Book Review
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2000 Jan / Feb VOL II NO 1.
Reviewed By
Dr Rashmi Nagar
Title: The Teacher
Publishers: Homoeopathic Athenaeum, Surya Apartments, Sattram, Elluru, Andhra Pradesh-534007
Edition: First 2001
Pages: 143
Price: Rs 75
This Book is a tribute to a dedicated, selfless teacher, Shri S Veerbhadra Rao from his students 'To Sir with Love'. He held an MD in ENT yet took to Homoeopathy. He later formed the Homoeopathic study group ATHENAEUM (Temple of Goddess of wisdom) and dedicated his life to Homoeopathy. Dr SVR's students have been trained systematically to repertories and find the Similimum. This book presents 60 of his cases by his students.
Each case has a detailed repertorisation, discussion and editorial comments. Certain details like clinical examination and lab investigation are intentionally omitted due to economic reasons.
The aim of the book is to propagate Classical Homoeopathy, but the reader occasionally may get the feeling that inspite of good repertorisation and good results. The attempt to know 'the person behind the ailment', Perceiving and consideration of mental symptoms is somewhat lacking.
Classical homoeopathy has come a long way over the years and homoeopathic software has made the tedious task of repertorisation much simpler. So we should hone our skills for history taking, converting symptoms into rubrics, proper analysis of the case and proofs in the form of follow-up pathological investigations.
This book will be a source of inspiration for all the teachers and students who went to practice Homoeopathy diligently.
