{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 350/1923-07-28/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The materialists now imagine that man also needs such a pump to keep the blood circulating. But what I have drawn for you is only an external instrument. In fact, man has no such pump anywhere in his body, and the heart is not a pump either. Man has no pump, but the blood moves through something quite different. That is what we want to realize today. But first, let us realize that this column of blood, through which we measure blood pressure, is of varying height. In a healthy person, it always has a certain height. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that in a healthy person between the ages of thirty and fifty, this liquid is about 120 to 140 mm high. If this column of liquid is only 110 mm high in an instrument set up like this – you could call it a manometer – then the person is sick. If it were 160 mm, then the person would also be sick. If it is 160 mm, the blood pressure is too high; then the blood in the body presses too strongly. If it is only 110 mm, then his blood pressure is too weak, and the blood pressure is too weak. So you can see that we always need a certain blood pressure in our body. The blood must push with a certain strength. So we are completely filled with our blood pressure. If we climb a very high mountain, the air outside becomes thinner, and because the outer air becomes thinner, the pressure from within becomes very strong. Then the blood squirts out through the pores. That is mountain sickness. So you see, we have to go around in the world with a very specific blood pressure.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lung and Kidney Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-07-28","location":null,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/350/1923-07-28/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Rhythms in the Cosmos and in the Human Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA350/English/SOL2024/19230728p02.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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Bei einem gesunden Menschen hat sie stets eine bestimmte Höhe, sagen wir meinetwillen, zwischen dreißig und fünfzig Jahren ist bei einem gesunden Menschen diese Flüssigkeit ungefähr 120 bis 140 mm hoch. Wenn diese Flüssigkeitssäule bei einem solchen angesetzten Instrument - man kann das ein Manometer nennen — zum Beispiel nur 110 mm hoch ist, dann ist der Mensch krank. Wenn es 160 mm wären, so wäre der Mensch auch krank. Wenn es 160 mm sind, hat er einen zu starken Blutdruck; dann drückt das Blut in seinem Körper zu stark. Sind es nur 110 mm, so hat er einen zu schwachen Blutdruck, dann drückt das Blut zu schwach. Sie sehen also daraus, daß wir in unserem Körper immer einen bestimmten Blutdruck brauchen. Das Blut muß in einer bestimmten Stärke drücken. Wir sind also ganz ausgefüllt mit unserem Blutdruck. Besteigen wir einen recht hohen Berg, dann wird ja die Luft, die außen ist, dünner, und weil die äußere Luft dünner wird, wird der Druck von innen sehr stark. Dann spritzt uns das Blut durch die Poren heraus. Das ist die Bergkrankheit. Sie sehen also, wir müssen in der Welt mit einem ganz bestimmten Blutdruck herumgehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/350/1923-07-28/p006"}],"english":["GA 350/1923-07-28/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":282,"en_words":294,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6135,"original_word_count":6212,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Rhythms in the Cosmos and in the Human Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA350/English/SOL2024/19230728p02.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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