“The flu virus, three or four.

And there is no hope of healing.

If you’re weak, go straight to the grave,

Keep healthy so that,

Apply MOISTURE, people!

Apply UV RADIATION!”

V. Vysotsky

(Minor changes have been made to the original text.)

There is already a flu pandemic in Europe, which we will call, by analogy with the “Spanish Woman” of 1919-1920, say, the “Chinese Woman”. After all, they call busty North American women “PERCY-YANKEES”. (Percy – in old Russian means woman breast)

Once again, a reminder-quoting!

About winter pandemics of acute respiratory diseases.

(A reminder to citizens in connection with the beginning of the heating season.)

Transcript of a lecture by Dr. Ilya Samuilovich Rabinovich at a meeting of the Medical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Latvia on January 30, 1940.

I turn to the second part of my report.

(The first part: “Extra-intestinal (tissue) digestion of cellulose” was previously published on 26 MARCH 2013)

The cause of this kind of disease is usually called “excessive cooling of the vagus nerve” (Nervus vagus) and this is its weakened immune effect.

But here’s the strangeness, for some reason such pandemics do not begin in October-November, when the first cold days “fall” on the body still adapted to the summer heat, but much later – in the second half and even the last third of winter, sometimes in December, if the dryness of the air is growing rapidly.

It seems to me that the main, more significant, cause of winter widespread diseases is something else.

Dryness of the air!

Cold freezes moisture out of the air. Because at low temperatures, it is impossible to keep a high amount of moisture in the air. (Air conditioning is based on this principle in order to reduce its humidity).

Once in a warm room heated by central heating batteries or in any other way, the air heats up, and its relative humidity drops to 20-10-5 percent.

In such dry air, the mucous membranes of the trachea, bronchi and the lungs themselves dry out.

And in these mucous membranes there are antibodies that protect the body from pathogenic bacteria and viruses. But due to the dryness of the moist protective environment on the inner walls of the trachea, bronchi and lungs, there is no more! Both pathogenic bacteria and viruses, entering the lungs with the current of inhaled air, do not encounter any “lines of defense” and begin to multiply freely in unprotected tissues. This is what causes the aforementioned pandemics. In the first months of the cold season, the moisture absorbed by the walls, floors, furniture, carpets in apartments slowly evaporates and the humidity in the houses does not immediately fall to the mentioned low level. But gradually the moisture depot is depleted, and in the cold air outside it has been gone for a long time. So the humidity drops sharply inside the housing.

The way to prevent such diseases, IF the ABOVE HYPOTHESIS is CORRECT, is to adequately humidify the indoor air to 40-60-80 percent relative humidity.

Thank you for your attention.

Question from the audience: Dr. Rabinovich, why not link these epidemics to the fact that the cold is maximum in January and your whole theory is not justified?

Thank you for the question!

The fact is that the average temperatures in January are not always noticeably lower than those in December or February. It largely depends on the location of the place of residence and the climatic region in general, whether the climate is marine, continental, and so on. And epidemics usually begin by the end of January, even by the beginning of February, according to medical institutions. You may be right about the cold, but this is also a factor that freezes moisture out of the air very intensively.

Question from the audience: Dr. Rabinovich, what about desert dwellers? Isn’t the air permanently dry there, so according to your theory they should die like flies in winter?

Thank you for the question!

Just no! Desert dwellers have adapted to the dryness of the air and their mucous glands secrete more mucus, providing a sufficient “line of defense” all the time. I once spent a week in Egypt and spoke with local doctors, English and Arabic. They often told me that the inhabitants of desert areas feel bad when they get into the atmosphere of a humid marine or Mediterranean climate. Residents of southern and central Egypt are reluctant to move to seaside towns such as Iskanderia (Alexandria). Doctors told me that usually such migrants, healthy people, came to them with complaints of difficulty breathing, of “heavy air” in seaside towns!

Although we know from physics that moist air is just EASIER than dry air!!!

What causes such feelings? Excessive swelling of the mucous membranes of the larynx, trachea and bronchi in the humid atmosphere of seaside towns. This causes an erroneous feeling of “heaviness of the air”, when in fact, the lumen of the bronchi and trachea narrows sharply and the intraceptors embedded in their walls perceive the swelling of the mucous membranes as a feeling of some kind of heaviness.

Again, thank you for your attention.

Applause.

(Dr. I.S. Rabinovich died at the front on August 14, 1942, as a soldier of the Latvian Division, which fought as part of the Red Army against the German Army.)

26 VI 2013 – 13 X 2021

P.S. In connection with the above, I will give one more confirmation of the thought of Dr. Ilya Samuilovich Rabinovich.

Many health workers in postoperative departments, as well as intensive care units, know that when patients are connected to the oxygen breathing system, a mask with holes connected to a tube connected to a centralized oxygen supply system is put on the patient’s face. However, NOT DIRECTLY, but through a bottle of water, and oxygen supplied to the patient GURGLES through the water.

What is this done for?

The generally accepted explanation is:

If pure oxygen is supplied to patients, after a few days of such “oxygen breathing” lung problems develop, often pneumonia, pneumonia.

But usually no one asks the following question:

And WHY does a person who receives CLEAN and sterilized oxygen, they say, breathe to his heart’s content, suddenly, for no reason, gets sick???

Answer: Oxygen is not only dust-free and sterile, it is also DEHYDRATED!!! Judge for yourself, if moist oxygen is pumped at a pressure of two hundred atmospheres into an ordinary steel cylinder, in such a humid and oxygen-rich atmosphere, corrosion of steel from the INSIDE will immediately begin, and the cylinders will begin to EXPLODE!!! Even the oil on the gearboxes is not used for fear of causing a fire and explosion (what happened in the pressure chamber of the N.M.Amosov clinic!)

So, too DRY oxygen also causes drying of the mucous membranes of the trachea, bronchi and lungs themselves, which, accordingly, opens the way for pathogenic microorganisms to invade unprotected tissues and causes the above diseases!

By the way, the device for “humidifying” oxygen was designed by an IDIOT, Bubbling large oxygen bubbles through several centimeters of water layer practically DOES NOT MOISTEN the gas. To do this, oxygen must be passed through a microfilter at the bottom of the bottle. Then millions of microbubbles, having a large contact surface with water, are REALLY saturated with water vapor and then oxygen is actually MOISTENED!!!

4 VI 2022