“Pulsation in pit of stomach; perceptible to sight and touch.”
“Pressing, cutting, stitching pains.”
A queer observation has been made that flatus was not passed downward, but all upwards.
“Eructations; smelling like garlic; tasting rancid, sharp or putrid.”
Always horribly offensive. Offensiveness is a characteristic of the remedy. And then there is a
“gone empty feeling in the pit of the stomach,” not a pain.
“Pulsations after eating.”
“Meteorism of the stomach.”
Abdomen: The remedy has many gastric and abdominal complaints; full of bellyache; stitching pains, colic. The diarrhoea is more or less troublesome.
These patients are afflicted with diarrhoea from the slightest indigestion, after any indiscretion in diet, a painful watery diarrhoea.
“Liquid stools of most disgusting smell.”
“Blackish-brown papescent offensive stools, which relieve.”
Genitals: “Bearing down in genitals, worse when riding in a carriage.”
“Uterine ulcer sensitive and painful.”
This medicine has been very useful in palliating uterine cancer in such constitutions as described those with purple faces, never the very pallid ones.
Women of feeble, flabby, venous constitutions are subject to hemorrhages and miscarriages. Women who are not pregnant sometimes have the breasts fill up with milk, wonderfully annoying thing, and but few remedies have it; this is one of the few.
It has also deficiency of milk.
“Ten days after delivery milk diminished.”
These patients sometimes get hysterical asthma; all sorts of disturbance in breathing, dyspnoea.
“Asthmatic feeling in trachea.”
“Asthmatic attacks at least once a day all her life, brought on by every bodily exertion, coition, especially by every satisfying meal.”
Attacks of dyspnoea after coition, like Ambra.
“Obstinate titillating cough < at night.”
Many of these complaints are worse at night; nightly aggravations. Syphilitic complaints are commonly worse at night and such anti syphilitic remedies as Mercurius, Staphysagria, Hepar, Nitric acid, etc. are all worse at night.
Among the other chest complaints, I will read a few of those that are marked here prominently and are striking ones.
“Pressure and burning of the sternum.”
“Compression of chest as from a heavy weight.”
“Stitches in chest.”
“Single, violent stitches from within outward, at short intervals.”
This remedy is full of rheumatism and gouty symptoms; gouty affections in general, in nervous constitutions.
When such a nervous constitution finally produces gouty formations, the nervousness often disappears; for it has been relieved by the deposit in the joints; a transformation scene has taken place.
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.