BIG OIL BECOMES BIG PHARMA
Little does modern man know that Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine, and Chiropractic Medicine were the conventional forms of Western Medicine over a hundred years ago. That is until the oil and railroad tycoons, John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, turned “philanthropists” and began granting large sums of money to the research and production of synthetic drugs after it was discovered that the chemicals contained in medicinal plants could be synthesized in a laboratory from petroleum. Mr. Rockefeller saw this as an opportunity to expand his oil monopoly into the practice of medicine. And so it was, the pharmaceutical industry became the begotten son of Standard Oil.
By the turn on the 20th century, Rockefeller controlled 90% of all oil production in the U.S. through a multitude of oil companies owned by him. There were only 1000 cars in existence in 1900 that burned gasoline, and not much profit was to be found in cars. The petrochemical industry, however, was flourishing because its industrial applications were not limited to fuel. Petroleum is the raw material for the production of plastics and pharmaceutical drugs, and the pharmaceutical industries promised to be the most profitable part of the oil industry. Rockefeller invested heavily in the newly created pharmaceutical companies by forming the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913, which focused on the production of pharmaceuticals, as well as the development of a medical education that revolved around the use of these drugs.
Andrew Carnegie in 1900 was also very wealthy. After making his original fortune by investing in Columbia Oil in 1862, he made an even bigger fortune in steel and formed the Carnegie Foundation in 1905. The foundation was known for funding and carrying out educational ventures.
CAPITALISTS COLLUDE WITH GOVERNMENT
In the early 1900s, the newly formed American Medical Association, or AMA, sought to standardize medical education, so they created “The Council on Medical Education” in 1904 to do just that. However, the AMA could not afford to accomplish such a task. It was Henry Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation who came to the AMA’s aid by investing millions of dollars into the project and recruiting Abraham Flexner to audit medical schools across the country. They studied every medical school in North America, issuing a report in 1910 called the “Flexner Report.”
By 1909, The Council on Medical Education was being run by the industrialists who were heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industries, a branch of the petrochemical industries. These industries were in direct competition with traditional healing approaches, such as Herbal Medicine, Homeopathic Medicine, and Chiropractic Medicine.
The Flexner Report also marked the beginning of the end for Midwifery in the USA and Canada. After 1910, state after state in the USA and province after province in Canada outlawed Midwifery.
By 1929, the Carnegie Institute was given the accreditation authority for medical schools in both Canada and the USA. All medical schools that were not practicing drug-intensive medicine were closed. After 1935, all medical schools exclusively taught drug-intensive medicine and surgery. All other traditional healing approaches were successfully eliminated from medical education!
DRUGS AND SURGERIES BECOME THE ONLY "GOVERNMENT-APPROVED" MEDICINE
Shortly thereafter, these billionaire capitalists were able to gain the cooperation of the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to mandate all other forms of medicine outside the realm of synthetic drugs and surgeries as being “unapproved.” Fortunately, their avaricious scheme did not completely abolish their competition. Thanks to the heroes of Western Civilization, Naturopathy is making a resurgence from near extinction.
With a basic understanding of history, anyone can see that the Allopathic medical model has dominated the market in the West, not because of public preference; not because the people have demanded Allopathic Medicine; but because Naturopathic Medicine was marginalized and delegitimized from the top down when private enterprise consorted with the public sector. Unfortunately, modern medicine has become a hostile force among herbalists and holistic healers. It is a system that, when appropriately applied, should only be used under niche circumstances. And yet, it has perverted its purpose in its attempt to usurp the rightful place of Naturopathic Medicine. This attempt has been made by individuals who are driven by greed rather than social welfare.
The special interests behind the medical industrial complex have limited the scope of medical progress across the Western world. They have severed our people from their access to nourishing and detoxifying therapies. Thankfully, there are still many practitioners who are risking their own lives and freedom by curing the “incurable” and abiding by the “First Do No Harm” credo of the Hippocratic Oath.