{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 314/1924-04-22/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It can be said that the risk of infection is extremely high when suffering from smallpox. However, one should not be so careless as to always think of physical mediation in the transmission, but rather that the psychological predispositions are particularly strong in the case of smallpox. Proof of this could be that one can protect oneself very well if one is able to shut oneself away in the right way. I am able to speak about this because once, as a twenty-two-year-old person — I need not mention the circumstances — I taught a pupil whose mother was lying with black smallpox right next to it, separated only by a screen from the room in which I was giving my lessons. I did nothing about it, continued the lessons the whole time until the mother recovered. But I did it quite willingly, especially to see how one can protect oneself when one absolutely takes the smallpox patient, including those suffering from black smallpox, quite objectively like another object, like a stone or a bush, towards which one has no further feelings of fear or any other psychological stirrings, but takes it as an objective fact. In this case, the danger of infection must indeed be highly counteracted. Therefore, after all, the psychic factor can also play a strong role in the infection.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"First Discussion","site_heading":"Etheric Plant Forces and Spiritual Diagnosis in Therapy","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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Nur sollte man nicht so leichtsinnig sein, just immer gleich an physische Vermittlung zu denken bei der Übertragung, sondern es sind sogar bei der Pockenerkrankung besonders stark vorliegend die psychischen Anlagen. Dafür könnte ein Beweis der sein, daß man sich sehr gut schützen kann, wenn man in der Lage ist, sich in rechter Art abzuschließen. Ich darf darüber deshalb sprechen, weil ich einmal als zweiundzwanzigjähriger Mensch — die Umstände brauche ich nicht zu erwähnen - einen Schüler unterrichtet habe, dessen Mutter mit schwarzen Pocken unmittelbar daneben lag, nur durch eine spanische Wand getrennt von der Stube, in der ich meinen Unterricht gab. Ich habe nichts dagegen gemacht, habe den Unterricht die ganze Zeit fortgesetzt, bis die Mutter wieder gesund geworden ist. Aber ich habe das ganz gern getan, namentlich auch, um zu sehen, wie man sich schützen kann, wenn man absolut den Pockenkranken, also auch den an schwarzen Pocken Erkrankten, nimmt ganz objektiv wie ein anderes Objekt, wie einen Stein oder einen Strauch, dem gegenüber man gar keine weiteren Furchtgefühle noch sonst psychische Regungen hat, sondern ihn nimmt als eine objektive Tatsache. Da ist in der Tat der Ansteckungsgefahr in hohem Maße zu begegnen. Daher kann schließlich der psychische Faktor auch bei der Ansteckung stark mitspielen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1924-04-22/p008"}],"english":["GA 314/1924-04-22/p008"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":220,"en_words":223,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5932,"original_word_count":5669,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Meetings with Practicing Physicians","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/SOL2025/19240422m01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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