I have asked dentists and oral surgeons about this too.JohnnyL wrote: ↑June 4th, 2023, 1:01 pmYup. Bed bugs transmitted the disease; the natural doctors found that out, got rid of them, and smallpox stopped being transmitted.Severus wrote: ↑June 2nd, 2023, 11:27 pmMy own theory as to why the native americans succumbed to smallpox like no other is because of their filthy living habits. I can't prove this, and I know how politically incorrect it is, but this is what I think.
I have read some journals of fur trappers from the 1700's who describe native americans as absolutely filthy people. If you could rate levels of personal filthiness, the indian tribes the fur trappers dealth with would have been rated XXX. When Nephi calls them "filthy and loathsome", believe me, he was being a master of understatement.
Even the fur trappers were grossed out by them, so that's pretty bad.
Cleanliness is the first and best defense against disease. Soap and water could even take out covid. There was a story about an elementary school teacher who put a stamp on each of her students hands at the start of the day with an admonition to wash it off by the time they went home, which took several washings. That teacher never had student staying home with a cold, flu, etc. Not one. And she had years with 100% attendance.
You would think that if the government or boss could mandate vaccines, they could just as easily make you get your hand stamped stamped and not let you go home until it was washed off. ha ha. Sounds better than a vaccine mandate. And it works, too.
But devils advocate, I heard two doctors talking at work one day about a seminar they had gone to. Somewhere in this seminar they were told to tell their patients to eat better, lower stress, lose weight, stop all the couch potato beer drinking, have good self care habits, etc, and do more natural things to fix their health problems. These guys were both complaining that if they really started giving out this kind of advice they would lose all their patients. After all, the patients came to get a quick fix magic bullet medical solution along with a lot of sympathetic attention, not be told THEY had to do something...
Those guys just might have had just a little bit of a point there.
Ha ha, like the stamped hand idea. Hopefully the ink wasn't (too) poisonous...
I asked a doctor why they prescribed antibiotics for colds and flus. They said they had to, or their patients would go to another doctor who would, and stay there.
Western medicine has to be around because people want a quick fix to their problems. It's like paying high interest on a loan that you really feel/ might really need.
Why do they prescribe antibiotics after a dental procedure or surgery? Especially when in the many decades before 2010s they never did this. A few were very honest with me that most patients do not need it at all but if they don't the patients will complain that they need it so they will have to write it or they will go somewhere else. And so to not lose the business, they just write it for everyone "out of an abundance of caution" In only rare cases, will they develop an infection.
It was more of a placebo effect. People have been programmed to think that if they get a dental procedure done they need x, y, z. We all have been programmed to take too many pills and rely on pharma industry instead of the thing God created and managed to allow the species to live for centuries.
