Aphorism 72 Explanation
Acute and chronic diseases.
In previous section, Dr. Hahnemann asks the physician that how they are going to ascertain what is necessary for them to know in order to cure the disease. Answering this question, he says that initially physician is to know whether the case before him is that of the acute or chronic disease - thereby he gives general chronic to be fulfilled by a case to be called acute or chronic.
Case is acute, if it is of -
1. Sudden onset.
2.Rapid progress.
3. Finishes its course quickly in moderate time.
4. Either it finishes its course or takes life of the patient labouring under it, due to its violence.
Case is chronic, if it is of-
1. Slow and insidious onset.
2. Gradual progression.
3. Caused by chronic miasm.
4. Generally has life long course without proper anti miasmatic treatment.
Dr. Hahnemann further says that vital force whose office is to preserve health initially opposes onset and progression of chronic disease, but it is only fruitless and useless as it cannot extinguish it, rather suffers helplessly until the whole organism is destroyed.
▲ In laying criteria for acute and chronic diseases, nowhere any time period is mentioned as we find in works of dominant medical science. Thereby, in homoeopathy a disease is acute as well as chronic since its onset there is no cut off limit of the - disease to be called acute or chronic as per its duration.
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