FOSTER DEVELOPMENT‘S HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHH. SAMBHAJINAGAR.

Seminar On
DR.KENT’S REPERTORY
DEPARTMENT OF REPERTORY

Presented by,
Elda Roy Guided By,
Roll No. 18 Dr. Leena Gunjal
Final Year BHMS
Date of Submission:13/07/2024
 James Tyler Kent was born on March 31, 1849, in Woodhull, New York,
the son of Steven Kent and his wife Caroline Tyler.

After completing two undergraduate degrees by the age of 21, Kent

undertook two postgraduate courses at the Eclectic Medical Institute of
Cincinnati, Ohio. At 26 years of age he set up practice as an eclectic
physician in St Louis, Missouri and soon became a distinguished member
of the Eclectic National Medical Association.

In 1878, Kent’s second wife, Lucy, became ill. (Kent’s first wife, Ellen, had
died at 19 years of age, shortly after their marriage.) In spite of Lucy’s
symptoms of”nervous weakness, insomnia, and anemia” being treated by
both orthodox and eclectic physicians, her condition continued to
deteriorate and she was bedridden for months.
Under ridicule and opposition from Kent, the homeopathic physician, Dr
Richard Phelan was called in to see Lucy. Following his prescription, she
made a dramatic recovery.

As a result, Kent elected to study with Phelan and changed his allegiance
from eclecticism to homeopathy. He considered homeopathy to be the
only therapy that was guided by laws and principles and the only one to
Dr. James Tyler Kent address the fundamental cause of illness.
(31st March 1849-5th June 1916)
CONTRIBUTIONS OF DR. KENT
1) Doctor Kent has advocated the use of 30 to 200 CM DM IM 1OM potency.
2) He introduced series of degrees in treating the disease.
3) Doctor Kent contributed the law of vital action and reaction.
4) He found that homeopathic aggravation is essential after the similimum in treating chronic cases.
5) He evaluated symptoms by giving values to symptoms and greatest value to mental symptoms.
6) Doctor Kent did not give much importance to constitution by saying that every individual is a
constitution.
7) Doctor Kent gave many new remedies described in his book ,clinical cases, lesser writing.
8) Lectures on homeopathic Materia Medica.
9) Kent's 12 observations
10) Lesser writings
11) Kent's repertory
12) Kent's philosophy.
‘The most appropriate, most complete and most reliable of all ’......Dr.Barthel & Dr.WilKluncker

REPERTORY
OF
HOMOEOPATHIC
MATERIA MEDICA Dr. James Tyler Kent

‘Mind is the key to the Man ....!’

SOURCES OF KENT’S REPERTORY

1.Boenninghausen’s Repertory

2.Biggler’s Repertory

3.Lippe’s Repertory

4.Lippe’s Materia Medica

5.Jhar’s Repertory

6.Minton’s diseases of uterus

 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF KENT’S REPERTORY

EDITIONS YEAR OF PUBLICATION CHARACTERISTICS

Edition I 1897

Edition II
1900-1910

Edition III COMPLETE WORK ON REPERTORY

1916

Edition IV
1935

Edition V REVISED BY HIS WIFE DR. CLARA

1945
KENT
Edition VI PUBLISHED AFTER KENT’S DEATH
1943-1961

Edition VII INDIAN EDITION

1976
PLAN & CONSTRUCTION
 PREFIX REPERTORY SUFFIX
PART PROPER PART

• Sides of body & drug

• Use of repertory affinities
• How to study repertory • Preface by Dr. Kent
• List of medicines with • Relationship of remedies
• How to use the repertory with duration of action by
abbreviation
• Case demonstration • Repertory Gibson Miller
• Hot & Cold remedies • Word index
-Gibson Miller
HIGHLIGHTS of KENT’S REPERTORY

• Largest Chapter-EXTREMITIES(282)
• Smallest Chapter- PROSTATE GLAND(2)
• Maximum no. of Rubrics –MIND CHAPTER-527 Rubrics
-3782 Subrubrics
• Smallest no.of rubrics-HEARING CHAPTER-5 Rubrics
• Total no. of medicine in Kent’s Repertory as per abbreviations-648
• Hot & Cold remedies are contribution of Dr. Gibson Miller
• In Kent's Repertory, the plan followed throughout is from GENERALS TO
PARTICULARS. (Deductive Logic)
• It starts with MIND CHAPTER, which has been given prime importance.
• The last chapter is GENERALITIES, which contains physical modalities.
• The rest of the chapters are based on anatomical divisions followed by functions
or discharges.
• There are altogether 37 chapters are there.Out of which urinary organ chapter
has 5 divisions (bladder, kidneys, prostate, urethra, urine)
• Discharges such as stool, perspiration, urine, expectoration are given as separate
chapters.
• Generals are found under mind, sleep and generalities. Some conditions like-
vertigo,cough, chill, fever, vision and hearing are given as separate chapters. the
name of the chapter is given above the pages in capital roman letters.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS–
Kent’s repertory has been formulated in an anatomical schematic pattern.
The entire repertory has been divided into 37 sections.It is printed in
2 columns on each page.
The Chapters are as follows:-
1) Mind 2) Vertigo
3) Head 4) Eyes
5) Vision 6) Ear
7) Hearing 8) Nose
9) Face 10) Mouth
11) Teeth 12) Throat int
13) External Throat 14) Stomach
15) Abdomen 16) Rectum
17) Stool 18) Bladder
19) Kidney 20) Prostate
21) Urethra 22) Urine
23) Genitalia Male 24) Genitalia Female
25) Larynx and Trachea 26) Respiration
27) Cough 28) Expectoration
29) Chest 30) Back
31) Extremities 32) Sleep
33) Chill 34) Fever
35) Perspiration 36) Skin
37) Generalities
EVALUATION OF REMEDIES

