Encyclopedia
Homeopathica

compared with ExLibris

ExLibris is our previous Materia Medica program. The following table will clarify that Encyclopedia Homeopathica stands out as a second generation Materia Medica program.

ExLibris 2.0	Encyclopedia Homeopathica 1.0
Database 1) 70 volumes in English 2) 39 volumes in German 3) 15 volumes in French 4) 30 volumes in Spanish 5) 9 volumes in Portuguese 6) 24 volumes in Italian 7) 1 volume in Dutch	1) 393 volumes in English 2) 91 volumes in German 3) to be announced 4) to be announced 5) to be announced 6) to be announced 7) to be announced
User Interface 1) Limited to the possibilities of the template of Folio 2) Up to nine templates per language to allow all different searches 3) Using the standards of Folio 4) not available	1) Programmed by Archibel according to the needs of the homeopaths 2) One universal find window can manage any type of search 3) Professional design with different graphic themes (Bureau, Study and Aqua) 4) Basic or advanced toolbar
Direct Access to precise information 1) Materia Medica of 1,300 remedies 2) Therapeutics of 1,400 pathologies 3) not available 4) not available 5) not available	1) Materia Medica of 2,393 remedies 2) Therapeutics of 4,937 pathologies 3) Expanded search for pathology with wildcard 4) Cases of 391 remedies 5) Cases also can be selected on the basis of pathology (1,142 possibilities)
Dictionary and thesaurus 1) not available 2) not available 3) Possibility to search using grammatically related words (roots and branches) 4) Possibility to search using synonyms 5) Synonym list created by Folio 6) Cryptic signs needed to indicate the options above	1) The spelling of all documents of ExLibris has been corrected 2) Automatic spell check and manual control of all new documents 3) Possibility to search using grammatically related words (roots and branches) 4) Possibility to search using synonyms 5) Synonym list created by homeopaths 6) A menu from which you can choose your option
Narrowing down the search 1) Search within a sentence 2) not available 3) not available 4) not available 5) Search as an expression 6) Search within 2 to any number of words 7) not all possibilities are available 8) Cryptic signs needed to indicate the options above 9) Limit the search to one or two books 10) not available	1) Search within a sentence 2) Search within a paragraph 3) Search within the same chapter 4) Search within the same remedy in any book 5) Search as an expression (e.g. "high fever") 6) Search within 2 to any number of words 7) All the above in random order of words or in an ordered way 8) A menu from which you can choose your option 9) Limit the search to any selection of books 10) Select any text, then search for it in the whole Encyclopaedia with one click
Viewing the information 1) Document or Table of Contents view 2) not available 3) not available 4) not available 5) not available 6) not available 7) Limited printing possibilities	1) Document or Table of Contents view 2) Weblook for easy navigation 3) Summary view with one reply per line 4) All windows of any view can be resized to suit your needs 5) Decrease or increase the font stepwise 6) Graphic representation of result (bars) 7) Expanded printing possibilities (e.g.: print the table of contents as well)
Statistical analysis ("repertorizing the MM") 1) not available 2) not available 3) not available 4) not available	1) Search for up to seven separate symptoms (e.g.: 1. jealous; 2. sneezing morning waking; etc.) 2) Give an intensity of interrogation from 1 to 4 to any symptom 3) Save and recall search queries 4) Shades of color indicate relevance of each symptom for each remedy
Analysis by families 1) not available 2) not available 3) not available 4) not available	1) 950 families divided in 10 main categories are prepared (kingdoms, miasms, bowel nosodes, Teste, Periodic Table, ...) 2) Limit search to remedies of any family 3) Highlight remedies of the same family in any search result 4) Find the dominant family for any search
Online Help 1) not available	1) very well documented
Link to Radar / WinChip 1) not available	1) One click link from any EH screen to Radar or WinChip
Free downloads 1) not available	1) Free downloads of program patches available from the Archibel website
16-bit application	32-bit application

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