The miasms that are at the present day upon human race are complicated a thousand fold by allopathic treatment. Every external manifestation of the miasm has in itself a tendency to straighten mankind, but the human race is being violently damaged and disease are being complicated for the reason that these outward expressions are forced to disappear by the application of some violent or stimulating drug.
At the present day nobody will acknowledge that he had the itch in his childhood, until it is seen by some intelligent mother that it is wise to tell the doctor everything. The itch is looked upon as a disgraceful affair; so is everything that has a similar correspondence; because the itch in itself has a correspondence with adultery, only one is adultery as to internal and the other to externals, one succeeds the other. So it is with all miasms.
And now we have the great miasms before us to treat, as physicians, in all their complications. For instance, if a true sycotic gonorrhoea appears to us second hand it appears in its suppressed form, which is a thousand times worse than the original form. All the outward manifestations have been made to disappear. So it is with the external forms of psora, the vesicular and squamous eruptions, and all the outgrowths and outcroppings of psora.
Every conceivable thing has been resorted to it destroy its manifestations, and the disease has grown until nobody can tell what its outcome will be. How long can thing go on before the human race will be swept from the earth with the result of the suppression of psora? From the suppression of psora we have cancerous affections, organic disease of the heart and lungs, phthisis, and general destruction of the body. How long can it go on? If Homoeopathy does not spread, if it does not establish its doctrines upon the earth so that sick folks can be headed under its principles, this threatening state and condition will increase.
Allopathic physicians are multiplying rapidly, and they are all doing the same thing, even more so now than at the time of Hahnemann. It does seem as if Homoeopathy had become a necessity, but the kind of Homoeopathy that is preached in the majority of our schools will not check the progress of psora. The majority of the college teachers sneer at the doctrine of psora; they sneer at the miasms and continue in their efforts to establish Homoeopathy upon an allopathic basis.
Homoeopathy as taught in the colleges at the present day is simply an attempt to establish Homoeopathy upon an allopathic basis, using allopathic names calling chronic affections by different names, and treating diseases of organs by name. No study is made of psora, but allopathic books are their text-books. Syphilis is not treated from cause to effect, but simply in the way of driving it back or holding it in abeyance, without any effort to permanently cure it. The patients is filled with Mercury, the Iodides and other strong drugs, drugs that are well known to subdue it temporarily by an allopathic effect.
Psora has progressed until it has become the most contagious of diseases, because the more complicated it becomes the more susceptible are our children to its beginnings, and contagion adds to the old disease; and while it goes on the children become increasingly sensitive to the other miasms. The human race at the present day is intensely susceptible to psora, to syphilis and sycosis. “Psora”, says Hahnemann, become, therefore, the common mother of man’s chronic diseases. It can be said that at least seven-eighths of the chronic maladies existing at the present day are due to psora.”
True, if psora could be brought back in a series to its simple state the external of the body would become wonderfully bad to look upon, but the internal would be in a much better state. The vesicular eruptions that come are something dreadful to look upon, horrible in proportion to the vanity of the patient, but these must be allowed to evolve themselves and then wonderful good comes to the economy.
Hereditary states roll out in these manifestations, internal evils flow into external manifestation and Homoeopathy continues to drive them outward and outward, thereby leaving the economy in a state of comparative freedom. Very commonly itch will not yield to the homoeopathic treatment immediately, because the action of the remedy is routing the heredity within, causing it to flow out more exteriorily into manifestations without. One who does not know this, of course, loses heart when his remedies do not at once wipe out the eruption.
A sickly child may come out with eruptions, and if the child is treated properly the sickness will flow out into the eruption and that child will be cured from within out; and finally after much tribulation the outward trouble will pass away, carrying with it the internal trouble. So that when it is said that the appropriate remedy did not immediately wipe off the skin and make it smooth, and therefore Zinc ointment or Sulphur ointment was resorted to, we see that it is a violation of law, and a wonderful damage to the patient.
Then Hahnemann gives a long list of cases with authorities, quotations and reference which you should certainly look over. He also gives the symptoms that he collected while observing and investigating. It was the wonderful similarity between those symptoms when grouped together, representing an image of psora, and those symptoms representing, an image of Sulphur, which led Hahnemann to the use of Sulphur in psoric conditions. In psora we have the images of many remedies; all of the deep acting remedies have more or less something of the nature of psora.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.