Blockades of Medicine are not new

Warring armies don' t try to hide it

After reading an article by Paracelsus on Substack: Brave Men or Butchers? A Review of Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Services, I have a few thoughts to share.

Poor medical conditions during the Civil War resulted in a great deal of deaths that could have been otherwise prevented. The blockade of Quinine played a major role in increasing death totals in the Civil War. Today, the blockades of the use of a Quinine derivative, hydroxychloroquine, and other types of early treatments, have greatly increased death totals from SARS2.

Attrition warfare, by outproducing the other army and cutting off the other army's supply lines, has long been a tactic in war, whether it's oil, food, steel or medicine. Disease often kills more than soldiers. Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic writes of the "Spanish Flu" spread by troops during World War 1: "Its body-count would finally outstrip the War’s by between 3 and 12 times."

The question today is, who are the opposing armies? It’s Us versus the globalists, pretty much.

Let's take a quick look at Quinine in the Civil War to follow up on Parcelsus’ article. Quinine was a cure-all for all sorts of fever diseases that raged during the war. Doctors didn't know much about medical theory, but they knew what worked.

Excerpts follow from “The Popular Dose with Doctors”: Quinine and the American Civil War:"

Malaria, yellow fever, and other tropical diseases had several symptoms in common, including fevers, chills, and nausea. In the early stages of these diseases Civil War physicians gauged the illness by the frequency of recurring fever, hence “intermittent,” “remittent,” “tertiary,” or “quotidian” fevers. Physicians of the time did not connect mosquitoes to malaria, but they did know quinine was a sure way to ease its symptoms. The problem was getting and administering the drug, especially getting it in quantity.

In 1862, the second year of the American Civil War, Southerners took satisfaction in knowing that invading Union army troops would succumb to tropical diseases endemic to the South’s bayous, swamps, and coastal regions. Just wait until summer, Southern newspapers predicted.

The first test of this theory came in April 1862 in Shiloh, Tennessee, where Union General William T. Sherman’s forces met the enemy in a bloody battle. Before and after the fight, typhoid, diarrhea, scurvy, and the fevers associated with malarial diseases ravaged troops on both sides. 

One physician wrote, “The pestilential atmosphere of the country about Shiloh was producing an amount of sickness almost without parallel in the history of the war.” In May, Sherman mustered only half of his 10,000 troops because the other half were sick.

Later in the war, the North managed to blockade the South to an extent that they were able to turn the attrition of disease in their favor. Blockade runners were able to get through with limited supplies. The character Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind was based on a blockade runner. His name was George Alfred Trenholm.

The Northern blockade of Southern ports made importing quinine difficult, and smuggling from Northern or European sources proved unreliable. ... One South Carolinian wrote to her mother, “I write now to beg you to send in your next letter a quarter of an ounce of quinine. You know, in this climate, life depends upon quinine.

You get the picture. Quinine's role in war began long before the Civil War, though.

Cinchona bark, before Quinine was taken from it, was used to suppress malaria in the Siege of Belgrade, Austria versus the Ottoman Empire, in 1717. The British Empire, that the sun never set on, wouldn't have been able to "colonize" the tropical regions of the world without it. James Lind of the British Royal Navy in 1777 recommended that ships on the Guinea station (west Africa) “be supplied with a large quantity of bark in powder and of wine to be issued occasionally to those who are sent in boats up rivers and on shore.” They’re the ones that made “gin and tonic,” the tonic being quinine, and the gin being a bribe to get their armies to drink it, because it tastes bad.

Quinine was important enough that the nations of the world had "quinine conventions." It was as important in war as the amount of ships and airplanes that armies were allowed to produce. The first pharmaceutical cartel was a quinine cartel in 1913. Building the world's supply of quinine: Dutch colonialism and the origins of a global pharmaceutical industry: Most important was the colonial state's sponsorship in 1913 of the Quinine Agreement, establishing a set price for Cinchona bark, which created the world's first pharmaceutical cartel.

I made a much larger timeline of cinchona bark, quinine, chloroquine, and hydroxychloroquine here. What stands out the most to me most from that research is this. History goes from nations fighting over quinine and with quinine and nations cultivating it on a huge scale, to pharma deriving chemotherapies from it, then the timeline abruptly changes character. All of a sudden, it doesn't work, according to the governments. This despite several studies along the way that say exactly that it did work against SARS/MERS like coronavirus.

From those centuries of undeniable worldwide medical use, it turns into things like: "A Houston medical doctor has been exonerated by the Texas Medical Board (TMB) of an accusation of malpractice stemming from his use of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus patients" in 2020. The Texan. Of course they did the same thing with cannabis. They do it with all the simple cheap actual cures- all true medicine.

The lesson here is, the FDA's clinical trials model is a blockade of medicine.

Here’s why I followed up on Paracelsus’ article.

I wrote about the fact that today's medicine is designed to create disease, and how to solve the problem. I said it was a difficult pill to swallow. Herbalists, as I expected, were the first to respond to what I wrote. I’ve had good feedback from them. Herbalists have a wealth of knowledge that has been suppressed and demeaned by the establishment. I knew that they already knew the truth, but didn’t really know a practical solution. I would expect statisticians to be next.

People who work in the healthcare industry are slow to accept this fact. They see that things are wrong, but are not prepared to accept that the entire industry is corrupt by design. They go to school for a long time, work hard for their salary. They try to help people. They are not evil. They don't like to think of themselves or their colleagues as evil. I have family in the industry and I can't get them to take that one big pill all at once. I know the resistance and denial mechanisms.

I think of well-intentioned people in the healthcare industry are "fruits of a poisoned tree." They don’t see the whole tree. The Hindu fable of the Blind Men and the Elephant is another good example. Big pictures are not easy to see, and why should they take my word for it over most all of the scientific community, and their entire life’s efforts? The best I can do is get them to take some little pills every once in awhile. This is one of those little pills.

I promise you, I've done my research. I can show you the same truth from a thousand different directions. A thousand little red pills, I guess, for the limited number of readers I have. I don't really expect people to believe written accounts unless they see it from many directions, and it’s not the method I would prefer to use. It takes too long, and too many people are dying. The best way to prove the truth is run the types of basic trials that I would like to see and start curing diseases. That cannot be ignored. That's the best fast method. Herbalists need to line them up and knock them down, bypassing the FDA with open-source crowdsourced information and regression models.

Until then, more little red pills to come. I think I’ll do the “Communist takeover of the healthcare industry” next. Yeah, that’s a correct use of the word.

Charles Wright