Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica by James Tyler Kent.
This work was initially transcribed by Kent’s students from the lectures he presented at his Post-graduate School of Homeopathics in Philadelphia. Kent offers detailed and insightful descriptions of 217 medicines in this work. The first edition of James Tyler Kent’s Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica was published in 1905.
Dr. Kent summarizes, interprets, and systematizes the traditions of homeopathy, offering insights into homeopathic medicines. The notes on Kent’s Lectures are a cornerstone of homeopathic literature that we should regularly consult.
A young man in perfect health was stung by a large number of wasps. Frequent convulsions followed, involving all the muscles of the body, with loss of consciousness; the convulsions disappeared after three years, leaving him subject to attacks of unconsciousness when walking about. He often starts to go somewhere and finds himself several blocks
When in the autumn our hay fever patients report to us with violent symptoms of coryza, great depression of spirits, symptoms worse in the afternoon, easy sweat and languor, extreme dryness of the mucous membranes of nose, mouth and throat, with burning acrid copious flow of mucus, constant swallowing, itching of the soft palate, and
Zincum metal has a full and substantial proving, including symptoms of every part of the body. It is an antipsoric, suitable in broken down constitutions, feeble constitutions; enfeeblement characterizes the whole proving. The Zinc. patient is nervous and extremely sensitive, excitable, trembling, quivering, twitching of muscles, tearing pain; along the course of the nerves, tingling,
The times of aggravation of this remedy are morning, forenoon, AFTERNOON, EVENING, NIGHT. He (Patient) has a strong craving for warm, fresh air and is markedly sensitive to drafts; the open air ameliorates in general; marked general physical anxiety; many symptoms are worse from ascending. Hand and feet and other single parts go to sleep