31. DISEASE CLASSIFICATION:  A SUMMARY

Let us summarize the different stigmata, remembering that we may get all shadings of all the stigmata in their groupings in our patients, but one stigma will predominate above all the others. They have their characteristic differences. The accentuation of psora is functional; the accentuation of the syphilitic taint is ulcerative; the accentuation of sycosis is infiltration and deposits.

When suppressed, the syphilitic stigma spends itself on the meninges of the brain, and affects the larynx and throat in general, the eyes, the bones and the periosteum.

Psora spends its action very largely upon the nervous system and the nerve centres, producing functional disturbances, which are > by surface manifestations.

Sycosis attacks the internal organs, especially the pelvic and sexual organs. In this stigma we find the worst forms of inflammation, infitration of the tissues causing abscesses, hyper­trophies, cystic degeneration; when thrown back into the system by suppression this stigma causes dishonesty, moral degeneracy and mania.

In treating patients suffering from these stigmata, this classification is of inestimable value, for it immediately throws the simillimum into a class of remedies corresponding with the accentuation of the stigma that is outstanding in the case, and this should be considered in the totality; it will often throw light upon the choice of a simillimum that is applicable to the individual case and stage of development.

When we are considering a case manifesting mixed stigmata, there is always one more prominent, and this will be the one requiring relief; when this is relieved, the next in prominence must be cared for, until the patient is freed from the inheritance of generations.

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