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Old June 9th 04, 02:34 AM
Todd Gastaldo
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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



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