U.S. surgeons routinely operated on babies without anesthesia

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The dark history of modern medicine: U.S. surgeons routinely operated

on babies without anesthesia

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 by Mike Adams,

 

 

A warning to readers: this is a gruesome story. Do not read this if

you are squeamish. It's a hard-to-believe (but true) account of the

horrors of conventional medicine and its barbaric surgical procedures,

many of which are still practiced today.

 

We begin by examining the astonishing practice of prestigious U.S.

surgeons operating on babies with no anesthesia, subjecting them to

the intense pain and trauma of having their skin sliced open with

scalpels, their internal organs poked and prodded, and their surgical

wounds closed up with staples and stitches... all with full awareness

of each terrifying moment of excruciating pain.

 

To stop the babies from screaming in terror, surgeons gave them heavy

doses of muscle relaxants, paralyzing them for the duration of the

procedure. And so these babies could only watch in terrified

amazement, prisoners in their own tiny bodies, unable to move a muscle

or make a sound, as strange men wearing masks and wielding sharp

instruments went to work on their flesh.

 

If it sounds like a " mad doctor " horror film, think again: This was a

common practice by U.S. surgeons right up to the 1980's. Many adults

living today were once subjected to the terror of full-consciousness

surgical procedures as babies or infants, performed by the brightest

and most authoritative surgeons of the day -- the same kind of

arrogant surgeons who now tell us that bariatric surgery is a

treatment for obesity, or that surgically removing muscles of the

skull is a cure for migraines.

 

Surgery has a dark and dreadful history in the Western world, and the

practice of operating on babies without anesthesia is just one

footnote in a saga too terrifying to accurately describe. Its real

history is hardly ever talked about today, just as doctors don't

readily admit their profession once hawked cigarettes on television,

proudly proclaiming Camels were, " Recommended by more doctors than any

other cigarette! "

 

But the practice was real, and it was " standard operating procedure "

at places like Oxford University and Boston Children's Hospital. It

makes us all wonder, though... How could surgeons be so cruel as to

operate on babies without anesthesia?

 

The bizarre beliefs of surgeons

The answer, as strange as it now seems, is that they actually believed

babies couldn't feel pain. It's absurd, yes, but the mindset continues

today with medical experiments on animals, where researchers tell

themselves these animals don't feel pain either.

 

Much of conventional medicine has always been based on a lie, or a

series of lies. Babies feel no pain. Lab rats feel no pain. Monkeys

are not conscious beings. Health knowledge is gained by dissecting

living beings and identifying their parts. Take your pick.

 

It was once common knowledge in the field of medicine that female

reproductive organs made women crazy. Hysterectomies, which are still

routinely performed today for no medically justifiable reason, derive

their very name from the intention of the surgery: Hyster = hysteria,

ectomy = to remove. Thus, hysterectomies were ordered and performed on

the simple basis of removing hysterical behavior in women.

 

The procedure, of course, was almost always performed by men. It was

the women, you see, who were all insane, they claimed. The men were

merely scientists practicing what they called, " evidence-based

medicine " -- a term you still hear thrown around today by doctors and

surgeons defending modern medical scams.

 

The madness of surgery continues into modern times

The madness of conventional medicine and its surgical procedures,

sadly, is not yet a closed chapter in the history books. We're still

living it, and millions of Americans each year are being subjected to

surgical procedures that can only be described as utterly mad, if not

downright profitable for the masked men performing them:

Hysterectomies, gastric bypass surgery, heart bypass surgery, carpal

tunnel surgery, the surgical removal of wisdom teeth and many more.

 

None of these have any medical justification except in a few extreme

cases. Nearly all are conducted for the sole purpose of generating

business for surgeons who suffer serious delusions about the efficacy

of these procedures, just as the surgeons of three decades ago once

believed babies could feel no pain.

