Dry mouth without thirst; bleeding gums and white tongue; aphthae in the mouth; copious mucus forms in the mouth; odour from mouth offensive. The tongue is very sore. copious saliva flows into the mouth; swollen gums and tongue; taste is bad, bitter in the morning, bloody, sour.
Sensation of dryness in the throat with copious mucus; sensation of a lump in the throat; pain in the throat on swallowing; stitching pain in throat on swallowing; burning, rawness and soreness in the throat; much swelling in the throat and tonsils and swallowing is difficult. Swelling of cervical gland.
Sensation of anxiety in the stomach with aversion to food and especially to meat; ravenous appetite; appetite entirely lost; sensation of coldness in stomach; most troublesome eructations, worse after eating; bitter, empty sour, waterbrash; eructations ameliorate the stomach symptoms; heart-burn and fullness of the stomach; hiccough and weight in the stomach. Loathing of food. Nausea after eating and during headache; nausea with dizziness. Pain in the stomach at night, after eating; the pains in stomach are cutting, burning, cramping, gnawing, pressing and stitching; sore, bruised feeling in stomach; pressing in stomach after eating; pulsating in stomach after eating; retching when coughing. Sensation of tightness in stomach from flatulence. Thirst during chilliness and during fever; extreme thirst. Vomiting night and morning; of bile, of food, mucus and watery fluid; vomiting on coughing, after drinking cold water, after eating, and during headache.
The abdomen is distended after eating with obstructed flatulence; fullness, hardness and heaviness in abdomen; great heat in abdomen; pain in abdomen at night, during cough, after eating, before and during menses, after stool; warmth ameliorates. Pain in right hypochondrium, in the hypogastrium, in the inguinal region and in the liver; the pains in the abdomen are burning, cramping, cutting, pressing, stitching and tearing; pressing and stitching pains in the liver. Rumbling and tightness in the abdomen. Constipation with very difficult stool; difficult soft stool; insufficient stool. Constipation during menses. Stool dry, hard, knotty, large, light coloured. Diarrhoea in the morning and at night; painful diarrhoea during menses, with stool bloody, frequent, offensive, purulent, watery; dysentery with scanty mucus, purulent and bloody stool; constriction of the anus. It has cured fistula in ano. Passing flatus ameliorates; formication of the anus. Hemorrhoids that protrude, ulcerate and bleed; inactivity of the rectum; itching of the anus after stool; ineffectual urging of stool; pain in anus during stool; burning during and after stool; burning after a hard stool. Cutting, pressing, sticking, stitching, pains in the anus; tenesmus, extreme soreness in the anus.
Catarrh of the bladder. The urine is cloudy, red, copious or scanty, with much mucous sediment; pressing pain in the bladder; urging to urinate; night, constant, frequent, ineffectual; the urine dribbles; urination frequent during the night; feeble stream; he cannot quite empty the bladder; slow in starting; he feels that he has not: finished; involuntary at night, Burning in the urethra during urination.
Erections in the morning and during the night, painful, even violent, without desire; induration of the testes; itching of the scrotum; seminal emissions. Sexual desire at first increased, then diminished, later lost; swelling of the testes.
Eruptions and itching of the vulva; leucorrhea, excoriating and yellow; worse after the menses. Menses bright red, copious, frequent, intermittent, late, offensive, painful, pale, scanty, short, suppressed; metrorrhagia between the menstrual periods; dragging down feeling in the pelvis; burning in the genitals; labor-like pains at the menstrual period; soreness in the genitals; prolapsus of the uterus. Catarrh of the air passages; irritation of the larynx and trachea; much mucus in the air passages and especially in the larynx; scraping in the larynx, tickling in the larynx and trachea. The voice is hoarse and rough. It is a very useful remedy in asthma. Difficult breathing from exertion, while lying and when coughing; rattling in the chest; short, suffocative, whistling breathing; cough in daytime, morning, forenoon, evening and most severe and constant during the night; cough worse after eating, during fever, lying; the cough is asthmatic and suffocative, racking and spasmodic; dry cough during the night; hacking cough during the night; cough from irritation in larynx and trachea; cough from tickling in the larynx and trachea; the cough is violent, spasmodic and paroxysmal, like whooping cough. Expectoration in the morning, bloody, copious, greenish, mucus, purulent, putrid-looking, tough, viscid, yellow.
