N.B. With this paper we conclude our discussions on Hahnemanns theory of chronic diseases. Since the publication of the book on “chronic diseases” many eminent Homoeopaths have written on the subject. The most important and exhaustive contributions on the subject came from Hempel. H.J. Allen and Kent. A fuller discussion on their views has been purposely avoided in view of the fact that they deviated from the main line of Hahnemannian thinking in diverse ways and tried to read many things in Hahnemanns writings which they do not obviously suggest.
Our attempt has been to interpret Hahnemann through his own contributions and not through any other commentaries, however brilliantly written they might have been. Further, a study of the nature of diseases is never complete without a study of metaphysical conception of illness. But that has also been avoided for obvious reasons.
