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Here is some Medical Advice offered by the guys in Brooklyn in decades past. Quackery like you have never seen before.

    Watchtower Jan 15 1912 (reprints p.4963)

It is known that only about three out of every one hundred operated upon for appendicitis really have a diseased appendix needing removal. We give below a simple cure for appendicitis symptoms. The pain in the appendix region is caused by the biting of worms near the junction of the transverse colon with the small intestines, low down on the right side of the abdomen. This remedy is recommended also for typhoid fever, which is also a worm disease. The medicine is Santonine dose, 3 grains, an hour before breakfast; repeated for four mornings, or until all the symptoms disappear. Then one dose per month for three months to eradicate all germs. This recipe is of INCALCULABLE VALUE. Not only will it save the surgeon's and hospital fees of perhaps $200, but it saves weeks of ill health, inconvenience, convalescence and loss of salary.


Watchtower 1913 July 1 p. 200 A Cure for Surface Cancer

We have recently learned of a very effective and simple remedy for cancers which show themselves on the surface of the body. We are informed that a physician, after testing this remedy, paid $1000 for the information, and that he has established a Cancer Hospital which is doing good work. The recipe has come to us free and we are willing to communicate the formula, but only to those who are troubled with surface cancers and who will write to us directly, stating particulars. No fee will be charge, but in order to protect the sufferers, we require a promise that they will not sell the formula to others, nor receive pay for the use of it, nor communicate the formula to anybody. Any one known to be a sufferer can be informed of the terms on which the prescription is obtainable through us.


The Golden Age, March 17, 1920, p. 808

[Intravenous drug use would be common during the Millennium and that this would be used by The Christ (the 144,000 and Jesus) to help mankind become perfect, free of all diseases]

The Golden Age, Feb. 27, 1935, pp. 343, 344

[Aspirin causes heart disease and other maladies]

The Golden Age 1919 November 26 p.153

Even years ago it was known by some people that the use of pacifiers by babies is one of the chief causes of diseased and enlarged tonsils and adenoid growths, which results from the suction.

  The Golden Age, Jan. 1, 1923 p.214

But the dog-rabies-vaccine imposition is the latest.... Rabies! When it has been shown conclusively that there is no such thing as rabies


The Golden Age 1926 June 16 p.583}

God [may soon cause] a comet [to be] captured by the Earth.. [to] bring about a radical change in earth's climatic conditions and transform the surface of our planet into a paradise, wherein disease and death will be no more.

The Golden Age, September 26, 1934, p. 807

The Journal of the A. M. A. is the vilest sheet that passes the United States mail.... Nothing new and useful in therapeutics escapes its unqualified condemnation. Its attacks are generally ad hominem. Its editorial columns are largely devoted to character assassination.... Its editor [Morris Fishbein] is of the type of Jew that crucified Jesus Christ.

The Golden Age 1936 September 23 p.828

Do not use X-Rays... they are destructive and sure to harm the grandchildren of those exposed to them.

Warm Christian Love
  Bangalore

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And people are supposed to buy their theology from these guys because........?:funnyface:

I'd take every word they say and every single thing they believe with a very, very large pinch of salt.:rofl:

I'm still partial to the naked air baths.

Spud

The Golden Age, Feb. 10, 1926, p.310

Air baths are good for preventing colds... What you do is strip naked mornings and evenings and then bob up and down for a while.

Hi Spud

Now one knows what it means when the Organisation says we should dress modestly.

Warm Christian Love
Bangalore

Does it give any advice as to where these air baths are to take place?

On the steps outside a church? A marketplace? I'm just interested......:dancebanana:

Just think, a whole group of Witnesses bobbing up and down on the street corners.........................:giggle: Maybe they could save time and combine it with the field service............:drool: A naked dash from house to house.......

There should be a line of demarcation between 1913 and 1920 instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water. In between the judge took over. Those who have left the Society or are thinking about it have 4 choices. Stay with the WT who apostacized from CTR, stay with CTR, go with somebody else(like e-w) who apostacized from the Society, or drop out. Who's to say about how many appendectomies are make work for doctors along with tonsillectomies, d & c's, etc.

Hi br. freyd ...:giverose::bouncyhearts::cheer:

My motto ...

To save on confusion and hurt and/or being cast aside without thought or love ...

Matt. 23:9,10 ...

9 Moreover, do not call anyone YOUR father on earth, for one is YOUR Father, the heavenly One. 10 Neither be called ‘leaders,’ for YOUR Leader is one, the Christ.

With these beautiful Ones as our only guides ... how can we ever lose or be lost or be misled ...:yahoo::yahoo:

Luv BR

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Me too, missed that bit whilst scanning the rest. Where do I sign up?


The horrors of the past committed under the guise of medicine, never cease to amaze me, and the wickedness of men willing to do the most vile things to support their 'flagging bits of ego' is horrendous.
I have a series of medical books from the turn of the 19/20th century, and the hypocrasy combined with experimentation on women was disgusting. It was like North Africa now. Clitoridectomies on young girls, infibulation of both genders. Not a continent away, only 100 years separate us, if that. :rant: OK rant ended!

Sorry Freyd I do not understand.

love vicky

Sr Vicky, there was a man who wrote a book about 30 years ago called "Confessions of a Medical Heratic." He had been "in practice" for 40 years in Chicago. He discovered something about a large percentage of people he had performed operations on early in his career, like T&A's came back 25 years later in need of another type operation like gall bladder surgery. The correlation was astonishing. He came to the conclusion that most surgery is unnecessary. I heard him on a radio call-in show, and asked by a woman, "Doctor, what do think of the idea of annual physicals?", his response was, "Lady, don't ever go to a doctor unless you're carried to a doctor." :borg:

"Lady, don't ever go to a doctor unless you're carried to a doctor."

LOL Freyd, pharmaceutals must have loved this guy.

Hi, freyd. This reminds me of the story of the lab technicians assigned to experiment on a frog.

They first placed the whole, healthy frog on a lab table, and shouted, "Jump!" The frog jumped.

They next removed one of his front legs, and shouted, "Jump!" The frog jumped, but not nearly so vigorously or as far.

They next removed one of his back legs, and, again, shouted, "Jump." The poor frog barely made it a few inches.

When they removed his remaining front leg, the deterioration of the frog's "Jump" continued.

Finally, they removed his last hind leg. When they shouted, "Jump!" there was no response, at all.

Their scientific conclusion:

Removing a frog's legs greatly impairs its hearing. :funnyface:

(BTW, those first two quotes up there in Bangalore's post, from 1912 and 1913, I guess you're "OK" with those?)

From Bangalore's initial post:

Watchtower Jan 15 1912 (reprints p.4963)

It is known that only about three out of every one hundred operated upon for appendicitis really have a diseased appendix needing removal.

I had to have my appendix removed. ... (But, I still have my Bibliography and my Table of Contents.) :D

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From Bangalore's initial post:
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Watchtower Jan 15 1912 (reprints p.4963)

It is known that only about three out of every one hundred operated upon for appendicitis really have a diseased appendix needing removal.

I had to have my appendix removed. ... (But, I still have my Bibliography and my Table of Contents.) :D
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Does anybody remember in 1988 when health workers, including doctors, went on strike in LA and and there were doomsday predictions of what would happen? What really happened was that mortality rates went down until the doctors went back to work. It then returned to normally higher socially acceptable levels. Ralph Nader said in 1993, I believe it was, in Readers Digest, that 600,000 per year are killed in hospitals due to negligence. He used the "K" word. And they're supposed to be a lot more sophisticated now than they were in 1912. :read:

Wow, where was that practiced at, the states??