Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

09. Transformation of the Physical (2)

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Injections are all the fashion; for everything it is “inject, inject and again inject”. Medicine has gone through three stages in modern times – first (at the beginning in Molière’s days) it was “bleed and douche” – then “drug and diet” – now it is “serum and injection”. Praise the Lord! not for the illnesses, but for the doctors. However, each of these formulas has a part truth behind it – with its advantages and disadvantages. As all religions and philosophies point to the Supreme but each in a different direction, so all medical fashions are ways to health – though they don’t always reach it.