History of Stethoscopes used by physicians January 15, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Health Products, History of Medicine, health, medicine.Tags: health, medicine, heart, stethoscopes, history, lungs
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Stethoscopes are the most widely used tool by physicians. With them, we are able to listen to heart, lungs, arteries and intestines. A physician is able to tell if there is heart disease, pneumonia, bronchitis, carotid stenosis, renal artery stenosis and a host of many other problems. The stethoscope that you commonly see draped around your doctor’s neck is a lot different than those first used. Below is an old advertisement listing all the different models available at that time.
As time went on….
Michael Moore, Sicko and Healthcare- Watch the trailer.. January 14, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in History of Medicine, Politics and Medicine, Survival, health, medicine.Tags: documentary, health, healthcare, Life, medicine, michael moore, movies, politics, sicko
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Yeah, I know, this movie is old but I still decided to post this trailer. This is a good movie and I would recommend everyone see it. I am not sure Michael Moore has the solution for all our problems but this movie at least can create dialog..
Forced Sterilization of Americans, Eugenics and California January 8, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in History of Medicine, Politics and Medicine, Survival, health, medicine.Tags: eugenics, health, Life, race, Survival
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This is a story from 2003 I found online. I thought it was interesting and relates to survival of the human race. I hope you enjoy it…….
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Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race.
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement’s campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at “improving” the human race. In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed “unfit,” preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in 27 states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in “colonies,” and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries….. Read the rest of the story here
Doctor Recommends Cigarettes for better health! January 5, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Diseases, Drugs, History of Medicine.Tags: cigarettes, doctors, health, Life, physicians, tobacco
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This sounds insane! A doctor would never recommend that their patient start smoking for better health, anxiety management or as a remedy for a sore throat right? FALSE! Not too long ago, medical journals and ladies magazines were full of advertisements which showed a doctor smoking and recommending cigarettes as treatment for common medical ailments. The days of when tobacco companies and drug companies gave doctors huge incentives are thankfully over. Nowadays, physicians are lucky to get a pen to write with or a note pad. Occasionally, a sandwhich and a soda are provided to listen to a sales pitch, but not much more than that.
Today, we now know that cigarettes are responsible for over 500,000 deaths every year, specifically in the form of lung cancer, heart attacks and strokes. To put that in perspective, the Vietnam war, which lasted over 10 years saw 54,000 US soldiers die, 10% of what cigarettes kill in 1 year.
Medicines like Chantix have become great options but simple will power and determination are also important, and a lot cheaper. In either case, if you are a smoker, you really need to quit today as your life will depend on it.



