History of Medicine

Written by Daniel Mark Norris Newton Davis

Originally Posted: 12-9-06

Last Updated: 2-6-09

" It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" by Charles Darwin

" Thy Food is Thy Medicine and Thy Medicine Thy Food" by Greek Philosopher, Apocrates

In order to understand medicine today, it is important to understand how we got here. Medical science is an ever evolving science. What is true one-year may not necessarily be true the next. Research is a very slow and meticulous, yet interpretive process. It is usually running far behind today's realities. Today's world is advancing faster than traditional proof methods allow for. Medicine is very much an ever-changing science, continually adjusting to new discoveries . The evolvement of medical practices is a combination of further development and/or thinking outside the current boxes. The most dynamic changes in our understanding of how the human body operates will come from those that think outside the current boxes, often from a conflictatory viewpoint. Then the current boxes will have a different composition. Eventually scientists and researchers will prove my many theories and conclusions. I hope the professionals we depend upon to protect us, hurry to get the needed work done. Meanwhile the realities of the health symptoms, manifested in us from accumulation of mold fungi, are causing a lot of unnecessary pain, suffering, and dying throughout the world. The world can't wait that long.

In the 1970s the medical profession evolved from traditional medicine, seeking the underlying causations of illnesses and diseases, to relieving the symptoms. But the symptoms are communications regarding the underlying causations. If you don't address the underlying causation of those symptoms, you never really solve the problems which caused those symptoms in the first place. As with all of life, if you procrastinate on taking care of a problem it will get worse. We need to repel the 'instant gratification' of taking drugs, many of which harm us in the long run, to relieve the symptoms. We need to concentrate more on preventative solutions to the underlying causes of diseases. Then we will move forward towards true health and quality-of-life.

Women's health issues have historically been given less attention than men's health issues, due to various social issues. There are definite differences between the male and female anatomies. There are many health problems which affect the female populations at a very disproportionate rate. Women's health issues have all too often been dismissed to hormonal or psychological dysfunctions. As you proceed through my site I will identify what I feel some of the key causations for those conditions and diseases, which females suffer from at a disproportionate rate. The very conditions that promote the growth of a human fetus also provide ideal conditions for growth of mold fungals, such as yeast, inside the human body. Then if you multiply those effects over many generations, a new insight into the differences between men and women emerges. A new life, the next generation, the next step in one's familial evolution, heredity, is all formed, communicated, and passed on through the reproductive systems of the female population. So I would say there is not much more important, for the survival of the human race, than to understand these differences in womens health issues.

The current medical establishment has evolved to a system of mass production. The doctors find themselves in a 'Catch-22' situation, between their patients and the dictates of managed care. The high costs of insurance premiums, many different types of insurance forms to fill out, and skyrocketing costs, have reduced the emphasis of patient care to an allotted 12 minutes, to diagnose and write a prescription. This is what we now get for our extremely high costs of both health care premiums and drugs. The commissions, which I understand at least some doctors receive for writing prescriptions, has evolved to being a necessary income for covering their high operating costs.

Doctors are inadequately trained in the effects of mold fungi on the human body. They get inadequate training in mycology during medical school. Veterinarians receive more training in mycology than people doctors. It is difficult to recognize, analyze, and accurately diagnose symptoms related to mold fungi, when you have not been properly educated and trained in their effects on the human body. Unfortunately, this all too often leads to harmful and sometimes tragic repercussions for their patients. After you examine the information throughout my site, I believe you will find this lack of training in mycology to be quite disturbing. I believe it is very difficult to understand the degenerative processes within the human body, without understanding the engineers of degeneration, the mold fungi. It has always been their job, throughout history, to deconstruct, decompose, degenerate, and break all biological components back down to their basic elements. Dust to dust.

I feel doctors need to be willing to think outside the box they are currently in. Medicine is constantly evolving and adjusting in different directions. Those who close their minds will never accept today's realities. Reality will leave them far behind. Doctors need to start listening to their patient's descriptions of their symptoms. If they say it feels like a 'pressure' headache, there is a reason it feels like pressure. And we need to get past 'practicing' medicine.With all our fantastic advancements in technology, by now we should have a diagnostic program where the doctor can enter all the pertinent medical information, such as blood pressure, levels of various nutrients, etc., then it prints out an analysis of your body's condition and needs.

