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Medical Dark Ages Quotes (part 5)

 

By Wade Frazier

 

 

" Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects

on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall

enable us to relieve the burden of mankind. " - William Harvey,

(1578-1657 AD).

 

" Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to

force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but

what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise.

What will recruit strength? Sleep. " - Voltaire, (1694-1778 AD).

 

" The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great

physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.' " - Voltaire.

 

" The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. " -

Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745).

 

" The mischievous effects from lead have been known to scientists for

at least 60 years. You will observe how long a useful truth may be

known to exist before it is generally received and practiced on. " -

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), 1786.

 

(Save) " opium, which the Creator himself seems to prescribe,

for...pain to be soothed;...and wine...; and I firmly believe that if

the whole (remaining medicine of) materia medica, as now used could be

sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind

- and all the worse for the fishes. " - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., MD,

(1809-1894).

 

" It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it,

they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the

scientific study of disease. " - Sir William Osler, (1849-1919);

" Father of Modern Medicine " .

 

" We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured

without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to

mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the

increase to the number of doctors in a place. "

 

" Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has

accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely

be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of

covering it up with the help of medicines. " - Mohandus K. Gandhi.

 

" I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they

organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of

doctors, and quite often, these lobbying groups are the only ones that

are heard in the state capitols and in the capitol of our country. " -

Jimmy Carter, 1978.

 

(My chemotherapy is) " death in a bottle. " Hubert H. Humphrey.

 

" ...It seems that public officials are afraid that if they make any

move, or say anything antagonistic to the wishes of the medical

organization, they will be pounced upon and destroyed. ..Public

officials seem to be afraid of their jobs and even of their lives. " -

US Senator Elmer Thomas, In Morris A. Bealle, The Drug Story. c. 1949

and 1976.

 

" It is our understanding that the NIH with FDA approval, clinically

test at least 100 products a year on cancer patients. We feel

Krebiozen deserves a similar test. Why should either side be afraid of

the truth? - US Senator Paul Douglas and ten other senators (in

Chicago's American, 1966).

 

" I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We

discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large

manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the

small manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers

and doctors...(and) betrays the public trust. " - Senator Edward V.

Long. 1967.

 

" I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification,

of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow

the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their

injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the

FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent.

It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no

evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong. " - US

Senator Stephen Young, (in Len Gutridge, " How the US Government is

Blocking a Cancer Cure " , Saga, 1968.

 

" Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of his patients

are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing more

the conventional treatments could do for them, and that death was

imminent....Why are Americans being forced to go off shore for

treatment for cancer from an American doctor and for a program that

was developed in America? " - US Congressman Larry P. McDonald.

 

" In 1962, the FDA tried to prohibit the sales of vitamins and minerals

in all but very limited potencies and combinations, by first

classifying, and then regulating them as prescription drugs. Congress

blocked it at that time, unanimously adopting a resolution offered by

Senators Bill Proxmire and Dick Schweiker... "

 

" However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in

March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as

'Over-The-Counter' drugs.. "

 

" As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA

approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs

each applicant an average of $70 million.' " - US Senator Orrin Hatch,

Chairman, Commission on Labor and Human Resources, Oct 1981.

 

" Indeed, after the testimony...I was convinced that the NCI does not

adequately protect patient safety. ...Every hearing we have held on

this subject this year is evidence to the world that there is critical

need for better management at NCI....When the NCI did learn of this

drug's life-threatening effects on humans, the NCI did not promptly

inform the FDA and all of its clinical investigators. "

 

" Your assurances to me...that the adverse reaction controversy was

resolved have left significant question of credibility. Each time we

meet, you tell me you have solved the problems that we are now

pointing to. " - US Senator Paula Hawkins, Oversight of the National

Cancer Institute, 1984, Hearings, US Senate 1981.

 

" The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well

below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected,

and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public

record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the

past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying

'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the

doctors of America themselves. " - Senator Edward Kennedy, in UPI

National Chronicle, 1971.

 

" ...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things.

By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue,

over-work. " ...

 

" Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400. "

 

" ...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition. " - US

Congressman Fred Richmond, Chairperson, Subcommittee on Domestic

Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition.

 

" This is a blatant attempt (by OSHA supervisors) to rid the government

of a competent scientist who happened not to agree with an industry

whose profits are at stake. (Government scientists) may be forced by

political hatchetmen to abandon widely held views, in favor of the

line currently advocated by industry. " - US Congressman, Albert Gore,

Jr., in subcommittee, 1981.

