James Tyler Kent, M.D. (1849 - 1916) was an American physician and significant contributor to homeopathic medicine. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Homeopathy (also spelled homœopathy or homoeopathy), from the Greek words homoios (similar) and pathos (suffering), is a controversial system of alternative medicine involving the use of remedies without chemically active ingredients. ...
Kent's work proceeded that of Samuel Hahnemann. He proved many new remedies not considered originally by Hahnemann, pioneered the use of very highly potencized homeopathic remedies, and in 1897 published his repertory, the well known Kent repertory, on which virtually all modern practise of homeopathy is based. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. (10th April 1755 - 2nd July 1843), born in Meissen, Saxony [now Germany]. He was better known as Samuel Hahnemann, a Saxon physician who, beginning with an article he published in a German medical journal in 1796, founded homoeopathic medicine. ... A homeopathic proving is the method by which the profile of a homeopathic remedy is determined. ... Homeopathy (also spelled homœopathy or homoeopathy), from the Greek words homoios (similar) and pathos (suffering), is a controversial system of alternative medicine involving the use of remedies without chemically active ingredients. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A homeopathic repertory is an index of symptoms. ...
Except for the repertorium, he is renowned also for his books Lectures on Materia Medica and Homeopathic Philosophy. His books are exceptional more for their strength rather then their length.
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Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica and a Word Index
JamesTylerKent was born on March 31, 1849 at Woodhull, New York.
Kent met his 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.
Kent is considered to have been a great homeopath; and his philosophy, homeopathic interpretations and influence have steadily continued to grow in popularity since his death.
JamesTylerKent, M.D. Dr. Kent was born in Woodhul, New York.
Kent began practice with low potencies, but he was not satisfied.
Kent felt that if there was relief without homoeopathic aggravation, the chronic sickness was only superficially affected and would require a deeper acting remedy to remove the vital disorder.
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