Moods and the Immune System
Every doctor who's working with patients has a frame of reference that he or she uses to understand the manifestations of a person's illness. For the vast majority today, the frame of reference is one of materialistic science.
Weston Price Foundation | Thomas Cowan, MD | I remember a poignant and pivotal moment when I was in medical school back in the early 1980s. I was doing gastroenterology with a proctologist, a doctor who treats diseases of the anus and rectum. The patient was a farmer who had a frank way of talking. He told the proctologist that he had an itchy butt.
The doctor then explained that there would be a number of causes of his condition. It could be parasites, it could be ulcerative proctitis, it could be cancer of the rectum or anal region, and that he would have to order some tests. So he ordered a stool test, he ordered a blood test, and he did a sigmoidoscopy and a colonoscopy of the lower GI, which is a barium X-ray of his lower bowel. And all this cost about ten thousand dollars and took a couple weeks.
Then the farmer came back to his office and the doctor said, "I've found out what's the matter with you. You have pruritus ani." Pruritus ani in Latin means "itchy anus." I started to laugh, which probably wasn't a good thing for my grade. I knew a little bit of Latin at the time and I said, "But he told you that."
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