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Book Review Modern Medical Mistakes By C M Godfrey A book lhat talks about the mistakes made by medicine can be fascinating But when it is realized at this moment be awaiting the devas toting effects that win come from medicines we have taken for granted for years it beco mes terrify me In his book Modern Medical Utihenry and Whiteside Edward C Lambert points out in clear language that although medicine has made many advances these have been accompanied by avoidable physician produced diseases And Lambert Is not writing about quackery or about the mistakes made by doctors He is writing of mistakes in con of disease mechanism sideeffects of drugs and over dosing MEDICAL THEORIES If you were alive during the first years of the twentieth century your highly trained scientific doctor most likely would have told you your bad health was due to self poison autoin toxical ion This theory which was copied by eminent doctors said that disease was the result of absorption of toxins due to putrefaction the intestinal contents Cure Surgical rem oval or shortcircuiting of part of the Intestines It I until World War I that this error in concept was corrected Or focal Infection This meant that your diseased ton slls adenoids teeth appendix ovaries or prostate were rem to correct a host of diseases As late as 1953 teeth and oralis were removed in the treatment of arthritis If organs were removed in order to cure the patient others were given radiation particularly infants in whom the thymus was blamed for crib death After an ray examination showed the thy mus seemed to be slightly enlarged it was radiated with By cases of cancer of the thyroid gland as a result of the radiation were seen They continue to be discover TODAY TECHNIQUES But Lambert does not stay with historical problems he also concerns himself with current techniques Opera lions for improving the supply of blood to the heart and brain have intrigued surgeons since the mid 1930s In 1955 tying off the internal mammary In order to improve blood supply to the heart was fasionable It took several years before careful experimentation showed the operation was ineffective A similar type of operation was proposed for patients with mental retardation and cereb ral palsy to improve brain circulation After many bund reds of this procedure had been carried out in iebg the operation was abandoned The story of medicine s mis lakes is not confined to the surgical field Lambert shows clearly how thousands of pat ients were not helped by cation such as elixir of sulfon ylamldc This miracle drug of the was dissolved in diethylene glycol Out of persons who were poisoned died mined yellow fever vaccine and polio vaccine led to many fatalities Reducing pills synthetic hormones reducing agents head ache powders diarrhea reme dies all have been indicated as a cause of disease rather than a cure MORE MISTAKES Thalidomide a recent mem was only one of a series of drug disasters that resulted from lack of adequate testing before being released freely A German chemical company claimed that thalidomide was completely innocuous and he best drug to be administered to pregnant and nursing moth erst But medical mistakes are not all a matter of history They are still with us accord ingtoDr Lambert used com monly by tourists to avoid diarrhea has caused severe neurological disturbances in the Japanese Strangely It seems to be limited to Japan a common head ache tablet ingredient until recently causes kidney dam age And the administration of to pregnant mothers may result In the development of vaginal cancer in their daughters to 20 years later Lambert admits that prog res in medicine will be ac by unhappy side effects However he argues that premature release for general use various forms of treatment before they have been adequately tested and excessive use of remedies are often nonessential or are two unnecessary causes of medical mistakes Charles Godfrey pro fessor rehabilitation medic at the 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