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THE
SIMILITUDE
[ Oct.2004- Editor Dr.Satish Rana]
This issue is dedicated to great
Kent. The life of James Tyler Kent-article written by
Dr.D.Costra of Chandigarh is most interesting and is full of
incidents from great physician’s life.He writes…Kent was the
dynamic homeopath, the world has ever seen., who could interpret
the condensed and rather difficult Organon of medicine which
Hahnemann had bequeathed, made it easily understandable in a
philosophical manner and presented it to the homoeopathic world
and who surpassed our great master Hahnemann. Dr.Kent was born
on March 31st, 1849, at Wood Hull, New York State,
U.S.A.
His study of homoeopathy brought
him such certainty and conviction that he knew no peace until he
was able himself to apply this doctrine with all the
conscientiousness and strictness it demanded. So he devoted his
full time to his patients, enlightened by all he had learned,
and in a very short time his homoeopathic practice flourished.
Through exceeding hard work he confirmed the absolute veracity
of Law of Similars and established the need for
individualization.
As he was unable to obtain a good
and reliable repertory for his reference he himself set about
compiling a Repertory of symptoms. In the course of his gigantic
work he imposed a great stain on his health but the result was
the best repertory ever made. At the out set he used as a guide
the small work of C.Lippe, titled ‘Repertory of the more
characteristic symptoms of our materia medica’ [published in New
York in 1879] which was repertory of 318 pages, the ones of Jahr,
Boenninghausen, Gentry, Biegler’s diary and pages of Minton’s
Diseases of women. Kent’s work was based on the principles of
Organon and when completed, it consisted of not less than 1,349
pages.
One of the greatest homoeopath
died on June 6th, 1916.
Dr.Jaidev Sharma has written a
detail article on Kents’s Twelve observation.Giving instance
from his practice he explains how Kent’s observations when
applied to our practice help us in taking hold of a
deteriorating case. According to him in all such cases Kent’s
observations provide us the compass to monitor the changes in
the patient during treatment. |
