Hi David,

there is some basic idea reoccurring through your mail, which I do not understand.

It is the matter of susceptibility and (chronic) miasms.

The way I read it you are saying "susceptibility = miasm"

To me it is:

susceptibility + pathogenic agent results in infection which results in the miasm.

This is what Hahnemann said.

(Let's forget in this connection about hereditary miasms: for one thing it would not change the matter as far as basic definition is concerned, for another: Hahnemann wrote about hereditary miasms only at one place, and that statement cannot be found in the original manuscript of the 6th Organon in the handwriting of H. or the copyist - it is only there in Haehl's handwriting. (I can reference this if anyone is interested).

I am not familiar with the writings of v. Boenninghausen or Allen on miasms, Kent's in this respect seems to be in line with H.

Regards

Luise