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The American James Tyler Kent established methodologies for taking a case, studying the case, how to establish a hierarchy of symptoms and how to decide what to do after the first prescription, how to interpret the many reactions following its action and lead the patient scientifically to his cure.
He elaborated the criteria which decided whether the remedy was simply acting suppressively or really curing, whether the cure was natural or really the result of the remedy, whether a case was curable or not, and the famous law of progressive potentizations.
His repertory is considered the best by many and is the basis for many modern repertories.
He was considered part of the spiritualist / idealist school.
1849 - born March 31, Woodhull, New York.
1873 - Completed medical studies in allopathic, homeopathic, naturopathic and chiropractic at Institute of Eclectic Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio at age 25. But he had little regard for homeopathy.
1874 - Married a Baptist like himself, settled in St. Louis and began practice.
1876 - Made professor of anatomy at American College of St. Louis. Wife became seriously ill and was cured by homeopath resulting in his complete and enthusiastic conversion to homeopathy.
1881 - Accepted chair of professor of anatomy of the Homeopathic College of Missouri and then the chair of surgery. Stayed until 1888.
1883 - Became professor of materia medica.
1890 - Dean of Professors at Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia through 1899. Lost first wife, studied works of Swedenborg and adopted his philosophy. Met second wife, Clara-Louise, a practicing physician and diagnosed her as having an incurable iatrogenic miasm of Lachesis due to too many repetitions of dose. Later, Dean of Professors at Dunham Medical College, Chicago.
1896 - He and his pupils saw over 18,800 patients in one year
1903 - Taught at Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago through 1909
1909 - Professor and dean of Hering Medical College and Hospital, Chicago
1916 - Went to country home in Montana to rest and write a ‘real’ book but his catarrhal bronchitis turned to Bright’s disease and died mostly from years of overwork. Died June 6 at Sunnyside Orchard, Montana.
Kent's
Repertory of theHomeopathic Materia Medica, 1897
Lectures
on Homoeopathic Philosophy, 1900
Lectures
on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1905
Loosely organized detailed lecture notes straight from the classroom.
Kent's
Aphorisms and Precepts from extemporaneous lectures
Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica, Head, Eye, and Vision, corrected from the original manuscript, C.S. Sandhu
Kent’s Final General Repertory, Pierre Schmidt and Diwan Harish Chand, 1980
Kent’s Repertorium Generale, Jost Künzli von Fimmelsberg, 1987.
Additions with superscripted references to first-class authors observations including Hahnemann and includes Künzli’s “red points” to show his own therapeutic experience.
