Hoe kan een wetenschap zonder ziel nu een wetenschap van de ziel hebben? Uit de eerste recensie in de bovenstaande post:
Back in the 1700s the mentally ill were institutionally housed in unheated, dingy cells, confined in chains, and displayed for public amusement. These “lunatics,” “brutes,” and “wild beasts” needed to be subdued and kept fearful of their captors.
Private asylums in England, which were owned by doctors, were known to be places where husbands could get rid of annoying wives or relatives. Physicians became the sole arbiters to determine the diagnosis of insanity and some became quite wealthy at their “practice.” The number of madhouses soon doubled and insanity became a common condition. Women were often the victim of “asylum medicine,” and “female insanity” in the 1890s was commonly “cured” by removing the uterus or amputating parts of the female anatomy.
Mentally ill patients were also treated with powerful purges, emetics (to induce vomiting), mercury and blistering of the skull with mustard powders. Injections with such things as animal parts, sheep extract, horse serum, arsenic, strychnine, toxic chemicals, and malaria serum were common treatments. Removing various body parts and teeth because of “hidden infections” caused death in nearly 43 percent of patients.
Submersing the patient in waterfalls, pummeling him with painful blasts of water, dropping him or her into a deep tub of cold water (“Bath of Surprise”), near drowning in the “Chinese Temple,” and the use of swinging chairs were considered effective “medical” treatments. Copious bloodletting, as well as creating wounds and keeping them open for months to induce a permanent discharge (to “let out” the insanity) were also commonly employed.
Uit de tweede recensie:
Today medical doctors prescribe antidepressants to pregnant and nursing moms, even though the medications appear in the fetus in measureable amounts. The newborn may start off life today with a bloodstream full of antidepressants and nourished by a breastmilk cocktail spiked with psychiatric drugs.
Whitaker found that children today are at high risk of becoming mentally ill because of the practice of prescribing them psychiatric cocktails of stimulants and antidepressants for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) and other conditions. When the child reaches the age of eighteen, Whitaker says, he often becomes a disabled adult.
En ik mag het niet hebben over depopulatie? Niet dat ik me hier iets van aantrek, natuurlijk...
Mike
Back in the 1700s the mentally ill were institutionally housed in unheated, dingy cells, confined in chains, and displayed for public amusement. These “lunatics,” “brutes,” and “wild beasts” needed to be subdued and kept fearful of their captors.
Private asylums in England, which were owned by doctors, were known to be places where husbands could get rid of annoying wives or relatives. Physicians became the sole arbiters to determine the diagnosis of insanity and some became quite wealthy at their “practice.” The number of madhouses soon doubled and insanity became a common condition. Women were often the victim of “asylum medicine,” and “female insanity” in the 1890s was commonly “cured” by removing the uterus or amputating parts of the female anatomy.
Mentally ill patients were also treated with powerful purges, emetics (to induce vomiting), mercury and blistering of the skull with mustard powders. Injections with such things as animal parts, sheep extract, horse serum, arsenic, strychnine, toxic chemicals, and malaria serum were common treatments. Removing various body parts and teeth because of “hidden infections” caused death in nearly 43 percent of patients.
Submersing the patient in waterfalls, pummeling him with painful blasts of water, dropping him or her into a deep tub of cold water (“Bath of Surprise”), near drowning in the “Chinese Temple,” and the use of swinging chairs were considered effective “medical” treatments. Copious bloodletting, as well as creating wounds and keeping them open for months to induce a permanent discharge (to “let out” the insanity) were also commonly employed.
Uit de tweede recensie:
Today medical doctors prescribe antidepressants to pregnant and nursing moms, even though the medications appear in the fetus in measureable amounts. The newborn may start off life today with a bloodstream full of antidepressants and nourished by a breastmilk cocktail spiked with psychiatric drugs.
Whitaker found that children today are at high risk of becoming mentally ill because of the practice of prescribing them psychiatric cocktails of stimulants and antidepressants for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) and other conditions. When the child reaches the age of eighteen, Whitaker says, he often becomes a disabled adult.
En ik mag het niet hebben over depopulatie? Niet dat ik me hier iets van aantrek, natuurlijk...
Mike
