Posted October 13th, 2008 by admin
from John Henry Allen, The Chronic Miasms, vol. 2 (1908):
Sycosis is not a new name for gonorrhoea, neither is it gonorrhoea in any sense of the word. The well known specific urethritis [wt - i.e., "Gonorrhea simplex," the disease which we today call Gonorrhea], presents only in its initial stage, similar phenomena to that of Sycosis, and the history of the two diseases differs widely in their constitutional developments and progress.
Gonorrhoea simplex is not a basic miasm, while Sycosis comprise one of the chronic miasms of Hahnemann.
The early history of gonorrhoea simplex is a history of painful and spasmodic symptoms, and of decided vesical irritation, of chordee, and marked specific urethritis, while the history of a typical case of Sycosis in its initiatory stage is lacking in many of the above symptoms, and should the symptoms be present, they are so modified that a casual observer can readily distinguish between the two.
