James Tyler Kent

James Tyler Kent ( born March 31, 1849 in Woodhull, New York, † June 5, 1916 in Sunnyside Orchard, Stevensville, Montana) was an American physician and homeopath. In 1897 he published a repertory that is a basis of the homeopathic practice today.

Life

After his school education at the Franklin Academy in Prattsburgh and later studied at the University of Madison (later Colgate University) in Hamilton put James Tyler Kent, the school leaving examination with the degree Ph. B.. Kent studied medicine at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati ( Ohio), where he took his degree in 1871 from. Initially, he worked as a general practitioner in St. Louis, according to the eclectic method ( herbal medicine). At the age of twenty-six years, Kent married his first wife. 1877 - at the age of twenty-eight years - he was given the post of professor of anatomy at the American College in St. Louis.

Due to the prolonged illness of his wife in the years 1877-1878 Kent first came into contact with homeopathy. All attempts of healing with biological and allopathic means were unsuccessful and the disease continued to deteriorate. At the request of his wife's homeopathic doctor Phelan was consulted, who restored the health of Kent's wife within a very short time.

Activities

Inspired by his experience of healing his wife, Kent began a autodidactic study of homeopathy. He gave in 1879 to his chair at the American College and devoted himself only to the study of homeopathy. It was not until 1883 he again took a teaching position as professor of surgery at Missouri Homoeopathic College. In 1889 he was awarded the diploma of this school for his knowledge of homeopathy. Since 1888 he had been a lecturer in materia medica here.

Some years after the death of the homeopathic physician Adolph Lippe led Kent continued his practice in Philadelphia and took over to 1899 as dean and professor of materia medica the management of training courses for homeopathic doctors at the Postgraduate School of Homöopathics in Philadelphia. This school was regarded worldwide as the most prestigious homeopathic school.

In these years, Kent's first wife died. He studied the works of Swedenborg and joined the theosophical movement. This he gained insight into the problems of disease and healing, which led him to develop a new teaching and practicable method of studying symptoms and Similefindung in homeopathy.

After Kent's view, the root cause of all diseases of man is the order of the perturbation inside the human organism. This step on in the form of various chronic diseases. The trigger of the order of the perturbation is the first major misstep of the people - the original sin. So for him it is a question that needs to be investigated by the philosophy and theology. He emphasizes the importance of spiritual and psychic processes and allocates accordingly the mental and emotional symptoms, the highest point in the hierarchy of symptoms. The practitioner

Kent developed a kind of homeopathic theory of types. He describes the effect of homeopathic remedies synonymous with the disease. The patient does not need to Belladonna, but he is Belladonna, etc. Its under the title Kents Arzneimittelbilder 1905 published Lectures on Homeopathy is an alphabetical tour of some remedies then known. In his typical language he describes as the Arnica patient as:

Works

• On the theory of homeopathy, James Tyler Kent's Lectures on Hahnemann's Organon
• New drugs pictures of the homeopathic materia medica
• Kent's Repertory of Homeopathic Medicines
• Kent internship, short - repertory
• Aphorisms - philosophical thoughts on homeopathy, quotes, sayings, aphorisms