MURDER IN THE MEDICINE CABINET

[Guest guest]

Could be mistaken, but I seem to remember that homeopathic hospitals

fared much better in 1918. Their patients had a much greater survival

rate... I'm thinking that they probably weren't giving aspirin, so

setting aside whatever benefit homeopathics may have had, they still

may have been on the right track just by avoiding fever reducers.

This gives me lots to think about. I still reach for the tylenol

pretty fast when I'm sick...

René

[Guest guest]

I found this interesting and thought you might also.

Murder in the Medicine Cabinet: Part 1 " Fever and the Mystery Disease

SARS " (Feb 2, 2005)

http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/murdermedicine1.html

> MURDER IN THE MEDICINE CABINET

>

> PART ONE

>

> The Deadliest Killer of the 20th Century, With More Deaths Than All

> the

> World Wars, Lurks Right Inside Your House, and Threatens to Take You

> and

> Your Family. The Story No One Told You.

>

> In 1918, a virulent, never seen before, form of influenza seemed to

> suddenly appear. It seemed to kill within hours, and spread around the

> world

> within days. It seemed to appear simultaneously all around the world.

> Its

> spread was faster than any then known means of human travel.

>

> In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health

> Organization

> warned of repeats of such a rapid and deadly pandemic, through such

> variants

> of influenza as SARS and Bird Flu. But without knowing what caused the

> 1918

> pandemic or how it spread, how can the CDC or WHO make such a claim?

> Unless

> they already know something they are not telling.

>

> As yet no one has been able to identify the actual medical cause of

> the

> 1918 Flu, with only a few samples of a " bird-like " virus taken from

> only

> several cadaver tissue samples. But no sample is complete. And those

> are

> only one or two samples from among the estimated 20 to 40 million

> people who

> seemed to die mysteriously almost overnight. The 1918 Flu spread

> faster and

> was more deadly, killing more people than even the Plague and Black

> Death of

> the middle ages.

>

> Why does no one talk about it? And even if the viral cause were

> identified, no one can explain the lightning fast spread of the

> disease.

> Maybe it wasn't a disease after all. Many researchers have even looked

> at

> some world-wide phenomena, such as extra-terrestrial biology filtering

> into

> the atmosphere from outer space. Or maybe, the jet stream spreading

> disease-laden dust from Asia all around the world in a matter of days.

> In an

> area of investigation where there seems to be no real facts and less

> logic,

> any " fringe theory " or " outre logic " is just as valid as any other.

>

> Maybe something about the 1918 Flu is being covered up. Something that

> we

> are not supposed to know.

>

> Actually, there is another rather simple mundane solution to the

> medical

> mystery. There did exist in 1918 a then new technical invention by

> which the

> " disease " was spread almost at the speed of light. The " 1918 Flu " was

> spread

> around the world almost instantaneously by telephone. Of course, that

> claim

> needs an explanation, and proof.

>

> In the 1890's an American chemist made an improvement on an old home

> folk

> remedy called Willow or Aspen Tea. It seemed to relieve the pains of

> old-age

> gout, arthritis and other assorted pains. But the evil tasting tea

> containing acetylsalicylic acid was so strong that it caused many

> people to

> have nausea and vomiting, along with the pain relief if they could

> tolerate

> drinking the tea. This potion was later neutralized, synthesized and

> buffered, and then sold to the German Bayer company as a pain

> reliever.

>

> I have researched the source and history of the name Aspirin and found

> no

> reasonable explanation has ever been found. I have found, instead,

> that the

> German Bayer company, in order to sell to both the American and

> European

> markets, used a name familiar in both markets. In America the common

> folk

> remedy form was called " Aspen Tea " made from boiling willow bark from

> the

> Aspen tree family. In Europe, the same home remedy was called " Spirain

> Tea "

> made from boiling the leaves of the common European shrub Spirae.

>

> Both preparations were found to contain large amounts of natural

> acetylsalicylic acid, but unbuffered. Combining the common

> home-remedy

> folklore names Aspen and Spirain comes up with the Euro-American brand

> name

> Aspirin. My research is the sole source for the information about

> that

> unique derivation of the brand name.

>

> The reason for the deep confusion and lack of any clear history about

> the

> trade name is that for almost a decade from 1905 to about 1915, the

> use of

> the trade name, and the source of the name Aspirin, was tied up in

> international courts. In the late 1890's when Aspirin became available

> as an

> easy to use " pop a pill " replacement to the sour tasting Aspen or

> Spirain

> Teas, many people used it to relieve the pain of joint arthritis.

