Miasmatic catarrh

Prof J H Allen's Book "Chronic Miasms" states---
From the standpoint of Hahnemann's psoric theory. Disease does not originate in the life force or manifest itself through the life.

Not because Hahnemann says so, but because when we stop to think, we know that everything in the universe of God is dynamic in its origin, and a dynamic law controls every vibration of matter, from the smallest atom upward.

What we need is to look into the action of these laws, so that we may see the miasms in their true light.So long as we neglect this internal disease (miasm), so long we neglect to attack the vital disturber of the patient's health. If this is not done, we will be forever having these psoric upheavals to deal with, and in the end -accomplish nothing permanent.

Today the psoric miasm is, to a great degree, blended with sycosis; fully 80 percent, we are told, have sycosis in some form, therefore catarrh is now the prevailing expression we meet.
Dr. Lippé noticed this fact, and I believe he speaks of toothache and neuralgia being so prevalent in early days and that now catarrhal troubles were the most common manifestations of psora to be met with, and today, fully 80 percent of them have in some degree the sycotic element present.

But these miasmatic expressions of disease are ever changing, due to their multiple blendings, suppressions and unscientific methods of treatment, to say nothing of surgical and operative measures, intermarriages and hereditary transmission ; all these tend to change the normal action of the life when the miasms are present and give us false or diseased physiological expressions, which sooner or later present almost any disease, either local or general.

Unless we know something of the action of these chronic miasms, psora, syphilis and sycosis in their different stages of action and also their latent conditions, we cannot follow disease in all its changes and mysterious presentations, but a thorough knowledge of the miasms makes all clear to us and we are prepared to meet them at any stage on therapeutic grounds, for they are no longer wrapped in mystery.

We should also know something of the diseases and complications that present themselves in each stage of miasmic action, and in this way we are forewarned and we are always prepared to meet any emergency.

A knowledge of suppression is another feature we must become familiar with. For instance, many cases of gonorrhoea are coming to us that are either suppressed fully or partially.
Now we ought to know these symptoms that arise and are due to suppression.
We get this by a study of all the symptoms of our patient, previous to taking treatment, and his present condition. Often a single symptom in the history of the case will call your attention to this fact.

The patient may tell you that he has had a, .headache, backache or that he has felt badly since he began his. Treatment for gonorrhea,or he has never had a well day since.
You will find this in both sexes. Now the first thing to do is to re-establish that suppressed discharge.