Large Repertories: Complete versus Synthesis

[Theresa Partington]

The binding and paper on mine are good though i haven't carried it about that much. Margin space? 1/2 inch. How small is your writing? Thumb index is 'stuck on' so I imagine might unstick in time.
Word Index is in a separate paperback along with the veterinary stuff and the Locations index (ie where in rep you find which parts of body). Personally, I think they should have put word index in the main book but there you go...they didn't ask me. Cross referencing is good in synthesis, though, and gets round some of the problems of finding your way around.
I think it is a very good compromise between the limitations of Kent and Murphy as far as portable and affordable hard copies go. You get the disk (containing a read only version of the rep), the paper back and the rep as a package.
Incidentally, someone mentioned the amalgamation of Boenninghausen into Kent in the RU, in comparison to Dimitriades' rep (which I haven't seen). My query on that is that I believe the Boenninghausen gradings and the methodology that goes with the rep are different from Kent's. Not sure what the implications of that are but someone else might like to comment.
Theresa
Ellen wrote:
This is a wonderful compromise (see below). Does it have room in the
margins for notes? How's the paper quality and binding? Does it have
amenities like an index?
Thank-you so much,
Ellen Madono

[Ellen Madono]

Hi Theresa,

Thank-you for you description of the Essential Synthesis. 1/2 inch is not much. My mid-size Kent has more than that much space even between columns. So does Murphy but there is less than 1/2 inch between columns. Also, in both reps each line is so close together, it is hard to write between the lines.
I just read Vermeulen's description of how in the Concordant MM he combined Herring's 4 tier (actually more) structure with Kent's 3 tiers. He said a clinical case is on person "proving." So he combined the lowest proving symptom with the clinical symptom. page VIII Boenninghausen had 5 tiers. The lowest Tier were remedies with little clinical proof and no provings.
Radar Synthesis is divided into 4 tiers. I don't know about the UR.

[Shannon Nelson]

Does it have "new" remedies in it? (E.g. Jeremy's, Scholten's,
Eising's?)
Shannon

[Marilyn Wagner]

I love my Synthesis! It's an older version that I got second hand, but it is my most used "first look at". Blank pages for notes and margins too. It's pretty big, but I have carried it around a lot and it's still in good shape.
Marilyn

[Ellen Madono]

It's not easy to find second hand. How did you find it?

[Marilyn Wagner]

I got mine a few years ago, so don't know about availability now. Mine came from Ebay. You could also try abebooks.com ,but there are other sites to search for 'second hand homeopathic textbooks' (and then use your country/area) as well.
I searched for about 6 months before I came up with the books that I thot were "necessary". I drew from the different book lists for their homeopathic course curriculum and the one that Julian Winston posted online. Yep, it would be nice to have the time/money to read them all, but reading the ones that truly interest you is a good thing too!:) Of course you can always add one or two as well!!
Happy searching!:)
Marilyn

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Marilyn Wagner wrote:
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[Theresa Partington]

sorry to be so slow getting back to you. They say no dream or theoretical stuff (eg Scholten)and no new remedies unverified clinically. I can't see anything by the people you mentioned but new provings aren't excluded per se....I can't actually see a list of who is in as the only author list includes everyone on main synthesis list. Number of contributors has actually been cut by almost one half.
theresa

[Ellen Madono]

Hi Shannon and all,

The thing is not just the remedies included under synthesis rubrics. As I understand it, Boenninghausen has rubric headings that are quite different from the Kent rubric. They are meant to support his way of repertorization. That is large rubrics close to the case are first used to eliminate unrelated rubrics. Then, smaller rubrics are used. (this is probably just the way you do it by hand and not the essence of the method). You could do the same with the large rubrics in Synthesis, but for some reason, perhaps selectivity of remedies in the Boenninghausen rep (and its off shoots Phatak, Boger-Boenninghausen), these rubric work better for these mainly physical cases that are so appropriate for this method of repping. Of course, you have to be aware of these rubrics in the first place.

The rubrics themselves are included in the UR. They are not in synthesis although their are many huge rubrics full of Boenninghausen and off-shoot rep references. If you are doing a physical case, and you are following this method, then it is a matter of sorting out remedies that are from those sources. I have only done the surface reading concerning this method so I am probably wrong in many areas.

I just got word from Radar that they have 20% off on UR. They will not be offering the UR after October 1st. I have the Boenninghausen rep as a separate rep in Radar. I think that is enough. But the rubrics are quite different in wording and integrating them is going to be a good hard study. So I am getting the book reps. Nothing good is easy.

Best,
Ellen

[Theresa Partington]

Yes, I tried to work some cases in Dimitriades' book using an ordinary 'Kentian' repertory and they didn't work out at all.
Theresa
Ellen wrote:
The thing is not just the remedies included under synthesis rubrics. As I
understand it, Boenninghausen has rubric headings that are quite different
from the Kent rubric. They are meant to support his way of
repertorization. That is large rubrics close to the case are first used to
eliminate unrelated rubrics. Then, smaller rubrics are used. (this is
probably just the way you do it by hand and not the essence of the method).
You could do the same with the large rubrics in Synthesis, but for some
reason, perhaps selectivity of remedies in the