 

" ...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with,

or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed

not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever

they have determined that to be. "

 

" After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has

pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food

advocate. " - US Congressman Vin Weber, Congressional Record, 1982.

 

" If the administration is really serious about free-market energy

policies, then I suggest we join together to root out the billions of

dollars of subsidies we now give each year to petroleum, gas, coal,

and nuclear industries. But if this administration will not or cannot

do this, then they should at least stop trying to kill the emerging

new technologies that are arising to compete with those older sources

of energy. " - US Congressman Berkley Bedell, in Sun Times, 1983 (Amen!)

 

" I can't be bought, but I can be rented. " - US Congressman J. Breaux.

1982.

 

" The basis of sound science is solid difference of opinion. When I was of NCI, I found myself rescuing people who incurred the

displeasure of certain groups or their superiors. I did it three or

four times. And I did it because they were good scientists. " - Dr.

Arthur Upton , Director, NCI. 1982.

 

" I have had some very interesting work with Dr. (Andrew C.) Ivy, and

have had what I think, unusually good results with Krebiozen. Due to

the controversy which was stimulated by adverse quarters, it was Army

policy not to allow me to continue with this particular type of

research project. I feel that Krebiozen, or perhaps a similar

substance, is certainly on the threshold of finding an answer to some

of our malignant (cancer) problems. " - Wallace H. Graham, Major

General, US Air Force; physician to US President, letter in 1952.

 

" Variety is not only the spice of life, it may be the staff of life. " ...

 

" Unfortunately, in a terrible blow to natural-products chemistry in

the US, the Board of Scientific Counsellors, Division of Cancer

Treatment, NCI, voted on Oct. 2, 1981 to abolish the NCI research

program concerned with the development of anti-tumor agents from

plants. On the other hand, the synthetic drug development program was

left intact, though reduced. ...Pharmaceutical firms...have clearly

signaled their relative disinterest in natural products. ...The search

for natural drugs, the safest and economically and/or ecologically

most desirable types, has been abandoned in the US. " - James Duke,

PhD; Chief, Germplasm Resources Lab., and Economic Botany Lab, " The

Spices of Life " , (Unedited discussion draft, neither approved nor

expected to be approved by NIH of the USDA " .).

 

" I have never and will never approve a 'new drug' to an individual,

but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances. " -

FDA, Bureau of Drugs Director, Dr. J. Richard Crout, 1982.

 

" In 1950, the NCI of the US Public Health Service established a

program for study of environmental chemical factors in cancer. Within

a few years, a Dr. ..., then director of the Institute of Industrial

Medicine at NYU, told me that he had been retained by a group of

chemical industries to call upon the Surgeon General and object to

studies conducted under this program. He stated that his objection had

been successful, and that all field studies by the NCI in this program

would be stopped. They were. "

 

" A few years later, I showed this same gentleman data indicating a

cancer hazard for man employed in another industry that had retained

him as a consultant. He advised me to keep out of this problem, and

shortly thereafter, notified me that my appointment as associate

professor of industrial medicine at NYU would not be renewed. It was

not renewed. " - Dr. William E. Smith; Hearings subcommittee on health

and science, US House of Representatives, 1957. in Pulitzer Prize

winning journalist William Longwood, Poisons in Your Food. (c. 1960).

 

" In 1981, the AFL-CIO and..the Teamsters, urged (Thorne) Auchter

(Director of OSHA) to act immediately...three authoritative

governmental studies had projected 999 cancer deaths out of 1,000

workers exposed to EDB (Ethylene Di-bromide, a pesticide) at the

existing OSHA limit. ...Instead Auchter embarked on a time-consuming

rule-making process that ignored the urgency... " - Ida Honoroff,

Report to the Consumer, 1984.

 

" ...A charge of conflict of interest against former OSHA Director

Thorne Auchter (is) being examined by the FBI. ...Auchter resigned as

head of OSHA to become president of (a company). Earlier, he had

dismissed a series of twelve OSHA violations against the same

company. " - Health Policy Advisory Center, Health PAC Bulletin, 1984.

 

" In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of

cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of

the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point

to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs

detrimental to normal life of the body. " - Dr. Charles Mayo, Mayo

Clinic (in Richard Welch, New Hope for Cancer Victims).

