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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- Subject: Re: Peter Breggin, _Toxic Psychiatry_ (Q)
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 00:01:10 GMT
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- In article <BzBGJx.7Ev@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >
- >Here, again, put perhaps another way, is the point. Suppose a kid
- >is brought to you presenting with the usual symptoms of scarlet
- >fever. This generally is not a hard diagnosis. With a little experience
- >I've even done it myself. So you say, "Well, it looks like scarlet
- >fever. Let's start him on X (I forget the preferred antibiotic)."
- >And the very *next* thing you say is, "We'll need to get a throat
- >culture. We'll call you if it's not scarlet fever."
- >
-
- Scarlet fever was recognized and diagnosed by physicians for many years
- prior to the ability to do throat cultures, or even the notion that bacteria
- caused diseases. Are you saying that prior to this, the disease
- Scarlet Fever did not exist?
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