In 1980 the repertory most used was still Kent. David became
involved with the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital in 1980
and they asked him to produce a software program that computerised
Kent for them. It took 2 years and the result was an early
primitive version of CARA (Computer
Assisted Repertory Analysis). Consultants, doctors and nurses
from the hospital also spent yearmanually typing in a substantial
portion of Kent's Repertory to give a useable system.
In addition to the early Cara system at this time there was
a software program from Australia that incorporated all of
Kent (but you had to type 'codes' in to the screen not rubrics
names) - and there was a Swiss program based solely on Boenninghausen.
Peter Chappell had also produced a mini software system based
on the tiny Sinclair machine.
Cara kept developing and improving following the launch of
the first ever PC from IBM around 1984. Kent was completed.
The other software products withered and died.
Around 1985-86 (I think) both the Radar and Macrep products
started to develop - Radar on Wang computers in association
with the University of Namur and MacRep on early Macs.
As PC's become more proficient so did the software
The Synthetic Repertory produced by Barthel and Kluncker
was becoming very popular. Not only did it make corrections
to errors in Kent but each rubric was not only in English
but in French and German also. Its only restriction was that
it was only 6 chapters : Mind, Generals, Sleep, Dreams, Male
& Female and that it was a copyright work.
Suffice to say that Radar modelled their repertory Synthesis
on Synthetic (as the name implies) whereas Mac partnered with
Roger van Zandvoort in their repertory. Roger had inherited
the work of Kunzli who had also produced an edition of Kent
with corrections and improvements. This work eventually became
the Complete Repertory.
David and his company Miccant decided the expand the Kent
Repertory by making additions and named it the Combined Repertory.
So in the late eighties and early nineties the 3 software
companies were all promoting their own repertories within
their own software. All therepertories and software system
were growing rapidly. All of these repertories were essentially
Kentian
In 1992 Miccant released Cara for Windows which was the first
Windows based homeopathic software - and it had a graphical
user interface - previously this was only available on the
Macrep product.
In 1995 Roger van Zandvoort decided that his work the Complete
Repertory should be available on more than 1 platform. Miccant
acquired a license to offer the Complete with Cara.
Radar were not offered this licence as they continued to
promote Synthesis which was very popular in book form.
Robin Murphy produced the 1st edition of his repertory around
1994 derived from an earlier edition of the Complete but of
course he completed changed the format of the repertory structure
and made additions and grade changes based on his personal,
knowledge. His 2nd edition arrived in 1996.
His repertory was offered for use with Cara and then Macrep.
Subsequently also Radar a few years ago.
In 1998 Miccant released Cara Professional and this was the
only software to cross search all the repertories simultaneously
Miccant released ISIS in 2003
the first software to combine Reps and Mat Med into one interface.
In 2004 Roger van Zandvoort released Repertorium Universale
which is the first work to attempt to combine the Kentian
and Boenninghausen repertories into one
Radar also took a licence for RU and Complete this year although
they do not offer licenses to Synthesis to any other company
In 2005 Robin Murphy will release edition 3 of this repertory
and it is rumoured that Miccant may also release a new repertory
at some stage.
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