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Following his first major lecture course for medical practitioners, Steiner elaborated
and deepened his “extension” of conventional healing through a spiritual-scientific
perspective. In this collection of addresses, discussions, question-and-answer
sessions, and lectures—which paralleled his major medical courses—Steiner
comments on contemporary medical emphasis on experimental, materially based
research and its lack of attention to therapy. Steiner’s intention is not to detract
from developments in medical science but to build on them with spiritual science.
The medical practitioner has an important task—diseases must be cured, and it is
wrong not to intervene and simply to allow “karma to take its course.”
Speaking both to the general public and to small groups of medical professionals,
Steiner offers new insights into our understanding of human organs, as well as the
efficacy of healing substances such as arsenic, sulfur, arnica, and essential plant oils.
He studies a broad range of specific medical conditions, offering advice on cancer,
hysteria, rheumatism, gout, skin eruptions, typhoid, diabetes, hemophilia, syphilis,
gonorrhea, asthma, glaucoma, leukemia, smallpox, insomnia, and childhood diseases
such as measles. His commentaries on subjects such as psychiatry, sexual maturity,
memory, poisoning, and detoxification present challenging perspectives for both
patients and medical practitioners. Steiner’s surprisingly non-dogmatic advice on
vaccination, for example, gives a refreshingly balanced and, perhaps unexpected,
point of view.
This volume is a translation from German of
Physiologisch- Therapeutisches auf Grundlage der Geisteswissenschaft (GA 314).
Portions of this lecture course were previously published as
Four Lectures to Doctors (4 lectures) and Health Care as a Social Issue (1 lecture).
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