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Re: CogDiss 1188X post# 206476

Thursday, 01/03/2019 7:55:26 PM

Thursday, January 03, 2019 7:55:26 PM

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“Drugs can only repress symptoms: they cannot eradicate disease. The true remedy for all diseases is Nature’s remedy .... There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. Stimulate the phagocytes. Drugs are a delusion”.




Wow, I did not know that. How extremely prescient of Mr. Shaw. Especially when this was still during a time when bloodletting persisted, even if it was fading as a practice.

Bloodletting persisted into the 20th century and was recommended in the 1923 edition of the textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine. The textbook was originally written by Sir William Osler and continued to be published in new editions under new authors following Osler's death in 1919.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting



He also wrote,

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.



It looks like he had plenty of worthy things to say.
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/george_bernard_shaw
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