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Nuland says Semmelweis only CLAIMED to have written letters
NULAND SAYS SEMMELWEIS ONLY **CLAIMED** TO HAVE WRITTEN LETTERS
(Sherwin B. Nuland, MD really plagued Semmelweis in The Doctors' Plague. My reaction was similar to Lancet editor Richard Horton's... See the postscript.) PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are knowingly closing birth canals (see PROOF in "I ain't no Semmelweis, but" URL below). It's as easy as washing hands to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. For simple instructions, see "I ain't no Semmelweis, but"... SHERWIN B. NULAND, MD Chairman of the Board of Managers Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "The goal of his recent work has been to transmit knowledge of medicine, biomedical ethics, and medical history to the public." http://www.yale.edu/isps/faculty/Nuland.html SHERWIN B. NULAND, MD via Margaret Humphreys Editor Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Box 90719 Department of History Duke University Durham NC 27708 USA Tel: +1 (919) 684 2285 Fax: +1 (919) 681 7670 Email: Sherwin, Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney promotes closing the birth canal up to 30% (semisitting delivery). Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen also promotes KEEPING the birth canal closed (lithotomy) when shoulders get stuck. Since you are at Yale, I mentioned that you could ask Helen to stop such foolishness. See I ain't no Semmelweis, but... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2591 Regardless what Helen does... In accord with your goal of transmitting knowledge of medicine to the public... Please help transmit to the public the message that OBs and CNMwives are closing birth canals. Please help transmit to the public that allowing the birth canal to open the "extra" up to 30% is as easy as washing hands. Thanks, Todd Dr. Gastaldo PS You recently criticized Lancet editor Richard Horton for saying that "Semmelweis wrote letters to leading obstetricians describing his findings and inviting replies." You say that Horton's source - Professor Codell Carter of Brigham Young University - indicates only that Semmelweis *claimed* (your emphasis) to have written such letters. You wrote, "That letters were sent is certainly true, but no evidence has ever been found that Semmelweis himself wrote any of them." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17009 (Sheesh.) Horton replied: "Time and again, Nuland interprets the evidence one way-against Semmelweis. Carter, for example, writes that 'as Semmelweis explained in his major book, The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, near the end of 1847 he and his students wrote letters to several prominent obstetricians in which they described their experiences and invited responses. Most of the letters were ignored. In The Etiology, Semmelweis quoted and discussed the few responses he had received. Hebra also referred to the letters in both of his announcements.' "Fact: Letters were sent. Fact: Responses were received and documented, unless Nuland is seriously proposing that this evidence was fabricated by Semmelweis, his students, and Hebra (there is no evidence that this is so). Conclusion: It is reasonable to claim that Semmelweis sought to communicate his ideas to others. It is wholly unreasonable to imagine that Semmelweis took no part in sending out these letters, given that they-and certainly the one letter cited by Carter-came from his student collaborators." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17009 I read your book, Sherwin, and my reaction was quite similar to Richard Horton's. I ain't no Semmelweis, but... Let this email serve as documentation that Todd D. Gastaldo, DC both CLAIMS to have sent emails warning about OBs and CNMwives closing birth canals - and actually HAS sent emails warning about OBs and CNMwives closing birth canals. OBs and CNMwives really are closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth canals closed when babies' shoulders get stuck. Some babies die, some get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines gruesomely wrenched. (ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly closed up to 30%.) Again Sherwin, you're right there at Yale - please ask CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney to stop encouraging midwives to ape OBs in closing of birth canals. And - of course - ask Yale OBs to stop closing birth canals. I'll copy Codell via This Open Letter will be archived for global access within 24 hrs in the Google usenet groups archive. Search http://groups.google.com for "Nuland says Semmelweis only CLAIMED to have written letters" |
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