If he is really incurable, the symptoms of the disease have been driven back so deep that he has only an undefined sense of feeling badly. In the last stages, when the patient has “been the rounds” of allopathic suppression, he returns from the Hot Springs and comes to you, perhaps too late. He suffers from the category of nerve syphilis. He has bi-parietal pains, exostosis, thickening of the periosteum. We do not know that we would have such forms if it were not for suppression.
Under homoeopathic treatment, although the patient taken in the primary stage does not get well without a shadowing at least of the secondary stage, yet of the tertiary forms the shadow is so slight that we cannot really say that they exist at all.
When syphilis attacks the nerve centres, we have softening of the brain, brain tumors, and death. How much of the nerve disease is due to suppression we cannot now determine. These tertiary forms never get well unless you can bring them back into the secondary stages.
A patient who had been under allopathic care for many years, who had taken Iodine, Bromide, Corrosive sublimate, Iodide of Potassium, etc., in large quantities, came to me in the last stages of syphilis with agonizing head pains. I prescribed for him, he became weak minded, but the pains all left him. In the further treatment of the case what condition did I find next? What could we expect to find according to the law of direction? Loss of hair and then ulcers in the throat-sure enough, such was the case. The loss of hair and the ulcers worried him so much, that he went away and left me.
The case is none the less valuable, however, since it serves to illustrate the manner in which the disease may get well even when in the last stages.
You can see now the nature of the disease.
Under homoeopathic treatment, though I have had many cases, I have never seen a relapse; while allopaths report relapses in a large percent of their cases.
You ask me to outline the treatment, which would necessitate my going into the numerous forms and groups of skin symptoms and nerve manifestations of this miasm. Volumes might be written on this subject and in the end you could be directed to study well the Materia Medica, and treasure up no names to arrange medicine for. Take the case as though you had never heard of such a set of symptoms in a sick man, but were perfectly acquainted with such symptoms in provings, remembering that the pathognomonic symptoms are not the ones you shall need the likeness of, but uncommon ones. Destroy no symptoms that nature has sent out to guide you to your remedies. Some patients will leave you, but if you are acquainted with the art of healing, you will have all you can attend to among the faithful and intelligent members of your cities and villages.
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.