James Tyler Kent

James Tyler Kent, M.D. (born in Woodhull, New York, 1849 - died Stevensville, Montana, 1916) was an American physician and significant contributor to homeopathy.

Kent's work came after that of Samuel Hahnemann. He tested, or "proved" many new remedies not considered by Hahnemann, pioneered the use of highly potentized homeopathic remedies, and in 1897 published his repertory, the well-known Kent repertory, on which virtually all modern practise of homeopathy is based.kent belonged to the eclectic system of medicine.it was after an incident of his wife's insomnia being cured by few homoeopathic pills , that he turned his focus to homoeopathy and later went on to become one of the most renowned homoeopaths.

Kent was notable for denying the conventional germ theory of infectious disease:

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'The microbe is not the cause of disease. We should not be carried away by these idle allopathic dreams and vain imaginations but should correct the Élan vital' (Kent, 1926)

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'The bacteria is an innocent feller, and if he carries disease he carries the Simple Substance which causes disease, just as an elephant would.'(Kent, 1926)

Kent believed that illness had spiritual causes:"

'You cannot divorce medicine and theology. Man exists all the way down from his innermost spiritual, to his outermost natural.' (Kent, 1926)

" and in the USA, homeopathy came to be associated closely with Swedenborgianism, (the Christian sect (Church of the New Jerusalem) founded on the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg) [ [http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/articles/pm_kent.htm "Kent's Influence on British Homeopathy"] , Peter Morrell.] All prominent American homoeopaths in the nineteenth century, from Constantine Hering to Kent, were members of the New Jerusalem Church; and the members of the Church were mostly supporters and followers of homoeopathy. In Russia, homoeopathy was similarly closely connected with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Missionary School of Medicine, founded in England in 1903, was closely associated with the Faculty of Homoeopathy in London in the early 1900's.

In addition to his repertory, Kent is renowned for his books "Lectures on Materia Medica" and "Homeopathic Philosophy".

References

Bibliography

* "Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica and a Word Index", James Tyler Kent, Motilal Banarsidass, 6th edition, September 11, 2002, ISBN 8170210593

External links

* [http://www.hpathy.com/biography/james-tyler-kent.asp Life History of James Tyler Kent]
* [http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/articles/pm_kent.htm "Kent's influence on British homeopathy" ] by Peter Morrell
* [http://www.myhomeopathic.com/html/masters_of_Homoeopathy/ Pioneers Of Homeopathy]
* [http://www.minimum.com/p7/engine/biopage.asp?n=241 Kent's Biography]
* [http://www.pietro-lusso.de/onlinerep/index.php Free Online Repertory based on the Repertory of Kent]