Guest guest Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mdaq.htm Medical Dark Ages Quotes (part 4) By Wade Frazier " I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world. " - Adelle Davis, MS, Biology, USC Med. School., Let's Get Well. " ...People who would not think of feeding a dog (junk)...eat such foods with abandon...There has never been a successful feeding of a synthetic diet to several successive generations of animals. " - Roger J. Williams PhD, discoverer, Vitamin B-5; pioneer, folic acid; President, American Chemical Society, etc, .etc., Nutrition Against Disease. " Artificial vitamins...are not balanced by...associated factors...and lead...to compensatory deficiency of other vitamins... " " Crystalline vitamins are made...by the treatment of...natural source material with...chemical solvents: Ether..., Benzene..., Toluene...then precipitant( barium..., lead..., aluminum... " " Synthetic vitamins ...(are) made from cheap materials. " - Raymond Bernard, PhD, " Natural vs. Synthetic Vitamins " , Health Research. " The degree to which patients desire to control their own fate is continually underestimated by physicians. For the most people, diet is the easiest health measure to manipulate. " - Jan van Eys, MD, PhD, in ACS, Nutrition and Cancer, 1978. " ...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer. " - June Goodfield, The Siege of Cancer. " ...Modern biomedical science clings to the Inquisition...Censorship by the reviewers for a journal...is anonymous...Most biomedical scientists cannot keep up with the volume of even specialized articles. ...In times of limited funding...A lottery could equally well...distinguish the 'worthy' from the 'unworthy' grant proposals. ....The anonymity of the closed peer review (is a) dire threat( ....signing reviews will dispel this threat....No true censor can tolerate public exposure. " - T.J. Sernka, PhD, " Biomedical Free Speech. " Physiology, Chemistry, and Physics. " We are aware of many cases in industry, government laboratories, and even universities where scientists have been retaliated against when their professional standards interfered with the interests of their employers or funders. This retaliation has taken many forms, ranging from loss of employment and industry-wide blacklisting to transfers and withholding of salary increases and promotions. We are convinced that the visible problem is only the tip of the iceberg. " - American Chemical Society President, Alan C. Nixon, (in Science, 1973). " ...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years;...39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application. " - NIH; Julius Comroe, Jr. MD, and Robert Dripps,MD, The Top Ten Clinical Advances in Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Medicine and Surgery 1945-1975. Jan 1977. " Several nutrition experts...believe that nutritional activities in general..are not adequately supported at the (NIH Clinical) Center. " " Harvard School of Public Health officials reported in the Oct. 1973...Journal, American Dietetic Assoc., ...that half of the nation's medical schools did not mention nutrition in any course description, and only 4% ...showed an independent course on nutrition as a requirement for all medical students. " - US General Accounting Office, 1979. " Many research...activities have been subject to the phenomenon called problem displacement, i.e. the substitution in organizational concern, of trivia for significant problems, since the latter appear to be unsolvable. Furthermore, in some organizations, goal displacement is evident: turning away from original goals and substituting means for ends. " - NCI, Planning Biomedical Research Programs, Feb 1974. " It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'. " - Hardin B. Jones, " Demographic Consideration of the Cancer Problem. " 1956. " ...No studies have established the much talked about relationship between early detection and favorable survival after treatment (by surgery, radiation, etc.)...Neither the timing nor the extent of the treatment of true malignancies has appreciably altered the average course of the disease. " (e.g.: Cancer treated early shows a better 5-year survival rate, by merely observing the earlier, optimistic, part of an unswerving (?) cancer course. - Ed.) - Hardin B. Jones, (Professor Donner Lab of Medical Physics, University of California Berkeley and Davis, etc.) in Cancer Control Journal. " My studies (show) untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals. " - Dr. Hardin B. Jones, (in Spotlight, 1981). " Complete Expectation of Life in Years (Remaining) for each sex at selected ages, Massachusetts, 1789-1929: 1789: Expectation of life in years, at ...age ...60: Male: 14.8 years; Female 16.1 years 1929: Expectation of life in years, at ...age ...60: Male: 14.0 years; Female 15.4 years - E. Sydenstricker, Health and Environment. " In 1972 the (WHO) World Health Organization issued its statistical report...for 34 countries...the life expectancy for persons who had already reached 65. ...23 of the 34 nations reported showed a drop in the life expectancy of their 65-year-olds from the previously recorded 1958 figures. Except Japan, all the highly industrialized