The College's expert attacked Dr. Hoffe for misinformation due to his public statements regarding the immense safety of ivermectin. Here is my defense testimony rebutting the College's "expert."
Fantastic book!... You document your scientific references along with your remarkable Critical Care Research & experience & Clinical Acumen..... Thank you for the education AND your COURAGE !!!!
The reality is that many or most of the former "leftist" have become totalitarians, many without even realizing it. Pierre is an example of someone who had always had liberal values but maintained those values while many others abandoned them. So he is still speaking up.
Doncha know, plutonium is the most toxic substance in existence, and fish contains 1000x as much mercury as chemical analysis (atomic absorption) shows?
Doc, if Dr. Kory doesn't see this, maybe you can answer? I took ivermectin - admittedly on a empty stomach - and had the worst stomach pains I have ever had. I even went to the ER room it was so bad. Was it taking it on an empty stomach? Even if so, why such pain? Ivermectin HAS worked for my wife, ned others, no problem. It is VERY disappointing that I had such a problem....
Wow. Sorry to hear but I have had one other patient report this side effect, just not severe enough to go to the ER but still. The one reassuring thing about rare side effects like these is that they are all transient and resolve with cessation. Still a bummer though, esp. making you go to the ER. I am sure they were thrilled that you said it started after taking ivermectin :)
Perhaps that side effect could be mitigated with dosing ivermectin along with a fatty meal, as my own doctor recommended, rather than on an empty stomach.
I don’t have your book yet. I took IVM for parasite cleanse for approximately 5 days. I recently went down rabbit hole & found that it is beneficial for alcohol addictions. I’m trying to find info if it can be taken daily….if necessary. I I’ll look forward to your book. Fr Vancouver BC 🇨🇦
If you find that info and could share I'd appreciate it. I know many that are struggling currently w/ alcohol. Parasites causing the addiction wouldn't surprise me at all.
We also identified that moxidectin elicited a significant reduction in drinking at 4 hours post administration, which is much faster than the 9 hours for ivermectin (Huynh et al., 2017). The faster brain penetration again has been attributed to the differing substituents on these compounds with moxidectin having higher lipophilicity (Lanusse et al., 1997). This also partially explains why a lower dose (2.5 mg/kg) of moxidectin has faster onset time and exhibits similar efficacy to a higher dose (5 mg/kg) of ivermectin (Huynh et al., 2017;
For sure!! Interestingly, I found this out. AFTER I took it for around 5 days. I can’t recall when. I’ll have to look at calendar but I haven’t had a drink for a month!! I have adult daughter struggling w addictions & I would self medicate due to the stress….soooo, I will encourage her to try if only for harm reduction…to kill her parasites. I’ve found several studies on mice but nothing much in terms of human studies. Also see doctor yourself . com for vitamins amino acid for addictions AND Dr Chris Palmer has a good book out.
Thanks. I am VERY much a supporter of your work and ivermectin. My question was more what might have caused it. Charlene below says taking with a fatty meal might have fixed the issues. Anyhow, I realize this is just anecdotal and a report from an anonymous reader, but might be something to put in your hat. I"m thinking it was on an empty stomach that was the issue, and perhaps you have research on that? Any how, I sure didn't die.... but the pain was so bad I did go to the ER, which I NEVER do (but then again, like most men, I can take pain all over, but when it comes to the gut/stomach area, women sure beat men in pain tolerance there!
Thanks for all you are doing. In the end, it will be again, the Churchillian never have so many owed so much to so few.... like you!
Doc, I have a question I submitted to Dr Kory, but maybe you know. I took ivermectin - on a empty stomach - and has the worst stomach pains I have ever had. I even went to the ER room it was so bad. Was it taking it on an empty stomach? Even if so, why such pain? Ivermectin HAS worked for my wife, ned others, no problem. It is VERY disappointing that I had such a problem....
Just became a paid subscriber and also just finished reading your excellent book (which will get donated into circulation at a library, so others can read it too). I'm a patient of Scott's at your clinic. As someone who also, grew up on LI with family that had NYC roots, I can especially relate to many of the things you talk about.
Ivermectin may have saved my life, so thank you for being a bad ass and doing all that you are doing!!!
But please do take care of your own health and your four girls, the country and the world need the Paul Mariks and Pierre Korys around for the long haul!!!
