At 09:25 AM 5/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:
I am saying that he spoke of minute things. The microscope was invented by
the time Hahnemann was around........He didn't know what we know now about
minute things and they may be explained as meant sub atomic particles or
packets of energy or wave/particles or nano-particles just as easily as
germs. He knew there was something. He didn't know what. These small
things could easily be what I have said. And its not silly or weird at
all. Kent didn't 'believe' in germs either
http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibr ... kent3.html
From David Little's pages
"A Dutch naturalist named van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope and
published his observations of small living "animalcules" before in his
death in 1723. This information led Hahnemann to believe that
microorganisms were at the root of many infectious diseases. For this
reason he supported the ideas of the animalculists but at the same time
upheld the importance of susceptibility of the host constitution. Very
early in his career Hahnemann suggested that certain skin eruptions, such
as "crusta lactea", were being caused by microscopic "miasmic animalcule"
i.e., micro-organisms. At this time there were four major theories about
diseases that spread in an infectious manner.
1. Miasma as a foul gaseous exhalation.
2. The theory of the animalcule.
3. The zymotic theory.
4. The theory of spontaneous generation
The followers of the spontaneous generation theory believed that germs
appeared whenever the conditions were right for their development with the
need for reproduction. In some sense this is true as where did the "first
germ" come from? The zymotist suggested that certain substances called
"zymes" that were inert outside the body could lie dormant until the
internal terrain made it possible for them to multiply and caused specific
diseases. The observations of the zymotists are very similar to the
activities of viral material in the human body. The term zymotic can be
found in the old homoeopathic literature and is a rubric in the general
section of Kent's Repertory. Hahnemann synthesized the ideas of the
animalcule and zymes and redefined the Hippocratic term "miasma" to express
the constitutional derangements caused by parasitic infections. He
carefully separated the self-limiting acute miasms from the syndromes of
long lasting diseases and started to develop a special materia medica and
repertory for the treatment of the chronic miasms. Therefore, in
Hahnemannian homoeopathy the word "miasm" means the effects of
microorganism on the vital force including the symptoms that are
transmitted to the following generations. These chronic miasms are capable
of producing degenerative illnesses, auto-immune diseases and lead the
organism toward immuno-deficiency disorders.
Kent did not believe that microorganisms played any active role in the
disease process. He lived at a time when the new germ theory was becoming
another one-sided allopathic excuse for drugging their patients with
poisons. Vide Kent's Lesser Writings, Aphorism and Precepts, page 663, B.
Jain, New Delhi.
"Most doctors have gone crazy over the 'vicious microbe" as being the cause
of the disease, and think these little fellows are exceeding dangerous."
Kent gave no pathological role to microbes whatsoever and claimed they
were only 'scavengers'. According to him the TB bacteria on appears after
the lesions have formed yet Hahnemann had long ago concluded that certain
'miasmic animalculae' where at the root of contagious diseases. In fact, he
wrote that this parasites where being transmitted from person to person as
in the case of syphilitic miasm. Hahnemann wrote the first comprehensive
study of the affects of microorganism on the human constitution yet he
stressed importance of constitution and susceptibility. Hippocrates taught
the aetiological constellations which included constitution, predisposition
and miasms rather then any one-sided single factor such as a germ. So in
essence Hippocrates, Hahnemann and Kent agree in the importance of
predisposition but Kent did not realize that miasmic animalculae
dynamically mistune the defensive life force and produce autoimmune
diseases and immunodeficiency disorders. Kent once said;
"The Bacterium is an innocent feller, and if he carries disease, he carries
the Simple Substance which caused disease, just as an elephant would"
Our elder brother did not seem to understand that the vital force of the
animalculae miasma is a living dynamic spirit with the natural power to
mistune the instinctive life force of a human being and proliferate within
the host constitution. The animalculae miasma has the disease-tuning
natural power to dynamically produce symptoms. In practice, however, the
miasms were central to Kent's constitutional treatment and he contributed
greatly to our understanding of the miasm, sycosis. His rejection of the
germ theory in toto has given Kent's so-called scientific critics much to
say, but in practice, he cured the miasms because he followed the teachings
of The Chronic Diseases (1828). Kent used the same homoeopathic gestalt
therapy as Hahnemann and never forgot the totality of the symptoms included
the miasmic syndromes. Kent didn't created "Kentian Homoeopathy. We did in
our image. Kent was Hahnemannian.
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