The old medical tradition goes back to 400 A.D. to the young Greek medic Hippocrates who established his practice in Cos. At that time sanatoriums existed which were dedicated to Aesculapius, the god of healing, and medical procedures involved praying to gods and various superstitions.
Hippocrates learned
his trade from his father and expanded his knowledge by traveling to Egypt to
learn their medical practices of the time which included novelties such as
having a clinical observation chart/sheet of the patient, using white and clean
linen for babies and patients, watching closely the nutrition of newborns and
toddlers, exercise and play in fresh air.
Upon his
return from Egypt, Hippocrates realized that Greek medicine had to be revised
from the priestly medicine to a new medicine based on rigorous experience and
proper rationalization. This new medicine would become the Hippocratic
medicine.
The classical Hippocratic Oath stated that a future physician, swearing by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, Hygeia, and Panacea, and all the gods witnessing his oath, will engage in ethical treatment of patients, to his utmost power and judgment.
In healing
the sick, the doctor would order the best diet for his patients, and made sure
that they suffered “no hurt or damage.” The physician promised not to give
poison to anyone, nor medicine to a pregnant woman, with “a view to destroy the
child.” The doctor promised to behave and use his knowledge in a “godly manner,”
referring to the gods listed above. The Hippocratic Oath: The Original
and Revised Version - The Practo Blog for Doctors
At the young
age of 22, Hippocrates established his medical school in Cos, based on the
close relationship between theory and clinical practice, theory and experience
obtained by taking care of the sick. The therapy side of medicine included
hygiene, baths, physical exercise, diet, plant-based medicines, minerals, and
animal-based cures. The Hippocratic medical school practiced medical
investigations as well.
It was said
that Hippocrates did not believe that diseases were connected to gods, but that
they had an actual material reason, thus incantations and offerings to the gods
were not helpful.
Hippocrates
established the foundation of modern medicine during his 47 years of medical
travels to care for both famous and ordinary patients. His fame and medical
practices had spread around the world of antiquity and eventually made their
way across the centuries into modern medicine.
After his
death in 377 B.C., Hippocrates became the hero of many legends and medical
traditions. Even in death, it is alleged that a tree by his tomb in Larissa had
a bee hive which produced honey with an emollient effect on children’s skin
problems.
Hippocrates
left in his Corpus Hipocraticum, the combined 73 volumes of
knowledge and experience of his practice, a trove of cultural, educational,
philosophical, and scientific knowledge for centuries to follow. The
Hippocratic writings were published in Alexandria, Egypt, a century after his
death.
A Latin
manuscript found in the National Library of Paris talked about Hippocrates and
his discovery that Athenian black smiths who worked with fire and forges, did
not get sick with the plague so he recommended “purification” of the city air.
The text concluded that the grateful Athenians erected a statue to Hippocrates
when the plague ended. However, Thucydides, who described at length the period
of the Plague of Athens in the second year of the Peloponnesian war in 430 B.C.,
does not mention Hippocrates at all. Close to 100,000 people died from the
plague which entered Greece through its city port of Piraeus.
The profound
thinking of the genial doctor is expressed in one of his famous aphorisms with
which he instructed his students, “Life is short and Art is long; opportunity
is fleeting, experiment treacherous, and judgment difficult.”
Hippocrates
was saying that a physician’s life is short when compared to the vast art [of
medicine], art which depends on how quickly the doctor chooses the right moment
to intervene, an art hindered by its two enemies, empiricism and dogmatism.
Fast forward
to the twenty-first century and medicine appears to be preoccupied more with
biopolitics and biopower exerted by the New World Order, more specifically
transgenderism and transhumanism, instead of healing the sick and treating
those suffering as has been the case in the twentieth century.
I was amazed
in 1978 at the level of medical care Americans could receive, the potential for
healing with modern medicines, tools, and surgical skills, and how caring and
doting many physicians, surgeons, nurses, and other medical professionals were
when compared to the awful socialized medicine we had received under the socialist
dictatorship of the communist party where I had fled from.
In 2023,
after three years of Covid-19 lockdowns and other detrimental developments, we are
way past Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” in which Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning and
is transformed into a huge cockroach.
We humans of
any age are suddenly a huge burden and a “plague on the planet” and our numbers
must be culled to a billion as repeatedly uttered by globalists and eugenicists.
