For literally centuries, doctors had recommended eliminating starches and sugars for the purpose of losing weight. Read “On Corpulence” which you can still buy on Amazon for an account from the 1800s which was published at the time. Still in print after all these years. This recommendation remained consistent until the early 1960s. What changed?…
Brian Weiss, M.D., a psychiatrist trained at Columbia and Yale began using hypnosis to help patients eliminate longstanding psychological symptoms. In part of the general instruction performing a “regression to cause” he began to observe that a group of patients began to access information that could be consistent with a past life, something that was…
Another area of forbidden medicine has for years been related to the use of electrical devices. Electro-medicine was considered anathema to the AMA in the early to mid-20th century. Promoting such could easily get sanctions placed upon any doctor, even if they were getting awesome results. Allopathic Medicine decided its future was “better living through…
Although the center of the solar system had been debated in ancient Greek and Roman times, the church had declared the victory of those debates was that the Earth was the center of all, because, and only because the scriptures demanded it. Over the centuries, to question this absolute truth was declared heresy by the…
In the context of increasing polarized opinions about medicine, expertise, and what those things mean, I thought I’d share one of the rather amazing stories of a hero of modern medicine. Ignaz Semmelweis, MD, practiced as a gynecological surgeon in Vienna in the mid 19th Century. He’s now referred to as “the savior of…