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I grew up in a town which is 10 miles from the town where Fred

Klenner practiced medicine. Unfortunately I did not know about his

groundbreaking work until after he was dead. If I had, I would have

gone to see him.

 

A lot has come out about Klenner, his family, and his work after his

death. During his life he never received the recognition from the

medical establishment or from most of his wife's family that he so

richly deserved. Though his patients loved him. He was a very

important pioneer in supplement work.

 

He was an amazingly complex man. He was a transplanted Yankee from

Pennsy. who frequently out-racisted the natives when it came to

racist remarks. In violation of federal law he maintained segregated

waiting rooms well into the 1970s. Yet, there are many accounts of

his also going the extra mile for black patients and helping them too

when no one else could or would.

 

He noticed things that others didn't and had some very penetrating

insights into some things. Like supplements. Yet, he also missed

some very important things that were right in front of him. Like

things about his son and other members of the family.

 

Some of his diagnoses are suspect. Like the diagnosis of I believe MS

in a niece that he supposedly cured with high dosages of supplements.

When reading and evaluating his writings, this should be kept in

mind. However, he was definitely brillant, caught onto some things

way before others did, and broke a lot of important ground.

 

For those wishing more information about the negative side of the

Klenner and Sharp families and the culture they lived in, see the

book Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsoe. Some of you may have seen the TV

miniseries In the Best of Families that is based on the book.

However, the book reveals far more about what happened than the

miniseries does. His son and one of his nieces killed several people,

including her parents and grandmother and her former mother-in-law

and sister-in-law. No, the fact that they both had been treated by

Dr. Klenner had nothing to do with the course their lives took. I've

known quite a few people in that area of the U.S. who have the same

attitudes that the son and niece had. They just haven't gone to the

extremes that these two did. At least not so far.

 

I've often wondered how much more Dr. Klenner could have contributed

to healing had he married into a different family and settled in a

different area of the country. If he had had the chances and

recognition he deserved. Or, did his wife's family looking down on

him coupled with his brillance drive him to make the discoveries he

did in order to try to gain their respect and acceptance? (One member

of his wife's family was NC's first female Supreme Court Chief

Justice. Also, if one didn't have family that had been in the area or

at least the state for several gnerations, one was regarded as an

outsider. This is somewhat true even today. People from the North

were especially looked down upon.)

 

Victoria

 

Chinese Traditional Medicine , " Mrs. Barley "

<chosenbarley wrote:

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> Maybe parents are in a state of torment over whether to vaccinate or

> not because they are unfamiliar with successful treatments (in the

> past) for these serious childhood illnesses.

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> http://www.whale.to/v/klenner3.html

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> http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/199x/landwehr-r-

j_orthomol_med-1991-v6-n2-p99.htm

> >

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