Quotatons of James Tyler Kent, and on Homeopathy

• From James Tyler Kent's Approach
• Homeopathy Quotations

From James Tyler Kent's Approach

James Tyler Kent

Dr James T. Kent (1849-1916) was an influentian practitioners in the history of homeopathy. He pioneered the use of highly potentized homeopathic preparations. In 1897 he published his repertory. Much of the modern practise of homeopathy is based on it.

Features of Kent's teaching and practise were: High potency prescribing (200C and above for chronic cases); emphasis on "mental" and "general" symptoms; and a "watch and wait" approach in administering remedies.

He was a firm dogmatist. In recent times some weaknesses and limitations of his approach have become clear:

1. His watch and wait for reactions to the single remedy approach as compared to a tighter follow-treatment, where remedies are adminstered according to a quite different sort of schedule.
2. Some of Kent's provings of remedies were manufactured to satisfy an editor's demand. They were not true provings.
3. He put excessive emphasis on the "mental" symptoms rather than emphasising symptom totality.
4. His approach of expecting and even going for an aggravation at the start of treatment to confirm the choice of remedy - contradicts the ideal of rapid, gentle, and permanent cure that Samuel Hahnemann was striving for. [Source: Life Sketch.]

Kent Quotations

Below are a few Kent quotations. Interestingly, some of them make sense in the light of Drs Burr's and Ravitz' findings about a life field, and basic thought of homeopathy also.

Unless the inner nature of the remedy corresponds with the inner nature of the disease (patient) the remedy will not cure but simply remove the symptoms [for a while]. - Kent

There is an innermost to everything or the outermost could not be. - Kent

Never prescribe for a chronic case when you are in a hurry, take your time. Never give a dose of medicine until you have considered the whole case. - Kent

The physician must penetrate into the inner recesses of symptoms; the very life of the patient must be opened and laid bare, Learn the fears, instincts, desires and the aversions of the patient. The remedy often crops out through the affections. - Kent

Now

1. To correct the life-field is most likely what healing attempts through homeopathy are about.
2. More than medicine will be needed. Truthfulness and sincerity and corrections should be embarked upon along with the pills for the attempt to be a morally worth while enterprise, methinks.
3. As the Vital Force [prana and so on] is modified in its outlets, a betterment or complete cure may take place It depends on the origin of the disease also, i.e., on what has caused it.

Homeopathy Quotations

Medicine must rely on careful observation. [Jan Willem Nienhuys]

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years. [Yehudi Menuhin, renowned violinist]

As there is classical music, classical physics, classical arts, there is also classical homeopathy. [Dr. R. Shah]

One of the higher callings is to make sick people healthy. [With Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), originator of homeopathy]

Homeopathy views the human being as a dynamic, responsive, and health-oriented organism which expresses itself in a physical, emotional, and mental way. The sum of these 'levels' [physical, emotional and mental] constitutes the whole person. As a unified being . . . [Linda Johnston, MD]

Literature  

Kent, James Tyler. The Art and Science of Homeopathic Medicine. Unabridged, clothbound Deluxe Dover ed. N. Chelmsford, MA: Courier Dover Publications, 2003.

Kent, James Tyler. Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Reprint ed. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1991.

Kent, James Tyler. How to Use the Repertory. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2003.

Kent, James Tyler. Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy. Volume 1 of Fundamental Doctrines In Healing. 2nd ed, reprint. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1979.

Kent, James Tyler Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy. Reprint ed. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2003.

Kent, James Tyler Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Together with Kent's "New remedies" Incorporated and Arranged in One Alphabetical Order.. Reprint ed. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1984.

Life Sketch of Dr. James Tyler Kent.
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