RADAR questions

[Dave Hartley]

Hi Beverle,

In answer to some of your questions regarding use of RADAR..

Yes, the "quick command" (the ? key) and the extended search (query) are the
two ways that I personally find RADAR most useful; that and just clicking on
the synonyms and that are sometimes presented in the body of the repertory
text (kind of like hyperlinks on a website) also, the icon on the toolbar
just to the right of the yellow light bulb (little footsteps) is a "BACK"
button, takes you back to your previous operation, and is good for recalling
a search (query) after you've browsed around and want to quickly get back to
where you were, or to modify a query.

The more you play with the software, the better you'll get at it.
It is even better when you have EH also, and can quickly export results of
any clipboard of symptom as a search of EH's huge library of materia
medica.. mastering this type of quick access to hundreds of MM books
instantaneously gives you the ability to find remedies that previously only
someone with many more years of experience (and MM laboriously stored in
their long term memory) -would be likely to find.

Access to Synthesis is a sort of reverse-repertory. It is read-only, (I
guess you know that you can enter your own additions in the regular
Synthesis repertory) because, as a database indexed on (created from)
Synthesis, it would have to be rebuilt everytime an addition were made to
Synthesis & vice versa.. for their to remain the congruency between ACCESS &
Synthesis. So, you won't find your additions in Access, but can use it as an
index & "brainstorming tool" for searching the Synthesis repertory. When you
have both Synthesis and Access to Synthesis open, you can easily switch back
& forth using keystroke combination.

If the word you're looking for (like drool) isn't present, think of synonyms
that might be in the repertory (like saliva) .. the repertory has it's own
slightly archaic linguistic bias.. a couple of things that can help you
maximize repertory are an old English dictionary, thesaurus, and medical
dictionary.

Here are a few archaic language resources online (free)
Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 Edition.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition.
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/newhome/ref/

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition (same as above)
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/257/frameset.html
Here's a link in the UK for the same 1911 edition of Roget's Thesaurus-
mebbe even better than a dictionary for our purposes- check out what it
lists for "weary"
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/text/roget/thesaurus.html

more online resources, including:
ADAM Medical Encyclopedia
MedicineNet.com Medical Dictionary (MedicineNet, Inc.)
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary (Inteli-Health, Inc.)
Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight
European Languages (European Commission) - Danish, Dutch, English, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
On-line Medical Dictionary (CancerWEB)
Terms and Definitions (Office of Rare Diseases)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dictionaries.html

still more
http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html

Project Gutenberg (free downloadable eTexts)
http://www.promo.net/pg/
Have fun,
Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284