Great Construction

The Revolution of Medical Science

     Everyone is well aware, that the concept of “revolution” has for a long time, been applied, as in phrases such as “political revolution” or “social revolution,” to movements whose aim is to correct mistaken politics and mistaken ideologies in order to create a better society. Most of the time these movements were confined to a certain nation-state or to a certain nation-people. As we come to the present day, however, these movements have become larger in scale and the vital issue today is the communist revolution that continues its efforts originating from the Soviet Union and the democratic revolution led by the United States that is trying to stop the communist revolution.
     However, what we aim for and what we carry out is the construction of a world free from disease that has the fundamental significance of the salvation of humanity. Ours is a cultural revolution. There could not be anything as vital as this goal. It is a great undertaking that has most likely been beyond the dreams of anyone in the history of humanity.
     The annihilation in a moment of all structures and living creatures within a radius of several miles with the atom bomb is a tremendous discovery of which no one had dreamed. If this discovery were used for peaceful purposes, it is probably impossible to imagine of how much benefit it could be to humanity. We, however, propose to completely eliminate disease from humanity. The difference in immensity between nuclear energy and our project should be self-evident. Of course, in ridding the earth of disease, the first thing that obviously must be accomplished is to discover the cause of why disease occurs and exists. Together with understanding cause, a method of completely extinguishing the source of disease must be found. These two accomplishments must indeed be fundamental.
     Contemporary medical science is said to have made great progress, and members of the general public are certainly convinced of this progress, but what is not understood is that medical science has not progressed at all, rather, that actually it is only floundering at the lowest point ever. Some two thousand-odd years have passed since the times four hundred before Christ and those of the paragon of medical science, Hippocrates, but as the cause of even the common cold has yet to be discovered, further comment should not be necessary.
     When this one fact alone is considered, progress in contemporary medical science is probably impossible to affirm. Therefore, as the situation now stands, it is clear that no matter how many centuries pass, the idea of a world free of disease is nothing more than the dreams of dunces. We do not criticize medical science simply to be criticizing medical science. We critique fact as fact and error as error, not being bound by any preconceived ideas and based on impartial perspective. What we promote is neither theory nor hypothesis. Because we state facts just as they are, it could be said that they are truth itself.

Chijôtengoku, Issue 13, page 14, February 20, 1950 
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