„It must give every serious-minded person pause to reflect that, despite the best healthcare facilities, diseases continue to spread.
We have high standards of hygiene that control factors such as diet, water, clothing, everyday items, industry, construction, waste, and climatic influences to prevent harm to health.
Its most outstanding achievement is the eradication of epidemics; its most visible failure is the steady rise in disease rates, especially for heart disease and cancer.
It would be shocking if one were the consequence of the other.
For while in the past an epidemic might claim tens of thousands of lives, followed by many years free of epidemics, today hundreds of thousands die relentlessly from cancer every year.
Among people aged 30 to 60, one in four deaths is from cancer!
And while death from an epidemic was preceded by a brief, usually painless illness, death from cancer and many heart conditions follows months of agonizing, costly bedridden illness.
Certainly, hygiene is indispensable, but it is clearly not enough.
That is why preventive medicine was developed as a supplement. Its aim is to detect the onset of a disease through screening and treat it as a precaution.
It has been practiced in schools for decades.
No success in reducing disease rates has been evident so far.
The required application of preventive medicine to adults is hindered not only by financial but also by psychological difficulties, because adults, after the era of dictatorship and questionnaires, try to evade any kind of “registration” and compulsory treatment.
However, hygiene and preventive medicine must remain half-measures for another reason:
they have a false view of humanity! They view human beings merely as a part of nature and therefore concern themselves only with the physical body.
To them, a human being is a mechanism akin to an automaton, where one simply inserts a coin and the calculated result comes out at the bottom. But uncontrollable influences intervene in the workings of the bodily mechanism, which can throw any calculation into disarray.
For human beings are not merely a part of the natural realm, but also of a spiritual realm; they are spiritual, soulful, and physical beings,
whose bodily functions are influenced by spirit and soul and are guided individually and fatefully from supernatural spheres.
Leading figures in medicine have recognized that there is no physical illness without the simultaneous or causal involvement of the soul.
It follows clearly from this that all efforts toward health that focus solely on the body are bound to fail.
Health care means, first and foremost, care for the mind and soul!
From the mind—specifically, the spirit of love—the soul must be nourished in the same way that the body is nourished by nature.
Nature alone can maintain neither prayer nor health.“
Dr. med. Heinrich Will (1891-1971) was a German physician and author who focused especially on naturopathy, mind, and health care.
This quote highlights the paradox of modern medicine: Despite great advances, chronic diseases continue to rise, urging reflection on health and prevention.
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Heinrich Will was a German medical doctor and writer in the 20th century. He is known for his works and publications on naturopathy and health care, offering innovative perspectives on medicine and hygiene at the time.
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