When Dr Kory first emerged as a truth-teller on social media during the Covid ‘pandemic’ I was very impressed with his clarity and his commitment to saving sick patients. He explained what is essential in treating the sick and that sending people home with ‘no treatment’ is NOT at all what doctors and hospitals should rightfully do.
We know he was demonized and lost his job due to this dual commitment to truth and for saving patients with Ivermectin and I for one am very grateful for what I learned from this brilliant doctor and also continue to learn from him in his interviews, writings, and book, The War on Ivermectin.
Now I see that Dr Kory is also a major warrior for social Justice for other doctors and for all of us, who are harmed greatly by the removal of the few brave doctors who fight back against the lies and the fraudulent science.
I pray that Dr Elizabeth ‘ Betsy’ Eads is correct that the era of the Rockefeller Allopathic (Pharmaceutical) medical system is coming to an end and that we will have the opportunity to restore health and healing system to a broad life-based integrative modality, led by Doctors who will be freed from the handcuffs of defined ‘protocols’ which do more harm than good.
Our healers need to be restored to us, with the freedom to actually work with us on true health and prevention.
Dr Pierre Kory, I am praying for God to protect you and all of the truth warriors so that ultimately a new world of health will be opened to all of us. We thank you for everything you do.
So Dr. Corneil is a LIAR. It figures, liars are everywhere and they think lying is ok. It is not. If you lie your word is useless. God hates a lying tongue.
Oh, but profitable it is! It is so egregious, it must be a moral lack that is learned at an early age by these miscreants. They must have gotten away with everything and anything as a toddler and never matured beyond that despite occupying adult bodies. That there are so many of them is what is shocking to me. How did we ever trust our most precious health and national security with these scoundrels?
There are many honest doctors in Canada who are victims of the various medical/psychology boards in every province, because they stand for the truth in protecting their patients in the case of covid scams, as opposed to the lying, pagan Marxist ideology insisted on by Justin Trudeau.
Good point, but I wouldn't go thither. Inventors of lobotomy and other deleterious procedures also won Nobel prizes in Physiology and Medicine. Can Nobel prizes be revoked, as Olympic medals were?
How disappointing! When I was a very young child I saw television ads soliciting donations to the American Olympic committee so America could bring the gold home to counter the trade deficit.
So, why did they run those ads? Was I too literal or not discerning enough as a 5-year-old? Did the Treasury Department confiscate Olympic medals when the athletes returned home?
My last television was stolen in 1987 and my last cable connection was abandoned in 1985, so I don't know or care. When did Olympic medals become negotiables?
I've never heard of the Nobel committee revoking anything but they'd have to move quickly to get the money back. If I got the prize, I'd bank the money in covert mutual funds and live on the dividends.
As one of the two Irish Doctors deprived of all medical income for my refusal to participate in the hoax of Covid pathogenicity and the crime of governments pandemic response based on the dishonest ,useless, over cycled, scam PCR test, I categorically reject any death rates ,cures, or intervention which claims to be related to the very low pathogenic coronavirus, which only gives credence to a viral infection as opposed to what was in reality a pandemic of fear generated by this heinous crime of PCR diagnosis. Shame on any doctor who accepts C19 as disease of any relevant pathogenicity while ignoring the iatrogenic genocide perpetrated on the people knowing the dishonesty of the primary diagnostic method. Time for full truth .
Dr Gerry Waters . Ireland . Forty-six years qualified as a medical doctor.
I love this article and all of Dr. Kory's contributions to the public's awareness about Covid and Ivermectin. I need to point out one error in this report, so that it might be corrected. He states that 11,056 deaths resulted from Remdesivir use over 30 years, but that is actually the number of adverse events, not deaths. The number of deaths was actually 728. The death count for ivermectin of 26 is also misquoted as 16. Hopefully these errors will be corrected, giving even more credibility to this excellent report.
Dr. Kory - I believe that the VigiAccess chart you included and the commentary within the article have some discrepancies. The embedded chart listed 26 reported deaths from Ivermectin but the article stated 16 and the chart also listed 11,056 Adverse Events for Remdesivir which were quoted as Remdesivir deaths.
I have personally used Ivermectin successfully over these past 3 years and I hope I will never be without this helpful yet much-maligned medication. Thank you for your tireless work to get the true message of Ivermectin out to the world.