nations were in this group of 23. - Ivan Popov, MD, Stay Young. " United Nations...Population and Vital statistics (said that:) 88 nations of the world have a lower death rate, (fewer deaths per 1,000 people), than we (in US) have! " " Although in America today life expectancy at birth is near the best of any civilized country in the world...at age 40, life expectancy is near the bottom...' " - New York State Medical Journal, Sept. 15, 1955. " ...the incidence of cancer in children under 14 has almost doubled in little more than a decade, and that of leukemia has increased almost six-fold in the 50-year period ending in 1951. " - Emanuel Cheraskin, MD, DMD, All sorts of University credentials, Diet and Disease. " Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly...' " " If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data, since these patients do not then meet the criteria...of the term 'treated'. The longer it takes for completion of the treatment,...the worse the error.... " " ...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.... " - Hardin B. Jones, PhD, ACS 11th Annual Science Writers Conference. " ...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer. " - G. Edward Griffin. " The Hoax of the Proven Cancer Cure; A Second Look at Orthodox Therapy " , Cancer Control Journal, 1977/1979. What is being left out here are the statistical tables that list dozens of alternative cancer treatment methods and their impressive success rates, also in MDAC are some unpleasant stats in the tables regarding orthodox treatment, such as: at the NCI a study was done on 35 patients getting chemotherapy; radiation and chemotherapy caused a 2900% increase in secondary cancers, another study of 200 child patients showed a 17,100% (!) increase in secondary cancers related to orthodox therapy. " 'In the only two categories of cancer where good results from chemotherapy are generally acknowledged...(i.e.) in acute lymphocytic leukemia in children and in choriocarcinoma, the validity of (chemotherapy) is ...challenged. In leukemia the real benefit (is from)...concomitant use of corticosteroids and antibiotics; and in choriocarcinoma, the (differential) diagnosis between this and benign precursor, hydatid mole, is unreliable.' " - Miles H. Robinson, MD, " who has taught and done research in physiology and pharmacology at the U. of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt medical schools " ; in Congressional Record, 1966. " ...Every alternative cancer therapy would be judged in comparison to the so-called 'treatment of choice', not only in ...survival, but in...costs of treatment, freedom from pain, necessity of hospitalization, (etc.)...Statistics...should be available from the Cancer Establishment; (but) they have no reliable statistics, (or) records (are)...unobtainable and every effort to obtain them would be evaded...Once reliable figures are obtained, the bitter controversies over therapies can be resolved once and for all. " - Nat Morris (Morris Natenberg) International Association of Cancer Friends and Victims, Cancer News Journal, 1979. " The best estimates are that the medical system...affects about 10% of the usual indices for measuring health. " - AMA President, Dr. Richard Palmer. " (Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:) " The question is much too difficult for me. " - Albert Einstein (quoted by Dr. Carl O. Simonton, famous cancer researcher, author, Getting Well Again. " It has been found that...changes in age, sex, hormonal status, diet and nutritional status, genetic factors, individual variation in the metabolic handling of chemicals, or the combined effect of different chemicals, all can alter the response of an individual to a chemical carcinogen; .differences in responses as high as 100 fold or 1,000 fold can be obtained by changing only one factor at a time.' " - NCI Associate Director from Carcinogenesis, Dr. Umberto Saffiotti. " ..Humans were 60 times more sensitive to thalidomide than mice, 100 times...more than rats, 200 times more than dogs, and 700 times more sensitive than hamsters. " - Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, FDA, first to alert on cyclamates, top FDA chick-embryo tester; and Jean Carpenter, Eating May be Hazardous to Your Health. " The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data...gossip. " " Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'. " " The most solid...piece of scientific truth that I know of,...is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past 100 years of biology. " - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer President, Dr. Lewis Thomas, " Hubris in Science? " , American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, June 30, 1978. " First a new theory is attacked as absurd. Then it is admitted to be true but insignificant. Finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. " - William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher. ....one-fourth to one-half of medical and paramedical terminology consists of synonyms, some...obsolete...The micro-organism Candida Albacans has...more than 170 different names. ...Terms...have multiple, sometimes opposite, definitions. 