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(Message started by: floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 1:39pm)

Title: Dr. Schnabel
Post by floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 1:39pm

http://www.med-owl.com/clusterheadaches/tiki-index.php?page=Doctors

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by guesst on Mar 16^th, 2005, 1:45pm

I don't get it, cool site though.

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 1:47pm

Just starting to add some pictures to liven things up - that topic wasn't the deepest but the list to recommended doctors might help some people.

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by guesst on Mar 16^th, 2005, 1:56pm

I loved the links, so the dr schnabel is a ficticious character, right? With a God complex to boot? Is that the point, if so, very well done!

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:08pm

He's the doctor wearing the bird mask in the woodcut. - The super-quack.

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by guesst on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:12pm

on 03/16/05 at 14:08:48, floridian wrote:

He's the doctor wearing the bird mask in the woodcut. - The super-quack.

I gathered that much, just didn't know if he was a real guy or not. ;)

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by clarence on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:34pm

Correct me if I'm wrong...

That particular type of mask was used by doctor's in Scotland (and elsewhere of course) during the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague. It was thought at the time that the sickness was spread through the air, and that inhaling sweet smelling spices and or flowers and other things would ward off the sickness. So, when the doctors would go into the quarintined homes, they would wear these masks with large beaks, with sweet smelling stuff in the beak part.

Learned about it on a tour of "Mary King's Close" in Edinburgh. Pretty cool stuff.

Also, contrary to popular belief, people infected with the plague were not abandoned to die by the city. They were allocated out of public funds a portion of food, medical treatment, and 3 Scots pints of beer each day. A Scots pint is 3 English Pints (because the English are weak when it comes to drinking). Great healthcare in medieval times!

Casey

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by vig on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:35pm

calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Curly, Dr. Larry! [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:41pm

on 03/16/05 at 14:34:16, clarence wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong...

That particular type of mask was used by doctor's in Scotland (and elsewhere of course) during the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague.

You are correct, sir. It is a woodcut related to the plague. I saw it as a representation of quackery and what medicine doesn't know, but I guess it has lots of different meanings to different people.

What say ye, be it too confusing a pikture??

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by guesst on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:44pm

on 03/16/05 at 14:41:48, floridian wrote:

What say ye, be it too confusing a pikture??

Only for Neanderthal mouth-breathers like myself. The rest of you intellectual types should get it just fine.

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:47pm

on 03/16/05 at 14:44:40, guesst wrote:

Only for Neanderthal mouth-breathers like myself. The rest of you intellectual types should get it just fine.

Every time I go to a new dentist, they stick their mirror in my mouth and comment to the assistant that is taking notes: "mouth breather."

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by clarence on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:50pm

I am not sure it is too confusing a picture. I thought it was cool. However, I am not sure that I would equate it with medical quackery. The reason being is that during that time it was probably the best they had. In that sense, for ust to look back on a previous culture, or period of history, and call their best effort quackery, might not, in my opinion, be fair. It does seem ridiculous to us now, but we sit on the side of history which has access to things like modern medicine.

In 500 years, they will probably look back and call us quacks, but, in honesty we do the best we can, and that can't be called crazy by contemporary standards.

Maybe I am thinking too much, but I do like the picture.

Casey

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by Mark C on Mar 16^th, 2005, 2:53pm

With a nod to Ueli...

Quackwatch (http://www.quackwatch.org)

[smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by seasonalboomer on Mar 16^th, 2005, 3:14pm

to think we very recently scoffed at the use of leeches as a medical treatment option, and now they have found a very real application that is better than anything "science" has come up with in regenerating circulation in certain tissues.

or that mushrooms that have been growing in the wild in the woods, or a crazy weed like kudzu has the ability to be a medical treatment option. i wouldn't have believed it.

what most of would have thought of as quackery may be closer to being on target --- and has since been replaced by negligence, expediency, and greed.

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by floridian on Mar 16^th, 2005, 3:44pm

You got a good point, boomer. For me, quackery isn't hi-tech or all-natural, its anything that isn't a good treatment.

(But its still a funny picture, non?)

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by Tom K on Mar 16^th, 2005, 5:29pm

on 03/16/05 at 14:35:42, vig wrote:

calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard! [smiley=laugh.gif]

Fixed it for ya!

T

Title: Re: Dr. Schnabel
Post by clarence on Mar 16^th, 2005, 6:24pm

on 03/16/05 at 15:44:49, floridian wrote:

(But its still a funny picture, non?)

I like it. Reminds me of this guy:

http://newswire.indymedia.org/newswire/images/2004/07/806541.png

Casey