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Acute miasm

What is Acute Miasm ?
: Acute miasm is a dynamic disease - producing power which causes acute , specific , infectious epidemic disease having almost fixed manifestation. 
  Master Kent defies it as follows : " An acute miasm is one that comes upon the economy ,passes through its regular prodromal period , longer kor shorter , has its period of progress and period of decline and in which there is tendency to recovery".

The acute miasms are again two types :

(a) Recurring type :  It refers to that type of acute miasm which recurs in the same manner more than once in the life-time of a person.
 Example : Asiatic cholera , the plague of the Levant , yellow fever of the sea-coast (see sec 73 ).

(b) Non-recurring type or fixed miasm : It refers to that type of acute miasm which attacks persons once in a life-time. (see sec 73) 
Example : Smallpox ,measles , whooping-cough , the ancient smooth bright red scarlet fever of Sydenham , mumps.

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