With the same dragging down and the same desire for external pressure over the parts, we should add the awful sense of hunger in the stomach, even after eating, which has an emptiness, a goneness, a sinking; lingering constipation with a sexual instinct that drives her frantic. Who could help but think of Murex?
Then slightly deflect the picture with an overpowering sleepiness, so that during the entire day she can scarcely keep awake-who would not think of Nux moschata?
Then consider the extreme snappishness of temper with intestinal pains, with much pain and urging to stool, which is not successful; continued urging to urinate; who would not think of Nux vomica?
With all these bearing-down pains at every stool; with prolapsus of the rectum; alternating of diarrhoea and constipation; after the diarrhoea, which completely empties out the colon with gushing stool, the awful emptiness of the abdominal cavity which amounts to a deathly goneness, as if she must sink-who could help but think of Podophyllum?
It may next be asked how rapidly are these cases cured. To a great extent this depends upon how much the symptoms have been disturbed by previous inappropriate treatment, and how much the constitution of the patient has, been broken down by overwork, and the tenacity of the primitive miasm against which remedies must be directed. For instance, when Belladonna has been the medicine that has given the immediate, relief, it will naturally be followed by its chronic. No case should be abandoned after the mere removal of the symptoms of displacement. Deep acting medicines become indicated as the final remedies in the case when the first remedy has only laid the foundation for cure. In my experience two remedies have usually been sufficient to cure, and the time required has been from six months to a year. In extremely broken-down constitutions the time is much extended. The percentage of failures should be very small. Indeed, no more manageable class of condition, come under the observation of a careful prescriber. No more could I say to emphasize this than that thus far I have met with no failures; all that have appeared have never desired, nor felt the necessity for mechanical support.
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.