{"id":5823,"date":"2018-12-19T21:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2019-08-09T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:13:35","slug":"cure-according-to-the-oxford-concise-medical-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/cure-according-to-the-oxford-concise-medical-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cure: According to the Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word cure does not exist in the 2015 edition of the Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, as illustrated in this image:\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can buy this edition at your local bookstore to verify this if you like. Or you can search the contents on Amazon<\/a>\u00a0to verify that “cure” is not found. How is it possible for a prestigious organization, with a world renown history of preparing dictionaries, to publish a medical dictionary that does not contain the word “cure” – and not notice the error years after it is published?<\/p>\n

Truth be told, there is no medical definition of the word cure to be found anywhere.\u00a0 There are historical definitions of cure.\u00a0 Lots of them.\u00a0 They’re not consistent, nor comprehensive, nor scientific, nor medical.<\/p>\nCure: not found Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary #cure <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

The prestigious medical reference texts:\u00a0Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 11th Edition, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Lange’s Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM\u20135) do not contain a single definition of cure, much less a scientific medical definition.<\/p>\n

Is this a new situation?\u00a0 No.\u00a0\u00a0The London Medical Dictionary, published in 1819, uses the word cure several times\u00a0but does not provide a definition of cure.\u00a0 Many current medical dictionaries, including Webster\u2019s New World Medical Dictionary, Third Edition, 2008,\u00a0The Bantam Medical Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 2009. Medical Terminology for Dummies, Second Edition, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursing, Edition 6, 2014,\u00a0do not contain a definition of the word cure.\u00a0\u201cCure\u201d\u00a0does not appear in Barron\u2019s Dictionary of Medical Terms, Sixth Edition, 2013, even though \u201cincurable\u201d is defined as \u201cbeing such that a cure<\/strong> is impossible within the realm of known medical practice<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n

The word cure is not defined medically.\u00a0 It’s official.\u00a0 If you think you are cured, you probably cannot prove it – cured being not defined medically either. Did you ever wonder, why every claim of a cure for arthritis, depression, diabetes, cancer, and many more diseases are considered quack cures?\u00a0 There are no real cures, there are only quack cures.\u00a0 No medical cures exist for these diseases, because medically, cured is not defined – not even in the dictionary.<\/p>\n

Cured is defined for a few diseases, even though not in many dictionaries and reference texts.\u00a0 Cured is defined, and can be scientifically verified for a disease caused by an infection and cured with a medicine that kills the infecting agent, tested by proving that the infecting agent is no longer present. That’s it.\u00a0 There are no other tests for cured defined in the current practice of medicine.<\/p>\n

Of course, cures are commonplace.\u00a0 I had a cold two weeks ago.\u00a0 It was cured by health.\u00a0 When I’m healthier, my colds are cured faster. When I’m not so healthy, it takes longer. But, according to medical references, there is no cure for the common cold.\u00a0 It’s nonsense. But it’s in the dictionary (by absence) and in the medical texts (by absence).<\/p>\n

Why isn’t cure defined medically?\u00a0 The reason is trivial.\u00a0 Most cures come from health, not from medicines, not from alternative medicines.\u00a0 It is easy to define cure, cures, curing, and cured, but the definitions are embarrassing to conventional medicine. Most diseases cannot be cured by medicines.<\/p>\n

The common cold, influenza, and measles cannot be cured with any medicine. No medicine can cure a chronic disease.\u00a0 No medicine can cure a mental disorder. No medicine can cure scurvy, or beriberi, or carbon monoxide poisoning. No medicine can cure any non-infectious disease. So, cured is not defined for these diseases. And as a result, Oxford’s Concise Medical Dictionary does not contain the word cure.<\/p>\n

It’s trivial to define cured.\u00a0 We can begin with a few simple statements:<\/p>\n

A case of disease is cured when:<\/p>\n

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  1. The cause and consequences have been successfully addressed.<\/li>\n
  2. Signs and symptoms of the disease are no longer present.<\/li>\n
  3. No more medicines are required.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, the devil is in the details.\u00a0 But as long as cured is not in the dictionary, we will never be able to cure any disease, never be able to demonstrate that it has been cured.\u00a0 Anyone who claims to cure a disease will remain a huckster, a quack salesman, and their cures will continue to be viewed as quack cures. By\u00a0the way, it’s OK to cure diseases – you just can’t claim to cure diseases, nor claim to have been cured of any non-infectious disease. Making a claim puts you up against the US\/FDA laws, which clearly state that “only a drug can cure<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>It’s time for a change.\u00a0 And the change is nigh.\u00a0 The newly published book:<\/p>\n

    The Elements of Cure contains a comprehensive definition of cure<\/a>. Many diseases are complex and compound.\u00a0 As diseases are not cured – the norm today, they acquire more and more elements.<\/p>\n

    It clearly documents the three elementary types of illness and their respective cures, making it possible to understand any disease as a set of curable illness elements and cure each of them in turn.<\/p>\n

    It’s time to put CURE into the medical dictionaries. It’s time to learn the meanings of cure, to test cures and improve them.\u00a0 It’s time to stop advising people to “learn to live with” their disease, which really means “learn to die with your disease<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

    to your health, tracy
    \nFounder: Healthicine<\/p>\n

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