Aph 73 Organon 6
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:32 pm
§ 73
As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the
exciting cause being injurious influences to which they were particularly exposed. Excesses in food,
or an insufficient supply of it, severe physical impression, chills, over heatings, dissipation,
strains, etc., or physical irritations, mental emotions, and the like, are exciting causes of such
acute febrile affections; in reality, however, they are generally only a transient explosion of
latent psora, which spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the acute diseases were not of too
violent a character and were soon quelled. Or they are of such a kind as attack several persons at
the same time, here and there (sporadically), by means of meteoric or telluric influences and
injurious agents, the susceptibility for being morbidly affected by which is possessed by only a few
persons at one time. Allied to these are those diseases in which many persons are attacked with very
similar sufferings from the same cause (epidemically); these diseases generally become infectious
(contagious) when they prevail among thickly congregated masses of human beings. Thence arise
fevers1, in each instance of a peculiar nature, and, because the cases of disease have an identical
origin, they set up in all those they affect an identical morbid process, which when left to itself
terminates in a moderate period of time in death or recovery. The calamities of war, inundations and
famine are not infrequently their exciting causes and producers - sometimes they are peculiar acute
miasms which recur in the same manner (hence known by some traditional name), which either attack
persons but once in a lifetime, as the smallpox, measles, whooping-cough, the ancient, smooth,
bright red scarlet fever2 of Sydenham, the mumps, etc., or such as recur frequently in pretty much
the same manner, the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of the sea-coast, the Asiatic cholera,
etc.
1 The homœopathic physician, who does not entertain the foregone conclusion devised by the ordinary
school (who have fixed upon a few names of such fevers, besides which mighty nature dare not produce
any others, so as to admit of their treating these disease according to some fixed method), does not
acknowledge the names goal fever, bilious fever, typhus fever, putrid fever, nervous fever or mucous
fever, but treats them each according to their several peculiarities.
2 Subsequently to the year 1801 a kind of pupura miliaris (roodvonk), which came from the West, was
by physicians confounded with the scarlet fever, notwithstanding that they exhibited totally
different symptoms, that the latter found its prophylactic and curative remedy in belladonna, the
former in aconite, and that the former was generally merely sporadic, while the latter was
invariable epidemic. Of late years it seems as if the two occasionally joined to form an eruptive
fever of a peculiar kind, for which neither the one nor the other remedy, alone, will be found to be
exactly homœopathic.
Best Regards
Soroush
As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the
exciting cause being injurious influences to which they were particularly exposed. Excesses in food,
or an insufficient supply of it, severe physical impression, chills, over heatings, dissipation,
strains, etc., or physical irritations, mental emotions, and the like, are exciting causes of such
acute febrile affections; in reality, however, they are generally only a transient explosion of
latent psora, which spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the acute diseases were not of too
violent a character and were soon quelled. Or they are of such a kind as attack several persons at
the same time, here and there (sporadically), by means of meteoric or telluric influences and
injurious agents, the susceptibility for being morbidly affected by which is possessed by only a few
persons at one time. Allied to these are those diseases in which many persons are attacked with very
similar sufferings from the same cause (epidemically); these diseases generally become infectious
(contagious) when they prevail among thickly congregated masses of human beings. Thence arise
fevers1, in each instance of a peculiar nature, and, because the cases of disease have an identical
origin, they set up in all those they affect an identical morbid process, which when left to itself
terminates in a moderate period of time in death or recovery. The calamities of war, inundations and
famine are not infrequently their exciting causes and producers - sometimes they are peculiar acute
miasms which recur in the same manner (hence known by some traditional name), which either attack
persons but once in a lifetime, as the smallpox, measles, whooping-cough, the ancient, smooth,
bright red scarlet fever2 of Sydenham, the mumps, etc., or such as recur frequently in pretty much
the same manner, the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of the sea-coast, the Asiatic cholera,
etc.
1 The homœopathic physician, who does not entertain the foregone conclusion devised by the ordinary
school (who have fixed upon a few names of such fevers, besides which mighty nature dare not produce
any others, so as to admit of their treating these disease according to some fixed method), does not
acknowledge the names goal fever, bilious fever, typhus fever, putrid fever, nervous fever or mucous
fever, but treats them each according to their several peculiarities.
2 Subsequently to the year 1801 a kind of pupura miliaris (roodvonk), which came from the West, was
by physicians confounded with the scarlet fever, notwithstanding that they exhibited totally
different symptoms, that the latter found its prophylactic and curative remedy in belladonna, the
former in aconite, and that the former was generally merely sporadic, while the latter was
invariable epidemic. Of late years it seems as if the two occasionally joined to form an eruptive
fever of a peculiar kind, for which neither the one nor the other remedy, alone, will be found to be
exactly homœopathic.
Best Regards
Soroush