Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Together With Kent's "New Remedies" Incorporated and Arranged in One Alphabetical Order

by J.T. Kent

James Tyler Kent felt that the speech of laymen presents all sickness to the physician's mind, hence the Materia Medica must be reduced from technicalities to simple speech. This book presents the transcribed lectures from Kent's classes at the Post-Graduate School of Homoeopathy in Philadelphia.

Genres: Homeopathy

1030 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1911

About the author

James Tyler Kent was an American physician best remembered as a forefather of the modern homeopathy movement. In 1897 Kent published a massive guidebook on human ailments and their associated homeopathic remedies which has been translated into a number of languages and remains in use by adherents of homeopathy today.

Reviews

[Fatima Sarder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally finished this behemoth of a book.

Kent's Materia Medica is the best tool for developing drug pictures, he does it in a way no other Materia Medica could, by describing the medicines in terms of mental, emotional and physical symptoms.