In 1777 John Trumbull painted a dramatic painting called,
“The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton.” General
George Washington appears in the center of the action with another man close behind him, Dr. Benjamin Rush.
Wikipedia describes the death of General Mercer:
“In spite of medical efforts by Dr. Benjamin
Rush, General Hugh Mercer was mortally wounded and died nine agonizing days
later on January 12, 1777.”
Isn’t this an odd sentence?
Shouldn’t it read as follows:
Mercer was mortally wounded and died
nine agonizing days later on January 12, 1777, in spite of medical efforts by
Benjamin Rush. Isn’t this a little
closer to reality?
But what if the real reality is as
follows?
Mercer was wounded, and because of the
medical efforts of Dr. Benjamin Rush, he died nine agonizing days later on
January 12, 1777.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush? He is the father of the Heroic age of
Medicine. There are hospitals named
after Dr. Rush. He educated over 3000
medical students. Oh, and he was a firm
believer of blood letting and the use of mercury, and mercury based calomel
right up unto the end of his own life.
He had his own Calomel product too, “Dr.
Rush’s Thunderbolts,” aka “Dr. Rush’s Thunder Clappers.” To make his “Thunder Clappers,” Dr. Benjamin
Rush concocted a mixture of calomel, chlorine, jalap and mercury to create a
proprietary purgative.
Here are the facts:
1777: Dr. Benjamin Rush kills General Hugh Mercer with his
Calomel, and blood letting 9 days after Mercer is wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
1780–1850: Educated professional physicians aggressively
practice "heroic medicine," including bloodletting, intestinal
purging (calomel), vomiting (tartar emetic), profuse sweating (diaphoretics)
and blistering, stressing already weakened bodies. Physicians originally treated diseases like
syphilis with salves made from mercury.
While well intentioned, and often well accepted by the medical
community, these treatments were actually harmful to the patient.
1799: Dr. Benjamin Rush kills George Washington, the father
of our country, with bloodletting and calomel pills. Yes, Washington was sick, he woke up in the
middle of the night suffering from a sore throat, possibly strep throat.
1804: Dr Benjamin Rush sends Lewis and Clark on their
expedition with his Thunderbolt Calomel
pills. Historians have been able to tell
the exact route Lewis and Clark took because of the mercury poisoning in the
ground.
1826: Dental Amalgam appears upon the scene.
1840:
The American
Society of Dental Surgeons denounced the use of amalgams due to concerns
about
mercury poisoning. Members of the society were required to pledge to
avoid the
mercury amalgam fillings. The other tow options were to place gold
fillings, which were quite expensive, or pull the tooth. Since the
populace wanted to keep their teeth, and amalgams were cheaper, faster
and easier to place than gold materials, many dentists continued using amalgams.
1847: The American
Medical Association is founded by the medical doctors old boy network to stop
an influx of alternative medicines, and the speaking out against the use of
mercury and Calomel.
1853: The United States Surgeon General, Walter Hammond, is
court marshaled for forbidding the use of Calomel on wounded soldiers. He was railroaded out of office on trumped up
charges because he dared to stand up to the AMA.
1856: The American
Society of Dental Surgeons is disbanded; controversy over the use of dental
amalgam led to its demise.
1859: The pro-mercury
amalgam faction in America formed its own dental society, first called the
National Dental Association; it was later re-named the American Dental
Association (ADA).
Here are some additional
facts:
Mercury and Plutonium are
the most deadly metals on the planet.
Mercury is toxic in ANY
form.
The mercury in your shiny
silver fillings threatens your well being 24/7, unleashing tiny amounts of
poison into your body every second of every hour of every day.
The American Medical
Association will give you lots of medicines to treat the symptoms of your
disease(s). However, try to find one
single study anywhere sanctioned by the AMA or the ADA that studies the dangers
of mercury poisoning. Let me know if you do.
If this isn’t a
conspiracy, I don’t know what is.
