Re: Allopathic arrogance from 1864 to 2007



On Jan 23, 4:22 pm, capm...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"What irony. That is quite funny, considering that some of the the most
famous of historical allopaths were essentially snake oil salesmen and
what you call "medicine" folk. The whole allopathic industry comes from
those roots historically. Where do you think the modern medical
paradigms come from?"

Proof please, bald assertions do not serve. Posting unexplained links
do not serve either.

"It was the naturopaths and the homeopaths that coined and popularized
the term Allopathy, and it was directed at the glorified snake oil
salesmen, or those doctors who bought into the snake oil, and had a pill
or a concoction for every ill. Snake oil was the first ineffective
pharmaceutical marketted in the guise of an effective medicine. Kinda
like Statins and SSRIs and COX-2 inhibitors. They claim to do something
but they don't and, in fact, are more often than not, dangerous."

Proof please for the "snake oil" quib above please, links as above. The
term was coined as the kind of spin device as is being used above, where
science fails create labels instead.

A cyclopedia of domestic medicine and surgery: Being an Alphabetical
Account of the Various... - Page 506
by Thomas Andrew - 1842 - 692 pages
The Tincture of Snake Runt. Snake root bruised, one ounce and half. ...
of fixed
alkaline salt, in a state of combination with animal or vegeta-ble oil.
....

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC19529841&id=SG-AfOUde4AC&pg=RA5-PA506&lpg=RA5-PA506&dq=snake+oil&as_brr=1

Written by an MD.

TC


The drugs mentioned had to pass the fda threshold of showing they do as
claimed,ie. they work. If there are other problems they are apart from
this fact. Those who push the rhetorical labels can not point to even
their methods or drugs working as a bare minimal bit of support for
their claims in a majority of cases. We can only make guesses as to
adverse effects because they are not required to report them, we learn
of them by word of mouth when enough people have had an adverse effect
only.

The term is used as shorthand for anti science based medicine.

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