My Notes, (early
1980s)
from “The Sweeping Wind” by de Kruif. Sydney Uni Fisher Library, stacks,
576.0924/1
(He also wrote “The Microbe Hunters”, about Louis Pasteur.)
…Fred Banting, Charles Best, Summer 1921.
10 dogs, 8 weeks in lab.
Re insulin.
Toronto surgeon, he
had a hunch to extract a sugar-burning hormone from the pancreas of dogs.
He (WB?) was a war veteran - brave, dogged, honest.
Of them, Dr George Minot said “They aren’t deep thinkers,
they just stumbled on their discoveries.”
Minot, pernicious
anemia. Old Dr Wright said “Bone marrow cells won’t grow up”. Lion cubs won’t grow bones – only do so if
they are given liver, fat and bones.
Liver increases the growth rate of white mice. Some people
were given at least 1 lb of liver every day, and none of them died.
“His genius was his insight that what is simple may also be
deeply fundamental.”
P 170 “….at last
arriving at such a massive confirmation that what had seemed silly, was not.”
Professor Jules Bordet was an immunologist’s immunologist….won
Nobel Prize…fame in medicine was esoteric…discovered Bordet-Gengou phenomenom
…(Wassermann applied it to test for syphilis)
Bordet lived in a realm above the practical. Belgium.
P 174 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, psychiatrist,
(Vienna) 18 Landesgenichtssrase.
For 30 years,
groped on from original observation that feverish infections – like pneumonia
or typhoid- seemed to heat mental fogs out of certain crazy people. He saw naturally contracted fevers –
occasional and unaccountable- reverse psychotics of all types back to mental
health……reported in 1887 these experiments in a scientific paper in which he
recommended that hopelessly crazy people be infected with erysipelas or
malaria…….medical world’s reaction was that Wagner-Jauregg must be a bit balmy
himself.
Koch’s tuberculin created fever but failed to help
psychotics though they did get a good fever…..
***a few went home sane……tho all were dubiously classified psychotics
who might have recovered anyway.
Paresis was one malady which was incurable. Paralysis led to imbecility and death….the
fate of thousands of victims of syphilis (the old rover).
Expt…….69 paretics – tuberculin +…..after 8 years, only 8
had died
69
controls – only 5 were living after 8 years.
1914 86 treated with
tuberculin + mercury (1907 – 1909)
26 were
still alive in 1914; 7 had returned to
work.
In high psychological society, this discovery caused hardly
a ripple. W-J was in a smouldering fury!
Then in 1917 9 paretics were inoculated with
malaria. All were on the way to the
madhouse; no hope.
10 years went by…..3
were completely sane, working!
Then treatment of
early paretics with malaria…..83 out of
every hundred were well and working, years later!
This led to sweat machines in the USA……fever inside the
patient, plus treatment with arsenic,
for syphilis.
The machine gave up……the heat did it anyway……hot blasts dry
air were used.
Finally….29 hours treatment……6 hours fever 105-106oF ……being substitute for 18 continuous months big
doses of arsenic and bismuth).
P 192 rheumatic
children…were flown to Puerto Rico….where the Sun heat mad Strep to vanish! …High protein diet
(especially eggs) helped a lot too.
Poverty leads to death….in a rich country…1930s.
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My
apologies for any confusion in meaning-
I tried to catch essentials….
T.V.
Late 1970s I had been doing Primal Therapy, having given
up my job as a microbiologist. I just
happened to pick up this book in Fisher Library
( sometimes my hands do the finding all by themselves) I got the feeling that all this was
extremely important – but who to go to with this knowledge? I have hung on to these bits of paper for
decades.
Later I was doing Mahikari (people radiate True Light from
the hands) - it was in my zone of
interest. The Mahikari Teachings say to
be grateful for fever. Fever has the
power to melt toxins. Also give
gratitude for- pain has the power to push out toxins.
Gratitude itself has great power of production, so the mind and feelings come into it.
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Now Professor Paul Davies, a physicist and cosmologist,
presently of the University of Arizona,
is lending his intelligence to the study of cancer- and he has come across the phenomenon of
fever from infection to ease cancer…….
Radio National’s Sunday Profile with Richard Aedy – you
might find it online- talked with Prof Davies.
RN’s Science Show with Robin Williams recently broadcast Professor
Davies’ lecture at Adelaide University.
RN
had a previous program regarding an unusual parasite infecting some people,
constant symptoms. One lady noticed that
she only got relief from that suffering when she had a dose of Salmonella
food poisoning!
Here is an extract copied from the transcript:-
Fever; chikungunya
Andreas Suhrbier: There are a very few
viruses that cause this kind of protracted disease dominated by these rheumatic
symptoms. And why do they do that? Well, the answer is actually reasonably
simple; the virus infects cells in the joints, and so the immune response tries
to get rid of these infections, and that battle between the virus and the
immune system causes inflammation and that causes the disease.
Ian Townsend: The painful arthritis
lasted nine months for Topaz Conway. She describes what happened when her
symptoms vanished briefly during a bout of food poisoning.
Topaz Conway: Suddenly I felt good and
it didn't matter that I had salmonella and was vomiting my guts out, it was
more I was absolutely ecstatic and almost giddy from not having the pain in the
joints. So on day five when all the symptoms of salmonella went away, the pain
came back and that's sort of when I lost the plot and told the doctor, 'You can
cut off both my arms and legs because I just cannot live with this pain,' and I
was dead serious at the time.
It has been said that Nature finds ways to get rid of
damaged individuals in all species-
think of a weak deer being hunted by wolves. Dr James J Lynch wrote “The Broken Heart” –
the medical consequences of loneliness.
It was he who noted the above observation. His latest book is on Love.
Spiritual teachings all say that the most powerful energy is
Love. It warms the heart……
My feeling is we might be on the cusp of understanding that Everything
Matters. To some extent even the
damaged individuals have failsafe mechanisms to heal damaged systems. Even the “junk” DNA is waiting in the
cytoplasm for the moment it may be required to update some genes in response to
environmental stimuli……
All is “incredibly interwoven
and interconnected - soul, spirit, mind
and body” (to borrow a few words
from Mahikari).
I live in great hope
tho sometimes the despair hammers away at me……
