal

11. It requires no paper work

12. It is useful in rural areas were Electricity and

computers are not available.

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DEMERITS:
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1. Quite voluminous ( Repertory include three
boxes of cards)
2. Not all rubrics needed in day to day practice will
not be available in the card repertory
3. A thorough knowledge of rubrics are necessary
before starting the process of repertorisation
4. Evaluation of remedies require an additional
amount
5. There are certain medicines in the list , which
are not found under any of the rubrics
6. With the invention of computer software
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