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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
medicine was no exception
Hypothyroidism Treatment : The technological revolution, which gave us engines to do the work of muscles, and delicate machinery to replace the skill of hands, penetrated every lane of human activity, and medicine was no exception. While the nineteenth century was crowding farmers and cottage craftsmen into city slums and teaching them to run machines, and incidentally killing them en masse with infectious diseases, it was also transforming the art of medicine into a precise, disciplined science.
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The destructive drive is not always an opposing force. It also moves hand in hand with the creative instinct. Hercules in his cradle killed the serpent which would otherwise have killed him. We cut down a living tree to build a house. When we eat we destroy; that is, we convert matter from its original form to another form, for the sake of our own survival. The act of sexual love, the universal symbol of creativity, usually has in it some element of the destructive impulse, as for example the conquest of the loved one.
ReplyDeleteWe will go back now to our suffering young woman. During the first phase of her illness she asked in detail about the technique of the opera-lion which was so urgently recommended. She was only curious, she Niiid, and I thought no more about it at the time. But another case new light on this facet.
ReplyDeleteA young woman, a fashion model, came to me with an obvious malignancy of the breast. An immediate operation was necessary, but instead of the surgeon I suggested, she chose a plastic surgeon. The night after the operation she collapsed. With blood transfusions and medication she rallied, but soon afterward she collapsed again. She had chosen the plastic surgeon in the hope that he would merely remove 11ic tumor. Instead he had removed the entire breast.
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ReplyDeletewell as the race. It is the keystone of every organic existence. So strong
1 passionate is this force, that man and animal alike will battle
desperately when life is endangered, however starved, wretched and
deprived that life may be.
George Bernard Shaw wrote on a pad on his night table "The will
ReplyDeletelive is inexplicable. Rationally I ought to blow out my brains- but
I don't and I won't. . . . Most people hold on to the last moment and
; a 'natural death' as I mean to do, although at ninety-four I ought to clear out, my bolt being shot and overshot." That was the day, according to a friend, when he suffered his last accident and died of complications some time later.
Obviously this extraordinary man was in a struggle between his will • live and his conviction that for him there was no longer any purpose in living. Consciously he rejected the idea of ending his life but....
ReplyDeleteYet this biological will to live seems not enough to support us through the complexities of life in a civilized world. We need a moral and emo-Dnal force to make the struggle endurable. The will to live in civilized man is a combined biological and psychological drive. As long as we have something to live for, the will to live carries us through the moments of crisis which are inevitable in every life.
ReplyDeleteHypothyroidism: Endocrine diseases are often disguised under various ailments - tells Endocrinologist Makeyevka endocrinology clinic Helena Makarenko. - Symptoms such as weakness, sleepiness, chilliness, headaches, and neuropathic pain, may signal that a person hypothyroidism.
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