Severe Pain Before Menstrual Pain

Miss M. G., aged twenty-one. M. P.: Severe pain two hours before the flow begins; she faints. Cramping; soreness through abdomen. This trouble began a year ago. Every four or five weeks. Flow scanty; lasts one and a half to two days. Dark; clots first day; “black lumps of blood.” Pain between shoulders. Headache sometimes over forehead. Likes to be out of doors. Walks a little, must sit down to rest; feet and sacrum get tired and ache. LAPIS ALB. 10 M.

Two months later she returned with the following report:

Less pain at M. P. and periods four weeks apart; flow lasted three days; Few clots the second day. No pain between shoulders. Less pain in feet and sacrum. Lapis alb. 10m.

In six months she returned with third report:

Been very well; no pain anywhere except between shoulders. Last period was late. Lapis-a. 50m.

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.