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[Michael Bailey]

Alonzo Shadman?


http://www.doctoryourself.com/homeopathy.html  (lower part of the page)

I'm reminded of Alonzo J. Shadman, MD. Dr. Shadman was a surgeon, and
ran his own 150 bed hospital in Boston, oddly enough.  The man had
performed tens of thousands of operations in his day. Two things
forever guarantee his place in quacksville: First, he was a
homeopathic physician. Second, he never administered any blood to any
patient during surgery.

 Being a homeopath, Dr. Shadman used remedies like silicea. That alone
is often enough to get you kicked out of the AMA. But Shadman went a
big step further.  In his 1958 book Who is Your Doctor and Why, he
narrates how he'd make the rounds and give homeopathic remedies to
patients on the eve of their scheduled surgeries.  So many of them got
better, so fast and so completely, that operations were being canceled
left and right. Shadman made a lot of enemies among the surgeons.

 When he did do surgery, Shadman used no blood.  He said, "I never
gave a blood transfusion and I never had a patient die from lack of
it."  Dr. Shadman gave IVs of essential fluids, such as Ringer's
saline or other electrolyte solutions, but never blood. He said that
foreign substances like whole blood tax the recovering patient, making
complications and death all the more likely. Since the body makes new
red blood cells so quickly, restoring a person's counts to normal in
just days, Shadman believed and demonstrated, literally thousands of
times, that transfusions are inadvisable.

 Next time Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door, don't slam it. Ask
the Witness for a booklet on their position on blood transfusions.
You will be surprised at the scholarship and research that backs their
views. And no, I'm not one of their number. I just think that any
underdog is worth a fair listen. There is honor among quacks. There is
also much to be learned by not closing our minds as quickly as our
doors.