Catarrh of the chest; abscess of the lungs; abscess of the axilla. Tightness of the chest. Dropsy of the pleura. Hollow sensation in chest; hemorrhage of the lungs; chronic inflammation of bronchial tubes; weight on the chest; pain in chest during cough on deep inspiration; pain in the sides of chest on deep inspiration; burning, pressing, stitching pains. Rawness on coughing, soreness in chest, stitching on coughing and on inspiring, extending to back; stitching in sides of chest on breathing; stitching in mammae; tearing pain in the walls of the chest. Palpitation on excitement and on slight exertion. It has been a most useful remedy in phthisis. Swelling in the axillary glands. Feeling of great weakness of the chest much like stannum.
The back feels cold. Itching of the back. Pain in the back during menses, while sitting and when stooping; pain in the back of the neck, between the scapulae, in the lumbar region and in the sacrum; pain in coccyx; the whole spine is painful. Aching in lumbar region and sacrum; burning in the lumbar region; drawing pain in cervical region, lumbar region and sacrum; pressing pain in lumbar region. The whole spine is sore. stitching pains in scapulae, lumbar region and sacrum; tearing in the cervical region; stiffness of the neck; tension in the back; weakness in the lumbar region.
The hands are chapped in cold weather; the hands and feet are cold; cramps in hands and calf. There are vesicular eruptions on the hands; pimples on the lower limbs; many eruptions on the thighs. Felons on the fingers. The hands are hot. Marked heaviness of the lower limbs, legs and feet. Hip joint disease. Itching of upper limbs, hands and palms; itching of lower limbs, thighs and legs. Jerking of the muscles of lower limbs; numbness upper limbs, hands and fingers; numbness of lower limbs, legs and feet. Pain in limbs during chill, better by warmth. Rheumatic pains in limbs; hard pain in the joints; gouty pains in joints; pains in shoulder and fingers, in hips, thighs and knees; pain in the sciatic nerve. Aching in the legs; burning soles; drawing pains in limbs; upper limbs, shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist, hands, fingers, lower limbs, thighs, knee, leg, ankles, feet; pressing pains in thighs; sore, bruised pain in all the limbs; upper limbs, lower limbs, hip, leg; sprained feeling in all the joints; stitching pains in all the limbs and in the joints, stitching in shoulder, upper arm, wrist, hand, fingers; stitching in thighs, knees, legs ankle, foot, heel, toes, first toe; tearing pains in all the limbs and joints; tearing in shoulders, upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, hand, fingers, finger joints; tearing in hip, thigh, knee, leg, calf, ankles, foot, soles, toes, first toe; paralysis of upper and lower limbs. Sweat of palms; profuse, cold, offensive sweat of feet and between the toes. Stiffness of the joints, shoulders, knees; swelling of feet, legs and knees; tension in the knees and calves; trembling of all the limbs, of hands and legs; twitching of all the limbs, thighs. Ulcers on the legs; weakness of the joints, thigh, knee and ankles.
Dreams anxious; of dead people; of death; events of the previous day; horrible, fantastic, fire, frightful, ghosts, nightmare, visionary, vivid, of water. Sleep is restless, sleepiness in the afternoon, evening, after dinner. Sleepless before midnight, after midnight, after 2 a.m., with sleepiness. Sleeplessness from thinking, after waking. Waking frequently and too early; frequent yawning.
Chill morning, forenoon, noon, afternoon, evening, night, in open air, in cold air, in a draft of air; chilliness in evening in bed, after eating; chill external and internal, worse from motion; chilliness with pain; one-sided chill; shaking chill in the evening; better in a warm room; external heat ameliorates.
Fever afternoon, evening and during the night, alternating with sweat; dry heat, external heat; flushes of heat; perspiration absent; night sweats. Perspiration morning, daytime and during night. Perspiration during and after eating, from slight exertion, from motion; profuse at night; sweat during sleep; offensive while walking. If perspiration is checked in cool air, many complaints come on.
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.