Desires beer, bread, cold drinks, sweet things. Disordered stomach; by milk. Stomach is distended; sensation of emptiness; eructations afternoon, after eating; empty, tasting of food, SOUR after, eating, waterbrash.
Fullness in the stomach after eating. Heartburn. Flushes of heat, heaviness after eating. Hiccough after eating, indigestion is very marked. Loathing of food. Nausea; after eating; constant; during cough; after cold drinks; with headache; during menses.
Stomach: Pain in the stomach: AFTER EATING; burning after warm things; cramping; CUTTING; gnawing; pressing after eating; soreness; stitching.
Pulsation in the stomach. Retching when raising mucus from the throat. Sinking sensation. Sensation of a stone in the stomach. Tension in the stomach.
Thirst: morning; evening; night; burning thirst; extreme thirst; unquenchable thirst; drinks often but small drinks. Thirstlessness. Vomiting: on coughing; after eating; bile; bitter; blood; mucus; sour; watery.
Abdomen: Distension of abdomen after eating; flatulence; fullness, gurgling, hardness.
Heavy feeling in abdomen. Inflammation of liver; spleen. Liver affections. Pain in the abdomen; at night; after eating; from flatus; before a diarrhoea; before stool; better after stool and after passing flatus; in hypochondria; hypogastrium; in region of umbilicus.
Cramping; before stool, better by passing flatus and stool. Cutting; before stool. Drawing in abdomen; in hypochondria. Sore, tender abdomen; in hypochondria. Stitching in abdomen; in hypochondria; in inguinal region; in spleen. Nervous feeling in abdomen. Rumbling in abdomen; as if a diarrhea would come on. Affections of the spleen. Swollen inguinal gIands. Tension in abdomen, in hypochondria.
Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea; stool hard. Diarrhoea: evening daytime; morning; drives him, out of bed; NIGHT; after midnight; frequent stool during daytime; from becoming cold; from cold drinks; from taking cold; worse after eating; during menses; AFTER MILK; after vegetable; stool: bloody, copious, frequent, mucous, painless, pasty, scanty, soft, thin, watery, yellow.
Excoriation of anus. Flatus copious and offensive. Itching of anus. Pain: BURNING during and after stool; cramping, better after stool; cutting, during stool and in the hypogastrium; before stool; soreness and stitching; tearing during stool; tenesmus during stool. Urging to stool; ineffectual; after stool.
Urinary: Sore pain in bladder relieved by urging; urging to urinate at night; constant; frequent.
Urination difficult; frequent; involuntary at night in sleep; unsatisfactory. Burning and aching in the kidneys.
Burning in the urethra when passing urine. Urine: ALBUMINOUS; burning; dark; pale; copious at night; clear as water; offensive, scanty; with mucus and phosphate, Specific gravity decreased; 1050.
Genitalia: Morning erections; incomplete.
Inflammation of glans penis, prepuce and testes. Stitching of the genitals, penis, scrotum. Sore ness left testis. Seminal emissions. Swollen penis and testes.
In the female the desire is increased. Leucorrhea; copious; offensive; thick; yellow. Menses: copious; too soon; protracted; scanty. Metrorrhagia. Pain in the uterus.
Larynx: Dryness and constriction in the larynx; scraping slate-colored mucus from the larynx; mucus is detached with difficulty; burning and soreness in the larynx; roughness in larynx.
The symptoms of the larynx are worse from dust, smoke or cold air. Voice: hoarse ness with coryza; lost; weak. Respiration is fast and deep; miner’s asthma from coal dust; difficult on ascending, short.
Cough: morning; afternoon; evening; night; from deep breathing, dry at night; in the morning and from exertion; dry teasing cough all day; exhausting; hacking; from irritation in larynx and trachea loose; racking, short, spasmodic; from tickling in larynx and trachea violent; worse in a warm room. Expectoration: morning, evening, bloody, difficult, mucous, OFFENSIVE, PURULENT, tasting bitter, flat, putrid, viscid, yellow.