 

" ...the opinion has frequently been advanced by ancient and modern

writers that there is a direct relationship between diet and cancer

frequency, and particularly...in regard to the excessive consumption

of salt and meat. The per capita rise in the meat consumption of the

principal civilized countries has often been referred to as a

causative factor in the corresponding rise in the cancer death rate. "

- Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, chief statistician, Prudential Life

Insurance Company (author, Cancer and Diet); The Mortality of Cancer

Throughout the World. c. 1914.

 

" Food is infinitely the most important problem of the present day and,

if properly dealt with, must result in the disappearance of the vast

bulk of disease, misery, and death. - Sir Arbuthnot Lane, MD, famous

surgeon, England.

 

" The relationship of nutrition to cancer has received much attention

in the past ten years...Diet and nutrition must be considered by all

investigators in the cancer field, and not only by those who happen to

be specifically interested in nutrition...It is now well established

that a diet restricted to approximately two-thirds of ...ad libitum

(maximum desired) effects a significant reduction in...tumors...; in

the mouse (; and) the incidence of spontaneous breast tumors is

significantly increased...by a high fat diet; (as are)...skin tumors... "

 

" At the present time, there is a widespread interest in the

relationship of nutrition to tumors...A natural diet contains a more

adequate quality, quantity, and balance of essential components than

our present day synthetic diets. " - Albert Tannenbaum, MD, Director,

Department of Cancer Research, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1944

and 1945. in Peter Barry Chowka, " The NCI and the Fifty Year

Cover-up " , East West Journal, 1978.

 

" Dietary deficiencies lead to malfunctions of the body that cause

cancer. " - Dr. Ernst L. Wynder, President, American Health Foundation.

 

" ...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of

its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes

of knowledge. " - Alfred North Whitehead, in Netterberg/Taylor, The

Cancer Conspiracy. c. 1981.

 

" Now and then, in all ages and at all levels, exceptional individuals

appear who rise above current concepts, who seem to be actuated by

higher principles and greater humanity. Perhaps such individuals are

outstanding in that they refuse to accept commonly held basic

assumptions. " - Karl Menninger, MD, Founder, Menninger Clinic.

 

" In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to

create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the

funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was

essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run

out of meaningful research projects. " - Rene Dubos, Professor

Emeritus, Rockefeller University.

 

" ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their

theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything

that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our

freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be

a public calamity. " - William James, in Boston Transcript, 1894.

 

" ...The inertia of the human mind, and its resistance to innovation

are most clearly demonstrated..by professionals with a vested interest

in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a two-fold

threat to academic mediocrities; it endangers their oracular

authority, and it evokes their deeper fear that their whole

laboriously constructed intellectual edifices may collapse. " - Arthur

Koestler, The Sleepwalkers. both above in Brian Inglis, The Case for

Unorthodox Medicine.

 

" ...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific

Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with

skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective

earlier in their careers. " ...

 

" Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer

therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by

government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much

less freedom of choice. " - Marilyn Ferguson (author The Aquarian

Conspiracy) " Are Promising Treatments Being Blacked Out? " , Leading

Edge Bulletin, 1980.

 

" ..Innovation is necessarily alternative...The advance is early

branded as heresy ( " quackery, charlatanry, fraud, hoax " ) to be

condemned and proscribed without serious testing by all respected,

responsible members of the virtuous elite. " ..

 

" In the past century over 100 methods have been offered by independent

researchers as aiding in recovery from cancer. ...contrary to the

nihilistic litany of cancer bureaucrats that there is 'no evidence.' "

- Robert Houston, " The War on Answers " , Our Town, 1978.

 

" A frequent criticism of wholistic medical practices is that they have

not been scientifically validated by research studies, published in

peer-review journals. Individuals making this criticism imply that

they, the established conformists, are peers of the innovative,

unorthodox, and truly creative individuals who are bringing about the

next step in the evolution of medicine. The fact is that such

innovators have no peers. They stand alone on the leading edge of

science. " - Elmer M. Cranton, MD, President, American Holistic Medical

Association, in Holistic Dental Assoc., The Communicator, 1981.

 

(The system is) " fostering...a climate of conformity, not by the total

suppression of dissent, but by the presentation of views falling

outside the consensus as curious heresies, or, even more effectively,

by treating them as irrelevant eccentricities, which serious and

reasonable people may dismiss as of no consequence. " - R. Miliband,

The State in Capitalist Society. c. 1969.

 

" ...The system of influence and control..is highly skewed in favor of

the corporate and financial system. And this dominant influence is

felt not only in universities, foundations, and institutions of higher

learning, but also...from media to all other instruments of

communication. " - Vincente Navarro, (Professor of Health and Social

Policy, John Hopkins U., and other credentials).

