Synopses & Reviews
As increasing numbers of people turn to alternative healing practices, this classic text on the science and art of homeopathic medicine remains ever relevant. Written at the turn of the twentieth century by a distinguished physician, its concepts of health and healing are still ahead of our time. Dr. Kent summarizes, interprets, and systematizes the traditions of homeopathy, offering insights into the essential characteristics of the healing process: how to take a case history, how to study the case, how to establish the hierarchy of symptoms in determining the appropriate remedy--and above all, how to decide what to do after the first prescription, how to interpret the many reactions to therapy, and how to achieve a scientific understanding of a cure. This informative volume is must reading for any student or practitioner of homeopathy as well as any individual seriously interested in understanding the fundamental laws of health and healing.
Unabridged republication from a standard edition of the work first published in Lancaster, Pa. 1900. Foreword. Preface.
Synopsis
Classic text by a distinguished physician summarizes, interprets, and systematizes the traditions of homeopathy; describes how to take a case history and study it; and explains how to interpret the many reactions to therapy and achieve a scientific understanding of a cure. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1900 edition.
Table of Contents
Lecture I-The Sick
Lecture II-The Highest Ideal of a Cure
Lecture III-What the Physician Must Perceive
"Lecture IV-"Fixed Principles." Law and Government from Centre"
Lecture V-Discrimination as to Maintaining External Causes and Surgical Cases
Lecture VI-The Unprejudiced Observer
Lecture VII-Indispositions
Lecture VIII-On Simple Substance
Lecture IX-Disorder First in Vital Force
Lecture X-Materialism in Medicine
Lecture XI-Sickness and Cure on Dynamic Plane
Lecture XII-The Removal of the Totality of Symptoms Means the Removal of the Cause
Lecture XIII-The Law of Similars
Lecture XIV-Susceptibility
Lecture XV-Protection from Sickness
Lecture XVI-Oversensitive Patients
Lecture XVII-The Science and the Art
Lecture XVIII-Chronic Diseases-Psora
Lecture XIX-Chronic Diseases-Psora (Cont.)
Lecture XX-Chronic Diseases-Syphilis
Lecture XXI-Chronic Diseases-Sycosis
Lecture XXII-Disease and Drug Study in General
Lecture XXIII-The Examination of the Patient
Lecture XXIV-The Examination of the Patient (Cont.)
Lecture XXV-The Examination of the Patient (Cont.)
Lecture XXVI-The Examination of the Patient (Cont.)
Lecture XXVII-Record Keeping
Lecture XXVIII-The Study of Provings
Lecture XXIX-Idiosyncrasies
Lecture XXX-Individualization
Lecture XXXI-Characteristics
Lecture XXXII-The Value of Symptoms
Lecture XXXIII-The Value of Symptoms (Cont.)
Lecture XXXIV-The Homand#339;opathic Aggravation
Lecture XXXV-Prognosis After Observing the Action of the Remedy
Lecture XXXVI-The Second Prescription
Lecture XXXVII-Difficult and Incurable Cases-Palliation