Kent on Susceptibility

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Kent on Susceptibility

• Susceptibility must be known by the
  homoeopathic physician in order that he may be a
  good prescriber.

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Kent on Susceptibility

• Because of varying degrees of susceptibility some
  are protected from disease caused and some are
  made sick, the one who is made sick is
  susceptible to the disease cause in accordance
  with the plane he is in and the degree of
  attenuation that happens to be present at the
  time of contagion. The degree of the disease
  cause fits his susceptibility at the moment he is
  made sick.

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Kent on Susceptibility

• When the symptoms that indicated it change, then
  it is no longer indicated. If it is given at all
  after this change, it operates upon a different
  plane from what it did in its homoeopathicity,
  and if it acts at all it does not act curatively
  but depressingly. Any more than just enough to
  supply the susceptibility is a surplus and is
  dangerous. Enough to effect a change is all that
  can be homoeopathic, when certain changes are
  effected than the physician must wait. Enough
  medicine must be given to establish order, and
  that is done almost instantaneously, at most it
  is but a matter of a few hours, and, as long as
  order continues after it has once began, so long
  hands off.

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Kent on Susceptibility

• We see that when a natural disease is taken it
  runs its period, and tends to decline, and the
  patient will not be susceptible until another
  change of state has arrived. It is not true that
  man will go out of one state of susceptibility to
  a disease, and in a few days goes into another
  state of susceptibility to that same disease.
  There must be a change, a cycle, which means a
  certain length of time.

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Kent on Susceptibility

• . The bacteria may contain because causes are
  continued into ultimate, but the primitive cause
  is not in the bacteria, the bacteria themselves
  have a cause.

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