'Nyctalopia' means night blindness in English, but in French it means day blindness. Some assign the designation 'petit mal' to 3% of all forms of epilepsy; others classify 80% of all seizures (thusly). " - Jean Kennedy, and C.E. Kossman, M.D., " Nomenclature in Medicine " , Bulletin of Medical Library Science, 1973. " " ...a random examination of 18 recent reports in the English literature on therapy and survival in lung cancer showed that eight different systems of histo-patho-logical nomenclature were used. Evidently, valuable data is being wasted due to poor comparability. " - L.H. Sobin, " The WHO's Programme for the Histo-patho-logical Definition and Classification of Tumors, 1971. " If too much salt is used in food, the pulse hardens.' " - Ch'i Po, 2600 BC. " It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another. " - Hippocrates. " Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments. " " As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men. " " Physicians now began to be..more than human. And profit attended employ...(for) keeping the bulk of mankind at a distance...They filled their writings with abundance of technical terms, utterly unintelligible to plain men...Those who understood only how to restore the sick to health, they branded with the name of Empirics. They introduced...compound medicines consisting of so many ingredients, that it was scarce possible for common people to know which it was that wrought the cure; ..., of chemicals, such as they neither had skill, nor fortune, nor time to prepare, yea, and of dangerous ones, such as they could not use..., but by the advice of a physician. " - John Wesley, Founder of the Methodist Church, MA, Oxford; (1703-1791) Primitive Remedies. " Medicine is a social science and politics is a medicine on a large scale...The very words 'Public Health' show those who are of the opinion that medicine has nothing to do with politics the magnitude of their error.: - Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902) founder of cellular pathology. " I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time. " " ...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...( " Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked. " ) Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia. " " Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate. " " ...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off. " - US Senator Paul Douglas, Congressional Record, 1963. " (...The Congress had exhibited) unequaled liberality in protecting our domestic animals against every sort of disease and pest. " - US Senator Matthew Neely, 1928. " Federal aid was extended...to the studies on the health of farm animals, while almost no funds were available for direct work on the disease of man...This was...prior to 1885...partly because human welfare brought no direct financial return. Hogs did. " - Richard Shyrock, American Medical Research, (1947). " Food additives are far safer in actual use than the basic natural food themselves. " - Dr. Frederick Stare, Dept. Nutrition, School of Public Health, Harvard. " It is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body is more able to resist disease than a less well-fed body.' - FDA's Nutrition Dept head, Dr. Elmer M. Nelson. in Gene Marin and Judith Van Allen, Food Pollution: The Violation of Our Inner Ecology. " ...Next to tobacco and alcohol, meat is the greatest single cause of mortality in the US. " - John Scharffenberg, MD, Associate Professor, Applied Nutrition, Loma Linda U. Problems With Meat. " As any trauma in a cancer area tends to dislocate and disseminate cancer cells....No doubt many curable cases of external cancer have been made incurable by biopsy. " " ...J. Ellis Barker's book, Cancer, Surgeon, and Researcher,...shows the cancer mortality rate of ( Physicians and Surgeons - 70, as compared to Coal Miners - 61, Agricultural Labourers - 54, Clergymen and priests - 45. " - (i.e. MD's have less survival, if they have cancer) - John Tobe, Provoker Press, Cancer: How to Prevent and Gain Remission from Cancer. " That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure... " " There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine). " - John Bradshaw, MD, Doctors on Trial. " The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position... " - Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, first president, AMA, 1848. " Any system of medicine that offers complete coverage and relieves the recipient of making any direct contribution for his own medical care will lower his own health...Such a system is inherently wasteful....It offers endless opportunities for 'chiseling' on the part of both dispenser and recipient, and tends to the corruption of both. " - AMA House of Delegates, June 1952. in Richard Carter, The Doctor Business. " The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession. " - Journal AMA editorial under Morris Fishbein. " Today, expulsion is again mustered into service in a war of ideology. ....Modern society makes its heresies out of political economy...Ethics has always been a flexible, developing notion of medicine, with a strong flavor of economics from the start. " - Oliver Garceau, Dept. of Government, Harvard