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Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy (Excerpts)
James Tyler Kent M.D.
Lecture I: The Sick
…who is this sick man? The tissues could not become sick unless something prior to them had been deranged and so make them sick. What is there of this man that can be called the internal man? What is there that can be removed so that the whole that is physical may be left behind? We say that man dies, but he leaves his body behind. We dissect the body and find all of his organs. Everything that we know by the senses belongs to physical man, everything that we can feel with the fingers and see with the eyes he leaves behind. The real sick man is prior to the sick body, and we must conclude that the sick man be somewhere in that portion which is not left behind. That which is carried away is primary and that which is left behind is ultimate. We say the man feels, sees, tastes, hears, he thinks and he lives, but these are only outward manifestations of thinking and living. The man wills and understands. The cadaver does not will and does not understand; Then that which takes its departure is that which knows and wills. It is that which can be changed and it is prior to the body.
…take the nervous child. It has wild dreams, twitching, restless sleep, nervous excitement,…but if we examine all the organs of the body we will find nothing the matter with them. This sickness, however, which is present, if allowed to go on uncured will in twenty or thirty years result in tissue changes. The organs will become affected and then it will be said that the body is diseased. But the individual has been sick from the beginning. It is a question whether we will start out and consider the results of the disease, or begin at the beginning with the causes. If we have material ideas of disease we will have material ideas of the means of cure. If we believe an organ is sick and alone constitutes the disease, we must feel that if we could remove the organ we could cure the patient…But this is the reduction ad absurdum, for nothing exists without a cause. The organs are not the man. The man is prior to the organs. From first to last is the order of sickness as well as the order of cure. From man to his organs, and not from organs to the man.
Hahnemann once said: “There are no diseases, but sick people”
…The bacteria are results of disease. In the course of time we will be able to show perfectly that the microscopical little fellows are not the disease cause, but that they come after, that hey are scavengers accompanying the disease…They are the outcome of the disease, are present wherever the disease is…The Old School considers these the cause, but…the disease cause is much more subtle than anything that can be shown by a microscope.
We know that in present day people are perfectly satisfied if they can find the name of the disease they…have, and idea cloaked in some wonderful technicality.
Many physicians waste their time searching after the things that make their patient sick. The sick man will be made sick under every circumstance, whereas the healthy man could live in a lazaretto. It is not the principal business of the physician to be hunting in the rivers and the cellars and examining the food we eat for the cause of disease. It is his duty to hunt out the symptoms of sickness until a remedy is found that covers the disorder. That remedy, which will produce on healthy man similar symptoms, is the master of the situation, is the necessary antidote, will overcome the sickness…and cure the patient.
Lecture II: The Highest Ideal of a Cure
If you were to ask a physician, who had not been trained in homeopathy, of what a cure consist, his mind would only revolve around the idea of the disappearance of the pathological state. If an eruption on the skin were the given instance, the disappearance of the eruption from the skin under his treatment would be called a cure…And that is really the idea of the patient as it is derived from the physician. The patient will often wonder at the great skill of the physician in removing an eruption from the skin, and will go back again when the graver manifestations, the tissue changes threatening death, have come on as a consequence, and will say to the doctor: “ You so wonderfully cured me of my skin disease, why cannot you cure of my liver trouble? But this very scientific ignorant doctor has made a failure: he has driven what was upon the surface and harmless into the innermost precincts of the economy and the patient is going to die as a result of scientific ignorance.
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