$ 33. In accordance with this fact it is undeniably shown by all experience that the living human organism is much more disposed and has a greater liability to be acted on and to have its health derange by medicinal powers than by morbific noxious agents possess a power of morbidity; or in other words, that the morbific noxious agents possess a power of morbidity deranging man’s health that is subordinate and conditional, often very conditional; whilst medicinal agents have an absolute unconditional power, greatly superior to the former.
When we look over the improper use of all sorts of medicines, we can but conclude that the human race, because of drug-taking, has been greatly disordered in the economy. You have heard Hahnemann speak of the management of chronic disease; he distinctly states that the greatest difficulties are those that have been rough about in the economy but continuous drug taking.
It is not that the drugs themselves are laid up in the economy, but that left long disorder is created. Think of the poor old individuals who were in the habit of taking sulphur and molasses, think of those who were perpetually tapping their livers with blue mass, think of the western sufferers who have filled themselves every year with quinine pan-cake to keep off the chill. These people are so disordered that it takes years of careful prescribing to turn them into a state of order.
In $34 Hahnemann repeats two propositions to which we have already alluded. The first prostration is that in order to cure the medicines must be able to produce in the human body and artificial disease similar to that which is to be cured; this has been fully illustrated and explained.
The second proposition is that the artificial disease must be of a greater degree of intensity. The matter of intensity has already been explained as something higher, more internal, something superior or prior. The intensity of power is proportionate to the degree of approximation towards primitive substance.
There is thought of intensity in any other direction. The cause of disease and of cure exist within the primitive substance and not in ultimate material form, although the immaterial cause of disease continues in disease ultimates.
The bacteriologists have crawled into confusion because they do not know in their science that causes continue into effects. The bacteria may contain cause because cause are continued into ultimates; but the primitive cause is not in the bacteria; the bacteria themselves have a cause.
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.