U., The Political Life of the AMA (1941). " I invite your attention to the latest piratical development commonly known as the 'radio trust'. It would seem that human cupidity could not reach so far, or human insolence become so gross as to attempt...to withhold from the public use the instrumentalities of communication through the air; and yet that is exactly what a group of great capitalists are attempting through the organization of a huge monopoly. " - US Senator James A. Reed, (first term 1911-) this speech cut off air. " The American consumer has about one billion dollars invested in radio sets,...ten times greater than the inflated capital of commercial broadcasting companies. Yet the consumer...has delegated -by default- to the broadcasting companies and the program sponsors a power that he should have retained: that of regulating the traffic through his own receiving set. ...an unending stream of..false statements on the supposed merits of a long list of advertised foods, dentifrices, medicines, cosmetics... " " Radio frequencies are recognized as public property by the Congress of the US. " - Peter Morell, Poisons, Potions, and Profits, c. 1937. " Most patent medicines depend for their success upon utterly false curative claims. ...Many people automatically believe anything they see in print - doubtless a holdover from early childhood, when the textbook was regarded as the acme of truthfulness... " " ...A prize of $50,000 was offered for a successful treatment of cancer....Before the prize offered had expired almost 4,000 cures had been submitted....Not one was judged worthy of being tested in a cancer lab. " (by ACS predecessor, ASCC) - August A, Thomen, MD, Doctors Don't Believe it - Why Should You? c. 1941. (An) " incident (was) reported in Journal, AMA ...after more than 20 physicians failed to find the cause, the woman finally made the diagnosis herself. An investigation of the medical literature convinced her that she was suffering from lead poisoning. Subsequent testing revealed that she was right. " - Consumers Union, Health Quackery. " ...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it. " - US Senator Gaylord Nelson. " 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better. " - John Fuller, (Emmy Award producer of The Great American Dream Machine, 1970-71), 200,000,000 Guinea Pigs, c. 1972. " ...The governments in the first world countries (should) stop their own companies from exporting drugs that are already banned or withdrawn in their own countries... " - Consumer Association of Penang (Malaysia). " ...The company...( ...they omit 'contra indications', they omit 'side effects' indications, they enlarge the spectrum of 'indications' ....in order to make of each drug ...a best selling... " - a famous health activist writer. " The pharmacist says it's the doctor's responsibility, the doctor says it's government's or its manufacturer's responsibility, now the manufacturer is saying its the government's (or local distributor's) responsibility. Everybody is passing the buck to somebody else. " " The International Organization of Consumer Unions has recently helped establish a global health information network. " - Robert Richter, Producer, " Pesticides and Pills: For Export Only " , Non Fiction on Television, WNET, Ch. 13, NY 1981. " The association between cigarette smoking and wrinkling was striking in both sexes...Smokers in the 40-49 year age group were as likely to be prominently wrinkled as non-smokers who were 20 years older...Encourage young women (against smoking...(It is) ironic how much of the successful cigarette ads use youth and sexiness. " - Dr. H. Daniell. " Dr. Herlich found that 75% of the (balding) men between 21 and 22 years of age were heavy smokers. " - Don C. Matchan, We Mind If You Smoke. Section 5 " 'Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it. " - Jack Anderson, " Big Charitable Funds Bully Their Smaller 'Competitors' " . " A recent EPA action ( ..that agency (EPA) is not only not publishing booklets, but they are destroying 86 of the 104 publications they have on hand. Most are objectionable to the chemical industry because they emphasize the danger of pesticides and chemicals. " - Caveat Emptor, Feb, 1982. " On Dec. 1, 1977...NBC Nightly News presented to the nation...that the possibility for a universal preventive does exist...NBC News spent several months checking out the data before airing the presentation. What was the result...? Three years of silence (to date) from the cancer establishment. " " ...The AP and the UPI did not report upon the NBC News telecast, so nothing further appeared in the newspapers across the nation. " " ...20 research institutions receive 50% of all NCI funding for cancer research annually! " - Dr. Robert Netterberg and Robert Taylor, The Cancer Conspiracy. " The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good. " " ...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(...from who will be the head of NIH, to which honorary degree will go to whom, which congressman gets the campaign funds from AMPAC (the political arm of the AMA), and whether Medicare fees can be hiked a bit for the suffering specialist. ...