{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I think that it may after all be necessary to introduce into our medical and biological study what we might term an inquiry into tho real origins of pathological conditions. Of late there has been a cumulative tendency to disregard the origins proper, and to fix attention on superficial appearances and events. And with this superficiality is bound up the habit in current medicine and pathology of beginning the description of a disease by stating what bacillus caused the disease by invading the human organism. Of course it is very easy to refute arguments and objections against the invasion of micro-organisms, for the simple reason that we no longer need to point out that these micro-organisms really exist. And since they have different characteristics in different diseases, it is again quite comprehensible that stress is laid on these differences, and specific diseases linked with specific types of micro-organisms.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVIII","site_heading":"Primary Causes of Disease: Rhythmic Disturbance and Cosmic Influences","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 mit diesen Dingen, mit diesem Hängenbleiben an der Oberfläche hängt es zusammen, daß man eigentlich heute meistenteils in der landläufigen Medizin, in der landläufigen Pathologie, wenn man anfängt, die Beschreibung irgendeines Krankheitstypus zu lesen oder zu hören, dann unterrichtet wird, was für ein Bazillus eigentlich diese Krankheit hervorruft, was da in den menschlichen Organismus eingezogen ist. Nun ist es natürlich furchtbar leicht, Einwände gegen dieses Einziehen der niederen Organismen zurückzuweisen aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil man ja nicht mehr nötig hat, erst darauf hinzuweisen, daß diese niederen Organismen da sind. Da sie sich auch wirklich in einer spezifischen Gestalt für verschiedene Erkrankungen zeigen, so ist es auch wiederum sehr begreiflich, daß auf diese spezifische Gestalt hingewiesen wird und geradezu ein Zusammenhang zwischen einer Krankheitsform und dieser spezifischen Bakteriengestalt aufgezeigt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p003"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-04-07/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":189,"en_words":148,"ratio":0.78,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 312/1920-04-07/p003"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5116,"original_word_count":5469,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1948","book_title":"Spiritual Science and Medicine","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA312/English/RSP1948/19200407a01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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