While #Tulane school of medicine is rightfully being exposed for its contemporary racism towards faculty, staff, students (and patients) due to the racist firing of Dr. Princess Dennar, it’s important to call out the deeply anti-Black history of this school, specifically... 1/

The way #Tulane became a private institution (originally was a public university) at the end of Reconstruction to avoid having to desegregate. The school charter says it was founded for “white men” only... but there’s more (much more) to this story... 2/
cw: medical racism

Tulane’s school of medicine rose to national prominence for its collection of human “specimens” in their anatomy museum “rivaled only by Harvard”. How did it acquire these “specimens” you might ask?

The collection was “curated” by a Dr. Edward Souchon... 3/
Dr. Souchon was mentored by the late James Marion Sims, the “father of modern gynecology”, who himself had started collecting body parts, organs, and skeletal remains from enslaved Black people during slavery. Souchon continued “curating” his own collection in horrific ways. 4/
The Souchon Collection grew over several decades, eventually touring the state as a traveling “public health” exhibit- nearly all of the body parts stolen, harvested and illicitly acquired from formerly enslaved and poor Black people via Charity Hospital. 5/
In the early 1900s Tulane would even advertise its anatomy collection to attract medical school applicants from across the country, bragging that their Dr.’s had “trained” as physicians to enslaved Black people and therefore knew about the “peculiarities” of Black bodies. 6/
This of course was true in that one of Tulane’s most famous founding physicians was Dr. Samuel Cartwright, who famously invented diseases like “Drapetomania” to justify enslavement and prescribed brutal violence as a cure. https://t.co/5IMEq0zdcP 7/
Tulane’s school of medicine continued to receive a “bounty” of Black bodies through a special arrangement w/ Charity Hospital, which often supplied the school with so many cadavers per month that they often didn’t know what to do with them... but it’s for science right? Wrong. 8/
Tulane med school students (all white men at the time) were known to pose for raunchy and racist photos with the cadavers. During the New Deal, WPA oral historians recorded numerous stories about the “Black bottle men” or “needle men” who would steal human at night... 9/
There was a widespread belief in Black New Orleans communities that Tulane med school students would hide in the allies at night and use anasthesias to knock out unsuspecting Black victims to harvest their bodies for experiments and dissections. It’s easy to understand why. 10/
Charity Hospital was also suspected of delivering substandard medical care to poor Black, indigent patients- letting them die- to help supply the flow of Black cadavers to Tulane. It’s nearly impossible to confirm these facts now, but one can imagine why ppl thought this. 11/
Through a range of nefarious methods (enslavement, exploitation, shady deals), Dr. Edward Souchon built up his anatomy “collection”- robbing the deceased and their families of the right to perform sacred traditional African burial customs, dehumanizing & profiting off them 12/
This “Souchon Collection” was still proudly exhibited by Tulane med school until it started to draw negative attention, and for many decades now has been hidden in the basement of the Hutchinson building downtown. Still, faculty access it to show their students... 13/
Tulane must acknowledge the Anti-Black history of the Souchon Collection, work to repatriate all human remains to surviving family, provide reparations & facilitate proper burial rights. This is an abomination and this racist legacy and present situation must be addressed. END

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Remember woman who tuk multiple @SriSriTattva products 4 range of problems frm diabetes 2 gas 2 liver disease & developed liver failure, listed for liver transplant?
Here is original thread:
https://t.co/PXxI1Slyv2
23 samples, Analysis results
#MedTwitter #livertwitter


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Before I go into results, I must say this was overwhelming. There was SO MUCH the lab identified, impossible to put everything here. So I made a summary. At the end of this thread, I have linked a full analysis described in Excel format. Some results were VERY concerning

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How did we analyse?
Here R links 2 methods
They R high end, done under strict protocols
Frm Ministry of Forest, Environment, Climate / NABL approvd Lab
ICP-OES https://t.co/O1CLhqVQAu
GC MSMS https://t.co/zRJoXyWQIr
FTIR https://t.co/goAembQ08p
Here is list V analysed 👇


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Sample names written on top (each column).
First 5 samples: C what we identified in #Ayurveda #medicines
Antibiotics
Steroids (anabolic/synthetic)
#NARCOTICS - LSD, Morphine
Blood thinners (possible reason Y bleeding tests were off the roof in the patient)
Heavy metals!


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Next 5 samples (total 10 now)
Mercury is clear winner. Almost all samples
See controlled substances - Butyrolactones https://t.co/CPz0FwPEOm, methylamine https://t.co/OZnXY7U9UQ
Alcohols, industrial solvents
Rare metals - cobalt, lithium
Again lots of blood thinners
#Ayush
On 18.12.2020, computer engineer @FitTuber shared @YouTube video titled "10 Safe & Useful Ayurvedic Tablets to Replace Allopathic Pills (Instant Relief)". The drugs he promoted were by @baidyanathgroup, not sure if it was paid promotion. I bought them:
https://t.co/w6Sh2pMvJf


10 drugs, details, batch numbers R given in pic👇. All by @baidyanathgroup exept 1 by https://t.co/tg46sBhJr2
We did GCMSMS, ICP-OES and FTIR analyses on these samples. Here are my 10 safer modern medicine alternatives 2 @FitTuber's untested, potentially harmful #Ayurvedic drugs


Kanthsudharak Vati by Unjha Pharma
@FitTuber: 4 sorethroat, cold, cough
Analysis: Lead 0.54 mg/kg, Cadmium 0.4 mg/kg, Thallium 0.71 mg/kg and industrial phenols.
Low values, but not ideal.

Safe alternative: Levocetrizine & non-sedative cough syrup Levodropropizine


Baidyanath Rajbati
@Fittuber: for bloating, gas
Analysis:
Mercury 1.2 mg/kg
Arsenic 2.25 mg/kg
Male anabolic hormone - hydroxy testosterone+
Curcumin
Talc powder

Safer alternative: activated charcoal+simethicone (non-absorbed, no side effects) or short course esomeprazole.


Baidyanath Bilwadi Choorna
@Fittuber - 4 diarrhoea
Analysis
Thallium 3.68 mg/kg
[fun fact: 10-15 mg/kg is lethal dose for humans. Death can occur at lower dosages] https://t.co/9ozOKROhCK
Fenretinide - synthetic anti-cancer drug
Liver toxic chromium phosph.

Safer: Racecadotril

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