(or) to nominate their favorite for a Nobel Laureate... " " Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in... " " But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem. " - Edgar Berman, MD, teacher, John Hopkins Medical School. President, MEDICO, surgeon with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 1st plastic transplant on human, 1st successful heart transplant on animal (dog); medical consultant to V. President Hubert Humphrey, medical school fellowships in nine countries), The Solid Gold Stethoscope. " ...Physicians who are members of medical societies flock to the defense of their fellow member charged with malpractice, and the plaintiff is relegated...to the occasional lone wolf or heroic soul who,...has the courage to run the risk of ostracism by his fellow practitioners and the cancellation of public liability insurance policy... " - Justice Jesse Carter, Calif. Supreme Court, 1951. " ...Loss of medical society membership...( Ethical condemnation can result in professional embarrassment and disgrace, loss of referrals and other patronage, deprivation of malpractice insurance, the withholding of claims reimbursement by health insurance carriers, possible loss of hospital staff privileges, and denial of speaker and exhibitor status at professional society meetings. ... " " The most notorious application of AMA contract practice restrictions resulted in the criminal conviction of AMA...for violating the Sherman Act by attempting to restrain the development of...(an HMO) through the use of boycotts...AMA vs. US. This conviction did not deter AMA and its affiliates from continuing to implement the same underlying contract practice restrictions against similar proposed arrangements... " " In fact, petitioners' (AMA's) long history of illegal behavior strongly supports the need for remedy to reverse the effects of restraints of trade they have imposed. And although petitioners (AMA) are now quick to admit their past conduct was unlawful, they have not been so quick to mitigate the effects of their past violations. " - US Dept. of Justice, brief filed in US Supreme Court (in Caveat Emptor, 1982.). " I shudder to think what a Martian astronaut...would think of our courts and what goes on, or does not go on, in them. As to the judges, what would he think of certain of them, in theory elected by the public but in fact hand-picked by political leaders for purely political purposes irrelevant to merit? " - Francis Plimpton, President, New York City Bar Association (in Richard Ney, The Wall Street Gang). " ....The International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends...tells of a (recent) raid against one of their public meetings by the Nassau County New York D.A. during which several people were arrested, handcuffed, and dragged away...Their homes were searched... " - March 1975 - Institute of Nutritional Research, Nutritional Therapy. " ...The AMA, National Health Council, FDA, American Pharmaceutical Association, Federal Trade Commission, Arthritis Foundation, Council of Better Business Bureaus, and the US Post Office (were together) operating under the name 'Coordinating Conference on Health Information'....Minutes of these meetings (were) ( " obtained through the Freedom of Information Act " ). ...The prime mover of the gathering was (the) head of the AMA's Department of Investigation...(who) also was overseeing...AMA's Committee on Quackery... " " ...The FDA...against chiropractic....not only intended to 'take the products off the market, but it would initiate criminal actions involving advertising agencies...promoters, and also the people doing the research. " (In contrast) " ...although the Federation of State Medical Boards estimates that 16,000 doctors are unfit to practice medicine, an average of only 66 licenses a year are revoked, nationwide. - " The Great Conspiracy to Stamp out Quackery " , Freedom, 1978. " ...Galen...was...forced to flee Rome tp escape the frenzy of the mob....Vesalius was denounced as an imposter and heretic...William Harvey was disgraced as a physician...William Roentgen...was called a quack and then condemned... " " In...1535, when...Jacques Cartier found his ships...in...the St. Lawrence River, scurvy began...and then a friendly Indian showed them (that) tree bark and needles from the white pine - both rich in...Vitamin C - were stirred into a drink (for) swift recovery. Upon returning to Europe, Cartier reported this incident to the medical authorities. But they were amused by such 'witch-doctor cures of ignorant savages' and did nothing to follow it up... " " It took over 200 years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives before the medical experts began to accept...Finally, in 1747, John Lind..discovered that oranges and lemons produced relief from scurvy...and yet it took 48 more years before his recommendation was put into effect....'Limeys' would soon become rulers of the 'Seven Seas'... " " In 1593, Sir Richard Hawkins noted and later published, in observations on his voyage into the South Seas, references that natives of the area used sour oranges and lemons as a cure for scurvy, and a similar result was noted among his crew. ...In 1804, regulations were introduced into the British Navy requiring use of lime juice....