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A Divided Legacy - The Schism in Western Medical Thought Key Documents Under the guise of “advancing science", the allopathic medical industry has justified its control of the art of healing and has, historically maligned healing models that do not fit the allopathic philosophy. While there are many true miracles in modern allopathic medicine, particularly in emergency medicine and surgery, in the areas of infectious disease and chronic illness, the allopathic track record is one of largely trying to sell more and more drugs instead of restoring health. At the same time, the positive track record of natural healing arts, whose scientific method is empirical, not abstract, has been routinely suppressed. As a consequence, without real choice, or real competition in the marketplace, hundreds of thousands of inexcusable deaths occur every year in America at the same time the cost of medicine has risen dramatically and is fast becoming a burden to all. For the first time, real facts and figures are available about the safety of modern allopathic medicine and its counterparts in the natural world. In 2003, Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD ND, was commissioned to collect data from official modern medical sources to compile the actual number of deaths caused by modern allopathic medical care. In 2003, she, along with health advocate Gary Null and others published the results of their work in a paper called "Death by Medicine", which shows that 784,000 people die every year in America, alone, using modern allopathic medicine. Dr. Dean later expanded upon the paper to publish a book with rights advocate Trueman Tuck called "Death by Modern Medicine", an in depth discussion about how the all-powerful modern medical system we now have in North America was created. This book also discusses how the public is trying to reject the monopoly through various health freedom activities. During this same time, Ron Law, a statistician from Juderon Associates was commissioned by others to survey the relative risks of using natural healing arts and services in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. As a result, a report entitled "Analysis of Relative Risks and Levels of Risk in Canada" was produced, along with charts that graphically show the stunning safety record of these modalities in all three countries. In short, one might find 14 deaths PER BILLION caused by use of natural healing arts services and products! Also included in this material is an overview of the monumental work of medical historian, Harris L. Coulter, PhD. Coulter’s work is a massively referenced and footnoted technical report published in a series of four huge volumes covering the history of the development of western medicine from its roots in Ancient Greece....a history that Dr. Coulter calls the "divided legacy" – and from which we take our title for this internet archive. Dr. Coulter explains that one school is known as the "Rationalist" school and the other school is known as the "Empirical" school. His work, and the summary paper of his work, by Dana Ullman, M.P.H., also included in the archive, describes that the "Rationalist school sought to understand health, disease, and the treatment of disease in an analytical fashion....(and) focused on the anatomical and biochemical nature of the human being as ways to understanding the parts of the organism and how to make them function properly." Conversely, as Ullman described it, "The Empirical school of thought held different assumptions about the ways of acquiring knowledge on health, disease, and the treatment of disease.....It sought and developed ways that worked whether or not the practitioner understood at first why the methods worked.....Over long periods of time and through close observations, empirical practitioners developed their own time tested and systematic health practices that were not based on an analytical understanding of cause and effect." "The Rationalist school, of which modern medicine is the latest development, has claimed the title of being the 'scientific' medicine. At the same time, it asserted that other approaches to understanding health and to the treatment of disease were unscientific and were often to be considered as 'quackery.' The meaning and significance of scientific methodology are discussed in detail in volumes II and III of Divided Legacy." "Coulter points out that although the Rationalists explained why their methods worked or didn't work, their explanations were soon disproven and were replaced by a new set of 'facts.' Comparatively, Coulter describes the scientific characteristics of the Empirical school and how and why their observations and their health practices have been utilized for long periods of time." A number of articles are also included
in this collection of materials to help you, the reader, understand the
consequences of suppressing natural healing arts and why it is so important
to restore them to their rightful place in our medical system. Our lives
and the lives of millions of others who will come after us depend upon
it. History of the Divided Legacy
Death By Modern Medicine
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