The idea of Osho being poisoned by United States authorities makes for a good story, but as has been regularly pointed out, it does not fit with Osho’s circumstances. For the two years following The Ranch break-up Osho at least appeared to be in reasonably health. He has admittedly said that since that time he has felt some deterioration in his health. However what does not make sense is the dramatic turn of events that occurred when Osho had a minor ear infection that simply would not heal. As explained by Osho, he spent the next 7 weeks gravelly ill in a battle of life and death. It was this sudden and rapid deterioration, of which he never seemed to recover from, that struck me.
During his returning to better health discourse he kept repeating 7 weeks, and also kept referring to it all starting with an ear infection. This discourse was given on the 6th November, 1987. Hence 7 weeks prior to this takes us to around the 19th of September, 1987. The unusual thing about the minor ear infection is that it simply would not heal.
There have been many theories of how Osho was poisoned, with the most notable one being that of the heavy metal Thallium poisoning. Also, it has been noted that it takes around 8 weeks for the Thallium to disappear from the body. Dr Amrito, Osho’s personal physician was of the view that it could have been fluorocarbon. Osho no doubt valued Dr Amrito’s opinion - as Osho was fond of saying, Dr Amrito is a fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians in England, and the youngest member at that. There were many other professional opinions, and there was also the notion of Nitrous Oxide poisoning – excess usage in the dental chair over a long period.
The tact taken in this report differs from all previous accounts that I am aware of. For me it was always the ear infection which stood out (apart from the 7 weeks). It was not until I discovered the brilliance of Shakespeare that I started wondering.
In Shakespeare’s ‘Hamelet’ Claudius poisoned Hamlet's father by pouring a vial of a deadly poison into his ear while he was having an afternoon nap: ''with juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, and in the porches of my ears did pur the leperous distilment...that swift as quicksilver ... courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body...Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched.”
It was a discovery of the time that it was possible for fluid to pass from the middle ear to the back of the nose and throat. It was thought that this was caused by an ear infection causing a membrane to perforate. Hence it was known that a poison administered through the ear can actually be ingested. With the wisdom of modern medicine, it is now known that this passage is not the result of infection, and is called the Eustachian tube.
Ear infections were frequent at the time, and as mentioned it was thought that a perforated ear drum meant that a liquid in the ear can pass through the perforation and travel to the back of the throat. Hence at the time of Shakespeare’s writings there was an account of a French surgeon being suspected of killing the King of France by giving him an ear infection.
Two fictional references that involve poisoning via the Eustachian tube include:
Huizinga E: Murder through the ear. Pract Oto-rhino-laryng, 1971.
Kan JA: Atropine poisoning in Hawthane’s The Scarlet Letter. NEJM
In the non-fictional domain we have the following reference:
Eclectic medical journal, Volume 22 – 1863, Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, Worthington College (Ohio). Reformed Medical Dept
pp43-44 On Secret Poisoning – A paper having this terrible title was read by Professor Harley, at the Meeting of the British Association, held last month at Cambridge…yet he was sorry to say he could not but repeat the statement he made last year in a paper on slow poisoning, read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of London….Nay, more, he even went a step further, and declared that he not only believed that we magnified the difficulty of perpetrating the crime, but that we were also inclined to exaggerate the facility of its detection.
The article goes on to discuss how in small doses a slow death may result in the toxin going undetected.
The previous 5 pages of the journal discussed medical issues pertaining to the Eustachian tube.
The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London is now the Royal Society of Medicine.
Thanks to a google search there is the following text reference:
Criminal Poisoning: An Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, ... - Google Books Result, by John H. Trestrail - 2000 - Medical - 184 pages
XI: Thallium as "an untraceable poison," Pharmacy History, ... Huizinga E: Murder through the ear. Pract Oto-rhino-laryng, 1971;33:361-365. ...
books.google.com.au/books?isbn=1588291332...
Other editions
Edition 2 - 2007 - Limited preview
Edition 1 - 1899 - No preview available
Also from Google, there has been a scientific study of the effects of thallium on rats:
Revised Final Report: Toxicity of Thallium (I)
DW-89922097 between EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy. .... The study was conducted according to EPA TSCA GLP guidelines in place at the time. The ...
oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=471675
In the comments by a Dr. Koller we have that … extra steps were taken in an attempt to diagnose an unexpected ear lesion that occurred in all groups of rats in this study.
What about a possible motive? A little discussed but very real personal issue for those close to him was always whether and when you would be replaced by Osho. If you are not his personal physician, dentist, secretary, or indeed financial donor, than who are you? You might say well if a personal aid killed Osho, then what is the use of being an aid to a dead person? If you were Osho’s personal aid when he left the body, then this is how it will stay. You will always be his personal ‘aid’. Also, if for example you were sitting on certain boards of certain trusts and foundations, or if you were a signatory to certain bank accounts, then having that unchanged has certain advantages.
