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The episode discusses the historical context and significance of various figures in medicine and science, including Andrija Puharich and Aelius Galenus.

Above: My daughter playing with a UFO Water to Gas Andrija Puharich: Water Decomposition by AC Elecrolysis > What is the oldest carbon dated manuscript from Galen, and please don’t hand me a book from 1825? I’m not Danny Jones. Hillman hands Jones a book from the twenty-two volume travesty of Karl Gottlob Kuhn, scribbled from 1821 – 1833, on this so said Greek and Roman physician Aelius Galenus who “lived during the second and third century…” At best Kuhn based his academically flawed work on the earlier work of Réné Chartier who soiled the earth from 1572-1654. He was a physician, you know the guys with the leeches who were helpless against the plague, in the court of Henri IV and of Louis XIII and said to be a professor of surgery in the Collège Royal. Whether he ever actually performed any surgery is open to debate. What is not open for debate is “René Chartier played a leading role in the an essential pivot that should be highlighted. Because it’s a double a trial that serves as a backdrop to the Chartier adventure : the trial of one of the most mocked and execrated publishers in history, useless link in the transmission of Galen and Hippocrates, a convenient foil to the…

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