P.S. unfortunately, I am unable to support you with a paid subscription, but if you offered a “Tip” option, I’d be able to help financially support your work occasionally.
our trusted vet says that Ivermectin is very safe and covers almost 100%, so he does not even test my dog anymore, he has never seen a dog get sick with heartworm on it. I was ready to grab her pills in case I got sick but so far, so good.
If find it interesting that I ordered 6 copies of Dr Kory’s book from Amazon over the holidays to distribute to friends and others as gifts and to date have not received a request from Amazon to provide a review. I say interesting as it seems I receive email requests from them asking to review almost every other product I order thru them... Hmmmmmmm. Just saying. Thanks for all you’re doing Doc !!!!!
Send Dr. Corneil (and Homeopathy fanatics) back to school, and force him to take, and pass, toxicology. Apparently he never learned "Sola dosis facit venenum" (only the dose makes the poison), though Wicked Pedia claims an incredibly high dose of ivermectin be required to suppress covid - 7.0 mg/kg to achieve 50% inhibition. While still high, 0.2 mg/kg/day (for up to 5 days; 2 days, though I ran out of ivermectin at that point, did it on JN.1 for me) seems to do the job.
Are you being serious in your apparent disparagement of homeopathy?
Homeopathy was once just as prominent in the US as conventional medicine, and it was only the bullying of the AMA and its members (who were prohibited from sharing patients with or consulting with homeopathic physicians) that throttled its continued prominence here. Homeopathy illustrates perfectly that the dose makes the poison, as it utilizes nano doses of otherwise toxic (and non-toxic) natural substances to support and stimulate the body’s healing capacities. Homeopath Dana Ullman has a recent post describing exactly these facts about the efficacy and former prominence of homeopathy.
During the Spanish flu epidemic, homeopathic hospitals experienced much lower mortality rates than conventional.
During the recent plandemic, a particular factory in Cuba distributed a weekly dose of a specific homeopathic medicine to their employees, and no on was ill with covid.
If these homeopathic hospitals administered aspirin, it was probably nonexistent, fantastic dilutions. At least theoretically (Indian Arsenicum Album was an exception), homeopathic preparations contain no active ingredients. Somewhat like the Standard Model, which grossly violates Occam's Razor.
How do you explain their far better mortality rates during Spanish flu?
Did you know that the Royal Family in Britain has used homeopathy for many years?
Homeopathic medicines contain no detectable active ingredients but they most certainly are active. Dana Ullman references several studies in the article I linked. Many plastic surgeons now use homeopathic Arnica to reduce bruising and swelling and pain after surgery.
I agree that the dilutions are fantastical, and it is utterly counterintuitive that they should do a thing, let alone that the more diluted AND POTENTIZED BY SUCCUSSION the medicine is, the more deep acting and potent it is. It sounds utterly absurd.
However, millions of people worldwide over the last two hundred years have experienced its benefits. With very minimal harms, unlike conventional medicine.
Read my comment you replied to. Allopathic medicine used huge, toxic doses of aspirin. If you care to elaborate, please do, but spare me pretended efficacy of dilutions beyond imaginary.
Yes, the Royal family hides behind homeopathy as a pretense for their witchcraft they keep from the masses.
"Homeopathic medicines contain no detectable active ingredients but they most certainly are active" is a screwball cloak for placebo delusions. If something isn't there, it doesn't work. Do you suggest I patronize the ghostly apothecary? Is "succussion" a synonym for concussion?
Fantastic book!... You document your scientific references along with your remarkable Critical Care Research & experience & Clinical Acumen..... Thank you for the education AND your COURAGE !!!!
Keep up your great work !!!
Sorry to repeat this, but the left never argues in good faith. Never. They can’t address your refutation and won’t even try.
The Truth is not important to them (Leftists)... At least none speak up !!!
The reality is that many or most of the former "leftist" have become totalitarians, many without even realizing it. Pierre is an example of someone who had always had liberal values but maintained those values while many others abandoned them. So he is still speaking up.
Yes.. He believes in Freedom of Speech
Equality (not equity)
Honesty in everything (SCIENCE)!
Corruption of Govt by money/ corporate $ illegal.
Avoid merging of State & corporate =ie- Fascism.
Censorship is illegal.
NO ELECTION TAMPERING (Fraud)
Scientists must corroborate /share/ repeat results/ & research without bias !!!!..... Outside money corrupts that .
