Re: I sent this to kevin at Left Brain/Right Brain

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Joe, It doesn't do any good to talk sense to . He had some

crazy relatives who were diagnosed with autism in their 70's and that

has him convinced it is all genetic. And, Kev just caught bipolar

somethingorother so he probably got it from his crazy relatives

genes. It's probably not wise to disturb some bipolar problems.

>

> How does the old saying go those who do not learn from

> history end up repeating it. This document is real from

> pubMed

> This is an excerpt

> The resistance

> to the evidence of mercury poisoning is typical of resistance to new

> medical knowledge and declined only when the opponents and sceptics

grew

> old and disappeared from the scene. Meanwhile, the cause having been

> identified and accepted, pink disease disappeared,

> AKA (autism)

> ( add ) ( adhd ) ( Speach delay ) Remember verstraiten earler

findings before they were destroyed out of the VSD

> And remember this is vacineal mercury not ingested

> evidently the opponents and sceptics were replaced

> more of the same

> The article

> Soc Hist Med. 1997 Aug;10(2):291-304. Related Articles, Links

> The rise and fall of pink disease.

> Dally A.

> Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

> This paper explores the social and medical history and context of

pink

> disease (acrodynia), a serious disease of infants and young children

> that baffled the medical world during the first half of the

twentieth

> century until it was shown to be caused by mercury poisoning. In the

> English-speaking world the commonest source of the mercury was

teething

> powders, which were widely available and advertised with increasing

> sophistication. Efforts to control them (such as the BMJ's campaign

against

> `Secret Remedies') were as yet unsuccessful. The article discusses

the

> social conditions that influenced the existence and recognition of

pink

> disease, the delay in finding its cause, the way in which it was

> explained as a virus infection or nutritional deficiency and why it

seldom

> occurred outside the teething period. It discusses both

professional and

> lay attitudes to health and diseases during the early twentieth

century

> and provides a model of how the disease developed in a specific

social

> setting and how the medical profession attempted to deal with it

within

> the limitations of contemporary professional thought. The resistance

> to the evidence of mercury poisoning is typical of resistance to new

> medical knowledge and declined only when the opponents and sceptics

grew

> old and disappeared from the scene. Meanwhile, the cause having been

> identified and accepted, pink disease disappeared, but its

consequences

> emerged much later, in an unexpected quarter, as a cause of male

> infertility.

> Publication Types:

> Historical Article

> PMID: 11619497 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE

>