SYCOSIS Digest Number 1396
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:31 pm
Dear Sheri, dear Soroush, dear everyone,
there is no need to retranslate Hahnemann, one has only to choose the
best translation, which is in my opinion Boericke's; his translation
follows the original most closely, and when comparing it to the German
original, I was supprised how accurately and diligently he rendered the
German original in English.
As you can see here in these extracts, there is no dispute about what
you found both found out, it can be read in the Organon 6th edition
translated by William Boericke, which which can be found here:
http://www.homeoint.org/books/hahorgan/index.htm
Yours,
Claudia
Here the quotation from the Organon
§ 79
Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic
miasmatic disease, which when uncured ceases only with the termination
of life. Sycosis (the condylomatous disease), equally ineradicable by
the vital force without proper medicinal treatment, was not recognized
as a chronic miasmatic disease of a peculiar character, which it
nevertheless undoubtedly is, and physicians imagined they had cured it
when they had destroyed the growths upon the skin, but the persisting
dyscrasia occasioned by it escaped their observation.
§ 80
Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasms just
named, however, is the chronic miasm of psora, which, while those two
reveal their specific internal dyscrasia, the one by the venereal
chancre, the other by the cauliflower-like growths, does also, after the
completion of the internal infection of the whole organism, announce by
a peculiar cutaneous eruption, sometimes consisting only of a few
vesicles accompanied by intolerable voluptuous tickling itching (and a
peculiar odor), the monstrous internal chronic miasm - the psora, the
only real fundamental cause and producer of all the other numerous, I
may say innumerable, forms of disease1, which, under the names of
nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, mania, melancholia,
imbecility, madness, epilepsy and convulsions of all sorts, softening of
the bones (rachitis), scoliosis and cyphosis, caries, cancer, fungus
nematodes, neoplasms, gout, haemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy,
amenorrhoea, haemorrhage from the stomach, nose, lungs, bladder and
womb, of asthma and ulceration of the lungs, of impotence and
barrenness, of megrim, deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary calculus,
paralysis, defects of the senses and pains of thousands of kinds, etc.,
figure in systematic works on pathology as peculiar, independent
diseases. (...)
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there is no need to retranslate Hahnemann, one has only to choose the
best translation, which is in my opinion Boericke's; his translation
follows the original most closely, and when comparing it to the German
original, I was supprised how accurately and diligently he rendered the
German original in English.
As you can see here in these extracts, there is no dispute about what
you found both found out, it can be read in the Organon 6th edition
translated by William Boericke, which which can be found here:
http://www.homeoint.org/books/hahorgan/index.htm
Yours,
Claudia
Here the quotation from the Organon
§ 79
Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic
miasmatic disease, which when uncured ceases only with the termination
of life. Sycosis (the condylomatous disease), equally ineradicable by
the vital force without proper medicinal treatment, was not recognized
as a chronic miasmatic disease of a peculiar character, which it
nevertheless undoubtedly is, and physicians imagined they had cured it
when they had destroyed the growths upon the skin, but the persisting
dyscrasia occasioned by it escaped their observation.
§ 80
Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasms just
named, however, is the chronic miasm of psora, which, while those two
reveal their specific internal dyscrasia, the one by the venereal
chancre, the other by the cauliflower-like growths, does also, after the
completion of the internal infection of the whole organism, announce by
a peculiar cutaneous eruption, sometimes consisting only of a few
vesicles accompanied by intolerable voluptuous tickling itching (and a
peculiar odor), the monstrous internal chronic miasm - the psora, the
only real fundamental cause and producer of all the other numerous, I
may say innumerable, forms of disease1, which, under the names of
nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, mania, melancholia,
imbecility, madness, epilepsy and convulsions of all sorts, softening of
the bones (rachitis), scoliosis and cyphosis, caries, cancer, fungus
nematodes, neoplasms, gout, haemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy,
amenorrhoea, haemorrhage from the stomach, nose, lungs, bladder and
womb, of asthma and ulceration of the lungs, of impotence and
barrenness, of megrim, deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary calculus,
paralysis, defects of the senses and pains of thousands of kinds, etc.,
figure in systematic works on pathology as peculiar, independent
diseases. (...)
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