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DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-868624
Kent's unpublished Materia Medica
Kents unveröffentlichte Materia medica
At the LIGA congress in Washington in March 1997 I presented a paper entitled „History of Kent's Repertory and Kent's Own Corrections“. Finding Kent's corrections in the 2nd edition (1908) of his repertory involved an adventure in India (1980) and tracking down Dr. K. C. Mittal in various cities and villages in India and obtaining his copy of the 6th edition of Kent's Repertory in which the actual corrections that Kent had made in his personal 2nd edition were copied with 100% accuracy.
At this time Dr. Mittal also gave me notes on Materia Medica lectures that Kent gave from 1895–1897 as copied and collected by his students Mary F. Taft and Betty and Louis Prescott-Dolbease. Around 1992, I found other notes of lectures on Materia Medica that Kent gave in 1893 and 1894. These notes originally belonged to Alice Basset and were passed on to Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard. Later, one half of the lectures (Aesculus to Mag-Carb) that Kent gave in1902 at Dunham Medical College were found.
These notes showed a progression and evolution of Kent's thoughts and understanding of Materia Medica. They also presented interesting clinical pictures not easily gathered or recognized or known from existing works in Materia Medica or Repertory.
The results show different pictures of each remedy as Kent saw them in 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897 and 1902. Many clinical snapshots and pictures are seen which are not easily collected from elsewhere. Many of these symptoms should be introduced into the repertory.
From these notes one concludes the dynamic evolution of the Materia Medica through the years as seen through Kent's eyes. This evolution is similar to Hahnemann's evolution in the understanding of homeopathy through the years.
Keywords:
James Tyler Kent, clinical pictures, evolution of the Materia Medica.
Schlüsselwörter:
James Tyler Kent, klinische Bilder, Entwicklung der Materia medica.
Korrespondierender Autor: Ahmed N. Currim M.D. PhD., 148 East Avenue Suite 1L, Norwalk, CT 06851, USA
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