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Hillary Israeli, VMD
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> *In sci.med.nutrition john <nospamoridiots@vaccine.com> wrote:
> *> http://www.whale.to/a/smallpox_hoax.html
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>
> Huh? Vaccination is not "by definition homeopathic."
Big difference between water and mercury, for starters. You can get
homeopathic nosodes, I think they are called, which seem to act in
preventing diseases, but all old school homeopaths, Classical ones, do not
use them, and are scorneful of them.
In sci.med.nutrition Hillary Israeli <hillary@hillary.net> wrote:
> *In sci.med.nutrition john <nospamoridiots@vaccine.com> wrote:
> *> http://www.whale.to/a/smallpox_hoax.html
> *
> *> [This props up vaccination which is the main pillar of allopathy.
> *
> *Vaccination is by definition homeopathic. Or do you think that if an
> Huh? Vaccination is not "by definition homeopathic." What is your
> definition of homeopathic, anyway? I say it means "of or pertaining to
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> an unhealthy person, nor does it involve diluting the substance until no
> active ingredient can be physically detected. So how is it homeopathic??
Because it's based on the two principles of similars and very small
doses. Recall that smallpox was once vaccinated against by using the
similar cowpox, not the same, but similar, hence the very name
"vaccination".
The basic idea of homeopathy, as you say, is to cure diseases by
giving very small amounts of something which produces the same
symptoms. The rationale is to stimulate the body's own defences by
this intervention. Vaccination is not quite as simple as that, because
it prevents rather than cures, but before the germ theory of disease
was formulated vaccination was performed by homeopaths as a homeopathic
preventive medicine and its success was pointed to as validating
homeopathic principles.

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Hillary Israeli - 02 Dec 2004 18:10 GMT
*> *Vaccination is by definition homeopathic. Or do you think that if an
*
*> Huh? Vaccination is not "by definition homeopathic." What is your
*> definition of homeopathic, anyway? I say it means "of or pertaining to
*> homeopathy," and homeopathy is a therapeutic system of medicine that is
*> based on the principle of similars- like cures like - which means that a
*> substance that can cause certain symptoms in a healthy person can
*> allegedly cure similar symptoms in an unhealthy person. Homeopathy also
*> involves diluting the substance until there is no measurable quantity
*> left. Now, vaccination on the other hand has nothing to do with using
*> substances which provoke symptoms in a healthy person to cure disease in
*> an unhealthy person, nor does it involve diluting the substance until no
*> active ingredient can be physically detected. So how is it homeopathic??
*
*Because it's based on the two principles of similars and very small
*doses. Recall that smallpox was once vaccinated against by using the
*similar cowpox, not the same, but similar, hence the very name
*"vaccination".
*
*The basic idea of homeopathy, as you say, is to cure diseases by
*giving very small amounts of something which produces the same
*symptoms. The rationale is to stimulate the body's own defences by
*this intervention. Vaccination is not quite as simple as that, because
*it prevents rather than cures, but before the germ theory of disease
*was formulated vaccination was performed by homeopaths as a homeopathic
*preventive medicine and its success was pointed to as validating
*homeopathic principles.
Well, I'm not quite buying it, but even if I were to concede that in the
case of vaccinia vaccination this is true, it doesn't count for today's
vaccines. There's nothing in, say, the HDCV rabies shot which produces the
same symptoms as rabies, for example. And there's nothing in a killed
vaccine which produces the same symptoms as the disease either (except for
those nonspecific signs of immunological response such as fever/malaise
due to high levels of interleukin production, which IMO doesn't count
because almost anything can cause that).
-h.

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Hillary Israeli, VMD
Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is
too dark to read." --Groucho Marx