Health and Illness II
GA 348
In 1922 the hundreds of workers from 17 nations engaged in the construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for Steiner to give them a daily lecture after their morning coffee break. Rudolf Steiner not only had the workers set the lecture themes but also welcomed their questions and comments. This second volume of nine of these talks retains the vital, coloquial, and spontaneous qualities of the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature as well as their cosmic origins were also touched upon. Thus, Steiner was able to shed new light on a wide specture of topics, including the effects of healing metals and substances on the human body, pregnancy, beaver lodges and wasp nests, crossed eyes, vegetarian and meat diets, and various specific diseases such as jaundice, rabies, hemophilia, and influenza. Translated by Maria St. Goar. Cover design by Peter van Oordt.
| I: | Fever Versus Shock | December 30, 1922 |
| II: | The Brain and Thinking | January 05, 1923 |
| III: | The Effects of Alcohol on Man | January 08, 1923 |
| IV: | The Power of Intelligence as the Effect of the Sun — Beaver Lodges and Wasps' Nests | January 10, 1923 |
| V: | The Effect of Nicotine — Vegetarian and Meat Diets — On Taking Absinthe — Twin Births | January 13, 1923 |
| VI: | Diphtheria and Influenza — Crossed Eyes | January 20, 1923 |
| VII: | The Relationship Between the Breathing and the Circulation of the Blood — Jaundice — Smallpox — Rabies | January 27, 1923 |
| VIII: | The Effect of Absinthe — Hemophilia — The Ice Age — The Declining Oriental and the Rising European Cultures — On Bees | February 03, 1923 |
| IX: | The Relationship of the Planets to the Metals and their Healing Effects | February 10, 1923 |