"When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.
But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good. And then the doctors got organized.
At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn't have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn't work well. Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, "this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them."
In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was.
The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hippocrats were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva.
The only exception was the hospital director's son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded "to prevent the spread of evil".
Text from François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume, pages 395 - 402
Interestingly, viruses can't survive in open air long enough for such procedures to be effective. But microbial parasites can lay eggs in diseased flesh that can survive heat, oxygen, dryness, and other hostile circumstances for weeks or longer.
This is one of the most important posts that I have ever seen on this formum. It is pivotal. Those who forget history will repeat it. Honestly who the fuck knew.
I saw a video a while back about the plague. The rich left the cities and went to their mansions in the countryside. The poor were treated with small bags of mercury put in their arm pits resulting in tumors of course. If a person showed "symptoms" of the plague, they were sealed inside their home WITH their family. Door nailed shut and a red cross painted on the door to keep people out. They starved to death. RED CROSS beginnings.
"When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital. But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good. And then the doctors got organized. At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn't have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn't work well. Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, "this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them." In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was. The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hippocrats were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva. The only exception was the hospital director's son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded "to prevent the spread of evil". Text from François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume, pages 395 - 402
God willing, we will see similar justice.
Interestingly, viruses can't survive in open air long enough for such procedures to be effective. But microbial parasites can lay eggs in diseased flesh that can survive heat, oxygen, dryness, and other hostile circumstances for weeks or longer.
What causes smallpox?
This is one of the most important posts that I have ever seen on this formum. It is pivotal. Those who forget history will repeat it. Honestly who the fuck knew.
It is a well known fact in the "medical profession"...
...you don't make money off of healthy people...
...apparently this knowledge has been around for quite a while....
It has ever been thus - filthy lucre overrides moral scruples.
I saw a video a while back about the plague. The rich left the cities and went to their mansions in the countryside. The poor were treated with small bags of mercury put in their arm pits resulting in tumors of course. If a person showed "symptoms" of the plague, they were sealed inside their home WITH their family. Door nailed shut and a red cross painted on the door to keep people out. They starved to death. RED CROSS beginnings.
Maybe we should send this to the hospitals and highlight the end.
The feel good story of how Pfizer was founded.
I found a PDF of the book but it's in French. I'm still digging for an English translation. https://archive.org/details/leschroniquesde01bonigoog/page/365/mode/2up
I might have to do a manual translation in Google
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