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One day, he visited me with a black patch on his eyes, which he removed and said, “Now look, aren't my eyes straight now?” They were, but I remained apprehensive. Well, two weeks hadn't passed before he fell ill with a brain ailment. Naturally, this brain ailment was not diagnosed as such by the doctor; what do ordinary doctors know of these relationships! How did the brain ailment manifest itself? There was some blood in his feces indicating that it made its appearance in the guise of an intestinal illness. The man became afflicted with an intestinal illness, but it was none other than the brain ailment because, as I have explained, the intestines and the brain are connected.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Diphtheria and Influenza—Crossed Eyes","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-01-20","location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/348/1923-01-20/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1983","book_title":"Health and Illness, Volume II","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA348/English/AP1983/19230120p01.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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Hätte man das damals ausgesprochen, daß man eine Angst hat vor einer Schieloperation, so wären sofort alle, die sich einbildeten, richtige Mediziner zu sein, bereit gewesen, zu sagen: man ist ein Idiot. Denn wenn man irgendwie da mitredet über etwas, was nicht in ihren Büchern steht, dann sagen die Leute, man sei ein Idiot. Ich habe natürlich auch, wie Sie sich denken können, so ein bißchen versucht, ihn davon abzubringen; aber ich konnte ihm nicht direkt sagen: Wenn du dich operieren läßt, dann könntest du eine Gehirnkrankheit kriegen. Das hätte er nicht geglaubt; denn alle Ärzte haben gesagt, das ist eine ganz leichte Operation. Und weil er wußte, daß ich eigentlich ein bißchen wenig erfreut war über seine Absicht, die Schieloperation vorzunehmen, sagte er mir nichts davon. Da kam er eines Tages mit der schwarzen Binde zu mir und sagte: «Sieh einmal; sehe ich jetzt nicht ganz gerade?» Ich hatte aber eine heillose Angst. Und siehe da, es vergingen nicht einmal zwei Wochen, da bekam der Mensch seine Gehirnkrankheit. Die Gehirnkrankheit wurde natürlich von dem Arzt nicht als Gehirnkrankheit erkannt, denn was weiß der gewöhnliche Arzt von diesen Zusammenhängen! Denn wie trat die Gehirnkrankheit auf? In den Fäkalien, in den Ausscheidungen war etwas Blut, das heißt, die Gehirnkrankheit trat in der Maske einer Darmkrankheit auf. Der Betreffende bekam eine Darmkrankheit. 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