James Tyler Kent

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

Life

After education at Franklin Academy in Prattsburgh and subsequent training at the Madison University (later Colgate University ) in Hamilton James Tyler Kent put the final examination with the degree Ph. B. from. Kent studied medicine at the Eclectic Medical Institute , Cincinnati ( Ohio ) and placed there in 1871 his degree from. At first he worked as a general practitioner in St. Louis, using the eclectic method ( phytotherapy ). At the age of twenty-six, Kent married his first wife. In 1877 - at the age of twenty-eight - he received the post of anatomy professor at the American College in St. Louis.

Kent first came into contact with homeopathy due to his wife's long-term illness between 1877 and 1878. All attempts to cure were unsuccessful and the disease steadily worsened. At the request of his wife, the homeopathic doctor Phelan was called in, who restored the health of Kent's wife within a very short time.

activities

Inspired by the experience of his wife's healing, Kent began a self-taught study of homeopathy. He gave up his chair at American College in 1879 and devoted himself only to the study of homeopathy. It was not until 1883 that he resumed teaching as a professor of surgery at the Missouri Homoeopathic College . In 1889 he was awarded the diploma of this school for his knowledge of homeopathy. He had been teaching materia medica here since 1888 .

A few years after the death of the homeopathic doctor Adolph Lippe , Kent continued his practice in Philadelphia and until 1899 took over as dean and professor of materia medica the direction of the advanced training courses for homeopathic doctors at the Postgraduate School of Homeopathics in Philadelphia. At the time, this school was considered the most renowned homeopathic school in the world.

During these years, Kent's first wife died. He studied the works of Swedenborg and joined his theosophical movement . This gave him insights into the problems of illness and healing, which prompted him to develop a new teachable and practicable method of studying symptoms and finding similes in homeopathy.

According to Kent, the root cause of all human diseases is a disorder in the interior of the human organism. This occurs in the form of various chronic diseases. The cause of the disorder is said to be man's first major misstep - the original sin . So for him it is a question that philosophy and theology must investigate. He emphasizes the importance of the mental and emotional processes and accordingly assigns the mental and emotional symptoms to the highest position in the hierarchy of symptoms . The practitioner

"..Must know how every illness manifests itself, in language, appearance and sensations. But he must also know what influence each remedy has on memory, reason and will in people, because our remedies only work through the spirit, the mind, on the body. He must also know how the remedies affect the body's functions, because this is the only way that the remedies have an effect on the body. "

Kent developed a kind of homeopathic type theory . He describes the effect of homeopathic remedies synonymously with the clinical picture. The patient does not need Belladonna , he is Belladonna etc. His lectures on homeopathy, published in 1905 under the title Kent's Medicinal Pictures, are an alphabetical route through the remedies known at the time. In his typical language, he describes the Arnica patient as follows:

“The Arnica patient is grumpy, wants to be left alone, one shouldn't talk to him, one shouldn't get close to him. [...] We have already seen Arnica patients who lay seriously ill in their pillows after vomiting up a black, blood-like liquid, with blotchy faces, with blood decomposition or a malignant fever, so that one thought death was imminent, yet they said, 'I am not sick; I did not send for you; just go. '"

Works

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prize: Documentation of the special therapy directions and natural healing methods in Europe , Vol. I, 1st half volume, VGM-Verlag, Lüneburg, 1991
  2. ↑ James Tyler Kent: Medicinal Pictures , Karl F. Haug, Heidelberg 1958, ISBN 3-7760-1383-4
personal data
SURNAME Kent, James Tyler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American homeopath
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodhull , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1916
Place of death Sunnyside Orchard, Stevensville , Montana