 

" It's not what you know, but who knows what....At the heart of the

matter is society's tendency to insist on credentials before listening

seriously to a claim of new discoveries or ideas. ...Only

rarely...does the public acknowledge that an unknown and unanointed

person may have noteworthy capacities. " - Fred Hechinger, of and in

New York Times, 1981.

 

" ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and

genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this

is all I know for sure. " - Eric Hoffer. (author, The True Believer,

and Thinking and Working on the Waterfront.,...).

 

" We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for

their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem

solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has)

massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16

years of mis-education... " - Professor Victor Papanek (Dean, School of

Design, Calif. Institute of Arts). on Design for the Real World, c. 1971.

 

" The Catch-22 in any funding system is the inability of those not

funded to complain - by definition, they are the unchosen, and hence

their testimony is suspect. " - Federation of American Scientists,

Public Interest Report, 1980.

 

" Scientists and technologists are ordinary human beings.

....susceptible to...herd instinct, following the leader, and falling

for fashions. ...Fashions rage among scientists. ...Big instruments

make us force-fit our problems to the solution....As our instruments

push us toward picoseconds, and one angstrom, and parts per billion,

we get ultimately reductionist in a sense, while the real problems go

far beyond our data and papers, to the survival of local industry, and

international trade, and nuclear annihilation. " - Rustum Roy, Director

Materials Research Lab., Penn State U., (in American Lab, 1982.).

 

 

 

Section 6

 

" ...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The

Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could

be used to cure beri-beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to

the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve

centuries later that the cure for beri-beri was discovered in the

West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease. " -

Jeffrey Bland, PhD, Your Health Under Siege: Using Nutrition to Fight

Back.

 

" ...In 1540..Ambroise Paré...persuaded doctors to stop the horrid

practice of pouring boiling oil on wounds and required all doctors to

wash thoroughly before delivering babies or performing surgery....(in)

1844...Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna proved...that clean, well-scrubbed

doctors would not infect and kill mothers at childbirth. For his

efforts Semmelweis was dismissed from his hospital...(and) despite

publication, his work was totally ignored. As a result he became

insane and died in an asylum, and his son committed suicide. "

 

" As a chemist working for the US Government in 1916 on the island of

Luzon (Philippines), (R.R.) Williams, over the opposition of orthodox

medicine, had managed to eradicate beri-beri...by persuading the

population to drink rice bran tea. In 1917, Williams was recalled to

the US, and thereafter orthodox medicine discouraged anyone from

drinking rice bran tea, so by 1920 there were more beri-beri deaths on

Luzon than in 1915. ..In 1934, R.R. Williams (now) at Bell Telephone

Labs., discovered thiamine (vitamin B-1), and that thiamine in rice

bran both prevented and cured beri-beri. "

 

" Christian Eikman in Holland...shared the Nobel prize for Medicine in

1929 for Proving in 1892 that beri-beri was not an infectious

disease... " - Wayne Martin, BS, Purdue U.; (author, Medical Heroes and

Heretics, and " The Beri-beri analogy to myocardial infarction. " ,

Medical Hypothesis.

 

" (in) " 1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was

related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply

eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the

'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B

deficiency. " - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer.

 

" In the 1850's, Ignaz P. Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor, discovered

that childbed fever, which then killed about 12 mothers out of every

100, was contagious...and that doctors themselves were spreading the

disease by not cleaning their hands. He was ridiculed...Opponents of

his idea attacked him fiercely....(and) brought on (his) mental

illness....(he) died a broken man. " - Salem Kirban, Health Guide for

Survival.

 

" Vesalius, a...layman, was born in 1514 (AD) ...He ...found things

different from Galen's ideas. He found also that a man has just as

many ribs as a woman, despite the fact that God used one of Adam's

ribs to create Eve. He..prepar(ed) a new book on anatomy. It was not

from the Church that he suffered persecution...His fiercest opposition

came from his colleagues, and he had to abandon his position as an

anatomy instructor. In disgust, he burned his books and gave up the

study of anatomy altogether. Later he was made court physician. It is

fortunate that he was not able to burn all his books and many remained

in other hands. In due time, these books proved that Vesalius was far

ahead of his day. " - Carl J. Scherzer, The Church and Healing., c. 1950.

