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quote Mar 28, 2012 by Hans Smedbol #3 among many erroneous statements of fact, i have chosen to illustrate one error with the information provided in Wikipedia about the death of Kasturba Gandhi...which completely disagrees with your assertion that he refused proper medical treatment to his wife: "....then came a relapse. The doctor said Ayurvedic medicine could do no more for her. To those who tried to bolster her sagging morale saying "You will get better soon," Kasturba would respond, "No, my time is up." Shortly after seven that evening, Devdas took Mohandas and the doctors aside. In what he would later describe as "the sweetest of all wrangles I ever had with my father," he pleaded fiercely that Ba be given the life saving medicine, even though the doctors told him her condition was beyond help. It was Mohandas, after learning that the penicillin had to be administered by injection every four to six hours, who finally persuaded his youngest son to give up the idea. "Why do you want to prolong your mother's agonies after all the suffering she has been through?" Gandhi asked. Then he said, "You can't cure her now, no matter what miracle drug you may muster. But if you insist, I will not stand in your way."[1]" i don't know how you can read that to imply that Gandhi refused treatment to his wife. First he went along with the Ayurvedic medical approach, which many if not most Indians of that day, and indeed this day, would first pursue in hopes of relief. and she appeared to improve at first for a while...then the relapse...the Vaidyas (the ayurvedic doctors) declared her beyond hope of their care.... other allopathic doctors (or vaidyas with western medical training) were consulted about the new penicillin treatment...they suggested that it wouldn't work now...Gandhi listened to this, and being realistic asked his grief stricken son, if it wouldn't be better to just let his mother go, rather than stick a needle into her arm or bum or whatever every four to six hours, causing her a lot of pain with no gain, because the doctors thought it hopeless. but in the end of his statement, he bowed to the will of his son in this matter....if the son wanted to insist on Penicillin treatment he would not stand in the way. how do you interpret this to be a refusal of treatment. hindsight is a wonderful view...it's 100%....we can look back and decide that Gandhi's approach was wrong, and that he should have gone for the pencillin treatments much earlier...but this was 1944...Indians had every right in those days to rely upon Ayurveda FIRST and allopathic medicine second...even today this kind of treatment is often followed by Indians and others who respect Ayurveda....first the Ayurvedic medicine...and if that doesn't help enough...they go to the Allopathic medicine....unless of course it appears to be an emergency...life or death.... Penicillin was not yet widely used in those days, and the injections every four to six hours would have been painful...as there was no hope of the treatment succeeding (according to the doctors' advice at least), how was Gandhi remiss in his discussions with his son? it seems to me that you are an anti-Gandhi type, because quite a few of the arguments you use are open to other interpretations than your own, and some of them are outright wrong, such as that accusation above of Gandhi denying his wife essential treatment for her Bronchial infection. He did the best he could with what he knew, medically speaking, at that time. i think he acted out of compassion towards his wife, rather than cruelty....he saw how much she was already suffering from her heart disease, and the chronic bronchial troubles (brought on in childhood).....he saw that even if she did "recover" it wouldn't be a real recovery, because of the heart disease, which was killing her slowly and painfully. but he did not stand in the way of his son's administering the anti-biotics...he only advised against it, at that time, for some very plausible reasons, in my view. also quinine at that time was an already well established medical resource against Malaria, even if not a traditional Ayurvedic medicine. it was administered in India so regularly that Schweppes put it into their "Tonic Water", where you can still find it. i guess they thought that the amount of Gin and Tonics that the Brits used to drink in India, would provide therapeutic amounts of quinine. Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/321957#tab=comments&sc=0#ixzz2KCueBL9f