Aph 77 - Organon 6

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

§ 77
Those diseases are inappropriately named chronic, which persons incur who expose themselves
continually to avoidable noxious influences, who are in the habit of indulging in injurious liquors
or aliments, are addicted to dissipation of many kinds which undermine the health, who undergo
prolonged abstinence from things that are necessary for the support of life, who reside in unhealthy
localities, especially marshy districts, who are housed in cellars or other confined dwellings, who
are deprived of exercise or of open air, who ruin their health by overexertion of body or mind, who
live in a constant state of worry, etc. These states of ill-health, which persons bring upon
themselves, disappear spontaneously, provided no chronic miasm lurks in the body, under an improved
mode of living, and they cannot be called chronic diseases.
Best Regards
Soroush