The Bible tells us that ‘the soul is in the blood’. A poet of long ago also sensed the mysterious composition and working of the blood when he called it a very special fluid. He was aware of this long before his assertion was supported through the findings of various research experiments conducted in modern times. Still, it was the declarations made recently by well-known scientists that made me stop and think. They claimed that a single drop of blood reveals everything about the condition of a person’s health. However, a proper diagnostic method has yet to be found which can support this assertion. Scientists must first discover this before they can properly evaluate it. The method of blood crystallisation has already taken us one step further and certainly merits our attention. No doubt other methods will be worked out and the time seems near when diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis, rheumatism, gout and many others will be detected in their early stages long before the more obvious symptoms manifest themselves.

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