{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus you will see that a careful study of all the processes connected with growth and development in the healthy and the diseased human organism leads to the conclusion that there is an interaction between the phenomena of disease. Emaciation is one phenomenon. But in its relation to the tubercular tendency, it is part of the disease. Indeed I would say that the phenomena of disease are organically linked up. They constitute an ideal organisation. One such phenomenon belongs in a sense to another. Therefore it is entirely reasonable to come to the help of an organism—keeping to the example of incipient tuberculosis—which has not the strength to react adequately and to provoke from outside the necessary reaction, viz. that one form of disease is made to follow on another. The doctors of old enunciated this truth as a significant educational rule of medicine. They said: The danger of being a physician is that he must not only be able to cure sicknesses but must also provoke them. And in the same measure in which the physician is able to heal diseases he can also provoke them. The ancient world was more aware of these subtle inter-relationships (through the atavistic power of clairvoyance) and they beheld in the physician a double power, who could smite with sickness, if he were of evil will, as well as cure. This aspect of medicine is associated with the need to provoke certain states of disease, in order to put them into a certain relation to others. Such conditions as coughing, pains in the throat and chest, emaciation, persistent fatigue, profuse nocturnal perspiration, all are symptoms of disease, yet they must sometimes be provoked, even though they are diseased.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Heart as Mediating Organ: Upper and Lower Polarities","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Und das Auftreten von Nachtschweißen ist eben ein Ausscheidungsprozeß, der eigentlich im normalen Leben parallel gehen müßte einer geistig-seelischen Tätigkeit. Weil aber das Obere mit dem Unteren nicht in dem richtigen Wechselverhältnis steht, so spart sich so etwas dann für die Nacht auf, wo der Organismus entlastet ist von der geistig-seelischen Tätigkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p021"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"So sehen Sie, wie ein sorgfältiges Studieren aller Vorgänge, die mit dem ganzen Wachsen und Werden des gesund-kranken menschlichen Organismus zusammenhängen, doch dazu führt, daß man sagen kann: es besteht auch eine Wechselwirkung zwischen Krankheitserscheinungen. Abmagern ist zunächst eine Krankheitserscheinung. Aber in seiner Beziehung zur Tuberkuloseanlage, also zur schon doch etwas wirkenden Tuberkulose, ist das Abmagern etwas, was dazugehört. Und es besteht, ich möchte sagen, eine Organisation, eine ideelle Organisation der Krankheitserscheinungen. Eine Krankheitserscheinung gehört in gewissem Sinne zur anderen Krankheitserscheinung dazu. Das bedingt dann, daß es ganz rationell ist, wenn durch andere Bedingungen des Organismus hervortritt so etwas wie eine Reaktion — bleiben wir bei der Tuberkuloseanlage —, der Organismus aber selbst nicht die Kraft hat, diese Reaktion hervorzurufen, daß man ihm zu Hilfe kommt und sie dann gerade hervorruft, daß man dann gerade der einen Krankheit die andere folgen läßt. Die alten Ärzte haben dieses ausgesprochen als eine, ich möchte sagen, bedeutungsvolle Erziehungsregel für den Arzt. Sie haben gesagt: Das ist das Gefährliche beim Arztsein, daß er nicht bloß in der Lage sein muß, Krankheiten zu vertreiben, sondern auch Krankheiten hervorzurufen. — Und in demselben Maße, als der Arzt Krankheiten heilen kann, kann er sie auch hervorrufen. So daß also die Alten, die noch etwas mehr gewußt haben über solche Zusammenhänge aus ihrem atavistischen Hellsehen heraus, in dem Arzt zu gleicher Zeit gesehen haben den, der, wenn er böswillig wird, die Menschen nicht nur gesund, sondern auch krank machen kann. Aber es hängt das zusammen mit der Notwendigkeit, gewisse Erkrankungszustände hervorzurufen, um sie in das rechte Verhältnis zu anderen Erkrankungszuständen zu bringen. Aber es sind doch eben Krankheitszustände. Und all das: Husten, Halsschmerz, Brustschmerz, Abmagerungserscheinungen, Ermüdungserscheinungen, Nachtschweiße, sind doch eben Krankheitserscheinungen. 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