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Dr. Choudhury's treatise on miasms is very explicitly written in all the aspects with practical suggestions which would help the readers immensely. He described the Relationship of miasms with micro-organisms, the correct indication of the particular miasm thereby identifying one from another. He described mixed miasms, vaccinosis, acute miasms, etc., to understand and distinguish them for the purpose of treatment. He has written on the present days' dreaded Diseases like Tuberculosis, Cancer, AIDS, etc. for appropriate understanding from homoeopathic point of view. He has compiled lists of Drugs under each miasm for the benefit of readers.
Immortal Hahnemann
What are Miasms
Foreword
Preface
I. HAHNEMANNIAN Doctrine OF MIASMS :
1. Introduction
2. Miasm
3. Bacteria
II. ACUTE MIASMS
III. CHRONIC MIASM-PSORA :
1. Introduction
2. Development
3. Symptoms of Latent Psora
4. Secondary Symptoms of Psora
5. Psoric Miasm-Summary
6. Indications of Psoric Miasmatic States
7. Anti-Psoric Remedies
IV. CHRONIC MIASM-SYPHILIS :
1. Development
2. Symptoms of Latent Syphilis
3. Secondary Manifestations of Syphilis
4. Syphilitic Miasm-Summary
5. Indications of Syphilitic Miasmatic States
6. Anti-Syphilitic Remedies
V. CHRONIC MIASM-SYCOSIS :
1. Development
2. Symptoms of Latent Sycosis
3. Secondary Manifestations of Sycosis
4. Sycotic Miasm-Summary
5. Indications of Sycotic Miasmatic States
6. Anti-Sycotic Remedies
VI. NEW MIASMS AND THEIR SHORT SUMMARY
VII. CHRONIC MIASM-TUBERCULOSIS :
1. Development
2. Secondary Symptoms of Tuberculosis
3. Indications of Tubercular Miasmatic States
4. Homoeopathic Treatment
5. Some Important Hints for Treatment of Tuberculosis
6. Anti-Tubercular Remedies
VIII. CHRONIC MIASM-CANCER :
1. Introduction
2. Aetiology and Classification of Cancer
3. Mechanism of Spread
4. Factors Responsible for Cancer
5. Early Signs of Cancer
6. Diagnosis of Cancer
7. Indications of Cancer and Pre-Cancerous States
8. Treatment
9. Diet and Regimen
10. Important Hints for Treatment of Cancer
11. Anti-Cancerous Remedies
IX. AIDS-A NEW Disease OF THE CENTURY :
1. Introduction
2. Aetiology
3. Mode of Transmission
4. Clinical Diagnosis
5. Prognosis
6. Complication
7. Prevention
8. Homoeopathic view on AIDS
9. Homoeopathic Treatment
X. MIXED MIASMATIC STATES AND THEIR TREATMENT :
1. Anti-Mixed Miasmatic Remedies
XI. IMPORTANCE OF 50 MILLESIMALS
Conclusion
"They (Chronic Diseases-H.C.) must therefore all have for their origin and foundation constant chronic miasms, whereby their parasitical existence in the human organism is enabled to continually rise and grow." - Hahnemann, 'Chronic Diseases'
"... excessively minute, invisible, living creatures, so inimical to human life, ..." "... millions of these miasmatic animated beings." - Hahnemann, ‘The Lesser Writings'
"... the miasm (that probable) consists of innumerable, invisible living beings in and about the patient ..." - Hahnemann, Ibid
"... for the smallest remnant (of chronic disease-H.C.) retains a germ for a renewal of the old ailment." - Hahnemann, 'Chronic Diseases'
"Hahnemann was the first to perceive and teach the parasitical nature of infection or contagious diseases, including syphilis, gonorrhoea, leprosy, tuberculosis, cholera, typhus and typhoid fevers; and the Chronic Diseases in general, other than occupational diseases and those produced by drugs and unhygienic living, the so-called drug diseases." - Stuart Close, The Genius of Homoeopathy'
"A misunderstanding of the sense in which Hahnemann uses the word "miasm" has deceived many. It was the word loosely used in his time to express the morbific emanations from putrescent organic matter, animal or vegetable, and sometimes the effluvia arising from the bodies of those affected by certain diseases, some of which were regarded as infectious and others not." - Stuart Close, Ibid
"The primary error consisted in regarding Psora merely as a dyscrasia or diathesis, which is directly opposed to what Hahnemann taught as we now understand it. Instead of regarding Psora as a dyscrasia Hahnemann included several of the dyscrasiae among the morbid conditions and diseases caused by Psora." - Stuart Close, Ibid
"Even a cursory perusal of Hahnemann's book on Chronic Diseases will convince anybody that Hahnemann's miasms anticipated bacteria or parasites (i.e. living organism, visible or invisible to the naked eye) of modern Bacteriology." - B.K. Sarkar, 'Commentary on Organon'
"Hahnemann had no microscope but he had a keen analytic mind and phenomenal intuition. He used the terminology of his day which he qualified to suit his purpose and thus made it clear that by the word "miasm" amplified by descriptive terms "infectious, contagious, excessively minute, invisible, living creatures" as applied to cholera-poisoning agent he must have meant precisely what we mean today when we use terms of modern Bacteriology to express the same idea. In fact, the idea of 'Contagium vivum' originated with Hahnemann and he can be hailed as the Father of Bacteriology." - B.K. Sarkar, Ibid