This article originally appeared as Disease Is Remedial Activity (1978) the author is Herbert M. Shelton. “Polio has struck twice within six days in the family of…. ” These words formed the first part of a statement in a news item published
In line with the old concept of disease as something imposed from without, an attackingentity, medical men and the public have been taught to think of causation in terms of germs,viruses, parasites; resistance as the capacity of the body to marshal its