Address Preliminary to Study of Homoeopathics

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Positive principles should govern every physician when he goes to the bedside of the sick. (ORGANON, 1-2.) The sick have a right to it. Before the time of Hahnemann there was no such thing. The sick were villainously treated. Since the advent of this most beautiful and perfect system, the people have a right to demand exactitude in methods and knowledge. Better to do nothing than to do something useless. It is better to watch and wait than to do wrong. Every action in Homoeopathy must be based on a positive principle. Every action of the physician using Homoeopathy should be based upon the principles of the system. He should say: “Thus saith the principle, as doth the grammar in every word of your speech.” Some say, “I do not believe;” but let it be known that belief has no place in the study of Homoeopathy. The inductive method of Hahnemann gives no place for unbelief; hence it is that Hahnemann has formulated the first paragraph of the ORGANON.

The first and sole duty of the physician is to restore health to the sick. This is the true art of healing.

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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.
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