Kent used three varieties of typography to indicate the gradation of remedies unlike the 5 gradations of
Boenninghausen and Boger.

BOLD -3 MARKS ITALICS-2MARKS ROMAN-1MARKS

1BOLD
st GRADE - felt GRADE -
-3 MARKS1ST
2ndGRADE 3rd GRADE,represent
FELT STRONGLY BY ALL those medicines when
strongly by almost
PROVERS OR MAJORITY OF symptoms brought
all PROVERS,FREQUENTLY
provers . out by majority of proved brought out
CONFIRMEDAND VERIFIED
provers. symptoms in few
provers.
EVALUATION OF SYMPTOMS
• WILL All symptoms related with love, anger, grief, fear, loquacity,
hate, indifference, sadness etc.
• UNDERSTANDING Hallucination, Illusion, Confusion, Delusion
• MEMORY Concentration, Absentmind, Forgetfulnes etc.

Symptoms pertaining to appetite, food desires & aversion, thirst

Pervision of sexual sphere including menstrual symptoms, general
agg. before, during & after menses, effects of coition etc.

• Characteristic Particulars
• Common Particulars
Dr. Pierre Schmidt in his Kent’s Final General Repertory gave independent status to Smell and Voice, which was
in Nose and Larynx respectively. Thus in this edition there are 39 sections. But Jost Kunzli thought otherwise
that if the smell can be put under respective organs i.e.Nose, thus he has reduced the total number of section
to 27 by putting vision under eyes hearing under ears, external throat under throat;Bladder, kidney, prostate
gland, Urethra and Urine under Urinary and by putting chill, fever and perspiration in one section.

• In 37 Sections,each section contains Rubrics

• Each Rubric is further divided into sub rubric and further into sub – sub Rubrics.
• All rubrics are arranged alphabetically in all the chapters.
• A rubric starts with a general symptom or a state with a list of large group of medicine.
• This is followed by SIDE
TIME
MODALITIES
EXTENSION
• Arrangement is not strictly followed in all the chapters.
• Each rubric is modified by 6 factors following the same order all through the different headings with some
exceptions in some chapters.
 SIDE
• Whenever a rubric can be divided into sides, the general rubric is
followed immediately by side. First right and then left except in
chapters on generalities, perspiration etc where side is given as a
rubric within the alphabetical arrangement.
• In certain chapters ,side is considered as a sub location.
e.g.chapters on head (occiput, forehead, temples), abdomen,
chest,teeth.
• If the rubrics cannot be divided into sides as in chapters on
mind,cough etc naturally side will not find any place.
• In some chapters where side cannot be given or are not given time
immediately follows the general rubrics.
 TIME
• Time is given in most of the rubrics.
• In the arrangement of time also he followed the logic of generals to
particulars.
• Arrangement is from general period of time to particular point of time.
• If any symptom is aggravated during the daytime,the general rubric or side is
followed immediately by daytime.
• In Kent's Repertory, almost all rubrics are arranged in alphabetical order but
time rubrics are given according to their order of appearances. The general
periods of time are arranged as day time, morning, forenoon, noon,
afternoon, evening, twilight, night, midnight, midnight before and midnight
after.
• Each period of time is further divided into particular points of time like 8 am,
9 am, 4-8pm etc.
• Any other peculiarities associated with time are given as sub rubrics.
MODALITIES

• This section follows time aggravations and ameliorations which are mixed
together and arranged in the alphabetical order.
• Modalities include different factors, which influence the symptom. They are
arranged as follows: ailments from, alternating with, modifying factors,
aggravation and amelioration(including concomitants before, during and after)
• In case of aggravation, only the circumstances will be mentioned.
• If there is amelioration from the same condition, it will be given as sub-rubric
and following the sub-rubric, the term amel will be added to it.
EXTENSION

• This is the fourth, last modification of a symptom and is mainly found

under the Pain rubric. Here it may be remembered in regard to extention
that the points from which a certain symptom extends to the one under
which the symptom will be found and never under the part to which it
extends e.g. HEAD Pain -extending to eyes.
• This symptom must be looked for under the rubric Head Pain and not
under Eye Pain.
• GENERALITIES Chapter deals mostly with aggravation, amelioration
and certain states of the persons, this order is not possible.
• SKIN,FEVER, PERSPIRATION, SLEEP do not follow this arrarrangement.
LOCATION

