1 Flexner report: Medical education in the United States and Canada (1910) by Abraham Flexner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report
2 The truth about cancer (2016) Ty M. Bollinger, Hay House Inc, USA. http://www.thetruthaboutcancer.com
1 Louis Pasteur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
2 Antoine Béchamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_B%C3%A9champ
3 Claude Bernard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard
1 Sir Richard Hawkins https://hekint.org/2019/11/19/scurvy-before-james-lind/
2 ’Treatise of the Scurvy’ (1753) by James Lind https://pmj.bmj.com/content/78/925/695
3 Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis: studies of death in childbirth https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807776/
4 Dr. Holmes & Dr. Semmelweis: Preventing the Transmission of Puerperal Fever https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866610/
1 Hippocrates https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hippocrates
Further story of George Wittenstein:
Organized resistance was practically impossible. One could not speak openly, even with close friends, never knowing whether they might not be Nazi spies or collaborators. So well organized was the control and surveillance by the party, that each city block had a party functionary assigned to spy on his neighbours.
I remember only too well an incident in a cinema: someone sitting a few rows in front of me was led away by the Gestapo. Apparently, he had made a derogatory remark to his companion about Hitler during the preceding news. Whoever had overheard him must have, as a patriotic duty, tipped off the secret police.
If you see how people out of fear betray each other now, and how without any hesitation they steal the freedom our heroes fought for we are like back in the thirties.
Sure, there were individuals, and small, local groups who were opposed to the regime, but it was nearly impossible to establish contacts, nor to maintain communications. Thus, the existing groups were small, isolated, and did not know of each other.
Students, throughout history, have been idealistic, rebellious against existing order and old empty conventions, and willing to take chances.
Most of our group had been members of youth organizations. In essence they grew out of a disillusionment of young people with the old established order. Their ideals and stated goals were personal freedom, self-imposed discipline, and strict adherence to highest moral and ethical principles.
All of us were of the same political conviction: against Hitler and the Nazi Regime. But, in a way typical for millions of Germans at the time, we withdrew into our own private sphere, in our case the arts, philosophy, our circle of friends, aptly called inner emigration. When German atrocities became known, for us this detachment gave way to the conviction that it was not good enough to keep to oneself, one’s beliefs, and ethical standards, but that the time had come to act.
Our leaflets called for a “rebirth of German student life to make the university again a living community devoted to the truth.”
And that for the sake of future generations, an example must be set after the war, so that no one will ever have the slightest desire to try anything like this ever again. Do not forget the minor scoundrels of this system; note their names, so that no one may escape…We shall not be silent – we are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.
Deeply shaken, our people behold the loss of the men of Stalingrad. 330,000 German men have been senselessly and irresponsibly driven to their deaths and destruction by the ingenious strategy of the WWI private. Führer, we thank you.
Do we want to sacrifice the remainder of our German youth to the base ambitions of a Party clique? No, never!
We demand the return of personal freedom, the most precious treasure of the Germans which cunningly has been cheated from us. We have grown up under a government which deprived us ruthlessly of free speech and forcibly anesthetized us in a fog of empty phrases, our budding ability to think and judge for ourselves.
Claude Bernard had some rather fantastic insights, wow, here are some quotes from him:
The terrain is everything, the germ is nothing.
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
It is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
The doubter is a true man of science, he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill- prepared for making discoveries, they also make very poor observations.
Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see in its results only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. We must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomenon will no longer appear.
Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So … these despisers of their fellows … make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
Men who have excessive faith in their theories … make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.
Particular facts are never scientific, only generalization can establish science.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
Also Louis Pasteur had some bright moments, alas, his many followers were too busy looking for micro-organisms to hear him coming to senses:
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind towards discovery.
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.
One does not ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Bernard was right, the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.
It is not the germs we need to worry about, it is our inner terrain.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy.
Where observation is concerned chance only favours the prepared mind.
The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.
Worship the spirit of criticism.
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word ‘enthusiasm’ -en theos- a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute micro-bodies, it is a consoling hope that science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.
Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas. This is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: ‘The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.’
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
To bring one’s self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
Pathogens are only harmful in a terrain that allows them so. If the terrain could be stable so that pathogens could not create chaos, pathogens were irrelevant.
Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated:
‘Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us’.
Pasteur did not entirely disagree: ‘This is true for certain diseases’, he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: ‘I do not think that it is true for all of them’.
Virchow
He was a German that -like Pasteur- believed the greater part of his life in ‘the-bad-guys’ microbes. Later he recognized:
Pathogens search for their habitat, sick cells, like mosquitos look for still water, in both cases not being the cause.
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body, the most miraculous masterpiece of nature, and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fibre. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
AirCorona Insights:
Your terrain, the ecosystem of the body, is the first line of defence, only when it fails due to bad condition, the Body Resistance (BR) charges.
This shows the importance of keeping a healthy internal environment and a BR in good shape.
Being busy with pathogens is pathetic, yet, this is the whole starting point in our medicine, where patients are not told anything about keeping their terrain balanced.
Other than the Pasteur view on only bad bacteria, the insight grows that pro-biotica form a crucial part of a strong enhanced immunity.
As is alkalinity as a general condition.
Western medicine clings to false premises, an incorrect insight in the nature of microbes, with as a consequence millions of preventable deaths.
Most people are suffering the combination of the lack of wisdom of their MD’s and of their trust in them and in SQ that gives them their undeserved status.
