What an excellent and fully researched article! Thank you Sayer!
My own bout with polio (infantile paralysis, poliomyelitis) was at age three on my Birthday. I can still recall the screams of my Mother as I was sent upstairs and unable to climb them. It was 1946 and a polio epidemic was raging in Saint Paul, Minnesota. At the hospital in the polio ward there were many children. The state of Minnesota had just approved a cure for polio all the way from Australia, and the first state to do so. It was called the Sister Kenny Treatment. It had a 100% cure success. It had been vilified by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and all of its clinics shuttered because it didn't follow the standard of care for polio. Yet, the President of the AMA called on Sister Kenny when his child became a victim.
Sister Kenny was a nurse (they call nurses "sisters" in Australia, which is kind of cool). Her method was wet heat packs and massage. This was followed with good nutrition within the hospital and meant several times during the day the process would be repeated as the nerves gave way to the muscles which went into painful spasms.
What a long an arduous task of the nurses... over a period of about a month the body's immune system wins the battle and the condition resolves itself. The result was no crippling or braces used.
The United States recognized Sister Kenny's work and even honored her with a commemorative stamp. Wikipedia offers some background with its typical let's try to minimize her accomplishments. Nevertheless, a movie was made and there are some great quotable lines in it starring Rosalind Russell.
As time went on occasionly I would suffer bouts of excruciating nerve pain, only relieved with hot wet towels until discovering the miracle of calcium magnesium gluconate powders. As for massage, it is one of the finest health promoting medical aids.
You were a kid and won't recall, but did there happen to be a blitz of spraying DDT in your neighborhood in the weeks prior to your polio symptom? DDT attacks the same nerves as the polio "virus" does.
From Ai:
Dr. Morton S. Biskind, an endocrinologist and medical researcher from Westport, Connecticut. connecticuthistory.org
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Dr. Biskind began observing a new set of symptoms in humans and animals that he realized mirrored the effects of DDT poisoning. He traced the "virus X" syndrome—which was then being blamed for a widespread illness with symptoms similar to polio—back to the indiscriminate use of DDT and other insecticides.
Key Findings and Actions
The Link to Polio: Biskind observed that DDT exposure caused lesions in the spinal cord that were virtually identical to those seen in paralytic polio.
Congressional Testimony: In 1950, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives (the Delaney Committee) on chemicals in food products, warning that the "epidemic" of polio was actually an epidemic of mass poisoning by the new insecticides.
Major Publication: He wrote up his findings in a landmark 1953 article titled "Public Health Aspects of the New Insecticides" in the American Journal of Digestive Diseases.
Treatment Success: He treated patients by removing toxins from their environment—specifically DDT-contaminated milk and butter—and reported significant success.
Why He Was Ignored
Despite his rigorous clinical observations and publications, Biskind's work was largely dismissed or "reviled" by the scientific establishment and government agencies like the FDA. At the time, DDT was hailed as a "miracle" that had saved millions from malaria during World War II, and the industry was booming.
Another notable figure who shared Biskind's views was Dr. Ralph Scobey, who also testified before Congress and published research suggesting that poliomyelitis was a clinical syndrome that could be caused by various environmental poisons, rather than exclusively by a single virus.
While their theories were ignored by the medical mainstream in favor of the viral-vaccine model led by Jonas Salk, Dr. Biskind's early warnings about DDT eventually influenced Rachel Carson, who cited his work as she wrote Silent Spring.
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I recall reading that when FDR got his polio, he had been swimming in the pond at his farm where they had recently sprayed pesticides.
Yes, this was a time of chemical insect spraying that still goes on today. I was living in White Bear Lake.
A wonderfully fascinating book is The Moth in the Iron Lung by Forrest Maready. You can find it on Amazon or Better World Books. And DDT finds it way in it.
Trump was heavily influenced by Gates in his 1st term as president. Its very concerning that Trump has not learned his lesson and is still being influenced by the one of the most evil men on earth (Bill Gates)
What an excellent and fully researched article! Thank you Sayer!
