Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The destruction of spirochetes by specific antibodies, chemotherapy, or lysins.  

A genus of slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae. The species are saprophytes in water and soil.  

The use of beliefs, religious practices, and prayer to treat disease.  

An awareness of the metaphysical, the religious, or the sublime. In practice, spirituality includes participation in organized religion, contemplation, meditation, prayer, reflection, and activities fostering self-growth and connections with others and with nature. A search for self transcendence or to form connections with a higher power, divine being, or ultimate reality.  

Disruption in the life principle that pervades a person’s entire being and that integrates and transcends one’s biological and psychosocial nature.    

A disease caused by the presence of spirilla in the blood. Any ailment induced by a microorganism belonging to the Spirillum genus. This microbe can lead to a cattle disease often seen in the Transvaal region, a lethal ailment in poultry and certain other avian species, and one species is responsible for causing rat-bite fever.…

An agent that is destructive to spirilla.  

A spot over a spinous process very sensitive to pressure.  

To the spinal cord and the tectum, the dorsal portion (corpora quadrigeminal of the midbrain.