HONESTY !
The pandemic response was a covert totalitarian takeover: https://nedb.substack.com/p/totalitarian-takeover-disguised-as
Mario Savio is turning over in his grave
Doncha know, plutonium is the most toxic substance in existence, and fish contains 1000x as much mercury as chemical analysis (atomic absorption) shows?
Doc, if Dr. Kory doesn't see this, maybe you can answer? I took ivermectin - admittedly on a empty stomach - and had the worst stomach pains I have ever had. I even went to the ER room it was so bad. Was it taking it on an empty stomach? Even if so, why such pain? Ivermectin HAS worked for my wife, ned others, no problem. It is VERY disappointing that I had such a problem....
Wow. Sorry to hear but I have had one other patient report this side effect, just not severe enough to go to the ER but still. The one reassuring thing about rare side effects like these is that they are all transient and resolve with cessation. Still a bummer though, esp. making you go to the ER. I am sure they were thrilled that you said it started after taking ivermectin :)
Perhaps that side effect could be mitigated with dosing ivermectin along with a fatty meal, as my own doctor recommended, rather than on an empty stomach.
I don’t have your book yet. I took IVM for parasite cleanse for approximately 5 days. I recently went down rabbit hole & found that it is beneficial for alcohol addictions. I’m trying to find info if it can be taken daily….if necessary. I I’ll look forward to your book. Fr Vancouver BC 🇨🇦
If you find that info and could share I'd appreciate it. I know many that are struggling currently w/ alcohol. Parasites causing the addiction wouldn't surprise me at all.
We also identified that moxidectin elicited a significant reduction in drinking at 4 hours post administration, which is much faster than the 9 hours for ivermectin (Huynh et al., 2017). The faster brain penetration again has been attributed to the differing substituents on these compounds with moxidectin having higher lipophilicity (Lanusse et al., 1997). This also partially explains why a lower dose (2.5 mg/kg) of moxidectin has faster onset time and exhibits similar efficacy to a higher dose (5 mg/kg) of ivermectin (Huynh et al., 2017;
For sure!! Interestingly, I found this out. AFTER I took it for around 5 days. I can’t recall when. I’ll have to look at calendar but I haven’t had a drink for a month!! I have adult daughter struggling w addictions & I would self medicate due to the stress….soooo, I will encourage her to try if only for harm reduction…to kill her parasites. I’ve found several studies on mice but nothing much in terms of human studies. Also see doctor yourself . com for vitamins amino acid for addictions AND Dr Chris Palmer has a good book out.
Thanks. I am VERY much a supporter of your work and ivermectin. My question was more what might have caused it. Charlene below says taking with a fatty meal might have fixed the issues. Anyhow, I realize this is just anecdotal and a report from an anonymous reader, but might be something to put in your hat. I"m thinking it was on an empty stomach that was the issue, and perhaps you have research on that? Any how, I sure didn't die.... but the pain was so bad I did go to the ER, which I NEVER do (but then again, like most men, I can take pain all over, but when it comes to the gut/stomach area, women sure beat men in pain tolerance there!
Thanks for all you are doing. In the end, it will be again, the Churchillian never have so many owed so much to so few.... like you!
Doc, I have a question I submitted to Dr Kory, but maybe you know. I took ivermectin - on a empty stomach - and has the worst stomach pains I have ever had. I even went to the ER room it was so bad. Was it taking it on an empty stomach? Even if so, why such pain? Ivermectin HAS worked for my wife, ned others, no problem. It is VERY disappointing that I had such a problem....
Pierre,
Just became a paid subscriber and also just finished reading your excellent book (which will get donated into circulation at a library, so others can read it too). I'm a patient of Scott's at your clinic. As someone who also, grew up on LI with family that had NYC roots, I can especially relate to many of the things you talk about.
Ivermectin may have saved my life, so thank you for being a bad ass and doing all that you are doing!!!
But please do take care of your own health and your four girls, the country and the world need the Paul Mariks and Pierre Korys around for the long haul!!!
Bob!! Love the note, thanks my LI brother!
When Dr Kory first emerged as a truth-teller on social media during the Covid ‘pandemic’ I was very impressed with his clarity and his commitment to saving sick patients. He explained what is essential in treating the sick and that sending people home with ‘no treatment’ is NOT at all what doctors and hospitals should rightfully do.