My own bout with polio (infantile paralysis, poliomyelitis) was at age three on my Birthday. I can still recall the screams of my Mother as I was sent upstairs and unable to climb them. It was 1946 and a polio epidemic was raging in Saint Paul, Minnesota. At the hospital in the polio ward there were many children. The state of Minnesota had just approved a cure for polio all the way from Australia, and the first state to do so. It was called the Sister Kenny Treatment. It had a 100% cure success. It had been vilified by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and all of its clinics shuttered because it didn't follow the standard of care for polio. Yet, the President of the AMA called on Sister Kenny when his child became a victim.
Sister Kenny was a nurse (they call nurses "sisters" in Australia, which is kind of cool). Her method was wet heat packs and massage. This was followed with good nutrition within the hospital and meant several times during the day the process would be repeated as the nerves gave way to the muscles which went into painful spasms.
What a long an arduous task of the nurses... over a period of about a month the body's immune system wins the battle and the condition resolves itself. The result was no crippling or braces used.
The United States recognized Sister Kenny's work and even honored her with a commemorative stamp. Wikipedia offers some background with its typical let's try to minimize her accomplishments. Nevertheless, a movie was made and there are some great quotable lines in it starring Rosalind Russell.
As time went on occasionly I would suffer bouts of excruciating nerve pain, only relieved with hot wet towels until discovering the miracle of calcium magnesium gluconate powders. As for massage, it is one of the finest health promoting medical aids.
You were a kid and won't recall, but did there happen to be a blitz of spraying DDT in your neighborhood in the weeks prior to your polio symptom? DDT attacks the same nerves as the polio "virus" does.
From Ai:
Dr. Morton S. Biskind, an endocrinologist and medical researcher from Westport, Connecticut. connecticuthistory.org
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Dr. Biskind began observing a new set of symptoms in humans and animals that he realized mirrored the effects of DDT poisoning. He traced the "virus X" syndrome—which was then being blamed for a widespread illness with symptoms similar to polio—back to the indiscriminate use of DDT and other insecticides.
Key Findings and Actions
The Link to Polio: Biskind observed that DDT exposure caused lesions in the spinal cord that were virtually identical to those seen in paralytic polio.
Congressional Testimony: In 1950, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives (the Delaney Committee) on chemicals in food products, warning that the "epidemic" of polio was actually an epidemic of mass poisoning by the new insecticides.
Major Publication: He wrote up his findings in a landmark 1953 article titled "Public Health Aspects of the New Insecticides" in the American Journal of Digestive Diseases.
Treatment Success: He treated patients by removing toxins from their environment—specifically DDT-contaminated milk and butter—and reported significant success.
Why He Was Ignored
Despite his rigorous clinical observations and publications, Biskind's work was largely dismissed or "reviled" by the scientific establishment and government agencies like the FDA. At the time, DDT was hailed as a "miracle" that had saved millions from malaria during World War II, and the industry was booming.
Another notable figure who shared Biskind's views was Dr. Ralph Scobey, who also testified before Congress and published research suggesting that poliomyelitis was a clinical syndrome that could be caused by various environmental poisons, rather than exclusively by a single virus.
While their theories were ignored by the medical mainstream in favor of the viral-vaccine model led by Jonas Salk, Dr. Biskind's early warnings about DDT eventually influenced Rachel Carson, who cited his work as she wrote Silent Spring.
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I recall reading that when FDR got his polio, he had been swimming in the pond at his farm where they had recently sprayed pesticides.
Yes, this was a time of chemical insect spraying that still goes on today. I was living in White Bear Lake.
A wonderfully fascinating book is The Moth in the Iron Lung by Forrest Maready. You can find it on Amazon or Better World Books. And DDT finds it way in it.
Trump was heavily influenced by Gates in his 1st term as president. Its very concerning that Trump has not learned his lesson and is still being influenced by the one of the most evil men on earth (Bill Gates)