Chest: Anxiety and constriction of the chest. Eruptions, pimples. Sensation of fullness in the chest. Hemorrhage from the lungs. Pneumonia and phthisis in miners from dust of coal. Irritation in the bronchial tubes in the morning.
Oppression of chest on exertion and deep breathing; heart.
Pain in the chest, during cough; in the heart; burning, cutting below the seventh rib; pressing; rawness; sore from coughing; stitching. Palpitation of the heart; night; anxious; ascending steps; exertion; tumultuous. Sensation as if he had inhaled smoke.
Back: Coldness of the back at night.
Stitching of the cervical region. Pain in the back, evening; night; worse walking; in the scapulae; between the scapulae; on bending forward and on breathing; in the lumbar region when stooping and walking; in the sacrum both while walking and sitting; aching in the back; drawing pain in the back; sore pain in the back; sore pain in the sacrum when walking and stooping; sore pain in cervical region; sore pain under scapulae; sore pain in spine on pressure.
Stiffness in the cervical region, weakness in the back.
Limbs: Awkwardness of the limbs; cold hands and FEET; cramps in calf in soles.
Eruptions on limbs; thin white scales; vesicles. Excoriation between the thighs. Formication of the feet. Heaviness, a tired feeling in lower limbs, in feet. Itching of all the limbs. Jerking in the lower limbs. Lameness in the limbs.
Numbness in the feet. Pain in the limbs; in the joints, during chill; neuralgic pain in limbs; RHEUMATIC; gouty pains; upper limbs; right arm rheumatic; shoulder; rheumatic pain in shoulder and elbow; palms painful; pain in fingers.
Pain in lower limbs; sciatica worse walking; in the hip; thigh when walking; knee. Aching down front of legs; bruised pain in limbs from continued motion; burning feet and soles, crampy pain in calf; flying pains in fingers, palms and forearms; drawing pains in lower limbs, thigh, knees, calf; neuralgic pain from axilla to little finger; stitching pain in hip, thigh, hip to knee on motion; knee, leg; tearing pains in upper limbs, in lower limbs, in thigh, legs ankles, foot.
Perspiration of hands, of feet. Pulsation of limbs. Restlessness of the limbs, upper limbs, lower limbs, legs. Stiffness of limbs, joints, wrists. Swelling of limbs: dropsical; legs; feet. Trembling hands; lower limbs. Twitching upper limbs; thighs. Weakness of the limbs; upper limbs; hands; lower limbs; thighs; legs; ANKLES; feet.
Sleep: The sleep is deep.
Dreams: amorous; anxious; frightful; of murder; nightmare; pleasant; vexatious; vivid. Late falling asleep; restless sleep. Sleepiness in the afternoon. Sleeplessness before midnight; after midnight; with sleepiness. Unrefreshing sleep. WAKING EARLY, frequently.
Chill morning; forenoon; evening in bed; in cold air; coldness comes on at night in bed; chilliness, internal chill, shaking chill in the morning; chill at -2 A.M.; 1 P.M.; 2 P.M.; the chill is relieved in a warm room.
Fever at night; dry heat, flushes of heat, perspiration absent.
Perspiration: morning; nights; from anxiety; in bed; cold; on coughing; on slight exertion; following the fever; on motion; profuse, at night; symptoms worse while perspiring; aversion to uncovering while perspiring.
Skin: Burning skin; cold skin desquamation.
Liver spots, red spots, yellow skin; dryness of the skin.
Eruptions: blisters; boils; burning; moist; herpes; itching in warmth; painful pimples; scaly thin white scales; stinging, suppurating tubercles; urticaria; nodules vesicular erysipelas, with swelling, worse after scratching; formication of skin; itching, crawling, worse after scratching. Swelling of skin with burning.
Ulcers, burning; deep; yellow discharge; spreading; stinging.
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.