Blowing his own Trump(et)

Blowing his own Trump(et)

 Dr Arunachalam Kumar*

27 Jan 2016

 

{Article written by my friend and classmate – (*Late) Dr Arunachalam Kumar just before his demise. Donald Trump was running a hot race against Hillary at that time. 

He foresaw the victory of Trump. President Donald Trump is hoping for a II term}

 

Donald Trump beamed as he swept his hair back from his forehead: he’d made it – he was now the President of the most powerful country in the world – United States of America. He looked around and saw his chosen yes men forming the cabinet.

Now gentlemen, time for action...pass an executive order, all Moslems leave USA, let them go back to their deserts, tents, camels and caravans – three weeks, in three weeks this land will be free from Islam. And so it was. In a month USA had no Muslims. ‘America is for Americans, white and pure’, he said, as he passed his next order.

 

 ‘Get ‘em Indians out...Hindoos, Sikhs...whoever they be, back they go in three weeks to snake charming. America is for Americans, white and pure’...and so it came to pass. Every Indian left USA.  In six months he thundered, ‘Now for the Hispanics, they’ll have to go too....to their Alamos and pueblos... America is for Americans, white and pure’. So they left, the Hispanics, in droves, driven off.

Next in line are the ‘Blacks...he.. he... I mean, Afro Americans, they can go back to their roots..maybe take a permanent safari. America is for Americans, white and pure’ And so it came about that, every black, brown and those in between...the Chinese, Japs, Philipinos...Vietnamese...every Asian was evicted too.

By the time he was in his third year of presidency, he told the Jews, ‘It is time you left too – we gave you your promised land back to you.....go back then to Nazi hunting and the Wailing Wall. America is for Americans, white and pure’.  USA now was ‘foreigner’ free. No one but Americans, white and pure: the direct descendants of the pilgrim fathers. Trump beamed as he swept his hair back from his forehead as his all white cabinet nodded and clapped in unison.

‘Mr. President...there is a delegation here to see you’, says the Chief of Staff of the White House. ‘They want an appointment, and they want it now’
'Let ‘em in', says Trump. In four and half years he had cleansed USA and what a cleaning it was too....

A large group of fifty or so mill into the Oval Office...’Hey hey hold it, what’s this eh’..thunders Trump.  Then a spokesman from the group assembled opens up. “We have come here only to say two things: one, thank you Mr. President for making America what it is now....just for Americans: and second, we give you three weeks time to get the hell out of this country. You and all your pals...all 195 million of you’.
‘Whaaat???’ thunders Trump as he slams his table and rises up in anger..

His rise is stopped midway as a tomahawk lands between his outstretched hands on the oak table of his office. The Appaches, Cheyenne, Sioux, Crows, Utes and Cherokees...the Hopis, KIckapoos, Mohicans, Navajos and Utes...one representative from each indigenous native Indian tribe.. ‘This land is ours sir and we give you three weeks to clear out, every single pale face’...

Thus it came about friends...the world went topsy-turvy. In five years since Trump was sworn in...America became the land of Americans.....

 

From left (Drs): Prithvi, Kumar, and G. Jayakrishnan 

The Swastika

The Swastika a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, especially Hinduism.

In the Western world, it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s when it became a feature of Nazi symbolism as an emblem of the so-called Aryan race. As a result of World War II and the Holocaust, most people in Europe and the Americas associate it with Nazism and antisemitism.

The word swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक) meaning 'conducive to well being' or 'auspicious'.  In Hinduism, the symbol with arms pointing clockwise (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ('sun'), prosperity and good luck, while the counter clockwise symbol (卍) is called sauvastika, symbolizing night or tantric aspects of Kali.

In Jainism, a swastika is the symbol for Suparshvanatha – the seventh of 24 Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers and saviours), while in Buddhism it symbolizes the auspicious footprints of the Buddha. In several major Indo-European religions, the swastika symbolizes lightning bolts, representing the thunder god and the king of the gods, such as Indra in Vedic Hinduism, Zeus in the ancient Greek religion, Jupiter in the ancient Roman religion, and Thor in the ancient Germanic religion.

In China it is named wàn 卐 / 卍 / 萬, meaning 'all things', pronounced manji in Japanese. A swastika generally takes the form of a cross, the arms of which are of equal length and perpendicular to the adjacent arms, each bent midway at a right angle. The symbol is found in the archaeological remains of the Indus Valley Civilization, and Mesopotamia, as well as in early Byzantine and Christian artwork.

The swastika was adopted by several organizations in pre–World War I Europe, and later by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany before World War II. It was used by the Nazi Party to symbolize German nationalistic pride. To Jews and other victims and enemies of Nazi Germany, it became a symbol of antisemitism and terror. In many Western countries, the swastika is viewed as a symbol of racial supremacism and intimidation because of its association with Nazism.

Reverence for the swastika symbol in Asian cultures, in contrast to the West's stigmatization of the symbol, has led to misinterpretations and misunderstandings. 

Ed: Wiki

Penicillin’s first patient

From my second year dental school 1972.  I was interested in this drug and I came across this classic article written for Aster Medical Journal- July 2019. Prof: Col. Bupadikar was the teacher who introduced this topic to us, at KMC- Manipal.   

By Author: Mike Barrett is Professor of Biochemical Parasitology 

at the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology at the University of Glasgow.

The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 is often portrayed as a stroke of serendipity falling upon a sloppy worker who had left a bacterial culture plate open on his bench while taking a holiday. The fungus that landed there killed the bacteria - and the lucky Fleming could claim to have saved the world.

It was no simple fluke. The Scottish doctor had, in fact, been leading research into the quest for antimicrobial agents for many years by this time. Fleming, however, failed to develop the drug, finding it too difficult to purify. This was left to Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley in Oxford  over a decade later - work catalysed by the necessity of war.

The first patient to be treated with penicillin was a policeman, Constable Albert Alexander. According to popular legend, Alexander developed sepsis after pricking himself while pruning roses in the garden of the police house in the pretty hamlet of Wootton in Oxfordshire in the early autumn of 1940.

By the time the researchers felt they could test penicillin in humans – having cured infections in mice and proven its safety in a terminally ill human volunteer - Alexander was deteriorating fast. Now in the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, he was covered in abscesses and had already lost an eye.
He received an initial dose of 200 mg of penicillin, followed by another 300 mg every

three hours over five days. His short-term recovery was remarkable. However, the original penicillin formulation was excreted from the body so rapidly that Florey likened their task to trying to fill a bath with the plug out. It also explains the need for frequent repeat doses.

The patient's urine was collected and rushed to the penicillin production unit at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, where Chain desperately purified excreted drug for reuse. But he couldn't recover enough. Alexander relapsed and eventually died. His temporary reprieve, however, helped convince the penicillin team that curing him would have been possible, if only enough of the drug could have been made.

With Heatley, Florey left for the USA. There, Florey persuaded several large pharmaceutical companies (including Merck, E R Squibb& Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co. and Lederle Laboratories) to scale up production. This meant that by the end of World War II thousands of Allied soldiers were surviving battlefield wounds and being treated for sexually transmitted infections, including gonorrhoea. The work sparked the antibiotic revolution.

Recently, an elderly aunt of mine told me a story of an old friend of hers, Sheila LeBlanc.
Sheila is the daughter of Constable Alexander. What's more, she is still alive and living in California. I emailed Sheila with some questions. She explained how, when her father died in 1941.