James Tyler Kent 184784 215515025 2008-05-28T15:19:34Z 189.11.242.228 Removing more wiki-links from inside quotes per WP style. [[Image:Rep1.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Homeopathic repertory by James Tyler Kent.]] '''James Tyler Kent''', M.D. (born in [[Woodhull]], [[New York]], [[1849]] - died [[Stevensville]], [[Montana]], [[1916]]) was an [[United States|American]] physician and significant contributor to [[homeopathy]]. Kent's work came after that of [[Samuel Hahnemann]]. He tested, or "[[homeopathic proving|proved]]" many new remedies not considered by Hahnemann, pioneered the use of highly potentized [[homeopathic remedy|homeopathic remedies]], and in [[1897]] published his [[Homeopathic repertory|repertory]], the well-known [[Homeopathic repertory|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]]: ''<blockquote>'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) </blockquote>'' '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 [[Spirituality|spiritual]] causes: ''<blockquote>'You cannot divorce medicine and theology. Man exists all the way down from his innermost spiritual, to his outermost natural.' (Kent, 1926)</blockquote>'' 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]])<ref>[http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/articles/pm_kent.htm ''Kent's Influence on British Homeopathy''], Peter Morrell.</ref> 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== <references/> <!--not yet to be included Biogaraphy Born in Chicago, Illinois and died, on June 6, 1916 at Stevensville, Montana. --> == Bibliography == <!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Kent,_James_Tyler.jpg|right]] --> * ''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] {{Homoeopathy}} [[Category:1849 births|Kent, James Tyler]] [[Category:1916 deaths|Kent, James Tyler]] [[Category:American physicians|Kent, James Tyler]] [[Category:Homeopaths|Kent, James Tyler]] [[Category:American Swedenborgians|Kent, James Tyler]] [[bg:Джеймс Тейлър Кент]] [[de:James Tyler Kent]] [[es:James Tyler Kent]] [[fr:James Tyler Kent]] [[ie:James Tyler Kent]] [[nl:James Tyler Kent]]