 

" Cotton Mather..asked (his slave) if he had ever had the pox. The

slave...answered, 'Yes and no,' ...(and) explained that his tribe in

Africa had the custom of (inoculation). Mather seized the idea as his

own and today is credited with...introducing inoculation to the New

World. " - Hugh Drummond, MD, (in Mother Jones, Foundation for National

Progress, A Sourcebook on Health and Survival. " ).

 

" Marshall Hall...was rejected, reviled, and ridiculed, but his work

concerning the reflex action of the spinal cord was finally

recognized....Bodington...taught that tubercular patients needed

fresh, clean air as part of their cure. His medical colleagues

execrated him and called him a charlatan, but were later forced to

admit that his work was logical and correct. " - Donald Law, PhD, DBM,

Psy.D., A Guide to Alternative Medicine.

 

" In Boston, somewhat later (than 1842), medics ask for - and get - a

law permitting bathtubbing only on possession of a prized medical

prescription. "

 

(In) " 1844...Dr. William T. G. Morton, two years out of...dental

college...runs into sulphuric ether. ...the birth of anesthesia.

....Physicians and surgeons labeled him a 'quack', even while they

hurry to capitalize on (it). (Morton) died a pauper. "

 

" Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse...showed...how to

cure...infantile paralysis....(by) apply(ing) hot packs to the

paralyzed limbs...(She was) ordered to leave the country. " - Morris A.

Bealle, The Drug Story, 1949.

 

" Dr. Carlos Finlay knew the cause of yellow fever, but because he had

not carried out experiments to 'prove' it, he was laughed off the

rostrum at a medical meeting. Twenty years later, Dr. Reed found that

Findlay had been right all along. How many died in the interim while

the establishment waited for what they would accept as 'proof'? " -

Herald of Health, 1977.

 

" What if Major Walter Reed had not listened and learned from an old

Scotch-Cuban physician, Carlos Finlay, that yellow fever was due to a

mosquito and not from the dank marsh air? Or contaminated feces? The

great medicoes in Washington and elsewhere thought Reed was crazy and

had done everything in their power to discourage him and his

human-volunteer experiment - which finally scientifically proved the

cause of the fatal 'Yellow Jacket'. "

 

" What of the mob howling and throwing stones outside the house of Dr.

Crawford W. Long, the discoverer of ether anesthesia? " ...

 

" What of Frederic Gibbs, the brain researcher, who demonstrated one of

the first electro-encephalographs in America? At an AMA meeting in

1934, the machine was publicly called a 'fake'. By...'eminent

physicians'... " - Herbert Bailey, A Matter of Life or Death, the

Incredible Story of Krebiozen.

 

" ...Until 1954, great and wonderful discoveries were based on what is

now called (disparagingly) 'anecdotal evidence'....In 1921, 29

year-old Frederick Banting in Canada, on no one's payroll and with

$500, discovered insulin. ...A controlled study on insulin for

diabetics would have been a legal form of murder....(:)...50 patients

in one group...would have been given no insulin. They would have

died....In 1923....Banting shared the Nobel prize in medicine for his

anecdotal discovery of insulin. "

 

" It took orthodox medicine 57 years to understand and accept Sir

William Osler's teaching that a heart attack involved a blood clot in

a coronary artery, followed by a myocardial infarction. " - Wayne

Martin, We Can Do Without Heart Attacks.

 

" Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. "

- Sir Alexander Fleming.

 

" The intolerance and fanaticism of official science toward Eijkman's

observations (that refined rice caused beri-beri) brought about the

death of some half million people on the American continent in our own

century alone between 1900 and 1910. " - Josue Castro, The Geography of

Hunger.

 

" From about 1850 until the late 1930's, one of the standing jokes in

the medical profession, was about a few idiots who called themselves

doctors, who claimed they could cure pneumonia by feeding their

patients moldy bread. ...Until...they discovered penicillin...in moldy

bread! " - P.E. Binzel, MD, in Thomas Mansell, Cancer Simplified, 1977.

 

" The proponents of new or unproven methods of cancer management(:)...A

few hold PhD or MD degrees....They may have multiple unusual

degrees....from correspondence school. " - American Cancer Society

(ACS), Unproven Methods, 1971.

 

" ...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given

in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost

two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard,

Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are

osteopaths. 3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8

others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology,

bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from...Yale, Johns

Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%...are medical

doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas. " - Ralph Moss,

The Cancer Syndrome. c. 1980.

 

" Radium will not cure cancer. It only destroys cancer tissue within a

certain radius, but does not drive the disease from the blood. " - Dr.

Francis Carter Wood; V. President, ASCC (American Society for Control

of Cancer, which changed to ACS in 1944); Professor Emeritus, St.

