For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.