The goal of the project is to make available objective data on homeopathy, which can be checked. By the method used for this project it shall be ascertained that the data are true, that no falsifications can have occured and that there has not been any publication bias.

The data to be published in parts 1 - 15 are samples, randomly selected by a pre-set mode.

They are patients' records, copied from the casebooks of the practices of Clemens Maria v. Boenninghausen and his son Friedrich Paul, who after the death of his father took over his practice. They thus cover a period of more than 50 years.

I pre-determined the method of sampling in August 2005 at the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart (IGM-Bosch for short). This method is as follows:

From the 149 casebooks of the professional practices of the v. Boenninghausensⁱ I have selected every tenth, starting with Nr.1, i. e. 1, 11, 21 ..141. Out of these I have copied the first ten patients' records. This fully guarantees random selection, thus publication bias is not possible.

In accordance with this mode of sampling I made Xerox copies of those records from the original manuscripts, i.e. the hand-written casebooks of the v. Boenninghausens kept in the archives of the Institute.

Therefore any falsification of the results or the development of the cases, either by the practitioners themselves or later, is impossible, since the records are bound copy-books with numbered pages. On the pages themselves any alteration would be easily noticeable.

On the basis of these data, homeopaths as well as non-homeopaths , skeptical, open-minded or convinced of the efficacy of homeopathy, can get a well-grounded idea concerning the practice of homeopathy of one of the most famous „classical“ homeopaths (Clemens v. Boenninghausen) as well as of a lesser-known one (his son). The data themselves can also serve as a basis for further research.ⁱⁱ

iBy „Professional“ practice I mean the period after July 1835, when v. Boenninghausen father started to earn money from his practice. (Before that, he had already treated for more than 5 years). At that point he began a newly-designed way of record-keeping, starting off with „Journal 1“

ii(A further project from the practice of a „clinical“ homeopath, who was active from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century, is in the planning stages.