The History of Medicine
Modern Medicine Found to Have Minimal Impact on Health
Dr. John B. McKinlay was a sociologist at Boston University. He studied the data on medical interventions and their relationships to declines in disease mortality and increasing life expectancy in the U.S.
What he found was no relationship. This included the role of vaccines.
Click here to read his seminal study from 1977 on the website of Columbia University.
What he found was no relationship. This included the role of vaccines.
Click here to read his seminal study from 1977 on the website of Columbia University.
Infectious Disease Deaths Declined Before Vaccines
"From 1900 to 1937, the crude infectious disease mortality rate decreased by approximately 2.8% per year from 797 deaths per 100,000 persons in 1900 to 283 in 1937. This was followed by a 15-year period during which the rate fell by 8.2% per year to 75 deaths per 100,000 in 1952."
That is a decline of over 90%.
Vaccines first became popular in the late 1950s.
Click here to read the study by CDC scientists, published in 1999 in the "Journal of the American Medical Association."
That is a decline of over 90%.
Vaccines first became popular in the late 1950s.
Click here to read the study by CDC scientists, published in 1999 in the "Journal of the American Medical Association."
Evidence Claiming Vaccines Save Millions of Lives Was Made Up
The claim is made over and over that millions of children's lives have been saved by vaccines. It is stated as fact in medical textbooks, in scientific studies and in policy debates and media. Yet there is no basis for it.
The claim was made by a team vaccinating children around the world for measles. Before they began their program they made a long list of unsupported assumptions. Based on those assumptions they calculated how many lives would be saved through their program. Once their program was complete they announced publicly that they had saved that many lives, though they never actually counted.
In fact, when under five mortality is counted, it appears that vaccination has the effect of increasing deaths.
Greg Beattie discusses this in detail in chapter two of his book, "Vaccination: A Parent's Dilemma."
The claim was made by a team vaccinating children around the world for measles. Before they began their program they made a long list of unsupported assumptions. Based on those assumptions they calculated how many lives would be saved through their program. Once their program was complete they announced publicly that they had saved that many lives, though they never actually counted.
In fact, when under five mortality is counted, it appears that vaccination has the effect of increasing deaths.
Greg Beattie discusses this in detail in chapter two of his book, "Vaccination: A Parent's Dilemma."
Sushruta: the father of surgery: 2600 years ago
Sushruta is considered the father of ayurveda, surgery and by some, the father of medicine in general. He was active in the Indian city of Kashi in the sixth century, B.C. Here is an excerpt of what widipedia has to say about his seminal work:
"The Suśrutasamhitā is an important Sanskrit text on medicine, considered to be one of the earliest major works related to detailed study of medicine and surgery. Written by Sushruta, it is commonly dated to the period of 6th century BC.
It is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka Samhita, Bhela Samhita, and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript.
The 'Sushruta Samhita,' in its extant form, is divided in 184 chapters and contains descriptions of 1,120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from mineral sources and 57 preparations based on animal sources.
The text discusses surgical techniques of making incisions, probing, extraction of foreign bodies, alkali and thermal cauterization, tooth extraction, excisions, and trocars for draining abscess, draining hydrocele and ascitic fluid, the removal of the prostate gland, urethral stricture dilatation, vesiculolithotomy, hernia surgery, caesarian section, management of haemorrhoids, fistulae, laparotomy and management of intestinal obstruction, perforated intestines, and accidental perforation of the abdomen with protrusion of omentum and the principles of fracture management, viz., traction, manipulation, appositions and stabilization including some measures of rehabilitation and fitting of prosthetics. It enumerates six types of dislocations, twelve varieties of fractures, and classification of the bones and their reaction to the injuries, and gives a classification of eye diseases including cataract surgery.
The text was translated to Arabic as 'Kitab-i-Susrud' in the 8th century."
Click here to read the full wikipedia article on "The Sushrutasamhita."
Click here to read the wikipedia article on Sushruta himself.
Click here to read an article on Sushruta from "Sanskrit Magazine."
"The Suśrutasamhitā is an important Sanskrit text on medicine, considered to be one of the earliest major works related to detailed study of medicine and surgery. Written by Sushruta, it is commonly dated to the period of 6th century BC.
It is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka Samhita, Bhela Samhita, and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript.
The 'Sushruta Samhita,' in its extant form, is divided in 184 chapters and contains descriptions of 1,120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from mineral sources and 57 preparations based on animal sources.
The text discusses surgical techniques of making incisions, probing, extraction of foreign bodies, alkali and thermal cauterization, tooth extraction, excisions, and trocars for draining abscess, draining hydrocele and ascitic fluid, the removal of the prostate gland, urethral stricture dilatation, vesiculolithotomy, hernia surgery, caesarian section, management of haemorrhoids, fistulae, laparotomy and management of intestinal obstruction, perforated intestines, and accidental perforation of the abdomen with protrusion of omentum and the principles of fracture management, viz., traction, manipulation, appositions and stabilization including some measures of rehabilitation and fitting of prosthetics. It enumerates six types of dislocations, twelve varieties of fractures, and classification of the bones and their reaction to the injuries, and gives a classification of eye diseases including cataract surgery.
The text was translated to Arabic as 'Kitab-i-Susrud' in the 8th century."
Click here to read the full wikipedia article on "The Sushrutasamhita."
Click here to read the wikipedia article on Sushruta himself.
Click here to read an article on Sushruta from "Sanskrit Magazine."
Galen: Ancient physician to the emperors, father of western medicine
"Galen went to Rome in 162 and made his mark as a practicing physician. His impatience brought him into conflict with other doctors and he felt menaced by them. His demonstrations there antagonized the less skilled and more conservative physicians in the city. When Galen's animosity with the Roman medical practitioners became serious, he feared he might be exiled or poisoned, so he left the city."
As Galen himself wrote, "Eudemus said this, and more to the same effect; he added that if they were not able to harm me by unscrupulous conduct they would proceed to attempts at poisoning. Among other things he told me that, some ten years before, a young man had come to the city and had given, like me practical demonstrations of the resources of our art; this young man was put to death by poison, together with two servants who accompanied him."
Galen is often considered the greatest physician of antiquity. After having been run out of town by other doctors, he was called upon by Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, when the plague of Antonine Struck in 166 A.D.
Click here to visit the wikipedia page of Galen.
As Galen himself wrote, "Eudemus said this, and more to the same effect; he added that if they were not able to harm me by unscrupulous conduct they would proceed to attempts at poisoning. Among other things he told me that, some ten years before, a young man had come to the city and had given, like me practical demonstrations of the resources of our art; this young man was put to death by poison, together with two servants who accompanied him."
Galen is often considered the greatest physician of antiquity. After having been run out of town by other doctors, he was called upon by Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, when the plague of Antonine Struck in 166 A.D.
Click here to visit the wikipedia page of Galen.