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Originally Posted by Hahnemannian444
The word means "contagion" and miasmatic means "contagious," and ignorance of this is a major source of the ongoing confusion with the theory.
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Dear Albert
You have an unnerving ability to undo years of my learning with one short sentence. I can't tell you how many hours/ days/ months/ years I've spent studying that book - the first thing I did after I graduated over a decade ago was to write out the theoretical part The Chronic Diseases in my own words, moving all Hahnemann's digressions into footnotes so that I could follow the main thrust of his theory.
Of course I had realised that Hahnemann is referring to some kind of infectious agent when he talks of the chronic miasms, but substituting the word 'miasmatc' for 'contagious' throws a great deal of light; and it makes a lot of sense when one considers the contexts in which Hahnemann uses the word throughout his writings.
But this opens up a whole can of worms doesn't it? For example, referring to the 'cancer miasm' becomes nonsensical - and what about diseases like malaria, which are not contagious but involve an infective agent? And there must be many other chronic miasmatic diseases - herpes for example.
To amend my definition from my previous post - "medical mismanagement (suppression) of the superficial symptoms of chronic contagious diseases has given rise to the many unfathomable illnesses humankind suffers from today". Would you agree with this?
And please tell us why Hahnemann's theory is a failed theory? And what you consider to be Hahnemannian homeopathy if Hahnemann's Theory of Chronic Disease is a flawed!
Regards
Sim