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There's not a conventional dentist who has looked in my mouth, for

example, who didn't immediately urge me to undergo oral surgery to

remove my wisdom teeth. I'm 36 years old. My teeth are fine. My jaw is

fine. But my dentists are mad. Most patients would automatically say

yes to such an authoritative suggestion, though. They'd agree on the

spot: " Yes, I'll let you cut open my jaw and remove my teeth just

because you say so! "

 

Two decades ago it was tonsils. Half the children I grew up with, it

seemed, had their tonsils surgically removed. That particular

procedure was a popular medical fad. Countless parents were hoodwinked

into letting little Johnny go under the knife. But after hundreds of

thousands of such procedures were performed, it eventually became

obvious that removing the tonsils did nothing beneficial other than

pad the pockets and egos of doctors. Today, it is rarely done at all.

Tonsils get infected. It doesn't mean you should slice them out.

 

Besides, we have new surgical fads now like bariatric surgery -- a

lobotomy of the stomach -- where surgeons maim patients for life and

then send a bill to the ones who don't die on the operating table.

Actually, they get billed, too. Surgery ain't free, you know, even if

you're dead.

 

Nearly five percent of such patients are, in fact, dead in the first

year following the bariatric surgery, studies now show. And many more

who survive the ordeal find that they overproduce insulin after

ingesting food -- a condition known as hyperinsulinemia. It's

sometimes also called " islet cell hyperfunction, " and it means the

pancreas is producing too much insulin in response to food intake. You

know what the surgeon's modern solution to this problem is?

 

They open up the patient and slice off part of the pancreas! Amazing,

huh? That way, it won't produce so much insulin. It makes you wonder

what the surgical cure for headaches might be.

 

With similar insanity, the modern treatment for an overactive thyroid

is to fry it with radiation so powerful that people who undergo the

procedure are now setting off nuclear materials detection scans at

airports. Patients who receive the radioactive iodine injections used

in the procedure are advised -- get this -- to avoid hanging around

their pets because they're so radioactive, they might give the family

dog cancer!

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I swear, I'm not making this up.

 

Surgical treatments for mental health

If you think it's all a bit mad, you're right. But you don't know the

half of it. Mental health, you see, has also been treated by barbaric

surgical procedures. Turn the clock back on conventional medicine to

the early 1900's when a psychiatrist named Henry Cotton was the

medical director at the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton.

 

Dr. Cotton cooked up the theory that mental illness was the result of

bacterial infections and pus found throughout the body. With the full

support of the medical authorities of the day, he and his staff

proceeded to surgically remove practically every organ and structure

in the patient's body in an effort to cure them of their " illness. "

 

He would often start with the teeth, pulling them out one by one. If

that didn't " cure " the patient, he would cut out their tonsils and

sinuses. When that didn't cure them either, he'd move on to other

organs: gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, ovaries, testicles and even

their colons. Patients who weren't healed by this " treatment " were

subjected to even more organ removals, to the point where some

patients were maimed beyond recognition and were barely alive at all.

 

It wasn't all voluntary, either. Some patients were literally dragged

kicking and screaming into the procedures, then violently strapped

onto surgical tables so that the " treatment " could begin. Others

actually paid big bucks for the treatment, as you'll see below.

 

Dr. Cotton publicly announced a cure rate of 85 percent. That number,

he later admitted, included those who died from the treatment, because

they were " no longer suffering " from the illness. (Sounds a lot like

today's chemotherapy treatments for cancer, doesn't it?) Conventional

medicine has a long history of fudging the numbers, it seems. You can

announce whatever success rate you want if you redefine success.

(Modern medicine has done that quite effectively with drug trials.)

The actual death rate from Dr. Cotton's treatments, by the way, was 30

percent of all patients.

 

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A pioneer of conventional medicine

Not surprisingly, conventional medicine gleefully embraced Cotton's

work, heaping unprecedented praise upon his " genius " discoveries about

the true cause of mental illness. He was honored at medical

institutions across the U.S. and Europe, and invited to speak to elite

groups of leading doctors and surgeons. He was widely considered one

of the pioneers in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health

disorders. (Today, by the way, the theory of mental disorders has

shifted from " pus in the organs " to " chemical imbalances in the brain "

which are treated by toxic synthetic chemicals known as prescription

drugs. Different era, different terminology. Same con.)

 

As demand for his treatments skyrocketed, in part due to a series of

glowing news reports published in the New York Times, Cotton saw

visions of dollar signs like any good psychiatrist. He opened a

private clinic for treating mental illness, where he raked in enormous

sums for removing the teeth and organs of the super rich. Rich people,

even in 1922, were just as gullible as rich people today when it comes

to trading their wealth for medical procedures based on junk science.