Klaus Schwab
of the World Economic Forum fame said that “A systemic transformation of the
world will lead us to a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological
identities.”
Yuval Noah
Harari, chief advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF) explained that “We will
use nanotechnology and a direct brain-computer interface to upgrade Homo
Sapiens into beings who are much more different from us than we are from
animals – into gods. We will replace natural selection with intelligent
design—by us.” (AAPS News, Vol. 78, no. 12, December 2022)
Medical care
has taken a huge hit during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, distrust and fear
keeping many potential patients from seeking medical care for chronic
conditions and sometimes emergencies.
Doctors and
nurses feared their own death and it drove them to remake their clinics, pretending
that they practiced care via tele-medicine. Some doctors, even foot doctors,
became irrational and to this day, are still requiring their patients to wait
in the parking lot until the office deems it safe to call the patients to come
up one at a time. It is not a very efficient way to run an office as there is
nobody else in the waiting room. Everyone is heavily masked, including the
patients.
We saw the
doctors who took the CDC hard line. They failed miserably their Hippocratic
Oath and potentially harmed their patients by sending them home to a certain
death in some cases, without any treatment until such time that ventilators
became their final destiny and eventual death.
It seems
that corporate America and especially universities are expanding into
healthcare for profit in the march towards the Sovietization of America.
Doctors spend more time updating their computer charts in the ten minutes they
spend with each patient than they talk to patients, look him/her in the eyes,
and touch their bodies.
The virtual
medical appointments were generally a waste of time and resources for a
percentage of patients. Some sick people stayed away from ERs for fear that
they would be put on ventilators. Other people resented the masks and the
constant Covid-19 testing and chose to stay home instead of having elective out-patient
surgery or a direct visit with their doctor.
Hippocrates thought
of means to heal his patients quicker, better, easier, and with the least
amount of suffering. Modern medicine should seek the same.
In his “About
the Proper Behavior,” Hippocrates wrote that medicine should be guided by simplicity,
modesty, good reputation, sound and logical judgment, peace, caring, moral purity,
knowledge of usefulness, and of life’s practices. Doctors should be of good
moral character and with a largesse of the soul and mind.
Hippocrates
wrote, “When there are more procedures, a doctor should choose the least showy.
He, who is not trying to deceive the eyes of the ignorant through a false
demonstration, is truly an honest man and a real doctor.”
Hippocrates
stated that “honest doctors must give the patient the assurance that he/she is
not abandoned. When the illness is serious, the doctor must neglect his own
interest, applying the treatment even though he may risk getting nothing after
the patient heals.” (On the Articulations, written in 400 B.C.)
Modern
medicine does have honest doctors like Paul Marik, Robert Apter, and Mary
Bowden who have sued the FDA, CDC, and the Health and Human Services (HHS) for
interference with the doctors’ ability to treat Covid-19, more specifically the
“FDA’s disparaging, misleading statements to many influential organizations
about ivermectin.” Ivermectin could have saved lives, but the “FDA broke with both
law and traditions by interfering with the practice of medicine, i.e. with the
authority to prescribe drugs approved for human use for an ‘off label’
indication.” https://tinyurl.com/3y9x4ubd
The American
Association of Physicians and Surgeons wrote in its amicus brief: “Defendant
FDA has improperly exploited misunderstandings about the legality and
prevalence of off-label uses of medications, in order to mislead courts, state
medical boards, and the public into thinking there is anything improper about
off-label prescribing.” https://tinyurl.com/28ukattt
“In ruling
against patients seeking access to ivermectin to treat Covid-19, as recommended
by their physicians, multiple courts have relied on the misinformation and
improper interference by the FDA as a basis for denying access now.” https://tinyurl.com/28ukattt
Hippocrates
would probably be shocked about most doctors today who ignored their Hippocratic
oath and chose the path of least resistance to deal with the onslaught of Covid-19
patients who were sent home to recover on their own without treatment until
such time that they were too far gone and went to the ER.
A very sad situation indeed. Unfortunately my son's best friend died of coronavirus in April 2020 (early 40's) and friends and family caught coronavirus and were very sick, some in their late 70's. Older family members recovered, yet a younger healthy man died. His death is still hard for me to process as he was a friend of the family too. On top of this, with vaccinations, physical distancing, isolation, masks, shutting down the economy, etc., apparently, varients are spreading rapidly in the U.S. & around the world.
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