The forthcoming edition of _Similia_, the Australian peer-reviewed
journal of homoeopathy, has been designed to serve as a reference to
the chronic miasms as various authors from Hahnemann onward depict
them. The next edition will continue the topic. The primary purpose
of this reference is to provide a comparison of what various authors
mean when they use the term "chronic miasm" and their justification
for using it that way, and of what chronic miasms they recognise --
and their evidence for doing so. Secondarily, some authors will
discuss appropriate treatment.

There is increasingly widespread reliance of legislatures and
statutory authorities (including, soon, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration) on funding from the pharmaceutical industry. As a
consequence, the industry has succeeded increasingly in subverting
parental rights to refuse medical intervention and in enforcing
vaccination by exclusion from education and the workforce and even by
the threat of imprisonment.

In such a context, homoeopaths are naturally concerned at more than
the projected rise in the already alarming numbers of injuries and
deaths directly attributable to the new, relatively untested anti-HPV
vaccines.

The prospect of implanting the sycotic miasm directly into the
bloodstream is one not taken lightly by those who understand something
of the possibilities down the track.

It will not be enough for homoeopaths to seek to undo whatever small
proportion of the damage that they come to see in the clinic. We must
instead seek as far as possible to prevent it.

Such prevention can take several forms; amongst others,

• standing up for the universal right, under the U.N. Declaration of
Human Rights, to refuse medical interventions without resultant
discrimination;

• opposing public funding of these unproven and expensive alternatives
to inexpensive screening for cervical cancer;

• reducing the incidence of relevant human papilloma viruses by
homoeopathic means (and thereby reducing the vaccine market).

The latter will require a reasonably good understanding of the sycotic miasm.

Though sycosis is one of the three major chronic miasms, a solid
understanding of it seems uncommon in the homoeopathic community.

Informed discussion on this topic is long overdue and increasingly
urgent. Discussion of the relationships between sycosis and primary
symptoms of gonorrhoeal discharge and/or papillomas is uncommon.
Discussion of the relevant types of discharge and of papilloma is
rare.

The forthcoming editions of _Similia_ are an ideal opportunity to
rectify this deficiency.

_Similia_ is calling for the submission of unpublished articles that
can help clarify these relationships and/or their implications for the
transmission, prophylaxis, and cure of sycosis. The journal would
also welcome unpublished articles clarifying the nature of the
anti-HPV vaccines and the known course of illnesses resulting from
their use.

If you can offer such an article or know somebody who can, _Similia_
would like to hear from you. Please get in touch with me, at
John.P.Harvey (AT) gmail (DOT) com. A small window of opportunity still exists
for publication in the forthcoming edition provided that I hear from
you soon.

(For sample articles from the two most recent editions, go to
<http://www.homeopathyoz.org>; click on "General Interest" and then on
"Journals"; and use the bottom-most hyperlinks.)

Many thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest
convenience. Yours sincerely,

John Harvey
Editor, _Similia_