Medical Magic and Houdini NY Post
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Medical Magic and Houdini NY Post
A new book is out, and today's NY Post has a few columns about Houdini. I can't seem to find it on the web. Joe? 4 11 2010
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Re: Medical Magic and Houdini NY Post
I don't see the connection ... didn't see Houdini mentioned on the website for that book.
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I cannot find a specific reference to Houdini, nor an online link to the article. I have to assume, based upon the book's description, that Houdini's death is discussed as it "surveys the events of medicine within the full tapestry of the American experience."
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Damn, my first post in four months, and I get slammed by the four guys I thought would dig this. I really tried, but could not find the article online. Dodd maybe you can help? I thought there was a following of guys that found anything Houdini cool. This had Houdini stuff in four columns. I'll go away now.
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Max, we've missed you. You didn't get slammed: we just can't find Houdini in the link you posted.
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Re: Medical Magic and Houdini NY Post
Houdini performed an illusion that required him to be bombarded, without any protection, with x-rays generated by a Crookes tube.
I don't know if this had any bearing on his death, but having his gonads irradiated once a day plus matinees may have some bearing on his never having any children. ;)
I will gladly stand corrected on this, but I believe that this illusion is described in Albert A. Hopkins, Magic-Stage Illusions And Scientific Diversions Including Trick Photography
I don't know if this had any bearing on his death, but having his gonads irradiated once a day plus matinees may have some bearing on his never having any children. ;)
I will gladly stand corrected on this, but I believe that this illusion is described in Albert A. Hopkins, Magic-Stage Illusions And Scientific Diversions Including Trick Photography
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I still can't find it online...In Sunday's "Books" section, there was an article titled "Birth of Medical Magic", authored by Dr. Ira Rutkow. This must have been a shortened version from his book "Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America".
This partial reprint covers most of Houdini's appendectomy, many quotes from Doctors...and the theory "It was the unassuming appendix, in fact, that had helped reshape American medicine, as it became the pre-eminent surgical procedure in the interwar years".
If only today we could convince THAT FAMOSE MAGIC GUY that he needs a Frontal Labotomy...
This partial reprint covers most of Houdini's appendectomy, many quotes from Doctors...and the theory "It was the unassuming appendix, in fact, that had helped reshape American medicine, as it became the pre-eminent surgical procedure in the interwar years".
If only today we could convince THAT FAMOSE MAGIC GUY that he needs a Frontal Labotomy...
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me...
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Re: Medical Magic and Houdini NY Post
All the Houdini references in the book can be found here.
http://books.google.com/books?id=nk2fVp ... ni&f=false
It agrees with our controversial theory of how and why Houdini died.
Most historians got it wrong because they blindly accepted Bernard Ernst's version put together to garner Beatrice Houdini the double indemnity. That would include Milbourne Christopher, Gresham, James Randi, Doug Henning (Charles Reyonlds), Kenneth Silverman, etc.
Go here http://houdini.org/houdinimurdered.html and here http://houdini.org/whitheadstolenbook.html for links to a series of pages about it
Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz
http://books.google.com/books?id=nk2fVp ... ni&f=false
It agrees with our controversial theory of how and why Houdini died.
Most historians got it wrong because they blindly accepted Bernard Ernst's version put together to garner Beatrice Houdini the double indemnity. That would include Milbourne Christopher, Gresham, James Randi, Doug Henning (Charles Reyonlds), Kenneth Silverman, etc.
Go here http://houdini.org/houdinimurdered.html and here http://houdini.org/whitheadstolenbook.html for links to a series of pages about it
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I read the good doctor's recapitulation of Houdini's final illness and death. Everything he says about Houdini is wrong. I hope he knows more about medicine. He missed on so many of the facts that Brookz and Dietrich think he's right on the money.
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Houdini never performed an illusion using a Crookes tube.
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"Most historians got it wrong because they blindly accepted Bernard Ernst's version put together to garner Beatrice Houdini the double indemnity. That would include Milbourne Christopher, Gresham, James Randi, Doug Henning (Charles Reyonlds), Kenneth Silverman, etc."
You left out some names.
I don't think that all the above named got it wrong and that only those well known historians, those oft-published authors, Brookz and Dietrich got it right.
Nothing fits their theory until they cherry pick it, misinterpret it, rewrite it, misquote it and that's okay because they have each other to nurture the nuttiness.
You left out some names.
I don't think that all the above named got it wrong and that only those well known historians, those oft-published authors, Brookz and Dietrich got it right.
Nothing fits their theory until they cherry pick it, misinterpret it, rewrite it, misquote it and that's okay because they have each other to nurture the nuttiness.