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Card repertory

1. CARD REPERTORY DR. SUMAN SANKAR. A.S, M.D.( Hom ) Professor, Department of Repertory Sarada Krishna Homoeopathic Medical College Kulasekharam SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

2. Boenninghausen’s repertory of Antipsoric Remedies started the era of repertories . Even though the repertories were aimed at minimizing the labour for finding the similimum , however in a case with lot of symptoms it was a matter of hours to find remedy with the repertories in a plain paper method. This fact made dread to many for not to use repertories. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

3. Later , shortcut methods were adopted to solve this problem like elimination method and thumb index method . It was at this time that many pioneers started to contemplate on idea of putting most commonly used general symptoms and particular symptoms on a piece of paper so that when a particular case came with symptoms corresponding to the paper, it would be easier to just arrange them in systematic manner and to know the remedy running through them SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

4. This would save lot of time as well as labour of doing paper work . The first work done in this direction was by Dr. W. J. Guernsey, which was based on BTPB . Card repertory is a system of visual sorting which help the physician by eliminating the necessity of writing out the rubrics and remedies against them. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

5. Different Cards SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

6. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF CARD REPERTORIES Year of Publishing Name of the Cards Author No. of Drugs No. of Cards 1889 Guernsey’s Boenninghausen slips W. J. Guernsey 126 2467 Allen’s Boenninghausen’s slip by improving Guernsey’s cards H. C. Allen _ _ SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

7. 1912 Punched card Repertory – based on Kent’s Repertory – Incomplete work Margaret Tyler __ 1000 1913 Loosely punched Card Repertory – based on Kent’s generals Welch and Houston __ 134 1922 The Symptom Index Richard M. Field 405 6460 1928 The general Analysis – published by Roy & Company, Mumbai C. M. Boger 222 304 1940 Achyuthan’s Card Index Achyuthan K.K. 659 7000 SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

8. 1948 Practical Homoeopathic Repertory in colored and Perforated cards - Gradation of drugs Marcos Jimenez 480 552 1948 Broussalian’s Card Repertory – based on Kent’s Repertory George Broussalian 640 1861 1950 Spindle card Repertory Dr. J. G. Weiss & Dr. R. H. Farley 274 190 1950 Attempted but not published Dr. Young & Dr. Pulford __ __ SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

9. 1950 Prepared card Repertory, which was a modified form of Boger’s card Repertory but not published L. D. Dhawale __ __ 1955 Sankaran’s Card Repertory P. Sankaran 292 420 1959 Kishore’s Card Repertory Jugal Kishore 648 9063 1981 Dr. B. S. Hatta’s Card Repertory Dr. B. S. Hatta 220 602 1984 Sharma’s Card Repertory Shashi Mohan Sharma 400 3000 SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

10. __ HOMOEO CARD DECK Dr. A. B. Patwardhan 299 1245 1979 Master cards Dr. S. S. Adi 45 100 1996 SPIRO-Shankar Prasad Integrated Rotary Shankar Prasad Roy 67 292 2007 Synoptic card Repertory Dr. V. R. Khanaj 320 489 SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

11. METHOD OF WORKING Bases of finding out similar remedy by using Card Repertory are based on punch system. It is a system of visual sorting of data. It helps physician by reducing the work of repertorization . Card Repertory is mainly useful in cases where there are strong generals and weak particulars symptoms. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

12. After analysis and evaluation of symptoms according to the repertory used select few more characteristics, peculiar symptoms of the patients . Convert those in to rubrics according to card repertory used . Find out the code number of rubrics and cards from “Card Box.” Arrange the cards according to their grades and method used for repertorization. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

13. Then match the punch and corners of the Cards to see the holes to get Similimum against light. From which hole light is clearly passing that will be remedial code number and from which hole light is partially passing that will be another group of remedies. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

14. If in a case no hole is clearly seen, in such cases note down the most transilluminant code number of remedy and study MM to prescribe most suitable remedy. This concept of transilluminant code is not applicable to each and every card repertory. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

15. ADVANTAGES It is less time consuming method, one can repertories with in few minutes by handling cards. It gives nearly similar remedy in short time. It helps to know other related remedies by exact matching. It is less laborious than that of actual paper and ink repertorization. It reduces the eyestrain by reducing the work of repertorization. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

16. DISADVANTAGES Only few no. of remedies are listed on the cards so chances of missing similimum . There are many symptoms found in actual practice but in card repertory few no. of rubrics are present. Grades of medicines are not on the cards so if any one wants to grade he should refer it in book repertory. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

17. If the selected number of rubrics is many there is problem of blockage so that there is possibility of indicating other group of remedies. In some card repertories, grading of remedy is totally neglected. There are repertories like Jugal Kishore which is big in size so difficult to carry at bedside. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

18. Boger says that cards are not seen as an end-all substitute for a more detailed repertory. Cases with typical symptoms may not have corresponding cards. Other limitation in general for repertories is, unless symptoms are properly evaluated and analyzed, it is futile attempt to use repertories in finding the similimum . SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

19. With the advent of computers, cards have taken a backstage. Always polychrest remedies only come in final result. Some rubrics are combined to form one, which is not always acceptable. For Ex. Fear of robbers and fear of darkness are combined. Rubrics & sub-rubrics are not well represented. SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DEPT OF REPERTORY

20. References Achyuthan’s Card Index Kishore’s Card Repertory Sankaran’s Card Repertory A reference to repertories for homoeopathic students-Dr. SIJU .P.V Essentials of repertorisation-Dr. SHASHI KANT TIWARI SARADA KRISHNA HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE DEPT OF REPERTORY

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