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THE WASHER MAN
A washer man is a person who will collect your clothes,
wash them, iron them and deliver you back. Apparently there is no other
definition of washer man that I know, until recently. I came to know about a
man who washes each and everything coming from outside the boundary of his
house.
THE PHOBIA
A tall, about six feet, dark complexion, lean lithe, bend
shoulder with permanent self loathing and pity expression on his face man from
Cuttack, Orissa have habit to be hygienic and he keeps himself and his
surrounding clean by washing. As I doctor I should appreciate him but on the
contrary I am treating him for it.
He is phobic of catching infectious disease and falling
terminally ill because of it and it would be the reason for his untimely demise
from the world. Making the old adage, “precaution is better than cure” as his
golden rule, all he does the whole day is to remain clean and hence keep washing, washing and washing. When I say, he keeps washing everything coming outside
the boundary of his house, I don’t say it metamorphic ally but in literal
meaning of each every word.
WATER, WATER EVERY WHERE
Our washer man wakes up at four in the morning. Takes his
daily bath, duration being one hour in which he scrubs himself from head to toe
three to five times.
He brushes his teeth every time he eats something,
whether it be his full prime meals or tiniest morsel of any edible item, the
number of times he brushes varies from five to twenty times, sometimes it may
even shoot up. And because of this regular frequent brushing his teeth enamel
have begin to wear off and his dentist had black listed his teeth as the
endanger species but still the brushing continues as always.
He washes his clothes everyday without fail and everyday
there are dozens of which are collected for him to wash. The reason being that
every time he steps outside his house his clothes become susceptible to
dangerous alien environment and carry potential to make him ill, so after
completing his errands, he rushes back to his territory, washes his feet from
water from water tank fixed at the main gate of his house and then straight
away marches to the bathroom to wash and scrub, discarding the old clothes to
be washed tomorrow and wearing the new ones. The procedure remains the same
even if his going five steps away from his house to nearby shop to buy things
of daily use.
Apart from washing raw vegetables and fruits, another
thing that is washed in his house is the currency notes and coins. It doesn’t
matter whether they are coming as returned change from the shops, or from
cashier of the bank or the ATM, they share the same fate, first being dipped in
water, and then clipped on the ropes to be dried in sun and finally being
ironed.
His family members are sick of him as he even makes them
wash their hand million times in a day. The worst sufferers are the cooks and servants
of the house. He won’t touch his food until he sees water dripping from the
hands of his cook while he serves food at the dining table. And servants are
kept busy in washing and scrubbing floors, walls, tables of the house and they
are made to do it again and again, if someone from outside enters and use the
premises, it doesn’t matter who they be {may they be the guests or neighbors
or any member of the house who have returned from outside}.
Out of eighteen waking hours in a day this man spends
around ten to twelve hours in washing,
washing and washing.
And the credit added to his name is that he happens to be
proud and highest payer of water bill of the city in which he lives.
PHRENOLOGY
· Small
forehead – average intelligence
· Deep
horizontal wrinkles covering whole breath of his forehead – carefulness,
tendency to worry a lot
· Small
eyebrows – lack of observation
· Sparse
hair growth in his eyebrows - lack of executive qualities
·
High raised eyebrows, dividing the forehead
equally in two parts – superstitious, excessive credenciveness
·
Small eyes with its outer angle pointing
downwards – persuasive eyes, east to come in talks of other people
·
Long nose – excessive carefulness
·
Pinched nose – {constricted alae nasi,
reducing the entry of air} – leading to fear and delusional ideas {in this case
phobia of catching infectious disease and dying because of it}
·
Small and lack of fullness in upper lips –
indifference to loved ones
·
Lack of fullness of lower lip – feeble
digestion leading to accumulation of toxins in the system – feeble thinking and
delusional ideas
·
Narrow and sucked cheeks – lack of friendship
and hospitality
·
Narrow chin – lack of prudence, unreasonable
acts
·
Chin protruding outwards – obstinate
·
Ears protruding forward – superstitious,
easily coming in talks of people
REASON BEHIND THE
PHOBIA
{HOMOEOPATHIC EXPLANATION}
SYPHILIS is
a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema
pallidum.
The primary stage causes the Hunterian chancre {ulcer} on the genitals.
The secondary stage leads to rashes
on the body and enlarge lymph nodes and mucosal lesions.
The tertiary stage has cardio-vascular and central nervous system
involvement leading to degeneration of organs.
This disorder doesn’t end
with the life of the diseased human being but is transferred to coming
generation, not as the disease personified {meaning that you can’t inoculate
Traponema pallidum from any blood or serum sample} but in the form of phobia,
obsession and delusions.
This trait being the family
heritage is inherited by next generations. The vices of the ancestors become
the suffering of the coming generation.
Washing of hands million
times a day, catching hold of infectious disease, fear of dying of infectious
disease are some of the phobia seen in the people whose family tree shows the exposure
of syphilis in prior generations.
MORAL
Why do we fear dying, when
death is inevitable? I once read these lines somewhere, though I don’t recall
the name of the author but would like to share with you.
“to
every man on this earth,
death
cometh soon or late
how
can a man die better?
by
facing difficult odds
for
ashes of his father
for
temples of his gods.”