Nanotechnology may be the next Industrial Revolution according to The American Industrial Hygiene Association. "Worldwide government investment in nanotechnology has accelerated dramatically since the mid-1990s, setting the stage for what may well become a multi-trillion dollar global industry in the next decade." According to the US Department of Labor, more than 2 million US workers are currently exposed to nanometer diameter particles. Along with the promising benefits and economic potential for nanotechnology, "it also presents many workplace health and safety concerns". There is concern for different toxicological effects. Hepa filtering of the air we breathe takes on more importance. Nanotechnology is moving forward at such a fast pace that research to protect our health from any adverse effects is rushing to catch up. Just as the wonder material asbestos was later found to be detrimental to our health, they are working hard "to investigate the possibility of occupational health risks from nanoparticles in the game".

The International Council on Nanotechnology and Rice University have launched the world's first online database of scientific findings related to the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. "By gathering findings that are scattered throughout the literatures of biomedical application developers, toxicologist's, environmental engineer's and nanomaterials scientists, we are helping researchers and government funding agencies to see the big picture." Twenty years ago techno visionaries predicted nano robots would be capable of patrolling your bloodstream and attack viruses, cholesterol, tumors, etc..

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory of the European Bioinformatics Institute have discovered that traditional views of evolutionary gene transfers being vertical, represented as a tree with branches, is no longer accurate, at least with microbes. They have discovered that gene families present today also evolve in a horizontal exchange, within networks. Since microbes operate in a 'small- world' nature, much like the Internet, it enables them to travel very fast from one node to another. Some of these hubs are far more connected than others. The hubs serve as bacterial 'gene banks' for microbes to acquire and redistribute genes. "In other words, a gene can rapidly be disseminated from organism to organism through very few horizontal gene transfer events, explains Christos Ouzounis. A few species, including beneficial nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria, appear to be 'champions' of horizontal gene transfer; it's entirely possible that apparently harmless organisms are quietly spreading antibiotic resistance under our feet, concludes Christos Ouzounis."

"The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them" by American physicist Joseph Henry.

NOVA has a very good report on accidental discoveries in medicine at; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cancer/discoveries.html

Duke University Medical Center has an article summarizing some of the changes in health care over the last 30 years, including integration of holistic medicine into Western medicine at; http://www.duke.edu/vertices/update/win94/holistic.html

www.mold-survivor.com has a good report on the medical community and its history at http://www.mold-survivor.com/medicine&doctors.html.

Dr. Tim O'Shea at; http://www.mercola.com/2001/aug/15/perception.htm has a report about the conditioning and programming of Americans by big corporation advertising, including the drug companies, to influence our perceptions of science and drugs.

Dr. Richie C Shoemaker at; http://www.moldwarriors.com/preface.htm gives a well-documented description of the current status of the medical community's attitude towards mold exposures, and their effects on the human body, as he speaks to a congressional briefing September 22, 2004.

Dr. Rapp at; http://www.drrapp.com/codex.doc makes us aware of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, an international agreement between all World Trade Organization members. "Imagine not being able to buy Vitamin C in amounts larger than the RDA (200 mg) while at the same time paying perhaps 10 times more for it. Welcome to the biggest change in the health care field in 100 years. It is called "CODEX."

New regulations called CODEX ALIMENTARIUS will become mandatory for all World Trade Organization members, including the United States. At that time, it will be illegal to buy, sell, recommend or use any but 28 ultra-low dose nutrients, natural supplements, herbs, enzymes or other natural treatments whether you are a licensed health professional or not. The only legal health option left will be the pharmaceutical one. You will need a prescription from an MD." This must be the reason I started seeing the new word nutraceuticals more and more in my research lately. Nutraceuticals have the profitability of a patent, just like pharmaceuticals.

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Mercola.com- Natural Medicine's History and Future in the US

Dr. Mercola's Video- Town of Allopath

HerbAllure.com:We Become Silent-The CODEX-CAFTA Documentary(video)

Northampton Wellness Associates: Healing and Self-Healing: Inside Out