An Appreciation

HAIL KENT! Prometheus-like, thy flame so bright. Has brought to us a ray light From Hahnemann's shining path, so found It blazes wondrous realms beyond Health, for poor groping human-kind. A paradise on earth will find. Dead No! Thy living law, is its seeds will sow That good, defused, may more abundant grow. Hail Kent! Can anyone say "Kent is dead!" Kent is laid away amid the snowcapped mountains of Montana! Kent never the died! The earthly shrine of his immortal mind returns to dust amid the western mountains-Kent still lives. Kent's influence still shines as a burning torch to reveal truth. His intense desire to alleviate suffering, to eradicate disease, led him to concentrate, by the power of his indomitable will, the forces of his vast intellect. He gave himself unstintingly to the arduous task of acquiring that deep knowledge by which he scaled the heights of the Homœopathic law of Cure. Here his unclouded vision beheld the genius of Samuel Hahnemann. He grasped the Master's thought, he wielded the healing power, he reached greater heights. Kent was discoverer of Series and Degrees. He blazoned new paths of practical research. His keen perception selected a comparatively few of the medical college where he lectured, that he body of students of the medical colleges where he lectured, that he might impart to them the deeper lore which he had through long years painstakingly acquired. These students of the privileged inner circle all but idolized their learned, beloved master. They organized themselves in November, 1910, into the Society of Homœopathicians that the master's messages might more readily reach all, and through them be disseminated by their own practice of pure Homeopathy, and by the publication of their journal, The Homœopathician. Kent's objective was like that of this society if his students, "to foster and develop the principles of Homeopathy as promulgated by Samuel Hahnemann, to increase knowledge of them and of their application." Kent wrote voluminously with exactness and precision for many medical publications. His Materia Medica, Kent's Repertory and Kent's Philosophy are medical classics whose value will grow with the years. His writings are published in many languages. He has devoted followers in many nations, especially India. Like the Seer of Cothen, Kent of America reverently and understandingly pondered God's open Books of nature and Revelation. To God they gave the praise for all that He enabled them to do by the Divine Law, "Similia Similibus Curantur." Both overcame crushing trials and difficulties in the battles for truth. Oh Kent, no tribute I can equal the debt I owe! You sent for me. You poured your love upon me, taught me. You gave me many privileged hours in your Chicago Office; took me into closer fellowship for day and nights in your home and garden at Evaston. Later, when I was again in my office in New York, and death was drawing me away, you called me back by your skill. When physicians failed to cure, to you they brought the hopeless mind and mind and bodies of their patients, and you healed the many. You were moved to tears when I told you how in Perela-Chaise I gratefully covered with flowers the grave of Samuel Hahnemann. O Kent, beloved friend, elder brother, physician, master, seer, let a double portion of thy spirit rest on all thy loyal followers the world over who would unite with me in laying an unfading tribute of appreciation of the choicest treasures of our heart's grateful, admiring devotion on your bier. A. Eugene AUSTIN, M.D., H.M.