Plagues and Pestilences: past and present, Homeopathy's approach to epidemic disesae
W Taylor · Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung · 2005 · Heft 05
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Zusammenfassung
The treatment of epidemic disease has long held a special place in homeopathy, dating to Hahnemann's management of of the 1799 Königslutter scarlet fever epidemic. Devotion is given to some of the peculiarities of casetaking in epidemic disease in the Organon, in paragraphs 100-102. A defining feature of epidemic disease treatment is the determination of Genus remedies for these acute miasmata (remedies corresponding to the genus or essential features of the disease) and the Genus epidemicus (the remedy corresponding to the genus or essential features of a particular epidemic occurence). We see the latter in Hah…