 

Despite the astonishing death rate, patients couldn't get enough of

Cotton's cutting-edge treatments, and they were willing to fork over

top dollar to subject themselves to various organ lobotomies in the

hopes of curing mental illness that was most likely caused by simple

nutritional deficiencies. (It's much like today, where cancer patients

are tripping over each other to sign up for the latest, greatest,

over-hyped anti-cancer drug, no matter what the cost, when most

cancers are easily treated with low-cost herbs and nutritional therapies.)

 

When Dr. Cotton fell ill himself, he had his own teeth surgically

removed and promptly returned to work, performing the same procedure

on others. He did not, however, remove his own testicles. (Apparently,

he didn't have the balls.)

 

A champion of conventional medicine

But this is no laughing matter. What's important to note about Dr.

Henry Cotton was not the barbaric nature of his surgical treatments,

nor the madness of his ideas, but rather the stunning fact that he was

widely considered a pioneer by the medical authorities of his time.

Cotton, for example, was considered a top student at the John Hopkins

School of Medicine, and the psychiatric industry openly accepted Dr.

Cotton's insane methods. Even to this day, the American Journal of

Psychiatry offers this glowing whitewash of Dr. Cotton on its web page

about the history of the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital: " In 1907 Dr.

Henry A. Cotton became the medical director, and a new era in the

treatment of mental diseases began. Among other improvements, Dr.

Cotton is credited with abolishing all forms of mechanical restraints

and implementing daily staff meetings to discuss patient care. "

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Mysteriously, there is no mention in the journal of Dr. Cotton's

barbaric methods of treatment other than calling them, " ...a new era

in the treatment of mental diseases. " The American Journal of

Psychiatry focuses instead on Dr. Cotton's exciting invention of

" daily staff meetings. " Wow. That's amazing stuff. Meetings? Really?

 

Prestigious medical institutions around the world were suckered in,

too. They lined up to invite Dr. Cotton to speak at their schools.

Even the New York Times wrote glowing accounts of Dr. Cotton's

" scientific discoveries. "

 

All the brightest doctors in the world, it seems, couldn't tell the

difference between treatment and torture.

 

Modern surgery is still half mad

And many still can't today. Because the history of surgery in

conventional medicine continues right up to this day, where countless

barbaric procedures are still being formed, all in the name of

" treating " patients. Babies are now receiving anesthesia when operated

on, thankfully, but 50,000 Americans this year will have their

digestive tracts partially ripped out in a procedure marketed to them

by surgeons hawking the latest weight loss " cure " who just happen to

avoid mentioning all the sexy side effects of the procedure (like

having to drink all your food through a straw for the rest of your

life, or puking every time you swallow any chunk of food larger than a

tater tot).

 

The fad procedures always change, you see, but the cons don't. Today,

just as a hundred years ago, the public and the press remain

hoodwinked by the false authority and high-IQ language of surgeons

pushing the latest surgical fads... all based on the latest and

greatest " scientific knowledge " of the day (which will be considered

nonsense in about twenty years).

 

But it doesn't matter how much technical knowledge they learn, nor the

sophistication of their high-tech instruments, nor whether they can

perform remote surgery over the internet with a robot-controlled arm.

It sounds cool, but it's really just stupid. Cutting into the human

body is plainly traumatic and harmful by its very nature, and it

should only be used as a last resort when other treatments are not

available.

 

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Just to clarify, we do need great surgeons to save the lives of those

suffering from trauma, accidents or physical birth defects. Some

people genuinely benefit from cosmetic surgery, and I'm not just

talking about silicone implants. Some dental patients really do

benefit from oral surgery when things have deteriorated too far. There

are many other examples where surgery has a legitimate purpose.

 

We need these technicians in society for many things, but not for half

the things they impose upon us. Much of the surgery being done today

is a sham, and not coincidentally, it just happens to be a sham that

keeps surgeons well paid, just like it has for over a hundred years.

 

Dr. Cotton would have been proud to see modern medicine carrying on

his trademark insanity today. I can see him smiling right now, with no

teeth.

 

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