CLASSIFICATION OF ACUTE DISEASE ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN PRESENTED

CLASSIFICATION OF ACUTE DISEASE ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN PRESENTED BY : DR. SONNY MON. R ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPT. OF. ORGANON

Acute disease : • DEFINITION : § 72 The disease to which man is liable are either rapid morbid processes of the abnormally deranged vital force, which have a tendency to finish their course more or less quickly, but always in a moderate time – these are termed acute diseases.

CLASSIFICATION OF ACUTE DISEASE : § 73

Types of Acute diseases • § 73 – types of acute diseases • Acute disease • individual • sporadic • epidemic

• Individual: • This is a type of disease which attacks the humans individually due to some exciting cause of mental or physical origin. • (This acute disease is nothing but transient explosion of the latent psora).

• Example: Excessive intake of food or deficient supply of it, severe chill, over heating, strain, mental emotions etc act as exciting cause to develop individual acute diseases.

• Sporadic : • These are the type of acute diseases that attack several persons at the same time here and there. • The exciting cause may be either climatic influences, atmospheric or physical agents (meteoric), or influences in the soil, water (telluric).

• Epidemic diseases : • Epidemic diseases are the type of acute diseases that affects many persons, with very similar sufferings from the same cause. • Hahnemann uses the word infectious, in this context, because the epidemic disease becomes infectious when it spreads among the thickly populated areas.

• Acute miasms : Acute miasms that cause acute diseases may be of 2 types: Recurrent acute miasm: Non-recurrent acute miasm:

Recurrent acute miasm: These miasms recur in the same manner more than once in the lifetime of a person. Example: plague of Levant, Asiatic cholera, the yellow fever.

Non-recurrent acute miasm: This is also called the fixed miasm. This attacks several persons only once in lifetime. Example: small pox, whooping cough etc.

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