The nurse further relates in her description of the stool that It is very putrid, that it is cadaveric, like dead things, like stinking meat, horribly offensive. It is an unnecessary individualization in this typhoid state to go into the fine differences of the odour, because it is often only a difference in the nose to measure an odour. Putrid stools would call to mind Arsenicum Baptisia, Carb- v., Crot. horridus, Lachesis, etc.
The very copious thin exhaustive stools often require such remedies as Phos-ac., Phosphorus Secale, Veratrum
Then we notice another state, which is commonly worse in the night and may be observed also at times when the fever is at its highest, or when the patient is unconscious, viz., twitchings. He twitches and jerks; sometimes it is so marked that it is like a chorea, when it becomes like Agaricus, but when only in the finer muscles, Arsenicum, Carb-v., Cocc., Colchicum, Crot. horridus, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Mur-ac., Phosphorus, Psorinum, Rhus-t., Stramonium, Sul-ac., Zincum met. become the remedies.
When the prostration becomes so marked that the patient slides down in bed until his head is perfectly level with the body, right off from the pillow, it is then that the following remedies must be examined: Arsenicum Carb-v. Mosch., Mur-ac., Nit- ac., Nux-m., Phosphorus, Phos-ac., Rhus-t.
The mental symptoms are often of the greatest importance. Little particulars come out sometimes in mental symptoms that lead you to think of a remedy, not to give the remedy because of the keynote, but to sit down and meditate upon it for a few minutes, to ascertain whether or not it fits the whole case, whether the remedy that is calling attention to itself has all the rest of the symptoms. The mental symptoms are of great value, especially when the patient is in a state of semi-consciousness, when he is going down into a state of prostration. There are changes in his mind, in his manner of speech, and answering questions. If he looks as if he could answer correctly but does not, then such remedies as Carb- v., Hyoscyamus, Phos-ac., Phosphorus, must be studied. When his answers do not fit the question, when they are irrelevant, when he answers a question that has not been asked, then Carb-v., Hyoscyamus, Nux-m., Phos-ac., Sul-ac., will be the remedies to consider. When he lies and looks at the physician but does not answer the question, he looks as if he could answer, but never says a word, Arnica, Helleborus, Hyoscyamus, Nux-m., Phosphorus, Phos-ac., Stramonium must be thought of. He lies and looks into the physician’s face and reflects a long time, and finally answers with great difficulty, it seems that he cannot get his mind to compass the idea, and he answers slowly, Cocc., Helleborus, Nux-m., Phos-ac., must be considered. In a general way, those having slow answers and slow speech, as if meditating before answering (the semi-conscious state), are Arsenicum, Carb-v., Cocc., Helleborus, Nux-m., Phosphorus, Phos-ac., Rhus-t. He answers correctly, but soon returns to a marked state of stupor, is found especially under Arnica, Baptisia, Hyoscyamus
Again, his mental state becomes more active, and he takes on delirium and rage, but more particularly wants to run away, wants to escape, wants to get out of the window, the following remedies must be examined: Arsenicum, Baptisia, Dry., Cocc., Helleborus, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Phosphorus, Rhus-t., Stramonium, Zincum met. There is sometimes one reason, and sometimes another, for his wanting to get up and escape. When the patient thinks he is away from home and wants to get up and get out of the window and go home, Bryonia, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Opium, Rhus-t., Veratrum, must be thought of. If in his hallucinations the most frightful rage is observed, when he strikes, bites, cuts, seeks to kill, do mischief, destructive rage, Carb-v, Hyoscyamus, Laur., Lye., Opium, Phosphorus, Phos-ac., Rhus-t., Stramonium, come in for a share of consideration. If on closing the eyes he screams out as if he saw horrible visions, Bryonia, Helleborus, Lachesis, Stramonium, are to be considered. Raving, wild delirium is often best covered by Hyoscyamus, Lye., nitricum acidum, Opium, Phosphorus, Secale, Stramonium, Sul- ac., Veratrum
ADDRESS VITAL ACTION AND REACTION
“A medicine is not too high to cure so long as it is capable of aggravating the symptoms belonging to the sickness, in the first hours in acute, and in the first days of a chronic, sickness” –Hahnemann’s ORGANON.
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.