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  • Disease Diathesis, The

    John Diamond, M.D. The word diathesis means a predisposition or tendency to a certain state. A disease diathesis is the particular precondition that renders a person liable to a particular disease. I have found that for most serious diseases there is su...

  • Fellow Traveller, The

    John Diamond, M.D. There is a syndrome I call The Fellow Traveller. It can be applied to any situation, any illness, any problem and involves the person who is the closest and usually caring for the patient. Thus it can be the friend or the spouse or par...

  • Homeostasis

    Homeostasis is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as "the ability or tendency of an organism or a cell to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes." It is a basic belief of modern medical science, said to be operati...

  • Homing Thought, The

    John Diamond, M.D. When I was a youngster growing up in Australia, I often went surfing at the Sydney beaches. Whenever there was a big wave coming, my friends and I would dive for the sand at the bottom of the water and hold on to that sand with our fin...

  • Inner Flame Problem, The

    John Diamond, M.D. To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.— Walter Pater The start of all illness is the loss of the inherent will to be well. In fact, I believe that the illness itself is this loss of...

  • Sanctuary

    John Diamond, M.D. Let’s talk about the word safety. It comes from the Latin salvus and it means to be healthy, whole, uninjured therefore without fear, without stress. Because when you feel safe you have no fear and therefore no stress. And somebody on...

  • Thymus Gland, The

    Dr. Diamond places great importance on the activation of the thymus gland in his practice. The thymus gland has many important functions. Among them are: (A) the production in early life of special lymphocytes called T-cells which are vitally important i...