>

> Many users also discovered, quite by accident, a unique side effect.

> If

> you had a fever when you took the Aspirin, it also made the fever

> suddenly

> go away. What a discovery! It appeared to be a cure for the the common

> cold

> and flu.

>

> By 1905 many other drug companies were making acetylsalicylic acid

> preparations and calling it Aspirin, but they were selling it as a

> common

> cold remedy. Bayer took these other companies to court and sued over

> illegal

> use of their trademark. Many people believe that Bayer lost the

> decision and

> lost control of the name Aspirin. Most believe that Aspirin is now a

> generic

> name such as Kleenex, Scotch Tape or Xerox. Not so. It was an odd

> court

> decision and a confusing compromise. By 1915 it was decided in court

> that

> Bayer had the exclusive use of the tradename Aspirin, if it were sold

> as a

> pain-relieving analgesic.

>

> The court also found that the other companies could also use the name

> Aspirin, if in their ads and packaging, they claimed that their

> product was

> an anti-febril agent or a fever reducer. This odd court decision is

> still in

> use today. You can still buy Bayer aspirin to relieve pain, and on the

> store

> shelf right next to it is Nyquil, Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin, Bufferin,

> Anacin

> and a whole long list of others, all containing aspirin or

> aspirin-like

> compounds and claiming to be treatments for Colds, Flu and Fever.

> Reducing

> fever was not in Bayer's original patent claim. Bayer didn't know in

> 1895 of

> the use of aspirin as a fever reducer and had not put that in their

> original

> trademark application.

>

> And how does that strange court decision fit into the rapid spread of

> the

> 1918 Flu?

>

> The primary defense which the human body has, to stop the spread of

> viral

> infections is to produce a fever. The fever is not a symptom of

> disease, but

> is actually the body's primary anti-viral immune system. The fever

> stops the

> telomeres on the ends of viral RNA from making copies of itself.

>

> The telomeres are like a zipper which unzips and separates the new

> RNA

> copy within miliseconds, but the telomeres are temperature sensitive

> and

> won't unzip at temperatures above 101F. Thus the high temperature of

> the

> fever, stops the flu virus from dividing and spreading. It is an

> immune

> system response which only mammals have developed to prevent the

> spread of

> viral flu infections, which mostly 99% come from the more ancient

> dinosaur-like earth life forms called birds.

>

> Almost all influenza is a form of " Avian Flu. " A few influenza forms

> come

> from other dinosaur-like life forms, the modern reptiles, but these

> are

> usually classified as very rare tropical

> diseases, since that is where most reptiles live.

>

> The doctors in the early 1900's didn't know about that, and even today

> few

> if any doctors are aware that fever is not a symptom of disease, but

> is the

> primary and only way for the human body to stop viral infections. If

> you

> stop or reduce the fever, viruses are allowed to divide and spread

> uncontrolled throughout the body. I have already described this

> process in

> detail in my articles posted in the Brother Gazette in 2003,

> so I

> won't go into detail here. Do a search on " SARS " on the Gazette and

> you'll

> find the articles.

>

> Normally the progress of a flu is that a virus enters the mucous

> membrane

> lining of the lungs, enters cells, then makes many copies of itself,

> which

> causes the cell to expand to such an degree that it bursts open. The

> new

> viruses then cloak themselves with a coating taken from the old

> damaged cell

> wall, thus hiding themselves from the human body's own T-cell

> antibody

> immune defense system. To the body's immune system the new viruses

> simply

> appear to be pieces of the body's own lung tissue.

>

> By creating a fever, the viral infection is slowed down sufficiently

> so

> that the body's T cells can find the swollen infected lung cells,

> surround

> them and metabolize (literally eat) the damaged cell with strong acids

> which

> also breaks down the RNA viruses into basic amino acids. This

> effectively

> " kills " the viruses so that they can't reproduce. But viruses are not

> living

> things, and you can't kill something that's not alive. All the body

> can do

> is destroy or dissolve the RNA amino acid chain which makes up the

> virus.

>

> Not knowing this, most doctors treat the flu with aspirin or fever

> reducers, as a palliative treatment to ease the aches, pains, and

> delerium

> fever effects. The result is that within hours, the fever goes down

> and the

> patient feels much better. What neither the patient nor the doctor

> knows is

> that with only a normal 98.6F body temperature, the viruses are

> allowed to

> reproduce unchecked.

