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From: sean@cadre.ARPA (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: prevention <---> treatment
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 19:26:53 EDT
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In article <1066@cbdkc1.UUCP> tjs@dkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) writes:
>... Many
>sicknesses are natural and neccessary for health.  Colds clear the body of
>catarrh and other build ups, some sicknesses are the body removing problems.
>The worst thing to do in many cases (and the first thing that doctors
>often do) is to suppress the symptoms.

What?? Colds don't "clear the body of catarrh" (a Hippocratean term for
mucosal inflammation), the "catarrh" is the body's response to invasion
by an unfriendly organism (the virus causing the cold). And while I agree
that too vigorous a concern for alleviation of symptoms can, in fact,
be damaging, the truth of the matter is that in many cases the RESPONSE
of the body to the disease is more damaging than the disease, itself.

Perhaps you would also have us believe that flys come from horse manure.