I really liked the article, but the prejudices of the time continue to shine through against "lepers, lunatics, maniacs, the imbecile, the subjects of the most loathsome and the most contagious diseases."
Leprosy doesn't easily spread from person to person, if it spreads at all as there are no scientific studies showing this to be the case. It is strongly associated with poverty and is a failure of the skin to heal properly resulting in disfiguring lesions. It likely caused by poor nutrition, hygiene and other factors.
Lunatics, maniacs and imbeciles often have physiological and toxicological reasons for being unwell. In the same way woman who had been sexually abused were labelled hysterical by the medical professional, they treat those who have been poisoned (often by doctors) with the same gaslighting and horrid treatment.
Koch's logical postulates for germs as the cause of any disease haven't been fulfilled for most claimed causative "pathogens", so we cannot even begin to discuss contagion in the sense proposed by 19th century scientists. https://open.substack.com/pub/mikestone/p/viroliegy-101-kochs-postulates
But even if we did we could only point out the almost complete failure of transmission through natural transmission routes and the "scientists" reliance upon uncontrolled experiments in which the injection of un-purified substances into the "infected" subjects (humans/animals; which doesn't simulate what happens in nature) to prove contagion.
I really liked the article, but the prejudices of the time continue to shine through against "lepers, lunatics, maniacs, the imbecile, the subjects of the most loathsome and the most contagious diseases."
Leprosy doesn't easily spread from person to person, if it spreads at all as there are no scientific studies showing this to be the case. It is strongly associated with poverty and is a failure of the skin to heal properly resulting in disfiguring lesions. It likely caused by poor nutrition, hygiene and other factors.
Lunatics, maniacs and imbeciles often have physiological and toxicological reasons for being unwell. In the same way woman who had been sexually abused were labelled hysterical by the medical professional, they treat those who have been poisoned (often by doctors) with the same gaslighting and horrid treatment.
Koch's logical postulates for germs as the cause of any disease haven't been fulfilled for most claimed causative "pathogens", so we cannot even begin to discuss contagion in the sense proposed by 19th century scientists. https://open.substack.com/pub/mikestone/p/viroliegy-101-kochs-postulates
But even if we did we could only point out the almost complete failure of transmission through natural transmission routes and the "scientists" reliance upon uncontrolled experiments in which the injection of un-purified substances into the "infected" subjects (humans/animals; which doesn't simulate what happens in nature) to prove contagion.