02- Beginnings PART 1 - Auto-hemotherapy Dr. Luiz Moura - English subtitles

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02- PART 1: Beginnings and application of the auto-hemotherapy practice:

I started to apply auto-hemotherapy when I was still a medical student in 1943, when I joined the faculty of medicine. I jointed the National Faculty of Medicine, which was located at the Praia Vermelha in Rio de Janeiro. My father was a teacher at this same faculty, and he was also the head of the Santa Casa infirmary and a general surgeon. Firstly, he taught me how to draw blood and apply it into the muscle. He used to send me to the house of all the patients he was going to operate on. I had to go the day before the hospitalisation to apply 10 (ten) ml of blood into the patient, and again 5 (five) days later. He didn't wait for the rate to drop to zero, and five days later I used to do the same application into the patient, who was still in the hospital, because at that time hospitalisation used to last on average a week.

What I don't know is how he had the courage to operate having me as his assistant, because I only knew how to hold the instruments and nothing else. I think he used to operate alone, because I only knew how to hold the instruments and nothing else. The only thing I had learned was how to draw blood from a vein and apply it into the muscle, nothing else. And there was never any problem. With this he had one of the lowest rates of hospital infection I have ever seen until today.

He used to do this because of Prof. Jesse Teixeira's work - that was done specifically to avoid post-operative infections. This resulted in a prize for surgery, the biggest prize for a work published in 1940 and it was translated into two languages, French and English this work was a huge success.

My father used this technique, because he had read Jesse Teixeira's work. Jesse Teixeira had carried out 150 (hundred and fifty) operations of the most different types, compared to another 150 (hundred and fifty) identical operations. When he applied the blood he had 0% (zero percent) of post-operative infections. And in other operations he didn't apply the blood as a control group, he didn't apply blood, for the same operations he had 20% (twenty percent) of infections. Because at that time the big problem was post-operative lung infections, because the anesthesia was done with ether, and ether irritates the lungs very much. It was very easy to get lung infection.

I learnt this from him. And for many years I limited myself to use auto-hemotherapy exclusively to avoid, to treat infections, juvenile acne (that is a staphylococcus infection) and also to avoid post-operative infections. At that time I was a surgeon, so I also used the same method. The purpose is basically fighting bacterias.

It was only from 1976 I started to use it in a much bigger way, thanks to a doctor, Dr Floramante Garofalo, a gynaecologist who was an assistant to the director of the Cardoso Fontes Hospital in Jacarepagua and he was the most knowledgeable person on hospital equipment in Brazil.

He was already retired, he was 71. He was called by Dr Amaury de Carvalho, who was the director, to equip the hospital, because it had previously been a sanatorium for tuberculosis that had been turned into a General Hospital. So it was required that all the clinics were equipped and he became the Directors assistant. One day, Prof. Garofalo or Dr. Garofalo - well, let us say professor because he deserved to be called professor came to me complaining about a pain, a numbness he felt in his leg when walking for 100 to 200 meters. He had to sit down in the street on the curb, because he was not able to walk any further.

So then I said to him, Look, Dr. Garofalo, you have to be examined by an angiologist. We have an excellent ... (more)

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