Poor Heart Restored to Usefulness



An important observation is the effect of a return to the lower potency, beginning the series again, when, after ascending the series, the higher potencies cease to be active.

Many of my patients’ records indicate that the patient has steadily improved after each potency to the highest, with symptoms becoming fainter, and he himself growing stronger, mentally and physically improving on each potency for three or four months.

James Tyler Kent
James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician. Prior to his involvement with homeopathy, Kent had practiced conventional medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He discovered and "converted" to homeopathy as a result of his wife's recovery from a serious ailment using homeopathic methods.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.