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Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas  These reaction threads are interesting, boagie, I'm just not entirely sure where to go with them. I guess the underlying question in this thread, as with the others is what is 'reactionary'?
What is it for a disease to be 'reactionary'? |
Didymos Thomas,
I think reactionary would mean the source of the difficulty is not of the healthy constitution of an individual working against itself, though one might consider the problems of age, and thus correlated breakdown to be the source of some health difficulties. It is a bit like the business of an object in space traveling in direction, to change said direction requires interference, something to react to. An individuals constitution in a void would not be unlike the object in space traveling in direction, and difficulties that were not attributed to age, would of necessity have to involve reaction to another source, another object, a source interfering with the normal course of the body's direction/health. In other words dis-ease is not the act of a healthy body, it is a reaction to a foreign object and/or substance, which changes the course of one's constitution in health.