Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Steiner Rudolf
Title : Vaccination in the work of Rudolf Steiner
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Introduction. In the case of vaccination there is considerably less material in the Collected Works than there is for viral illnesses and epidemics. What material does exist is ambiguous for two reasons. The first is that the German word for vaccination is exactly the same as the word for injection. Etymologically we can understand quite easily the reason for this. The first vaccinations were injections, and these injections conferred immunity when undertaken prophylactically. Even into the 21st century, in common usage German does not employ a separate word for the distinct procedures of injecting a substance for any other reason, or an injection for the purpose of inoculation. German usage has, in more recent years, borrowed the word vakzination from the English, but this was not common usage during Steiner’s time. He used it exactly once in the Collected Works, while talking to medical doctors. Yet he talked extensively about the processes underlying vaccination to many audiences. ...