Case II. Mrs. F. age 84, at the Memorial Home. Some months before I assumed control of the Home this old lady had an attack of vomiting blood. The matron declared there was over a gallon; the physician then in charge said he never saw so large a quantity of blood vomited, and expressed his opinion that it was from the lung as he did not see the act of vomiting, disputing the matron who saw the vomiting. The treatment was directed to prevent another haemorrhage from the lungs-large doses of astringents. The old lady continued to decline, and when the attendant acknowledged his impotence in the case, and the friends of the old lady outside the Home made complaint, I was requested to assume the duties of medical attendant of the Home, and this case with others came under charge. The matron explained the situation and I immediately suspected that the haemorrhage came from an ulcer in the stomach. The dropsical, condition prevented a satisfactory examination, but the subjective history confirmed the diagnosis.
But the important thing is the dropsy. Her limbs were enormously swollen and her abdomen no less so, and her stomach could not tolerate nothing but a little milk. The dropsy having a haemorrhage for its cause guided me to the selection of China, which was repeated at proper intervals in 77m; while she was going down rapidly she began immediately to improve. No other medicine has been given and she is as well as anybody in the Home. As she had been so near the angels she has the liberty of the house and is a general pet; running three long stairs, visiting all the rooms and chatting and joking everybody. Old people recover when given the right remedy in suitable potency in a surprising manner. Some years ago I supposed that when an old person became dropsical his or her time had come. At present, I do not declare an unfavorable prognosis because of old age, but when the disease causing the dropsy, is one hard to manage regardless of age.
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.