Luke's Hospital, NY.

 

" ...Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased

1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims... " - E. Josephson,

MD. both above in Emanuel M. Josephson, MD, Your Life is Their Toy.

before 1949.

 

" Research in the US has been seriously affected by restrictions

imposed by foreign cartel members. ...It has attempted to suppress the

publication of scientific research data which were at variance with

its monopoly interest. ...The hostility of cartel members toward a new

product which endangers their control of the market(:)...In the field

of synthetic hormones, the cartel control has been ...detrimental to

our national interest. " - US Assistant Attorney General, Wendell

Berge, Cartels, Challenge to the Free World. - in Eleanor McBean, The

Poisoned Needle.

 

" Indeed, dietary regimens are among the cruel and deceptive practices

used by 'quacks' in attracting healthy people as well as cancer

patients to follow their approaches and dangerous philosophy. " - Dr.

Vernon R. Young, Dept of Nutrition and Food Science, MIT and Dr. Paul

M. Newberne, " Vitamins.... " ACS, Proceedings of the National

Conference on Cancer Prevention and Detection. - 1980.

 

" Questions arise with respect to ACS's accumulation of assets beyond

the amount required for next year's budget. " ...

 

" ...For many years, the primary focus of the (ACS's) promotional and

fund-raising materials has been the need for funds for research, for

which (research) the percentile allocation (by ACS) has actually

declined over this ten year period. " ...

 

" ...The percentage of...research to total expense has ranged from a

high of 36.8% in fiscal 1967, to a low of 27.1% in fiscal 1975. During

the same ten year period, total assets have increased about

$110,300,000, from about $76,500,000 to $186,800,000; and total

expenses have increased...to about $113,900,000. " - NIB (National

Information Bureau), " ACS " 1978.

 

" ...The ACS raised over $180 million last year through its network of

58 Divisions and 3,000 local Chapters. The Society's major public

campaign is aimed at reducing smoking and cancers related to it.

Yet...the ACS has but a single (lobbyist) in Washington DC. The

industry-supported Tobacco Institute, on the other hand, has a ten

million dollar budget which supports dozens of Washington staff. " -

Michael Jacobson, Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest,

in Heartland, 1982.

 

" We are guilty of pussyfooting in a number of areas like this (diet

and prevention). " - American Heart Association (AHA) Deputy Executive

Vice President, John T. Connoly.

 

" Question arises whether if AHA received more in contributions, the

additional money would go to research. ...AHA's assertion that it was

'forced to decline many (research) applicants deserving of funding

because the money was not available to them' is misleading to

contributors. " - NIB Report, 1979.

 

" ...The NIB (is) an independent charity watchdog organization... "

 

" ...The AHA (is) the second largest private charity in the US. (First

is the ACS - Ed.) - Peter Barry Chowka, " Laying Bare the Heart Disease

Industry: the 25 Billion-Dollar-a-Year Dead End. " East West Journal, 1980.

 

" Last year American's gave over $6 billion to public health charities.

But where are those charities when the Congress moves to dismantle

OSHA or to weaken standards over substances linked to birth defects? "

- Belita Cowan, Exec. Director, NWHN (National Women's Health

Network), NWHN Newsletter, 1982.

 

" 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising

slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist,

and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel

Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees. " - Ralph Moss, Cancer

Syndrome.

 

" ...Before the introduction of paramedics, less than 1% of the

patients that suffered a cardiac arrest...lived through...With

paramedics...23% (of same) go back to productive work in society. We

think that's pretty amazing. ...However, relating that to the medical

community is sometimes very difficult. " - J. Dolphin, paramedic.

 

" ...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge

the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the

various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of

the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the

power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by)

lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals

(which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on

Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA. " - (Nobel Laureate) Milton

and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose.

 

" ...The physician may continue to enjoy his title and pursue his

practice, although he may have violated every rule of professional

honor and every principle of morality. It is surely time that this

anomaly were rectified. " - AMA President, Alfred Stille, Transactions

of the AMA, 1871.

 

" ...To mix yourselves up with an organization (e.g. homeopathy) for

which every member of the regular profession has a sovereign and

immitigable contempt(:) the AMA and all our colleges would

unquestionably place the medical department of your university under

the ban, and cease to recognize your pupils. " - AMA President Samuel

Gross; Proceedings of the Michigan Institute of Homeopathy, 1867.

