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There one does not proceed according to statistics either, but one knows, for example from Mariotte-Gay-Lussac's law, that this is an exactly executed experiment which, if it is carried out exactly, is also conclusive. With human beings it is not as simple as with a physical experiment, but it is actually the same if one can see through the process of the illness and say: this or that must work, and then see step by step how it works. What is necessary – and this is precisely what is available to such a high degree in the Clinical-Therapeutic Institute of Dr. Wegman in Arlesheim – is that one really banishes all medical skepticism; because that is actually what continually puts the strongest obstacles in one's way. What Dr. Wegman has is the courage to heal. The courage to heal is part of everything! Then you also come to see the disease process and start to counter it, so to speak, intercepting it. But then it becomes particularly important to see how it all actually happens, if you don't want to be sloppy; but to follow the healing process step by step. And then you also know where something is not in order; then you have to go back and investigate where you have overlooked something. But if you then have the courage to heal in every single case and actually do not presuppose anything else, do not want anything other than healing, than courageously healing the disease processes, then you have that, from which you can feel most strongest stimulus, as a scientific basis for medicine that does not merely want to work out rational therapy from an exact pathology as a consequence, but which already has the healing process in the diagnosis. Then one cannot speak about the disease process other than that one already has the therapy at the same time as the diagnosis. One then describes the kidney disease in such a way that the description is very similar to what happens in Equisetum arvense: one transfers what one sees in the kidney to an external natural process; so that one describes in such a way in the diagnosis that the diagnosis contains the healing process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fifth Lecture","site_heading":"The Fourfold Human Being and Spiritual Diagnosis","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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Was die schöne Natur draußen ist, sind eigentlich lauter imitierte Krankheitsprozesse. Beim Menschen sind es innerlich Krankheitsprozesse, draußen ist es die wunderbar schöne Natur. Aber man muß den Zusammenhang verstehen und muß wissen, wie man aus dem weiten Felde der Naturprozesse in den Menschen Krankheitsfunktionen hineinbringt und dadurch Krankheitsprozesse den übersinnlichen Gliedern der menschlichen Natur abnehmen kann. Jetzt ist man nicht mehr auf eine Statistik angewiesen! Denn erkennt man einen solchen Zusammenhang durch inneres Durchschauen, und schaut man an, wie die Wirkungen auftreten müssen, dann ist das ebenso wie bei einem in exakter Wissenschaftlichkeit richtig ausgeführten physikalischen Experiment. Da geht man ja auch nicht gerade nach der Statistik vor, sondern da weiß man, zum Beispiel beim Mariotte-Gay-Lussac’schen Gesetz, daß das ein exakt ausgeführtes Experiment ist, das, wenn es exakt ausgeführt ist, auch beweisend ist. Beim Menschen ist es zwar nicht so einfach wie bei einem physikalischen Experiment, aber es ist eigentlich ebenso, wenn man beim Durchschauen des Krankheitsprozesses angeben kann: da muß dies oder jenes wirken -, und wenn man dann Stück für Stück sieht, wie es wirkt. Was dabei notwendig ist —- und das ist das, was eben gerade in dem Klinisch-Therapeutischen Institut von Frau Dr. Wegman in Arlesheim in einem so hohen Maße vorhanden ist —, das ist, daß man wirklich verbannt alle ärztliche Skepsis; denn die ist eigentlich das, was einem fortwährend die stärksten Hindernisse in den Weg legt. Was bei Frau Dr. Wegman vorhanden ist, das ist der Mut des Heilens. Der Mut des Heilens gehört zu allem dazu! Dann kommt man auch dazu, den Krankheitsprozeß zu schauen, und daß man anfängt ihm zu begegnen, indem man ihn sozusagen abfängt. Aber dann wird besonders wichtig, darauf zu sehen, wie das alles auch wirklich eintritt, wenn man nicht schlampig ist; sondern daß man den Heilungsprozeß verfolgt von Stufe zu Stufe. Und dann weiß man ja auch, wo etwas nicht in Ordnung ist; dann muß man zurückgehen und erforschen, wo man etwas übersehen hat. Aber wenn man dann in jedem einzelnen Falle den Mut des Heilens hat und tatsächlich nichts anderes voraussetzt, nichts anderes will als Heilen, als die Krankheitsprozesse mutvoll zu heilen, dann hat man dasjenige, wovon man sich am allerstärksten angeregt fühlen kann, als eine solche exaktwissenschaftliche Grundlage der Medizin, die aus einer exakten Pathologie nicht erst bloß als Konsequenz eine rationelle Therapie herausarbeiten will, sondern die schon in der Diagnose den Heilprozeß hat. Dann kann man gar nicht anders über den Krankheitsprozeß sprechen, als daß man zugleich mit der Diagnose schon die Therapie hat. Man beschreibt dann schon die Nierenerkrankung so, daß die Beschreibung ganz ähnlich ist dem, was im Equisetum arvense geschieht: man überträgt das, was man in der Niere schaut, auf ein äußeres Naturgeschehen; so daß man im Diagnostizieren so beschreibt, daß die Diagnose den Heilprozeß enthält.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":478,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/319/1923-11-15/p035"}],"english":["GA 319/1923-11-15/p036"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":478,"en_words":496,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8290,"original_word_count":7932,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Anthroposophical Medical Theory and Human Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA319/English/SOL2024/19231115m01.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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