Anthracin: With sloughing and terrible burning; after Ars.
Apis: Burning, stinging, throbbing; run-arounds; dissecting wounds; sense of looseness of nails; fine burning and pricking.
Arsenicum: Gangrene; wants parts wrapped; burning.
Fluoric acid: Amel.: cold bathing, left hand; points on dorsum; bone felons; deforming nails; blisters on part; discharging an acid fluid; burning, as if; prickings in.
Hepar: Agg. least touch or weight of poultice, right hand; chilliness; throbbing, gathering pain; better heat; sticking pains.
Lachesis: Gangrene; bluish color; proud flesh; visible pulsation; jerking; worse by covers; gnawing or crawling in.
Ledum: From punctured wounds, hangnails, etc.; better cold; upward pressure under nail; as of needles under nail; periosteum sore.
Nat. sul.: Begins as a blister (Flu. ac.); better outdoors; run- arounds; lives in damp places; burning in fingertips; boring, drawing, pressing, stitching pains; tearing, beating, ulcerative pain.
Nux vom.: Cross and sits by fire (Hep.); better heat; wants doors and windows shut; jerking, sticking pains; acute senses. Thumb generally.
Pulsatilla: Chilliness (Hep.); better cold and open air; letting part hang down (Bell.); tearful; stitches.
Silica: Bone felons; run-arounds; deforming the nail; worse heat; splinter-like pains; tendons and cartilages attacked; suppurating, numbing sticking pain.
Sulph. Hangnail; as of a sticking splinter; burning crawling; prickling; worse hanging down; tearing drawing; shooting; worse evening.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies