Why is Cancer Incurable



NOSODE:

The nosode tendency is becoming altogether too extravagant. I have known Medorrhinum to be given and fail where Thuja would have cured promptly, because the symptoms were predominantly Thuja and not Medorrhinum. I have known Psorinum to be given because the case was supposed to be due to psora, where Sulphur was well indicated. It is a great error to prescribe for the miasm instead of the totality of the symptoms.

If the symptoms are very scanty and the remedy is, doubtful and the patient has a history of gonorrhoea, his symptoms having come on since, it is a hopeful experiment to give Medorrhinum. In similar manner, if there ii a history of syphilis with a paucity of symptoms, it is a good experiment to give Syphilinum. Most certainly we must rise above miasmatic prescribing, yet the miasm should be held in view, and the remedies should be held in view, and the remedies that fit the symptoms should also be deep enough to cure the corresponding miasm.

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.