Dr J. T. Kent

Dr Kent was practising conventional medicine prior to his involvement with homeopathy.  He got attracted and started practising homeopathy after his wife's successful treatment from a serious disease using homeopathic methods and medicines.
He is considered to have been a greatest of homeopath and his philosophy, homeopathic interpretations of cases is still followed popularly.
His main and greatest contributions to homeopathy was his teachings and use of repertory in treating homeopathy cases . Today many more advanced and complete repertories are available but kent's famous repertory is still the popular choice of repertory amongst the homeopaths  and has been described as more complete, systematic and precise with more well-described symptoms.
Kent is also known for developing picture type of materia medica where a drug picture was formed using constitutions. This work was further developed by one of his students ,Margaret Tyler into a book entitled Homeopathic Drug Pictures.
His contributions:
The Kent's Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy,
Synthesis is the Repertory linked to the RADAR software widely used by practitioners all over the globe. Synthesis is based on the Sixth American Edition of Kent's Repertory, and contains all its rubrics and remedies.

Lectures on homoeopathic philosophy
Repertory of homoeopathic materia medica
Lectures on homoeopathic materia medica
Lesser writings on clinical cases and new remedies
Use of the repertory, how to use the repertory in clinical cases
 What the physician needs to know in order to make a successful prescription