Chronic Diseases—Sycosis



The susceptibility is laid by his inheritance, just as the susceptibility to psora is laid by our parents and the susceptibility to syphilis is laid by our parents. Man can only have one attack in his natural life-time of one of the three chronic miasms; a man cannot take syphilis twice, he cannot take sycosis twice, he cannot take psora twice. This is not known; a man when asked how many times he had gonorrhoea will say: “about half a dozen times;” but only one of these was sycotic.

The sycotic constitution cannot be taken a second time. One attack gives immunity to that person forever after. The offspring becomes increasingly susceptible to all the miasms the more they become developed in the human race. The more they become complicated with each other the more the human race becomes susceptible to acute and epidemic diseases. Now, you have a general survey of the chronic miasms.

James Tyler Kent
James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician. Prior to his involvement with homeopathy, Kent had practiced conventional medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He discovered and "converted" to homeopathy as a result of his wife's recovery from a serious ailment using homeopathic methods.
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.