The remedy covering the febrile totality of symptoms does no good, it does not even palliate or give relief. We must look into the mysteries of the miasm, and find out whether it is Psora, Syphilis, or Sycosis. A man came to me not long ago suffering from a severe pain in the muscles of the back, about in a line with the tips of the clavicles; it was very severe, accompanied with great restlessness, and < at night. Rhus, in the different forms, was given, that is Rhus tox, and Rhus radicans; Mercury and Arsenicum were also given with no relief. He was a clinic patient, and we lacked the necessary time to look carefully into his case. I invited him one day to my office where I examined him carefully, and found he had had Syphilis, which as he said “had not been cured.” His body was covered with scars, many tiny spots of syphilitic squama were to be found on the skin on different parts of the body. Syphilinum cm was given, which cured his pain in a few days. His general health improved, and the skin lesions disappears. I state this simple case, to show how necessary it is to become acquainted with the nature and action of the chronic miasm.
We have learned from a study of this chapter that, in Sycosis, the disease or symptoms that follow infection are dependent on the stage, age, or time of the infection. How necessary it is them, to know all about Sycosis in its different manifestations and stages of action, just as we are acquainted with the different stages in Syphilis and its polymorphic lesions. To know these things, is to be able to follow Sycosis in all its multiplied manifestations and in all is deceptive workings with the life force.
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