Excerpts from book: Death of Disease
I
(Swami Vijnananand - S.V.-) hasten to assure my readers that:
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My arguments will be careful, accurate and strictly logical. If, after that,
the logical presentation results in some entirely new findings, then, the world
has necessarily to make room for it.
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Not the disease, but the patient should be treated.
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Survival of civilization must ultimately depend not on advance of science but
on spread of morality.
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I have no quarrel with Doctors. However, truth must be unreservedly faced. It
is for the reader to decide whether to live in chaos or leave it for better
health in a New Way.
Interesting Riddle of Food
Admittedly many
human ailments spring from an insufficient attention to nourishment. Scientists
insist on intake of flawlessly correct diet. Yet they don't formulate any
criteria for checking this correctness.
Dr.
Anthony Barnett, Lecturer in Zoology in Glasgow University
"It must
be admitted that standard vary (what should be the intake in forms of calories
or vitamins for health) and that there is even now no final agreement on the
necessary amount of certain essentials. We know that nobody can do without
vitamin C, for instance, but we cannot lay down precisely, with reasonable
certainty, the minimum any person or even any class of persons, must have it
(vitamin C), in order to avoid all ill effects. "One difficulty is that individuals
almost certainly vary genetically in their vitamin needs. Tooth decay is
unquestionably influenced by diet, but one child may have excellent teeth,
another on the same diet may have extensive decay.
As
far recommendations of proper diet for health is concerned, such simple problem
also confuses the scientists. (In scientific recommendations). The twists and
turns are many. All mere generalization and no medical expert has been able to
offer correct guidance (on diet). Goodness, nourishing qualities, taste and
other factors differ with every individual and render the doctor's teaching
mere theoretical nonsense.
Doctor's Dilemma: The doctors
are not aware of the limitations of their knowledge.
Three
main obstacles stand in the way of doctors to understand the new conception of
disease and its cure. Their 'Knowledge' takes the first rank, their 'ego'
second and third comes their 'need of self-preservation'.
1. Bernard Shaw compared Registered Medical
Practitioners with a commoner who challenges to a cat to keep clean while
simultaneously throwing a bucket of mud on it.
Einstein
remarked about himself – 'The secret is, I know how little I know of this vast
Universe'.
The
doctors are not aware of the limitations of their knowledge.
I
(S.V.) have myself defended medical knowledge on the ground of its possessing
scientific qualities, as medical authorities show clearly readiness to analyze
their own results and discard them if found useless. Yet in practice (at the
level of normal medical practitioners in society) such scientific attitude
seems very much watered down (weakened).
A
Nobel Prize winner shows keen awareness that modern medicine is unable to cope
up squarely with all ills right from simple cold. He knows well, for instance,
that the primary problem of finding a cure for cold demands the solution of
diverse problems. This is because colds are due to various microbes. Research
on cold has been hampered by the fact that common laboratory animals are immune
from attacks of cold, except perhaps the expensive chimpanzees.
A
famous book 'Patients and Doctors' (Page 76) rightly indicates that all that
the medical man does when he stimulates the action of complementary organs is
to render assistance to her (Nature).
Three main obstacles stand in
the way of doctors to understand the new conception of disease and its cure.
Their 'Knowledge' takes the first rank, their 'ego' second and third comes
their 'need of self-preservation'.
a) The medical practitioners seem incapable of
thinking in terms other than those taught in the curriculum. Doctor feels
content with the knowledge gained during a few years in a limited field and he
believes in its perfection and presses others to count upon it.
b)
The second dilemma is ego, which results from the natural corollary of his
first dilemma, 'Knowledge'.
c)
The third dilemma is the sense of self-preservation. If he agrees with and puts
into practice the contents of the quotes of Einstein, Holmes, Paget or Carrel,
he deprives himself of his bread.
I
(S.V.) feel that, medical practitioners are neither better nor worse than other
members of the society, in which they live. Their defects are noticed
prominently by others because they happen to be educated (and also belonging to
a conventionally respected profession).
Disease Unknown
That
section of the medical world, which show clearly interest in the science of
medicine shows full consciousness of the shortcomings of modern medicine.
I
(S.V.) honor medical science to some extent because of their frank admission.
The difficulty still remains that these frank admissions continue isolated,
being found only at the top level. They never permeate to the lower ranks.
Vijay
R. Joshi.
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