WHAT CAUSES DISEASE

Evening Star, Issue 18265, 3 May 1923, Page 6

WHAT CAUSES DISEASE

NOT .MICROBES, BUT SUGGESTION. GREEK DOCTOR’S OPINION. LONDON, April 21. The curious theory of a Greek physician, Dr Kouzas, that microbes do not cause disease is much discussed in Greek medical circles, says the Athens correspondent of ‘The Times.’ Dr Kouzas maintains that mast diseases are duo to an invisible unknown “ virus iUtrant,” which is formed in our system when we are mentally agitated'. When wo aro sad, feel jealous, or harbor hatred wo breathe out carbonic acid gas containing the “ virus filtrant,” which poisons the atmosphere, and consequently our blood, during respiration. When the air is full of the virus it causes the outbreak of epidemics, says Dr Kouzas, who thinks that the war-time epidemics, such as influenza and typhus, were duo to the general sadness and depression of the people.