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Fevers: Disorders of Thermoregulation Sunday, June 14, 2020 4:50 PM - 6:20 PM Pacific Time Speaker: George Dimitriadis, BSc DHom(Syd) DHomMCCH(Eng) FHom(UK) GHIH(Syd) |
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Description
There has been a gradual shift away from pure observation to instrumentation and quantitative measurement in medicine. This is most understandable given the lamentable history of imagined disease processes and their terrifying translation into medical practices of the past. Yet the cost of this is perhaps nowhere more apparent than with febrile illnesses. Lost to modern medical practice (sadly also to the modern homœopath) are the identifiable stages of febrile diseases. Thus, whilst modern medicine equates fever as heat (i.e. elevated body temperature), thereby completely ignoring the associated determinate cardiovascular changes, chill (including coldness & shivering), heat, and sweat – as well described by Hahnemann, we must pay attention to identify and collect these components and their specific sequence (along with modalities & concomitants) if we wish to determine the most accurate remedy for the patient. This talk discusses Bönninghausen’s Fevers (BWF1833, 1864) and will highlight the specificity of observation needed in treating febrile diseases, whether in chronic disease processes, or in acute infectious (epidemic, pandemic) illnesses.
There has been a gradual shift away from pure observation to instrumentation and quantitative measurement in medicine. This is most understandable given the lamentable history of imagined disease processes and their terrifying translation into medical practices of the past. Yet the cost of this is perhaps nowhere more apparent than with febrile illnesses. Lost to modern medical practice (sadly also to the modern homœopath) are the identifiable stages of febrile diseases. Thus, whilst modern medicine equates fever as heat (i.e. elevated body temperature), thereby completely ignoring the associated determinate cardiovascular changes, chill (including coldness & shivering), heat, and sweat – as well described by Hahnemann, we must pay attention to identify and collect these components and their specific sequence (along with modalities & concomitants) if we wish to determine the most accurate remedy for the patient. This talk discusses Bönninghausen’s Fevers (BWF1833, 1864) and will highlight the specificity of observation needed in treating febrile diseases, whether in chronic disease processes, or in acute infectious (epidemic, pandemic) illnesses.
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