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COMMUNICATIONS. I read with much interest your editorial in the November 1949 issue of The Recorder, titled “Why Kent?” I believe that the Pocket Book should be more in common use and I want to offer you and the readers of The Recorder the following case of mine as an illustration.


EDITOR of The Recorder:

I read with much interest your editorial in the November 1949 issue of The Recorder, titled “Why Kent?” I believe that the Pocket Book should be more in common use and I want to offer you and the readers of The Recorder the following case of mine as an illustration.

A gentleman aged 45 and the headmaster of a High School presented the following symptoms:

Vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness felt mostly while walking.

Fullness and pressure in abdomen.

<7 to 8 P.M.

>After eating.

>Eructations.

Now craves sugar, formerly averse.

Lack of thirst.

Piles both external and internal.

Two doses of Sepia 30. given three weeks apart cured the case permanently. The case is not so simple as it looks. It may be possible to find the remedy with Kent but more likely some other remedy would be started with. The difference in grade for the above systems in Boenninghausen and Kent is marked. The most peculiar and striking feature in this case is the fullness>after eating and the only remedy that outranks Sepia in Boenninghausen is Phos. which appeared contraindicated by the lack of thirst and desire for sweets, and the rest was easy. Of course, desire for sugar is not given in the Pocket Book for Sepia and <7 to 8 P.M. is found only in Boger’s Time Modalities. My point is that Sepia comes up readily in the Pocket Book and the other symptoms can be checked up and the choice confirmed.

Royal E S Hayes
Dr Royal Elmore Swift HAYES (1871-1952)
Born in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA on 20 Oct 1871 to Royal Edmund Hayes and Harriet E Merriman. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Miriam Martha Phillips. He lived in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 20 July 1952, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.