Re: A Faulty Medical Model: The Germ Theory
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:51 pm
Dear Shannon
Your mention of Terrain has reminded me of an example which some may find
useful.
We all know that rain / water makes one wet.
However, we may protect ourselves to various degrees from getting wet from
rain.
1- Umbrella - this protects the head and parts of body - not perfect unless
there is no wind.
2- Raincoat - Head and legs unprotected.
3- Sowester / Hat will protect the head - but the face is exposed and rest
of body is unprotected unless covered with other garments.
4- Fisherman's suit will protect the body but leave the head and feet
exposed.
5- Full fisherman's suit + Sowester + boots will give full head and body
protection. (for the purposes of argument let us ignore the exposed face)
Let us then use 5 as the example of the body in health.
In use the waterproof garment may be torn or come apart at the seams
(miasmatic fault?) and thus let in water and the wearer becomes wet if
exposed to water.
So going back to the terrain, the torn or open seams of the waterproof
garment is the susceptibility of the person. However, you still need the
rain or water to make the wearer wet. No rain, no wetness.
By analogy, we need the susceptible body + some micro organism for a
particular disease to take hold.
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By the way Aph 11 is of interest:
When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic)
vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged
by the dynamic 6 influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life; it
is only the vital force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can
furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations, and incline it to the
irregular processes which we call disease; for, as a power invisible in
itself, and only cognizable by its effects on the organism, its morbid
derangement only makes itself known by the manifestation of disease in the
sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the
senses of the observer and physician, that is, by morbid symptoms, and in no
other way can it make itself known.
6 Materia peccans!
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I feel this hold is good many cases and supports the Germ Theory in parts -
but not when the symptoms are for example a headache after a shock or bad
news !
Rgds
Soroush
Your mention of Terrain has reminded me of an example which some may find
useful.
We all know that rain / water makes one wet.
However, we may protect ourselves to various degrees from getting wet from
rain.
1- Umbrella - this protects the head and parts of body - not perfect unless
there is no wind.
2- Raincoat - Head and legs unprotected.
3- Sowester / Hat will protect the head - but the face is exposed and rest
of body is unprotected unless covered with other garments.
4- Fisherman's suit will protect the body but leave the head and feet
exposed.
5- Full fisherman's suit + Sowester + boots will give full head and body
protection. (for the purposes of argument let us ignore the exposed face)
Let us then use 5 as the example of the body in health.
In use the waterproof garment may be torn or come apart at the seams
(miasmatic fault?) and thus let in water and the wearer becomes wet if
exposed to water.
So going back to the terrain, the torn or open seams of the waterproof
garment is the susceptibility of the person. However, you still need the
rain or water to make the wearer wet. No rain, no wetness.
By analogy, we need the susceptible body + some micro organism for a
particular disease to take hold.
==============
By the way Aph 11 is of interest:
When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic)
vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged
by the dynamic 6 influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life; it
is only the vital force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can
furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations, and incline it to the
irregular processes which we call disease; for, as a power invisible in
itself, and only cognizable by its effects on the organism, its morbid
derangement only makes itself known by the manifestation of disease in the
sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the
senses of the observer and physician, that is, by morbid symptoms, and in no
other way can it make itself known.
6 Materia peccans!
=================
I feel this hold is good many cases and supports the Germ Theory in parts -
but not when the symptoms are for example a headache after a shock or bad
news !
Rgds
Soroush