To sum up symptoms of gonorrhoea briefly; there is a period of incubation of from three to five days’ duration, in which but few if any symptoms of the disease can be recognized. This is followed by a prodromal period of about three days’ duration, in which the first evidence of the disease makes its appearance. It reaches its acme during the second or third week; the acute stage begins to modify at the close of the second or beginning of the third week; at the end of the third week, with careful homeopathic treatment, the symptoms in a mild case, will begin to disappear, and at the end of the fifth week even a severe case of gonorrhoea should show marked signs of improvement; a perfect and complete cure should be made in from six to eight weeks.
But when cases come to us that have received no constitutional treatment, nothing but local measures, we may consider ourselves fortunate to cure them in from three to five months. In chronic neglected, or badly treated cases, it may take a year or even years to make a complete and perfect cure; this is especially true in chronic cases involving the pelvic organs of women. As recovery begins, the discharge becomes less profuse, less greenish or pus-like, more thin and watery, and eventually a greyish mucus appears which stains the linen yellow and glues the meatus together as it did in the beginning of the attack. If, however, the acute or secondary stage is allowed to drag along form eight to ten weeks, the probability is that the case will be slow and difficult to cure.
Relapses will occur when the patient is allowed to indulge in excesses of eating, or from the partaking of stimulants, even from overwork or from taking cold. I do not agree with some authors, who say that the disease is self-limiting, for we know if it is the sycotic form of gonorrhoea of which Hahnemann speaks, that the organism is unable to throw off the disease. It is a chronic miasms, and chronic miasm is only cured by and through the law of similia. This error has arisen from a number of causes, first that in many cases it can be suppressed by astringent injections, and secondly it is time slowly dwindles or disappears into a chronic gleet, scarcely noticed by some patients and which is considered by many physicians as being only a point of local irritation in the canal, and having little, if any relation to the original disease, which they think can be cured by mechanical measures. But knowing that Hahnemann has said that no manner of treatment can cure a single case of these chronic miasms, except through the law of cure, we can readily see that all so-named cures are either suppressions or the disease modified by suppressive measures until it manifests itself in a mild and latent state.
This, however, we do know, that following allopathic or unhomoeopathic treatment of gonorrhoea, there follows a host of chronic diseases such as gout, gouty rheumatism, muscular or arthritic rheumatism, of a sub-acute or chronic nature. These gouty states of the system or any form of the rheumatic element, are apt to develop into heart lesions, such as endo or pericarditis with a fatal ending. This is the history of unhomoeopathic treatment of gonorrhoea today, and it has been its history for a thousand years, and will continue to be throughout the years to come unless the thick scales fall from the eyes of these creators of disease. Words can not tell the endless disease processes that develop through the suppressive measures, and the thoughts of man cannot paint in words, the manifold sufferings of humanity that follows the development of these gouty and rheumatic processes alone, to say nothing of those involving the different organs, such as the stomach, liver, intestines, kidneys, bladder, brain, nose, throat and lungs. Of the moral degeneration, the insanity, and the train of mental and moral perversions that we see arising on the earth, and multiplying as a great oriental plague, we can only refer to them in a work like this. But it must in time bring disastrous results to the human race.
Dr. P.P. Wells, speaking of suppressed diseases at a meeting held at Brooklyn, in 1887, said: “One of the objects of getting upon my feet, first, to speak of the discussion of this paper, is to impress upon this company and all my associates, that a suppressed gonorrhoea is a suppressed inferno; and to me the characteristics which our old school associates annually recommend, are simply the result and not the disease at all; not any more than what you gather in a handkerchief in influenza, is influenza. You have simply shut up the exit of the ventilation ‘of the organism of disease, there to work the work of destruction. We must be successful navigators; we must know where the rocks are steer our vessel clear of them, and land our patient upon the shore of health, and not upon the hidden rocks where the breakers grind and crash.” I here add to the above testimony, a few reported cases due to suppression.
Case 1. A young man given to much dissipation, was found suffering with intestinal colic; it had been temporarily relieved with brandy, ginger and a hot water bag. Nux relieved the pain in thirty minutes, but the attacks were renewed many times, yet always relieved by Nux vomica Im. the history of the case was, that he had contracted gonorrhoea, which was suppressed in a few days; the treatment of which he greatly praised. Medorrhinum was given in the 1m potency, and the gonorrhoea returned within a few days, with greater severity than in the first place, but no further history of colic, although two years elapsed.-J.S.Hayne, M.D. 1905
Case 2. Mr.E.E.P. was lying very low with neuralgia of the bowels (so called by the regular school). At the end of three weeks of suffering, I was called and finding Pulsatilla to be his remedy, gave it to him in the 200th potency. Three days later the bowel symptoms had disappeared, but a copious gonorrhoeal discharge had been established, which had been suppressed with medical injections.-Dr. E.P. Gregory.
J.H. Allen was a student of H.C. Allen. He was the president of the IHA in 1900. Dr. Allen taught at the Hering Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Allen died August 1, 1925
Books by John Henry Allen:
Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin 1902
The Chronic Miasms: Psora and Pseudo Psora 1908
The Chronic Miasms: Sycosis 1908