 

" ...Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system,

such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school,...(will)

render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the

profession. " - AMA, Transactions AMA, 1855. - All three above in

Harris L. Coulter, PhD, The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the AMA.

 

" Our reasons for being in political action are exactly the same as the

AFL-CIO's. Exactly. " - AMA Vice President James Sammons, on Phil

Donahue Show, TV, November 22, 1982.

 

" ..The House of Representatives...voted...to exempt the business

practices of state-licensed professionals ( " including doctors and

dentists " ) from (FTC) Federal Trade Commission jurisdiction. ..The 208

Representatives who voted for the AMA/ADA backed position received

more than twice as much (on average) from those (AMA/ADA political

action committees) PACs as the 195 Members who voted for the

compromise. " - Common Cause, " $3.3 million in PAC money Pays Off in

Key Legislative Victory for AMA and ADA, Common Cause Study Shows " , 1982.

 

" Even Hitler could not control his physicians, as seen from the report

of Dr. Karl Beghart, who was called in to treat R. Heydrich, the Chief

of the Security Service..., who had been shot:

 

'..By daily personal telephone calls from Hitler and Himmler in

person, asking for information, very many suggestions were naturally

made...I did not hesitate to take personal responsibility and state my

own view....I refused, in reply to direct demands, to call in any

other doctor, not even Morell (Hitler's personal physician) or

(Ferdinand) Sauerbruch. Heydrich died in 14 days' "

 

- Thomas Preston, MD, Professor, The Clay Pedestal: a Re-examination

of the Doctor-Patient Relationship, c. 1981.

 

" ....An incongruity exists between the training of the dental health

team and the influence of diet and nutrition upon oral health. Little

or no time has been allocated in the dental curriculum on this

subject. - Herman Corn, President, American Society of Preventive

Dentistry.

 

" Though few dentists let it out that dentin is continuously growing

inside the tooth throughout our lives, the dental research literature

leaves no doubt about this fact. ...It is the body's repair

response... " - Soaring Bear, Natural Dental Wellness.

 

" Although the stated purpose of licensure is to benefit the

public...Consumers...have learned that licensing may add to the cost

of services, while not assuring quality....Charges...the legal sector

that licensure restricts competition, and therefore unnecessarily

increases costs to consumers....Like other professionals, dietiticians

can justify the enactment of licensure laws because licensing affords

the opportunity to protect dietiticians from interference in their

field by other practitioners...This protection provides a competitive

advantage, and therefore is economically beneficial for dietiticians "

- ADA President, Marilyn Haschske, JADA, 1984.

 

" The chief of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry (FDA

now), Dr. Harvey W. Wiley...wrote a book telling...how those ( " Pure

Food and Drug Laws " ) had been scuttled from within the government.

Wiley...turned his precious manuscript over to a printer. That

manuscript mysteriously 'disappeared'...Dr. Wiley valiantly returned

to work, rewriting his book from scratch. This chore occupied him

totally for ten years. ...His volume, The History of a Crime Against

the Food Law was a primer on government corruption...When distribution

began in 1929,...books disappeared rapidly from bookstore shelves. Yet

no letters were received from readers,...and virtually no reviews.

....Copies could not be found anywhere. In desperation Dr. Wiley put

the few remaining books in libraries around the country - they

disappeared from libraries as quickly as they had from the stores. " -

William Duffy, Sugar Blues, c. 1975.

 

" ..In 1963...I had the audacity...to publish a list of beneficial

cancer treatments, where to obtain them, and what doctors were using

them. Not long after (this was) published by my friend, an arsonist

set fire to (his building's) first floor and completely gutted it.

Firemen (stopped) the fire just (before) his apartment. ...After the

firemen told my friend that he could return to his apartment, the

police stepped in and said no he couldn't, whereupon the police

ransacked the apartment and even took the man's money which they never

returned to him. " - Arlin Brown, Health Victory Bulletin, 1982.

 

" ...My first book K - Krebiozen - Key to Cancer? (:)...An ad for the

book placed in the Times ...the freest of the large circulation

newspapers...The Times categorically refused a second ad...The Time's

medical counselors had advised against accepting an ad... "

 

" ...I went to the Main Branch of the New York Public Library, the

largest in the world. The librarian-in-charge advised me that...the

author 'went against' the AMA (and) it was decided that this book

(K-Krebiozen..) was to be 'taboo'. " - Dr. Ivy.

 

" Dr. Ivy (co-author of 1500 articles)...sent his article (on

Krebiozen) to one medical journal after another. The journals accepted

his article for publication, only to return it with apologies. ...Dr.