>

> Within 72 hours, the viruses have grown from one or two virus bodies

> to

> millions or billions. The body is now completely overwhelmed. But

> while

> taking aspirin or cold medications, there are no symptoms or warnings

> of

> what is yet to come.

> As a last resort the body tries to quickly flush the infection of

> billions

> of viruses from the lungs with massive amounts of T-cells, and fluid

> in the

> lungs to " cough out " the virus. This is called viral pneumonia. Soon

> within

> hours the patient is in the hospital. The doctors try to treat the now

> 105

> degree fever with more anti-febril aspirins, or related medications

> to

> " treat the fever. " Then within another 24 hours the patient,

> suffocating and

> gasping for breath, is dead.

>

> You should note that the original infection did cause a mild fever,

> aches

> and pains, which the patient " self-medicated " with over-the-counter

> products. For the next several days, the patient seemed to have no

> symptoms,

> but was actually growing billions of copies of influenza virus in his

> lungs.

>

> Then days later, the patient and doctor seem to see a sudden rapid

> case of

> viral flu infection that is now overwhelming the body. Is that what

> really

> happened?

>

> What caused the patient's death? Was it the original flu virus, or was

> it

> the use of Aspirin to lower the flu fever which then shutdown the

> patient's

> own immune system response? Obviously, the latter. So how did this

> cause the

> massive rapid spread of the 1918 Flu?

>

> The Bayer court case had just been settled, and many companies other

> than

> Bayer, could now legally market aspirin to treat colds and fever. But

> then

> " The Great War to End all War " was on, and most aspirin products were

> going

> directly to the front lines in France to treat the soldiers in the

> diseased

> hell hole trenches of WWI.

>

> The World War I medics knew that aspirin could quickly reduce a fever.

> If

> a soldier had a fever, the docs gave aspirin. Magically the fever went

> down,

> the soldier felt better and quickly went back to the fighting. Then

> three

> days later, the same soldier was back, now with severe pneumonia and

> died

> almost overnight.

>

> No doctors then made the connection between aspirin and pneumonia

> death,

> since the trenches were filled with many other seemingly related

> diseases

> such as diphtheria or tuberculosis. Death and dying on the front line

> was

> common, so no investigation was done. Aspirin seemed to be a god-send

> since

> it allowed sick soldiers to swiftly get right back into the fighting.

>

> After the Armistice of November 11, 1918 the fighting stopped and the

> soldiers went home. The soldiers around the world announced the good

> news to

> their families back home. Most of the low-ranked doughboys had to wait

> till

> they got back to their homebase in Kansas, or wherever, to call home.

> They

> couldn't afford the costly trans-Atlantic deep sea cable phone rates.

> But

> when the troop arrived in Kansas, the call from sergeant Tom was

> something

> like:

>

> " Hey mom, I'm coming home. I'll see yu and dad next Tuesday in

> Chattanooga. How's everybody? Oh, Aunt Esther has a fever? Hey tell

> her to

> take some aspirin. Yeah, that stuff in the medicine cabinet for

> treatin' the

> aches and pains. Tell Esther, we used it in France. Works right away

> and the

> fever is gone. OK see you Tuesday.... "

>

> So what does Esther do? She tries the aspirin, but the old Bayer

> label

> only says its for " aches and pains " and says nothing about fevers. She

> takes

> it and magically the fever is gone, and she feels much better, almost

> cured.

> She's so much better, she gets out the horse and buggy to go see her

> sister,

> Lucy in Mt Carmel, where Lucy and the kids are down with the fever.

> Mt.

> Carmel has no telephones and even no roads, only the buggy path to

> reach the

> outside world. But within hours of sergeant Tom's phone call home, by

> word

> of mouth, everybody in rural Mt. Carmel is now taking aspirin to

> treat

> fevers. Since the new information came from a soldier, from the US

> Army and

> the government, it must be true!

>

> Within a week of the 1918 Armistice, by newfangled telephone,

> trans-oceanic telephone cables, and even the experimental

> ship-to-shore

> shortwave radios using Morse code, the message was flashed around the

> world -- " Have a fever? Take Aspirin. It worked in France, it'll work

> for

> you. "

>

> That message spread at nearly the speed of light over millions of

> telephone lines all around the world. The news of the " miracle cure "

> even

> spread by word of mouth within a day or so, even to places with no

> phones

> nor roads.

