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Since this is a very significant part of the brain, an influence is actually exerted on the entire body. Proceeding from this paralysis in the brain, something in the human being becomes ill in the case of ordinary flu. Above all, the spinal cord is affected, since this part of the brain goes right into the spine, from which the nerves extend to all the limbs. 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I have told you that the brain not only consists of solid substances but that it is also surrounded by cranial fluid. Particularly in the vicinity of this part here (pointing to sketch), which is incapacitated during flu, much cranial fluid is present. This recent case of flu was extraordinarily interesting, because the patient had one illness after another as aftereffects: pneumonia with high fever, then a fall in temperature, followed by pleurisy with high fever, and then again a drop in temperature. This was followed by peritonitis with high fever that finally fell, then a kind of general paralysis, and so on. This case of flu took a different direction from that of the usual flu. What happened here? You see, when studying this with the ordinary means available to medicine, it is extraordinarily difficult to figure out. The patient, a seventeen-year-old girl, was asked when she recuperated to tell what went through her mind during the time of her illnesses. Quite strangely, the following was determined.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/348/1923-01-20/p032","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-01-20","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-20/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-20/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 348/1923-01-20/p034"],"length_check":{"de_words":187,"en_words":179,"ratio":0.96,"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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This influenced the rest of the body even more, because, when the solid part is partially numbed, the ensuing symptoms must be brought about through the working of the solid part of the brain on the spinal cord. The fluid, however, constantly flows up and down through the spinal canal here (see sketch on p. 103). Hence, if the fluid in the brain is afflicted, afflicted fluid also appears in the spinal canal, and from here it passes into all the limbs. It thereby gradually causes inflammation everywhere. Because it was the cranial fluid that was inflamed, and not the solid part of the brain, however, a more counteractive, healing force was present and—though in this case it was almost like a miracle—the girl recuperated in spite of having suffered from every possible illness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/348/1923-01-20/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-01-20","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-20/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-20/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 348/1923-01-20/p035"],"length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":262,"ratio":1.03,"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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Davon geht eigentlich die Grippe aus. Die Grippe besteht in einer Lähmung desjenigen Gehirnteiles, der ganz in der Nähe des Sehnervs liegt. Das erste, was dadurch bewirkt wird, ist, daß, weil diese Stelle im Gehirn eine sehr wichtige ist, eigentlich ein Einfluß ausgeübt wird auf den ganzen Körper. Sehen Sie, die gewöhnliche Grippe, die verläuft so, daß ausgehend von diesen Gelähmtheiten im Gehirn irgend etwas im Menschen krank wird. Vor allen Dingen - es geht ja gleich hier ins Rückenmark — fängt das Rückenmark an, angesteckt zu werden. Die Nerven gehen von da aus nach allen Gliedern. Der Mensch bekommt Gliederschmerzen und so weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-20/p033"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-20/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Neulich ist einmal ein interessanter Fall von Grippe vorgekommen, der sehr lehrreich war. Ich habe Ihnen ja gesagt, daß das Gehirn nicht nur aus festen Bestandteilen besteht, sondern überall Gehirnwasser ist. Besonders nun in der Nähe von diesem Organ hier, das bei der Grippe gelähmt ist, gerade da ist viel Gehirnwasser. Der Grippefall von neulich, der war deshalb außerordentlich interessant, weil die betreffende Person nacheinander bekommen hat Lungenentzündung, Rippenfellentzündung, Bauchfellentzündung; alle möglichen Krankheiten sind aufgetreten, und immer, sagen wir, Lungenentzündung mit hohem Fieber, Fieberheruntergang, Rippenfellentzündung mit hohem Fieber, Fieberheruntergang, Bauchfellentzündung mit hohem Fieber, Fieberheruntergang nachher, also eine Art von allgemeiner Ablähmung und so weiter. Es war ein Grippefall, der ganz anders verlaufen ist, als sonst die gewöhnlichen Grippefälle verlaufen. Was war da der Fall? Sehen Sie, da konnte man überhaupt außerordentlich schwer studieren, wie der Fall eigentlich lag, wenn man die gewöhnlichen medizinischen Mittel anwendet. Nun hat man sich von der Person - sie ist vielleicht siebzehn Jahre alt, sie ist gesund geworden - erzählen lassen, wie ihre seelischen Funktionen während der Zeit gewirkt haben. Und als sie besser dran war, konnte man ganz merkwürdig folgendes konstatieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-20/p034"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-20/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"In dem Zimmer, in dem sie gelegen hat, haben die Leute, die Eltern und der Arzt, allerlei gesprochen, und sie dachten, sie können das sprechen, weil diese siebzehnjährige Person fortwährend in Fieberphantasien war. Sie hat auch während der Fieberphantasien gar nichts aufgefaßt. Aber als sie gesünder geworden war, konnte sie alles das erzählen, was im Zimmer gesprochen worden war. Sie hat es gewußt, sie konnte das erzählen. Man konnte das konstatieren. Die Auffassung war also nicht da, während sie diese starke Grippe hatte, die zu allen möglichen Krankheiten führte; aber im Gedächtnis ist es geblieben. Es bleibt eben vieles im Gedächtnis, was man im Momente gar nicht auffaßt. Das aber zeigt, daß bei ihr nicht dieser feste Bestandteil des Gehirnes gelähmt war, sondern die umschwimmende Flüssigkeit. Dadurch ist noch mehr der ganze Körper beeinflußt worden. Denn wenn das Feste gelähmt ist, dann müssen durch die Wirkungen des Festen auf das Rückenmark die weiteren Erscheinungen hervorgerufen werden. Aber das Wasser hier, das fließt fortwährend auf und ab durch den Kanal hier (siehe Zeichnung S. 275), so daß, wenn das Wasser hier krank ist, hier auch krankes Wasser entsteht. Aber das geht von dem Rückenmarkskanal in alle Glieder herein. Dadurch bringt es allmählich überall Entzündungen hervor. Aber wiederum dadurch, daß das Wasser, das Gehirnwasser entzündet war und nicht die festen Bestandteile, war auch mehr Kraft zur Gegenwirkung, zu der Heilung vorhanden, und — was eigentlich in diesem Falle fast wie ein Wunder war — die Person konnte gesund werden, trotzdem sie hintereinander alle möglichen Krankheiten gehabt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-20/p035"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[33],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[34],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[33],"to":[35],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}