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Josef Mengele, the Nazi “Angel of Death”, was by no means the only doctor who enjoyed inflicting suffering. The list of murderous medics is disturbingly long. So is the record of the death toll of their practices.
- Not all doctors throughout history have taken to heart the content of the oath, which they assumed primarily to serve human life and health.
- Doctors experimented with people, but they also inflicted pain on them for the sake of pleasure
- The most dangerous serial killer in Britain was the doctor
- More current information can be found on the Onet homepage.
The doctor is to serve human life and health
In ancient times, the medic took the Hippocratic Oath before starting his practice. He declared that: “He will not give a lethal poison to anyone, even on demand, nor will he advise anyone to do so, nor will he ever give a woman a remedy for miscarriage. I will keep my life and my art in purity and innocence. I will never remove anyone’s urinary stones by cutting (the bladder), but I will send anyone to people who are familiar with it. I will enter into any of the houses, I will enter for the benefit of the suffering; I will stranger to deliberate misdemeanor, as well as any other iniquity, especially lewd acts on the bodies of women and men, not only free but also slaves ”.
The XNUMXth century and the establishment of the World Medical Association brought a modern version of the medical oath – the Geneva Declaration. “MY PATIENT’S LIFE AND WELL-BEING will be my main concern; I WILL RESPECT my patient’s autonomy and dignity; I WILL REMAIN the utmost respect for human life »is one of its assumptions. There is currently a Medical Oath in Poland. Before starting the internship, the graduates swear by, inter alia, serve human life and health.
- Also read: The Hippocratic Oath – how is it written and how it is made
From the very beginning, medicine is primarily designed to bring health and protect against premature death. However, it was not obvious to all doctors.
Shiro Ishii – Japanese Mengele
The most famous doctor who was also a war criminal was, of course, Josef Mengele. Meanwhile, in the 50s, another physician did things that were even more cruel. This is Shiro Ishii – the soldier-doctor who initiated the biological and chemical weapons research and development program under a secret military unit. Unit 731 operated on behalf of the Japanese military police – Kempeitai.
Ishii gathered the best doctors and scientists in it to breed, produce and transfer germs of infectious diseases to people. What for? To create biological weapons useful in war. Unit 731 was filled with political prisoners, spies, but also civilians who, like Jews in concentration camps, became only numbers.
Employees, under the watchful eye of Ishi, committed the most cruel actions. The captives were not people for them, but “logs”. The Japanese amputated their limbs, sewed their left hand in place of the right stump, impregnated the women, and then had an abortion. They also infected prisoners with plague, cholera and anthrax.
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In 1945, the headquarters of the unit was blown up, and the remaining prisoners of war were exterminated on Ishi’s order. In this way, the world did not learn about the crimes under the command of the Japanese for many years. The truth was not revealed until 1989 (while Ishii died of a malignant tumor in 1959). In Unit 731 from 3 to even 10 people were brutally murdered. people.
Carl Clauberg – killer gynecologist
In Auschwitz, and later in Ravensbruck, the Nazi gynecologist Carl Clauberg conducted his dark experiments. A war criminal, who was never punished for his vile practices, died in 1957. The trial has not yet started. Clauberg was given a job by Heinrich Himmler to find a way for a quick sterilization procedure. One that could be carried out on a massive scale.
For a gynecologist, mainly Jewish women became the subject of research. Clauberg injected toxins into the wombs of women. He did not use any anesthesia, so the procedures were extremely painful for the “patients”. Some of them died during the experiments. The others Clauberg killed on purpose – their bodies were later used by him for the autopsy.
Marcel Petiot – murderer of Jews
Marcel Petiot, a French physician and soldier, also specialized in murdering Jews. The man was expelled from the army due to “inadequate” personality traits. In the meantime, he was also accused of murdering two people, although it could not be proved.
In 1933 he started working in Paris, where he treated patients. With the outbreak of World War II, Petiot found a new way to earn money, but also to pursue his sadistic aspirations – he offered help to Jews to escape from France. To those who agreed, he administered poison (claiming it was a drug) and then watched them die. He took their money and jewelry and put their bodies in an oven in his basement.
Petiot was arrested in 1944. Thirty bodies were found in his house. Petiot himself confessed to killing 30 people. He was beheaded two years later.
HH Holmes – the first American serial killer
HH Holmes was the first known serial killer in America. He was interested in medicine even as a child, when he performed “operations” on animals. After graduating from medical school, he became a pharmacist in Chicago and began building a house, or rather a castle – with three floors and 60 rooms. It was a maze with traps, trapdoors, and doors that open only from the outside.
Holmes rented rooms primarily to women. He tortured tenants, burned them, gassed them, and performed medical experiments on them. It is estimated that up to 200 people could fall victim to it. He was sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out in 1896.
Harold Shipman – prawdziwy Mr. Hyde
Harold Shipman was a general practitioner in the British town of Hyde. His patients were mostly elderly people, mostly women. The doctor had a reputation for being a calm and well-mannered man, which won him the sympathy of seniors. Since 1975, Shipman, like a real Mr. Hyde indulged in his dark passion for killing – he injected his patients with diamorphine (medical heroin), and then entered an attack or a heart attack in his death certificate.
- Read more: “Doctor Death” killed over 250 people
The case came to light when Shipman forged the will of one of his victims in 1998. The woman’s daughter discovered the fraud and applied for the exhumation of the body. Diamorphine was found in the body of a woman. Investigators searched the doctor’s house and ordered an autopsy of other recently deceased patients who were under Shipman’s care. Thus, it was established that the doctor killed 15 people. Though he pleaded not guilty, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
It soon became known that Shipman had killed many more people over the course of 20 years – this number had risen to over 250. “Doctor Death”, as he was nicknamed by the British media, hanged himself in his cell on January 13, 2004. He is considered the most a dangerous serial killer in British history.
This is not the end of the doctors who didn’t care about their patients’ lives. Doctors, who are passionate about cruelty and killing, have appeared in the history of the world disturbingly often. Like the nurses, they also happened to be “Angels of Death”.
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