Posts Tagged ‘Amorous dictionary of medicine’
Let’s Review (Part 2)
Posted on February 22, 2009
Alexander Fleming published his discovery of penicillin in 1928 and with the aid of Chain and Florey antibiotic was born effectively in 1940.
In 1942, enough amount of penicillin was produced to treat 170 injured English soldiers in Africa.
At the end of the war, 300,000 British soldiers were given priority to penicillin treatments, among them 100,000 cases of syphilis and 200,000 of gonorrhea .
Mind you that Nietzsche died of syphilis in 1900; he suffered the agony of syphilis progression and devastations for over 34 years. Anyone still longs for the Good Old Days before penicillin?
Suppose these millions of returning soldiers were not treated with penicillin, how many generations of afflicted “crazies” would be running amuck among us?
Millions upon millions of civilians were not treated with penicillin because there was not enough in production and millions of new-born “crazies” were afflicted with just this single disease.
The British know how to be first in recycling everything.
In 1847, Victor Hugo wrote “The British dailies state that several millions of human and horse bones were shipped to Hull. These bones were retrieved from the battlefields during the Napoleonic wars. The bones were transported to Yorkshire and grind into powder and then sent to Duncaster as fertilizer and feed for cows”
A decade later, the first symptoms of “mad cow” were observed in Duncaster and lasted till recently.
Only three decades ago did Creutzfeldt and Jacob discover the link between the “mad cow” disease (MCJ) and what the cows were offered to eat.
Cows are supposed to eat grass and not the bones and flesh of the dead and dying sheep grind in powder as feed!
Worst, people were contracting a variant of the MCJ disease by eating cow meat.
The biochemist Stanley Prusiner discovered in 1982 that the variant of MCJ in human called “prion” (an acronym) is a protein mutation and not a virus, or bacteria, or a parasite.
For an entire decade, Prusiner had to suffer the sarcasm of the medical profession before they came around and gave this protein mutated transmissible agent the label of Non Conventional Transmissible Agent (NCTA).
The MCJ disease was found among a primitive tribe in New Guinea in 1957; the sickness was called Kuru or “The laughing dead” because the terminally ill individual had no control over laughter and died of hunger for failure to swallow.
Adult women accounted for 66% of the afflicted because they were left to eat the innards of dead cadavers after the men had eaten the muscles. Anyone willing to board a time machine back to primitive New Guinea?
Note: Most of these accounts are extracted from “Amorous Dictionary of Medicine” by the surgeon Bernard Debre.
Relentless Therapeutic of a dying person? The wrong term for therapeutic that connate possible recovery. Wasting public funds and family wealth on totally irreversible coma cases
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 19, 2021
Ariel Sharon’s case that lasted a decade
Posted on January 27, 2009
The topic of relentless medical attempts to keep a dying person physically alive, though technically brain dead, was exposed by Bernard Debre in his French book “Amorous dictionary of medicine“.
The term relentless therapeutic is not appropriate because a therapy means hope to a healthy survival state of a patient, and the relentless endeavors connote a feasible resolution within a short limited duration.
Keeping an individual artificially alive is generally for political reason.
In 1970, the Spanish dictator Franco was kept alive for a month in order for the Spanish to resolve a peaceful transition of power.
The case of Ariel Sharon, Israel ex-PM is past a political transition of power since he has been in coma for over three years; (I am under the impression that the Zionist State is expecting the emergence of another “Biblical Prophet” before they decide to put Sharon to rest).
I don’t know what happens to a person artificially living; is he seeing nightmares of Hell? In that case Sharon has done his well deserved punishment.
Is the person experiencing heavenly dreams? In that case Sharon is not entitled to such recompense. Either way, Ariel Sharon has to go morally and ethically.
There are many kinds of “relentless therapies”. For example:
Therapies for the conscious terminally ills are interesting in their problematic. The excuses for alleviating sufferings in euthanasia requests should be non-issues anymore, given medicine has a wide gamut of pain killers for every kind of suffering. But getting addicted to a painkiller and knowing it is of No use for any quality of life should be a matter of law cases.
The choice for the conscious terminal patient is whether he prefers to abridge his life with massive doses of pain killers or lengthen life a while longer with suffering.
Ultimately, it is a matter of dying in dignity; especially when excretions are no longer voluntary acts and the support system is totally lacking for caring to a person who is no longer functional.
Patients on pain killers die suddenly and generally with high morale because, after a while, they forget that they are terminally ill and live a euphoric period.
The great breakthrough in these cases is that lines of communications are open among the family members, the patient, the physicians, and most importantly, the nurses who are in frequent touch with the patient.
Opinions are shared and the last decision is for the patient if he is still conscious.
What is most needed are specialized centers or “units for the terminally ills” where the patient can live in a “normal facility” and supported by skilled nurses and personnel.
What was not natural is a pretty common occurrence: Elderly children walking as slowly as their parents.
Yes, this is my case: I could be considered an elder person when my parents died in their 93 and they were bedridden at home for many years and I had to cater for their hygiene.
Relentless Therapeutic: Ariel Sharon’s case
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 27, 2009
Relentless Therapeutic: Ariel Sharon’s case (January 26, 2009)
The topic of relentless medical attempts to keep a dying person physically alive, though technically brain dead, was exposed by Bernard Debre in his French book “Amorous dictionary of medicine“.
The term relentless therapeutic is not appropriate because a therapy means hope to a healthy survival state of a patient, and the relentless endeavors connote a feasible resolution within a short limited duration.
Keeping an individual artificially alive is generally for political reason.
In 1970, the Spanish dictator Franco was kept alive for a month in order for the Spanish to resolve a peaceful transition of power.
The case of Ariel Sharon, Israel ex-PM is past a political transition of power since he has been in coma for over three years; (I am under the impression that the Zionist State is expecting the emergence of another “Biblical Prophet” before they decide to put Sharon to rest).
I don’t know what happens to a person artificially living; is he seeing nightmares of Hell? In that case Sharon has done his well deserved punishment.
Is the person experiencing heavenly dreams? In that case Sharon is not entitled to such recompense. Either way, Ariel Sharon has to go morally and ethically.
There are many kinds of “relentless therapies”. For example:
Therapies for the conscious terminally ills are interesting in their problematic. The excuses for alleviating sufferings in euthanasia requests should be non-issues anymore: medicine has a wide gamut of pain killers for every kind of suffering.
The choice for the conscious terminal patient is whether he prefers to abridge his life with massive doses of pain killers or lengthen life a while longer with suffering.
Ultimately, it is a matter of dying in dignity; especially when excretions are no longer voluntary acts and the support system is totally lacking for caring to a person who is no longer functional.
Patients on pain killers die suddenly and generally with high morale because, after a while, they forget that they are terminally ill and live a euphoric period.
The great breakthrough in these cases is that lines of communications are open among the family members, the patient, the physicians, and most importantly, the nurses who are in frequent touch with the patient.
Opinions are shared and the last decision is for the patient if he is still conscious.
What is most needed are specialized centers or “units for the terminally ills” where the patient can live in a “normal facility” and supported by skilled nurses and personnel.
What was not natural is a pretty common occurrence: Elderly children walking as slowly as their parents.
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