Acute Miasm - Recurring & Non Recurring Type

Acute Miasm is a Dynamic Disease Producing power which causes acute, specific, infectious epidemic disease having almost fix manifestations.

Master Kent defines it as follows:-

"An Acute disease is one that comes upon the economy, passes through its regular prodromal period, longer or shorter, has its period of progress and period of decline and in which there is tendency to recovery"

The Acute Miasm are of 2 types:-

1) RECURRING TYPE:- It Refers to that type of acute miasm which recurs in same manner more than once in a lifetime of a person.
Example:- Asiatic Cholera, The Plague of Levant, The Yellow Fever of Seacoast.

2) NON RECURRING TYPE or FIXED MIASM:- It Refers to that type of acute miasm which attacks person once in lifetime.
Example:- Smallpox, Measles, Whooping Cough, The Ancient Smooth Bright Red Scarlet Fever of Sydenham.