We know he was demonized and lost his job due to this dual commitment to truth and for saving patients with Ivermectin and I for one am very grateful for what I learned from this brilliant doctor and also continue to learn from him in his interviews, writings, and book, The War on Ivermectin.
Now I see that Dr Kory is also a major warrior for social Justice for other doctors and for all of us, who are harmed greatly by the removal of the few brave doctors who fight back against the lies and the fraudulent science.
I pray that Dr Elizabeth ‘ Betsy’ Eads is correct that the era of the Rockefeller Allopathic (Pharmaceutical) medical system is coming to an end and that we will have the opportunity to restore health and healing system to a broad life-based integrative modality, led by Doctors who will be freed from the handcuffs of defined ‘protocols’ which do more harm than good.
Our healers need to be restored to us, with the freedom to actually work with us on true health and prevention.
Dr Pierre Kory, I am praying for God to protect you and all of the truth warriors so that ultimately a new world of health will be opened to all of us. We thank you for everything you do.
The “horse paste” worked very well for me when I had the nasty alpha variant. No side effects whatsoever 🙄
You had horse sense !
horses have probably more common sense than most people
I’ve read your book and the others (Kheriaty, Malone, McCullough, Dowd, Bruner-Schweitzer, Breggins, Craig, Paul, & RFK..... ongoing project !).
So Dr. Corneil is a LIAR. It figures, liars are everywhere and they think lying is ok. It is not. If you lie your word is useless. God hates a lying tongue.
True..Lying is immoral and treats your fellow humans with hate & disrespect!
Oh, but profitable it is! It is so egregious, it must be a moral lack that is learned at an early age by these miscreants. They must have gotten away with everything and anything as a toddler and never matured beyond that despite occupying adult bodies. That there are so many of them is what is shocking to me. How did we ever trust our most precious health and national security with these scoundrels?
There are many honest doctors in Canada who are victims of the various medical/psychology boards in every province, because they stand for the truth in protecting their patients in the case of covid scams, as opposed to the lying, pagan Marxist ideology insisted on by Justin Trudeau.
Do the attackers have Noble prizes for discovering ivermectin?
Good point, but I wouldn't go thither. Inventors of lobotomy and other deleterious procedures also won Nobel prizes in Physiology and Medicine. Can Nobel prizes be revoked, as Olympic medals were?
and those 2 maskers that got the prize this year
Are you aware that the gold Olympic medals are gold-plated silver?
How disappointing! When I was a very young child I saw television ads soliciting donations to the American Olympic committee so America could bring the gold home to counter the trade deficit.
There isn't enough gold in a gold-plated silver medal to worry about.
So, why did they run those ads? Was I too literal or not discerning enough as a 5-year-old? Did the Treasury Department confiscate Olympic medals when the athletes returned home?
My last television was stolen in 1987 and my last cable connection was abandoned in 1985, so I don't know or care. When did Olympic medals become negotiables?
I've never heard of the Nobel committee revoking anything but they'd have to move quickly to get the money back. If I got the prize, I'd bank the money in covert mutual funds and live on the dividends.
Probably difficult to claw the prize money back, but they could revoke the honor of the award.
They have been doing everything they can to dishonor the award with politics.
Peace (though after the lobotomy and "Standard Model" awards) was the first to go.
As one of the two Irish Doctors deprived of all medical income for my refusal to participate in the hoax of Covid pathogenicity and the crime of governments pandemic response based on the dishonest ,useless, over cycled, scam PCR test, I categorically reject any death rates ,cures, or intervention which claims to be related to the very low pathogenic coronavirus, which only gives credence to a viral infection as opposed to what was in reality a pandemic of fear generated by this heinous crime of PCR diagnosis. Shame on any doctor who accepts C19 as disease of any relevant pathogenicity while ignoring the iatrogenic genocide perpetrated on the people knowing the dishonesty of the primary diagnostic method. Time for full truth .
Dr Gerry Waters . Ireland . Forty-six years qualified as a medical doctor.
Huge thank you for providing the truth and life saving guidance.
Can’t save fools from themselves and from bad actors but you can (and have) save people who are willing to listen.
