Maria, Thanks for a question that stimulated my curiosity. In searching RW on “low forms of disease” 19 remedies and 183 references showed up. My take is that low forms of disease are that show with prostration, torpor, stupor, insensibility, the patient gives out. Kent mentions suppression. The remedies that come up are Ail., Bufo., Cadm-s., Lach., Apoc., Bapt., Crot-h., Colch., Phos., Nit-ac., Hyos., Gels., Hell., Arn., Ars., Lyc., Arum-t., Anth., and Sec.
Reference Works quotes:
Boericke on Lachesis
“Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound.”
Hering when writing about Ailanthus:
In low, adynamic forms of disease, characterized by sudden and extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish appearance of skin.
Kent on Arnica:
"Stupor with involuntary discharges." "Coma, insensibility. " "Lies as if dead." These symptoms come in the low forms of disease, in the typhoid type of disease.
Kent on Bufo:
It has those low forms of disease which must develop when outward manifestations have been suppressed. The constitution that belongs to the very nature of the individual will come out in epilepsy, in insanity, in imbecility, in cancer, in some one of the low forms of disease. This medicine corresponds to a low type and constitution. The nature of the Bufo constitution is such that it is capable of giving out symptoms similar to those produced by low forms of disease. He is not likely to live to be old, he is likely to break down at forty. She comes to her end by cancer of uterus or breast, or by imbecility. He comes to his end with low forms of disease, malignant manifestations.
Murphy culling other’s information on Cadm-s:
Symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease. Useful for the last stage of diseases which runs deathward.
Kent on Colchicum:
…and when it stands out in low forms of disease like the continued fevers, the exhaustive fevers and rheumatic complaints it becomes a general.
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Per Yasgur, a low form of a disease is a serious disease that happens to be in remission or not terribly virulent at the moment. I would assume he's referring to a characteristic of the disease rather than one's constitutional response to it (e.g., lack of fever because of constitutional inability to mount a good one).
Also per Yasgur, croup can be broken into two general types, of which one, membranous, is laryngitis with fibrinous exudations (aka deposits).
Peace,
Dale