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It is a breaking through of more subtle forces; but by this fact a special area is created in the abdomen, which should not be localised there, but should permeate the whole body. The result is a species of poisoning, a toxication of the lower abdominal regions. The functions proper to the lower abdominal sphere can no longer be adequately performed under this intrusion of the upper sphere. Moreover, this new sphere creates a favourable condition for lower organisms of the type intermediate between animal and plant. So you may sum up as follows: Through the downward escape of forces from the upper sphere, something is provoked in man that becomes abdominal typhus. The creation of this atmosphere provides, as a by-product, the suitable soil for the typhus bacilli.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/312/1920-04-07/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-04-07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":219,"en_words":200,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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These physical manifestations include the working of the bacilli whether vegetable or animal—we need not trouble ourselves with their precise origin—for they could neither vegetate nor “animalise” if an atmosphere had not been suitably prepared. All this is a result, a secondary phenomenon. And the curative effect must be sought not in the treatment of the secondary manifestations but of the primary. We shall discuss this later, for it is only possible to speak about these things if one is in a position to trace their true causes. This is hardly possible within the boundaries of the official medicine of today for current medicine excludes a point of view that passes from the material process to that of the spirit. But beneath and behind all material existence, there is spirit. And you will easily envisage the symptomatology of *typhus abdominalis* if you keep in mind what has just been put before you. Remember that this particular disease is very often accompanied by disturbances of consciousness. The symptoms of pulmonary catarrh appear because the upper sphere is deprived of what emerges in the lower. In the same way, the organs mediating consciousness in the upper human sphere, can no longer work properly if what should be mediator to their activity has broken through into the lower sphere. If you once grasp this primary causation, you will have the whole picture of *typhus abdominalis* before you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":337,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/312/1920-04-07/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-04-07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":376,"en_words":337,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Es dringt dasjenige, was bloß im Oberleibe des Menschen ätherisch tätig sein soll, in den Unterleib ein. Ein Durchbruch feinerer Kräfte findet statt. Dadurch aber, daß ein Durchbruch feinerer Kräfte in den Unterleib stattfindet, wird hier eine solche Sphäre geschaffen, die wiederum nicht da sein soll, welche verbreitet sein soll über den ganzen Menschen, nicht im Unterleibe lokalisiert sein soll. Als die Folge eines solchen Durchbruches tritt sogar eine Art Vergiftung, Intoxierung des Unterleibes ein. Die Tätigkeit des Unterleibes kann nicht mehr in ordentlicher Weise ausgeführt werden, wenn die Tätigkeit des Oberleibes in dieser Weise eintritt. Aber außerdem ist dasjenige, was hier als eine neue Sphäre geschaffen wird, eine Atmosphäre für niedere Organismen tierpflanzlicher Art zumeist. Und Sie können daher folgendes sagen. Sie können sagen: Durch den Durchbruch von oben wird im Menschen hervorgerufen das, was im Menschen wird zum abdominalen Typhus. Dadurch, daß als Begleiterscheinung eine solche Atmosphäre auftritt, die lokalisiert ist im Unterleibe, wird für den Typhusbazillus das geschaffen, was seine Lebensbedingungen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p014"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Da haben Sie reinlich auseinandergehalten dasjenige, was primär ist, und dasjenige, was sekundär ist, und Sie werden, wenn Sie so reinlich auseinanderhalten, sagen wir, das, was primär ist, und das, was sekundär ist, dann auch sich sagen: Man muß unterscheiden zwischen dem, was die ursprünglichen Gründe für eine solche Erkrankung sind, und zwischen dem, was etwa als entzündliche Erscheinungen einfach dadurch entsteht, daß dieses ganze Heer einer Darmfauna oder -flora auftritt, besonders im Dünndarm. Alles dasjenige, was physisch im Dünndarm auftritt einschließlich der Bazillen — wir brauchen uns wiederum nicht über ihre Herkunft zu unterhalten, denn sie können nicht da vegetieren und animalisieren, wenn ihnen nicht die Atmosphäre geschaffen ist dazu —, alles dasjenige, was da als eine Tätigkeit dieser vegetabilisch-animalischen oder animalisch-vegetabilischen Wesenheiten eintritt, alles das ist die Reaktion auf den Vorgang des Durchbruches der oberen Tätigkeit in die untere Tätigkeit des menschlichen Organismus. Alles das ist schon Folgeerscheinung. So daß es sich darum handeln wird, den Heilungsprozeß zu suchen nicht dadurch, daß man auf das Sekundäre geht, sondern dadurch, daß man auf das Primäre geht. Darüber wollen wir dann noch sprechen, denn über diese Dinge läßt sich eigentlich nur sprechen, wenn man in der Lage ist, auf ihre wahren Ursachen zurückzugehen. Das ist der heutigen landläufigen Medizin, der offiziellen landläufigen Medizin, fast gar nicht gut möglich, weil sie ja eine Betrachtung ausschließt, die von dem materiellen Prozeß zu dem geistigen Prozeß übergeht. Allem Materiellen liegt aber das Geistige zugrunde. Sie werden mit Leichtigkeit sich das Krankheitsbild, sagen wir, gerade von Typhus abdominalis bilden können, wenn Sie das ins Auge fassen, was hier eben auseinandergesetzt worden ist. Denken Sie doch nur, daß diese Erkrankung sehr häufig verknüpft ist mit katarrhalischen Erscheinungen der Lunge, auch mit Bewußtseinsstörungen. Die katarrhalischen Erscheinungen in der Lunge kommen davon her, daß dem oberen Menschen entzogen wird, was im unteren Menschen auftritt. Das ist ja gar nicht mehr darinnen enthalten, was im unteren Menschen auftritt, wenn der Durchbruch geschehen ist. 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