Ivy was informed that the publi(shers) were told by the AMA

Headquarters they would lose all their revenues from pharmaceutical

advertising if they published Ivy's article. ...Finally, in

desperation, Dr. Ivy turned to a small general publisher ( " Henry

Regnery, Chicago " ) and arranged for publication of his medical work. "

- Herbert Bailey. A Matter of Life or Death: The Incredible Story of

Krebiozen.

 

" In cancer, the fertilization of the cell-nucleus is produced by the

virus phase of the microbe - of a streptothrix in sarcoma - of

commonly a staphylococcus in carcinoma(:)..the cell invaded...and the

nature of the microbe..determines the particular form of tumor. " -

William M. Crofton, MD, Lecturer in Special Pathology, U. College,

Dublin, Ireland, The True Nature of Viruses. c. 1936.

 

" Crofton's work was bitterly attacked, and he found it impossible to

publish articles, although others confirmed his techniques and results. "

 

" A quick survey of the cancer papers in many medical journals will

convince any reader who can plow through them that much research is

trivial or of no consequence. " - Dr. Robert Netterberg, and Prof

Robert Taylor, The Cancer Conspiracy. c. 1981.

 

" ...George Crile, Jr. a Cleveland (Clinic) surgeon, was rebuked by the

Ethics Committee of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine for expressing

in a newspaper interview his opinion that radical mastectomy was

archaic and no longer necessary. " - Thomas Preston, MD, Professor of

Medicine, University of Washington; Director of Cardiology US Public

Health Hospital, Seattle. etc., The Clay Pedestal, c. 1981.

 

" ..The incidence of cancer among the ...nurse-anesthetists was three

times the expected rate. ..When I presented the data at the annual

meeting of the Anesthesiologists....Several of the anesthesiologists

present even went so far as to call the Editor of the IARS

Journal...., and ask him to withhold publication of the paper. ...I

was dropped without explanation from the ASA Committee of Effects of

Trace Anesthetics on Health. " - Thomas H. Corbett, MD, U, Michigan

Medical School, Professorship, awards, etc.

 

" When a person is found innocent of a crime...He can never be tried on

the same charge again. But in these cancer cases...a given doctor can

be yanked into (administrative) court again and again on any charge.

It's a crime that a professional doctor is not given the same

privileges as a criminal. " - Howard H. Beard, ScD, PhD, Yale U., The

Anthrone Test.

 

" ...One of the few growth industries in contemporary Britain

is...alternative medicine. ...A survey of the attitude of 100 young

trainees in family practice revealed the 86 had a positive attitude

toward alternative medicine. Of these, ...12 made referrals to

non-medically qualified practitioners - a step that only a few years

ago would have led to disciplinary action by the General Medical

Council... "

 

" ...The debate has gathered momentum since the British Holistic

Medical Association was formed and since the Times published three

major articles on various aspects of alternative medicine by Ruth West

and Brian Inglis... "

 

" The president of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Professor

Raymond Hoffenberg ...could understand why patients with cancer seek

alternative methods of treatment, and why any physician would welcome

an unequivocal demonstration that a malignant tumor could be cured by

any form of alternative medicine. " ...

 

" ..The Prince of Wales is immediate past-president of the British

Medical Association...The British Royal Family has long had a high

regard for homeo-pathic medicine, and....the Prince made a plea to

doctors to remember old-fashioned, traditional methods of healing. " -

John Lister, MD, " Current Controversy on Alternative Medicine " , New

England Journal of Medicine, 1983.

 

" ...Paul Crowther...herbalist in the British Isles...could recall at

least six old cancer remedies which were withdrawn from service about

100 years ago because they were also powerful abortifacients (induced

abortion), the then medico-legal set up made it inadvisable to be

caught with them on your shelf. " ...

 

" British herbalists have for centuries used complex infusions which

include Periwinkle against cancer. The Periwinkle is also the source

of the Vinca Alkaloids used in orthodox treatment. Why are the

isolated alkaloids so poisonous in marginally effective doses, whereas

the herbal infusions are effective without giving any signs of toxicity? "

 

" Some of the most valuable information has come by private

information. " - Frank Hourigan, author, Shape of the Elephant, in

letter to MDAC author, 1984.

 

" The (modern, orthodox) medical care system does some things very well

- principally emergency and acute care. Accident

victims...need...mechanistic medicine - and fast. " - R.J. Carlson, JD,

in Wholistic Dimensions in Healing, A Resource Guide.

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