I love this article and all of Dr. Kory's contributions to the public's awareness about Covid and Ivermectin. I need to point out one error in this report, so that it might be corrected. He states that 11,056 deaths resulted from Remdesivir use over 30 years, but that is actually the number of adverse events, not deaths. The number of deaths was actually 728. The death count for ivermectin of 26 is also misquoted as 16. Hopefully these errors will be corrected, giving even more credibility to this excellent report.
Dr. Kory - I believe that the VigiAccess chart you included and the commentary within the article have some discrepancies. The embedded chart listed 26 reported deaths from Ivermectin but the article stated 16 and the chart also listed 11,056 Adverse Events for Remdesivir which were quoted as Remdesivir deaths.
I have personally used Ivermectin successfully over these past 3 years and I hope I will never be without this helpful yet much-maligned medication. Thank you for your tireless work to get the true message of Ivermectin out to the world.
P.S. unfortunately, I am unable to support you with a paid subscription, but if you offered a “Tip” option, I’d be able to help financially support your work occasionally.
our trusted vet says that Ivermectin is very safe and covers almost 100%, so he does not even test my dog anymore, he has never seen a dog get sick with heartworm on it. I was ready to grab her pills in case I got sick but so far, so good.
Excellent!Thanks Dr. Kory and safe travels.
If find it interesting that I ordered 6 copies of Dr Kory’s book from Amazon over the holidays to distribute to friends and others as gifts and to date have not received a request from Amazon to provide a review. I say interesting as it seems I receive email requests from them asking to review almost every other product I order thru them... Hmmmmmmm. Just saying. Thanks for all you’re doing Doc !!!!!
Amazon is of the devil, as my MIL would say.
And I decline to help fund Jeff's autoerotic rocketship project.
Send Dr. Corneil (and Homeopathy fanatics) back to school, and force him to take, and pass, toxicology. Apparently he never learned "Sola dosis facit venenum" (only the dose makes the poison), though Wicked Pedia claims an incredibly high dose of ivermectin be required to suppress covid - 7.0 mg/kg to achieve 50% inhibition. While still high, 0.2 mg/kg/day (for up to 5 days; 2 days, though I ran out of ivermectin at that point, did it on JN.1 for me) seems to do the job.
Are you being serious in your apparent disparagement of homeopathy?
Homeopathy was once just as prominent in the US as conventional medicine, and it was only the bullying of the AMA and its members (who were prohibited from sharing patients with or consulting with homeopathic physicians) that throttled its continued prominence here. Homeopathy illustrates perfectly that the dose makes the poison, as it utilizes nano doses of otherwise toxic (and non-toxic) natural substances to support and stimulate the body’s healing capacities. Homeopath Dana Ullman has a recent post describing exactly these facts about the efficacy and former prominence of homeopathy.
During the Spanish flu epidemic, homeopathic hospitals experienced much lower mortality rates than conventional.
During the recent plandemic, a particular factory in Cuba distributed a weekly dose of a specific homeopathic medicine to their employees, and no on was ill with covid.
If these homeopathic hospitals administered aspirin, it was probably nonexistent, fantastic dilutions. At least theoretically (Indian Arsenicum Album was an exception), homeopathic preparations contain no active ingredients. Somewhat like the Standard Model, which grossly violates Occam's Razor.
How do you explain their far better mortality rates during Spanish flu?
Did you know that the Royal Family in Britain has used homeopathy for many years?
Homeopathic medicines contain no detectable active ingredients but they most certainly are active. Dana Ullman references several studies in the article I linked. Many plastic surgeons now use homeopathic Arnica to reduce bruising and swelling and pain after surgery.
I agree that the dilutions are fantastical, and it is utterly counterintuitive that they should do a thing, let alone that the more diluted AND POTENTIZED BY SUCCUSSION the medicine is, the more deep acting and potent it is. It sounds utterly absurd.
However, millions of people worldwide over the last two hundred years have experienced its benefits. With very minimal harms, unlike conventional medicine.
Read my comment you replied to. Allopathic medicine used huge, toxic doses of aspirin. If you care to elaborate, please do, but spare me pretended efficacy of dilutions beyond imaginary.
Yes, the Royal family hides behind homeopathy as a pretense for their witchcraft they keep from the masses.
"Homeopathic medicines contain no detectable active ingredients but they most certainly are active" is a screwball cloak for placebo delusions. If something isn't there, it doesn't work. Do you suggest I patronize the ghostly apothecary? Is "succussion" a synonym for concussion?