Let me be very clear here and state that the above proposition is a line of inquiry and is not an accusation.
The notion of secret poisoning reminds me of all the sanyassins and visitors of the Pune resort who have over the years unknowingly consumed contaminated ‘drinking’ water.
During his returning to better health discourse he kept repeating 7 weeks, and also kept referring to it all starting with an ear infection. This discourse was given on the 6th November, 1987. Hence 7 weeks prior to this takes us to around the 19th of September, 1987. The unusual thing about the minor ear infection is that it simply would not heal.
There have been many theories of how Osho was poisoned, with the most notable one being that of the heavy metal Thallium poisoning. Also, it has been noted that it takes around 8 weeks for the Thallium to disappear from the body. Dr Amrito, Osho’s personal physician was of the view that it could have been fluorocarbon. Osho no doubt valued Dr Amrito’s opinion - as Osho was fond of saying, Dr Amrito is a fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians in England, and the youngest member at that. There were many other professional opinions, and there was also the notion of Nitrous Oxide poisoning – excess usage in the dental chair over a long period.
The tact taken in this report differs from all previous accounts that I am aware of. For me it was always the ear infection which stood out (apart from the 7 weeks). It was not until I discovered the brilliance of Shakespeare that I started wondering.
In Shakespeare’s ‘Hamelet’ Claudius poisoned Hamlet's father by pouring a vial of a deadly poison into his ear while he was having an afternoon nap: ''with juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, and in the porches of my ears did pur the leperous distilment...that swift as quicksilver ... courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body...Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched.”
It was a discovery of the time that it was possible for fluid to pass from the middle ear to the back of the nose and throat. It was thought that this was caused by an ear infection causing a membrane to perforate. Hence it was known that a poison administered through the ear can actually be ingested. With the wisdom of modern medicine, it is now known that this passage is not the result of infection, and is called the Eustachian tube.
Ear infections were frequent at the time, and as mentioned it was thought that a perforated ear drum meant that a liquid in the ear can pass through the perforation and travel to the back of the throat. Hence at the time of Shakespeare’s writings there was an account of a French surgeon being suspected of killing the King of France by giving him an ear infection.
Two fictional references that involve poisoning via the Eustachian tube include:
Huizinga E: Murder through the ear. Pract Oto-rhino-laryng, 1971.
Kan JA: Atropine poisoning in Hawthane’s The Scarlet Letter. NEJM
In the non-fictional domain we have the following reference:
Eclectic medical journal, Volume 22 – 1863, Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, Worthington College (Ohio). Reformed Medical Dept
pp43-44 On Secret Poisoning – A paper having this terrible title was read by Professor Harley, at the Meeting of the British Association, held last month at Cambridge…yet he was sorry to say he could not but repeat the statement he made last year in a paper on slow poisoning, read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of London….Nay, more, he even went a step further, and declared that he not only believed that we magnified the difficulty of perpetrating the crime, but that we were also inclined to exaggerate the facility of its detection.
The article goes on to discuss how in small doses a slow death may result in the toxin going undetected.
The previous 5 pages of the journal discussed medical issues pertaining to the Eustachian tube.
The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London is now the Royal Society of Medicine.
Thanks to a google search there is the following text reference:
Criminal Poisoning: An Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, ... - Google Books Result, by John H. Trestrail - 2000 - Medical - 184 pages
XI: Thallium as "an untraceable poison," Pharmacy History, ... Huizinga E: Murder through the ear. Pract Oto-rhino-laryng, 1971;33:361-365. ...
books.google.com.au/books?isbn=1588291332...
Other editions
Edition 2 - 2007 - Limited preview
Edition 1 - 1899 - No preview available
Also from Google, there has been a scientific study of the effects of thallium on rats:
Revised Final Report: Toxicity of Thallium (I)
DW-89922097 between EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy. .... The study was conducted according to EPA TSCA GLP guidelines in place at the time. The ...
oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=471675
In the comments by a Dr. Koller we have that … extra steps were taken in an attempt to diagnose an unexpected ear lesion that occurred in all groups of rats in this study.
What about a possible motive? A little discussed but very real personal issue for those close to him was always whether and when you would be replaced by Osho. If you are not his personal physician, dentist, secretary, or indeed financial donor, than who are you? You might say well if a personal aid killed Osho, then what is the use of being an aid to a dead person? If you were Osho’s personal aid when he left the body, then this is how it will stay. You will always be his personal ‘aid’. Also, if for example you were sitting on certain boards of certain trusts and foundations, or if you were a signatory to certain bank accounts, then having that unchanged has certain advantages.
Let me be very clear here and state that the above proposition is a line of inquiry and is not an accusation.
The notion of secret poisoning reminds me of all the sanyassins and visitors of the Pune resort who have over the years unknowingly consumed contaminated ‘drinking’ water.
such an ugly and cowardly mind you have
ReplyDeleteOsho did nt died because of poisoning.
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