Hello everyone,

I am a typographical mistake in this part of my post.

The contested passage dealing with heredity is the second half of the footnote to §284. The first half §284 is in the handwriting of Hahnemann were he speaks of transmitting psora through the breast milk if it has not been already passed "by inheritance from the mother". So Hahnemann mentioned "inheritance" twice in his own handwriting. The second half if §284 is written in Haehl's handwriting and is where the text speaks of giving Sulphur to the mother to eradicate psora while she is pregnant and prevent the hereditary transmission of psora to the offspring. This is the contested part of the passage written in Haehl's handwriting.

Dr. Schmidt wrote that the first part of this passage was consistent with what Hahnemann wrote in footnote to §78, which speaks of psora being imparted by “infection and heredity”. In the foreword to the edition, in footnote 63 (p.XXVII) Schmidt explicitly quotes the footnote to aph. 78 as confirming THE MISTAKE IS HERE [what is written in Haehl's handwriting in the footnote to 284 about heredity through the mother] This statement is also in Hahnemann handwriting and is not contested.

The last two sentences should say.

Schmidt wrote that the first part of this passage was consistent with what Hahnemann wrote in footnote to §78, which speaks of psora being imparted by “infection and heredity”. In the foreword to the edition, in footnote 63 (p.XXVII) Schmidt quotes the footnote to aph. 78 as confirming what is written in the first part of 284 about heredity through the mother. This statement is also in Hahnemann handwriting and is not contested.

In order to prove that Hahnemann wrote the footnote to aphorism 78, we will now quote exactly what Schmidt wrote in German:

"In § 78, Anm.1 schreibt Hahnemann, daß "chronische Krankheiten" durch
Ansteckung oder Erbschaft eingeprägt werden können."

English translation:

"In § 78, footnote 1, Hahnemann writes, that "chronic diseases" can be imprinted through infection or heredity (Erbschaft)".

Turner's Dictionary, published in Leipzig, Germany in the 1830's defines Erbschaft in the following manner.

Sincerely, David Little