>

> Mysteriously, a week later, doctors round the world now had hundreds

> of

> sick and dying patients. Nobody could figure out why. The patients

> themselves never reported that just the week before they did have a

> mild

> fever. But it was so mild that when they took some aspirin, it simply

> went

> away. Nobody made the connection. The doctors only saw, by November

> 24, 1918

> thousands of very sick patients with high fevers, lungs filled with

> fluid,

> and swift overnight death.

>

> The medical profession had never seen anything like it before, nor

> since.

> It seemed to occur simultaneously all around the world and even

> reaching

> into such out of the way places like Mt.

> Carmel with no telephones nor roads. How could such a massive

> fast-spreading killer disease exist? It didn't. It wasn't a disease.

> It was

> a new use for an old home folk remedy which everybody already had in

> their

> medicine cabinet, Bayer Aspirin to reduce fever.

>

> The medical profession, at a complete loss to explain it, simply

> called it

> the " Spanish Flu " or the " 1918 Flu " or many similar names. It was a

> mystery

> with no known source, so it was assigned many place names. So far,

> nobody

> has been able to prove any single pathogen was responsible. And even

> if they

> did, they still can't explain how it seemed to spread world-wide at

> almost

> the speed of light, clear around the world within a week.

>

> To this day there is no explanation. But, now you know. The " disease "

> was

> not a single pathogen, but many of the hundreds of similar types of

> flu

> which are always existing at any time around the world. What was

> different

> in November 1918 was the many hundreds of thousands of almost

> simultaneous

> phone calls from the millions of returning sergeant Toms saying,

> " ...tell

> Aunt Esther to take the aspirin. It worked in France. It'll work for

> her... "

> Nobody traced the spread of the 1918 Flu to sergeant Tom. Nobody made

> the

> connection.

>

> That very same source of disease still exists today. What is

> different

> today is that cold and flu products are sold and used all year long.

> This

> results in an estimated one million deaths from mysterious viral

> pneumonia

> reported every year, but also all around the year. In 1918, the new

> use of

> aspirin for treating colds and flu all started at the same time in

> November,

> thus creating the false impression of a sudden massive onset of a new

> disease. Even today SARS is not a disease. It is the improper use of a

> brand

> new high-tech flu fighter called Tamiflu. The FDA approved the use of

> Tamiflu several years ago. In 2003 it began to be used world-wide. But

> how

> is it used?

>

> Many millions of people around the world still self-treat their own

> colds

> and flu with over-the-counter meds containing aspirin. Those are the

> most

> commonly sold medications in the world. The patient's mild fever

> quickly

> goes away. They forget about ever having felt sick. Then several days

> later

> the patient sees the doctor and now has a high fever, bad cough and

> fluid-filled lungs. The doctor, using the new CDC and WHO guidelines,

> treats

> the hospitalized " flu " patient with the new high-tech Tamiflu. But how

> often

> and at what dosage?

>

> The doctors do what they've always done for the past 100 years. Tell

> the

> nurse to stick a thermometer in the patient's mouth, increase the

> Tamiflu

> dosage by 10cc's every hour until the fever starts to drop. Then

> maintain

> that dosage level until the patient dies. Then blame the death on some

> new

> highly contagious lethal virus. Nothing new here. It's the same old

> story,

> since 1918.

>

> The only thing different is that they give it a new name like SARS,

> or

> Bird Flu or whatever sounds nifty and high-tech. Even today, each year

> about

> one million people world-wide die from the very same " disease " which

> first

> appeared in the fall of 1918. Has medicine, in the last 100 years,

> turned

> this " contagion " from Pandemic by Phone, into Illness by Internet? Is

> it the

> rapid and continuous spread of misinformation that is still killing

> millions?

>

> So now, I have given you enough information that you are ready for

> Part

> Two. Coming next is a review of the curious scientific evidence,

> medical

> records and the biochemistry proof behind the Case of Murder in the

> Medicine

> Cabinet.

>

> Marshall

>

> Editor, BroJon Gazette

>

>

Part 2: Murder in the Medicine Cabinet: " How Did so many Doctors and

Health Professionals get fooled? " (Nov 14, 2005)

http://www.mayanmajix.com/art2097.html