• After extension sub location of the main location will be arranged in alphabetical
order.
• Under each of these sub-locations the above mentioned side, time, modalities,
extentions,arrangement can be seen. For e.g:-HEAD chapter includes many sub -
locations like brain,forehead, temples, occiput etc.
• These modifications are especially found under Pain rubric.
• Locations are represented under rubrics related with sensations or modalities.
BACK- Pain- lumbar region (pg.905)
• Locations are given directly at some places
e.g.-ABDOMEN-liver and region of (pg.553)
CHARACTER
• This section of symptom is usually seen under subjective symptoms like
Pains, Noises in the ears etc.
• Here also the character of pain or sensations will be given in the
alphabetical order like -aching, burning, catching, drawing etc.
• Under each type of pain,time modalities and extensions are given.
• The above order S,T,M,E,L,C is generally followed in each rubric and sub-
rubrics.
• Since generalities chapter deals with certain states of the person and
also aggravations and ameliorations , the above order is not possible in
this chapter. This order has been slightly modified according to the
rubrics here and there.
• Skin,Fever,Perspiration,Sleep etc. do not follow this arrangement. But in
these chapters also we can find an alphabetical arrangement.
METHOD OF WORKING:Dr. J.T.Kents Repertory: Cases Demonstration.

Case :
Miss. XYZ aged 50, been heavy tea drinker for 15 years had much pain and discomfort in stomach with flatulence
Agg. Eating after.
Much rumbling in abdomen, Appetite poor, bowels fairly regular.
Desires – salt++ sweets ++
Aversion - Fatty+, Acids++
Flushes of heat with sweating which is relieve her. She is very thin,
excitable person.
On further inquiry she was found to be very chilly.
Food has no taste, cannot bear the smell of cooking food.
Generals – chilly patient, Agg. Spring, before and during thunderstorm.
Mind - Irritable in morning, Anxiety for others. Fears something going to happen, of crowds, being suffocated, of
darkness, of robbers, due to fear patient gets depressed, anxiety about health and disease, Impatient,suspicious.
Very sensitive readily offended, startled easily with least noise.

As in this case there are marked mentals as well as physical generals

Kent’s repertory and Kent’s concept of totality is considered.
Analysis of symptoms –
1. Fear something will happen. - Mental G. Chact.
2. Fear robbers of. - Mental G. Chact.
3. Fear, darkness. - Mental G.charact.
4. Fear, suffocation. –Mental G.chact.
5. Fear, crowd of - Mental G. Chact.
6. Anxiety for others. - Mental G. Chact.
7. Suspicious. – Mental G.chact.
8. Offended readily. – Mental G.chact.
9. Storm, approach of an Agg. – Physical Gen. Modality.
10. Spring, in Agg. – Physical gen. Modality.
11. Averse fats – Physical G.chact.
12. Averse acids. – Physical G. Chact.
13. Desire salt. – Physical G. Chact.
14. Desire sweets. – Physical G. Chact.

Non-Reportorial totality (P.D.F.) – Pt’s particulars, physical make up and chilly patient.
Repertorizatoin and result of repertorization –

At the time of actual repertorization all characteristic symptoms are

considered. Also in this method all remedies are considered without any
elimination.

As patient is chilly, chief remedies considered are –

1. Phos. - 21/11
2. Ars - 18/8
3. cal.carb. - 13/8
4. Caust- 14/7
5. Rhust. Tox. - 12/7

The constitution of the patient i.e. lean, thin, excitable person suggested either Ars, or Phos.
By considering modalities Ars, was prescribed with good result.
Advantages –
1) Because of well-explained sections, rubrics hunting from Kent’s repertory is easy.
2) There are about 648 remedies, which helps for good practice.
3) Rubrics, sub rubrics are so arranged that one complete symptom can be had at one place.
4) This repertory has undergone many works so that numerous opinions confirm about its ideality.
5) Size and grooves on the book attracts the reader and the patient also.
6) There are only 3 grades of remedies that make calculation easy after repertorization.
7) Only repertory which covers rubrics pertaining to mental generals, physical generals and particulars
which constitutes the totality of symptoms, So useful in acute as well as chronic cases.
8) A long index helps for the neophytes to find out the rubrics.
9) This repertory contains perhaps largest no. of Rubrics so it is the best index.
Disadvantages –

1) Symptoms are not explained in patients words so Hunting demands

correct interpretation.
2) Many rubrics have different dictionary meaning.
3) In some parts the rubrics are over generalised and over particularized.
E.g. Under Mind and Extremities respectively.
4) Certain anatomical regions have no corresponding sections though the
arrangement is from anatomical order i.e. Neck.
5) Many Amel. are omitted, one must look them under Agg. E.g. - Amel.
Summer. One must refer Agg. Winter.
Bibliography

• “Repertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica”by Dr. J. T. Kent

• Essentials of Repertorization –Prof. Sakshi Kant Tiwari
• Dr.J.T Kent-"Lectures on Homoeopathic MateriaMedica
• Dr.J.T Kent-"Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy“
• Dr.Kishor Jughol-"Evolution of Repertory andRepertorisation"
Thank you !