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144 Having examined a specimen of Hahnemann's theology, we will next take a view of his pathology. As we have before stated, Hahnemann informs us in his Organon, page 183, that he labored twelve years in searching for the first or original cause of chronic diseases, and finally ascertained it to be a hereditary taint, or, to use his own language, "a monstrous internal miasm—the psora." This "internal miasm," he supposed, was an invisible poison which corrupted the blood of all the human race. When it manifested itself in the genuine type, it was psora, or itch. But this same itch miasm, as he called it, appeared in other forms. In one case it was scrofula, in another it was rheumatism, in another it was asthma, in another it was epilepsy, and in another it was consumption. So that nearly all chronic diseases, as Hahnemann supposed, were only so many different forms in which this itch poison operated and showed itself, and therefore were in reality only so many varieties of itch. They were all precisely of the same nature, and arose from the same identical cause, viz., the "monstrous internal miasm."