“People with Elsa Maxwell syndrome are over-locked into ethics. If Elsa Maxwell can do something for health, I’ll join you.”

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.”

“Clinical iatrogenesis was the injury done to patients by ineffective, toxic, and unsafe treatments that he listed in extensive footnotes. He described the need for evidence-based medicine 20 years before the term was coined. Social iatrogenesis resulted from the medicalisation of life. More and more problems were seen as amenable to medical intervention, with pharmaceutical companies developing expensive treatments for what he described as non-diseases. His most biting words were cultural iatrogenesis, the destruction of traditional ways of dealing with, and making sense of, death, pain, and sickness.”

social iatrogenesis — (coined by Ivan Illich) the “medicalization of life,” medicalizing as many of life’s problems as possible, and subjecting them to medical intervention; Inventing new non-diseases is part of this process. In the realm of mental diseases, the DSM-5 is an appalling example, being a manual filled with hundreds of fictional disorders. According to Ivan Illich, “What need is there to worry about a murderous environment when doctors are industrially equipped to act as life-savers!”

cultural iatrogenesis — (coined by Ivan Illich) the destruction of individualistic and traditional ways of dealing with pain, illness, and death. Only a medical professional can issue a Birth or Death Certificate. Birth and death without medical presence is becoming culturally unacceptable if not outright illegal. Cradle to coffin health management places the autonomy of death in the hands of a physician in a “high-cost death chamber.”

“The administration of 1% sodium chloride as drinking water is known to protect the adrenalectomized animal and, if administered for a sufficient length of time, to prevent death. The administration of magnesium sulfate by repeated injections of .5 cc. of a 10% solution per 100 grams of body weight or even orally as .5–1% in drinking water has an antagonistic effect to that of sodium chloride. a 75% mortality rate in older animals receiving magnesium sulfate as compared to a 20% rate in the untreated was seen. Similarly, in young animals receiving magnesium sulfate in addition to salty drinking water,the mortality rate in some experiments was over 80%.”