Kent's Lost Treasure
Corrections from his personal repertory
Exclusively available in RADAR 10
— Synthesis Treasure Edition
Dr. Currim notices errors
Early in 1972, Dr. Ahmed Currim bio noticed something odd — Kent's Repertory, already in its third American edition, still had many printing mistakes. Dr. Currim was surprised that Kent had not rectified these errors.
After some investigation, he discovered that Kent had died on June 6, 1916, before the third edition was printed. He never had the chance to correct these errors.
Dr. Currim then began his search for the second edition of the repertory. He contacted Roger Ehrhart — the last of the Ehrhart family who owned the famous Homeopathic Pharmacy of Ehrhart and Karl, and who published the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth American editions of Kent's Repertory.
But even Roger did not have any information about the location of this second edition of Kent's own personal copy of his repertory.
His first clue to the existence of Kent's own personal repertory was an article in the January-February 1963 AIH Journal by Dr. K.C. Mittal. Here Dr. Currim learned that this repertory was in the possession of Dr. Schmidt of Geneva, Switzerland.
In June, 1972 Ahmed Currim went to Geneva, and there he spoke to Pierre Schmidt about this paper and the errors in Kent's Repertory.
A mysterious story
Pierre Schmidt told Dr. Currim that Dr. Mittal had come to Geneva and worked diligently with Kent's own personal copy of the second edition of the repertory. Dr. Mittal carefully copied every correction from this original Kent into his own copy.
In addition, Schmidt related that Dr. Mittal copied every correction from the two chapters Mind and Generalities into Schmidt's own copy of an Indian edition of the book. Indeed, Schmidt's book now contains very neatly copied corrections in a very symmetrical handwriting.
This is probably identical to a facsimile of one such page printed in the so-called Kent's Final General Repertory. It is noteworthy that the handwriting on this facsimile is completely different from Kent's signature, and that the same hand also appears in the preface of the book.
It seems most likely that the handwriting on this facsimile also belongs to Dr. Mittal.
Pierre Schmidt said that after carefully doing this work, Dr Mittal had run away from Switzerland and taken the 'Treasure' (Kent's personal repertory) with him — as well as his own 'copy', in which he had made all the corrections.
This copy made by Mittal would be as good as the original. When below we speak about the 'copy', we mean Dr. Mittal's copy.
Later, Ahmed Currim learned from Mme. Dora Schmidt-Nagel (wife of Dr. Pierre Schmidt) how her husband had acquired the 'Treasure'.
Dr. Eugene Alonzo Austin, beloved student of Kent, had passed on the Treasure to Pierre Schmidt during his 1939 trip to the USA to learn homeopathy with one of Kent's best students. Plans had already been made at that point to incorporate the corrections into a future edition, but this was never done.
Unfortunately, all further editions of the repertory still lacked these corrections.
The Search for the Treasure
In 1973 Ahmed Currim wound up his university duties in the USA to start the study of medicine at the University of Brussels.
Inspired by Kent's publications, he was driven to homeopathy, with a hope he could perhaps put to use his knowledge of mathematics and computers. During these years as a medical student, he had regular contact with Mme. Schmidt-Nagel.
In 1978, Ahmed Currim travelled to India and took with him a letter from Mrs. Schmidt-Nagel addressed to Dr. Mittal. It was, however, very difficult to find Dr. Mittal because he rarely stayed in one place very long. But after travelling back and forth across India, Dr. Currim finally located Dr. Mittal and presented him with the letter from Mme. Schmidt.
That event opened all the doors. Dr. Mittal openly admitted that he had taken the Treasure from the house of Pierre Schmidt. After a long conversation, it was agreed that both would join forces so that Kent's corrections would become available to the world.
However, Dr. Currim was shown neither the Treasure nor Dr. Mittal's copy.
Dr. Mittal explained that he had been pursued by Dr. Schmidt, who had called for the services of Interpol to retrieve the Treasure. He said that he had been constantly harassed and threatened, and that he was fleeing from these people.
However the Treasure was never found, and in fact Mittal had cut up the Treasure into bits (imagine this !!!). Some of those bits he currently carried on his person, and some were hidden in another town, along with his own copy — a town that Mittal would reveal at a later date.
During this visit to India, Ahmid Currim also met with Dr. D.H. Chand at his home in Delhi. There he saw the Indian edition that belonged to Dr. Pierre Schmidt — the same edition that is mentioned in the introduction to this article where the corrections were added in Mind and Generals only.
Dr. Chand also showed Dr. Currim several hundred bits of the Treasure, as well as a few whole pages.
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