Acutes and Chronics 72. Diseases are acute or chronic.
Acute diseases run their course and end more or less quickly.
Chronic diseases, often unnoticed at the beginning, untune the organism gradually in such a way that the automatic vital force only offers imperfect resistance and cannot extinguish them on its own, becoming more and more untuned until the organism dies. They are caused by dynamic contagion with a chronic miasm. Acute diseases can be brought on by an individual being exposed to harmful influences such as eating excesses or privations, traumas, chill or over-heating, fatigue, etc., and also psychic upsets. Most acutes are passing flare-ups of latent psora, which return to the dormant state by themselves if not too violent and quickly eliminated. There are sporadic diseases brought on by harmful meteorological or telluric influences which only a few people are susceptible to at any time.