(and) into law by the British Board of Trade in 1865....It took two centuries to translate empirical observations into action... " - Maureen Salaman, MSc, Nutrition, the Cancer Answer. " The Indians had no scurvy and neither did the few daring (Pilgrim) Colonists who followed the Indian custom of drinking hemlock tea. (They) were accused of being protected by the devil from the illness. ....Those free of (scurvy) were put under surveillance and suspected of hemlock tea drinking. Amazingly, most people chose to have scurvy, rather than be ridiculed or burned at the stake as witches. " - Thelma Arthur, MD, Journal of American Pathology and Bacteriology, 1975. " Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals. " - Denis Burkitt, MD, in Nutrition for Optimal Health News, Fall 1981. " ...One health study comparing poor to non-poor areas of Chicago found that the poor areas had a 60% higher infant mortality rate, a 200% higher incidence of premature births, 200% more new cases of tuberculosis, and a 100% higher death rate from cancer of the cervix. In the country as a whole, the maternal death rate for non-whites is four times that of whites. In the city slums there is three times as much heart disease, five times as much mental disease, four times as much high blood pressure, and four times as many deaths before age 35 as compared to the national averages. ...In 1969, at least 400,000 children were found to be suffering from lead poisoning - most of them in the older ghetto(s)... " - R. Feldberg, in " Science for the People " , Issues of Health Care. " ...The (giant cereal) company had published in 1942 (that:) The rats who got nothing but water and vitamins lived for about eight weeks....But the (company's) own laboratory study showed that rats given vitamins, water and all the Puffed Wheat they wanted died in two weeks. ...Putting the grain under 1500 PSI (pounds per square inch) of pressure....may..produce...a poison...The president of the company (said:)'I know people should throw it (puffed cereals) on brides and grooms at weddings, but if they insist on sticking it in their mouths, can I help it? Besides we made $9 million on the stuff last year (early 1970's).' " - Paul Stitt, Fighting the Food Giants. (In) Leicester....Clean Streets, clean markets and dairies, efficient garbage removal, sanitary housing and a pure water supply, took the place of vaccination scars, with the notable result that...in the much vaccinated and revaccinated British Army and Navy, the death rate (from smallpox) was three times as high (as Leicester's). " " ..The population of England and Wales is more than four times as high that of the Philippines, and the number of vaccinations per 100 persons in the (Philippines) Islands was over 26 times that in England. Yet the total of smallpox fatalities in England and Wales for ....1911-1920 was only...14 for each year, as against a yearly average of 7,533 fatalities in the Philippines. " - Anne Riley Hale, The Medical Voodoo. (c. 1935). " Nearly half of the world's rain forests have been destroyed...Every year we are losing some 6 million hectares (over 2 million acres) of arable land, going out of agriculture to...desertification. ...29 million acres of agricultural lands were converted to non-agricultural uses (urban sprawl - ed.) in the US in the past ten years. ...Coastal land and breeding grounds for over two-thirds of the world's fisheries are being degraded or destroyed...Over 1,000 animal and some 25,000 plant species are today threatened with extinction. " - from the United Nations Environmental Programme. " The practice of laying birthing mothers flat on their backs was initiated to satisfy...Louis XIV! (who) got his kicks by peering from behind a curtain while his mistresses ...gave birth. ...His vision was obscured when the women were seated on birthing stools. ...The law of gravity had been repealed. ..Intra-abdominal pressure...during labor.( the greatest pressure was exerted in the sitting position. ....Squatting alters the pelvic shape (and) makes it advantageous for delivery. " - Robert Mendelsohn, MD, Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Woman. " Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result. " Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause. " - Ruth Winter, Poisons in Your Food. " ...Keep in mind the comparative effects of different altitudes, latitudes, temperatures and races, and...note the similarity of reactions of these (14) primitive groups when (dietary) contact is made with our modern civilization( ...Susceptibility to dental caries (tooth decay)...data reveal an average increase in susceptibility of 35 fold (3500%). " - Weston A. Price, MS, DDS, on Research Committee of American Dental Association, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. " ...Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human... " " ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew. " -Dick Gregory, comedian, and Alvenia Fulton, Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat. " ... I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method... " " Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass... " - Aldous Huxley (author 45 books: Brave New World, The Art of Seeing (c. 1942, 1975). " ...Pesticides manufactured by...Oil Companies are....why such a high percentage of farmers are sick with cancer. The medical people..blame the sun for their cancer. Is the sun any different today than it was in the past? " - Anonymous, Cancer: American Holocaust. " '...around 1972 or '73, we stopped including in our calculations all skin cancers except melanoma, the only one that's fatal, and also in situ cervical cancers, because many experts don't consider these to be cancers at all. Since together they account for a large number of cases, that could be why the incidence has gone down.' " - ACS vice president of Public Information, I. Rimer. " I never even heard from the ACS - in five years no one from there has even called me. " - Benno Schmidt, Chairman, President's Cancer Panel (including ACS president Dr. Lee Clark, for five years) in US hearings, House. " When 253 of the professionals on the NCI staff were asked in a 1974 survey to indicate problems adversely affecting their job performance at the Institute (NCI), half cited 'widespread lack of confidence in the scientific acumen of the decision-making hierarchy, and a third complained of the 'shortage of qualified and technical personnel'. " - Ruth Rosenbaum, " Why America is Losing the War on Cancer " , New Times (1978). " In the year following the 1979 NIH Consensus Conference which deemed the radical mastectomy obsolete, 11,000 woman received this treatment. " - Maryann Napoli, (Editor, Health Facts) Breast Cancer: A Critical Look at Early Detection. " - National Women's Health Network Newsletter, May 1982. " Analysis of survival curves of women with breast cancer suggests that two or more populations exist, with about 40% suffering fatal outcome unaffected by treatment. The remaining 60% exhibit a relative mortality only modestly different from that of women of similar ages without evidence of disease. Increasing detection of an entity that is histologically defined as malignant but biologically benign (exists). " - Maurice S. Fox, PhD, Biology Dept., MIT, Journal AMA, 1979. " Six of the ten leading causes of death in the US have been linked to poor nutrition. ..Various nonfatal conditions have also...(e.g. dental decay). " " The AMA and the Nutritional Foundation sponsored a 1962 conference...after an AMA survey found that 'Medical education and medical practice have not kept abreast of the tremendous advances in nutrition knowledge.' ...The situation has not changed, according to an August 1978 Senate Committee Report... " " (A) review (of) the 1978 National Board Exam for..nutrition questions (shows) 3 to 4 percent of the questions were on clinical nutrition... " " ...Social, ethnic, economic, and cultural factors..affect food selection. " " ...We suggest that interested groups outside of the federal government initiate action... " - US General Accounting Office, Greater Efforts Are Needed to Improve Nutrition Education in US Medical Schools, Jan 1980. " ...Rodale Press (publisher of Prevention)...in 1965, ...brought out a ....book ...Health Finder...on..April 3, 1964, the FTC served the publisher with a show cause order in an administrative cease-and-desist proceeding...Rodale...spent nearly five years fighting for a right guaranteed every American... " (for) " instance(s) of a federal agency,,,censor(ing) publications...a long list of books could be cited, including those of Gaylord Hauser, Dale Alexander, LeLord Kordel, Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Herman Taller,...Paul C. Bragg,...Joseph Boardman, MD,...H. Curtis Wood, Jr, MD,... " - Omar Garrison, The Dictocrats, Our Unelected Rulers. " An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all. " - Pericles, (495-429 BC). " ..A democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy...The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; (next) to great courage;...to liberty;...to abundance;...to selfishness;...to complacency;...to apathy;...to dependence;...back again into bondage. " - Alexander Tyler, Cycle of Democracy, 1770 AD. " ..The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries; more powerful then the legislative, the executive, the judiciary. " - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Literature Laureate, Soviet emigré. 1982. " ...In ancient times the people lived to be over a 100 years, and yet they remained active...But nowadays people reach only half of that age and yet become decrepit and failing...There was temperance in eating and drinking. Their hours of rising and retiring were regular and not disorderly and wild. ...Nowadays, people..adopt recklessness as usual behavior...They devote all their attention to amusement(s)... " - The Yellow Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine. (c. 479-300 BC). " In ancient India, organ transplants, involving bone, earlobe, nose and other tissues, were pretty much 'a matter of routine' some 5,000 years ago. " - John Heinerman, Understanding Herbal Medicine. " He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more. " - Luigi Cornaro, 1538 AD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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