How to Use Repertory G .I. Bidwell

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It is the complete essence of the knowledge of everything needed to practice our system, and nit merely referring to the repertory. Please try out this method with other repertories and see the results.
Boy aged 14 , epileptic attacks for three years. First attack followed fright caused By other boy's make believe to hang him . Attacks increasing in frequency until at this time they occur every two weeks.
Symptoms
Attack begin by running around in circle , then falls down unconscious.
Attacks are more frequent in cold dry weather and during new moon
Involuntary urination during the attack.
Boy explains of always being cold, wants to keep warm both summer and winter, he is very touchy, everything makes him cry , seems depressed all the time. Appitet either ravenous or wanting . Aversion to all kinds of sweets, of which he was previously very fond.

Repertory Analysis
Under complaints caused by fright we find thirty-six remedies. Of these the following twenty one have the symptoms on the first and second grade.
1 Caused by fright Aconite Apis Arg nit Aur Art v Bell Causticum Coff  Cupr Gels Glonoine Hyoscyamus Ign Lach Nat M Nux vom Op Plat Pul Rhux tox.
2 Sadness and depressed Aconite Arg nit Bell Causticum Gels Ign Lach Nat M Plat Pul .
3 Worse by cold dry weather Aconite Causticum
4 Aversion to sweets Causticum.
We have arrived at the solution of the case by four steps and have used all general symptoms. Now you may ask why did we start with rubric complaints caused by fright? First. This is a general symptom we are working from general to particulars .
Second, This condition was caused in this boy by fright.This mental shock was so profound that it caused the whole condition of this patient to be changed. It not only produced the epileptic seizure, but affected his desires as well. Some one of the remedies found under this rubric would be the one . Which will cover the totality of the case.The second symptom we will take is another general __ sadness and depression. We take this rubric from the fact that it mental condition produced by derangement of the patient's most internal condition, the mind.Now if we hope to cure this case we must have have a remedy, which had produced this symptom in the provers , so among our first twenty-one we find eleven with this symptom in the first and second grade. Another general condition is the modality that attacks are Worse in cold dry weather.Among the eleven remedies found in the first two rubrics we find only two, which are worse in cold dry weather. In order to decide which of these two will cover our case we will take the general aversion to sweets. Here we find that Causticum is the only remedy, which covers our rubrics.If our reasoning has been correct, if the technique of  selection is without a flaw , Causticum must be mathematically correct remedy, and turning to our Materia Medica we find that the pathogenesis of Causticum nit only contains the rubric we have used in our analysis, but the remaining symptoms of our case as well . Therefore Causticum is the remedy we Will give.Our records show that two doses of this remedy were administered with the following results.
The attacks lessened during the first month to one one , the second attack , a very slight one ,did not follow for seven weeks, and now , after an interval of a year and half , there has been no sign of a return, so we may safely say the boy is cured .