Guest guest Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mdaq.htm Medical Dark Ages Quotes By Wade Frazier Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Extra material Section 1 I discovered Ralph Hovnanian's Medical Dark Ages in 1990. It was a seminal experience for me in understanding how the medical establishment works. I spent many hours reading his quotation collages, and several years ago I copied seventy pages of quotes from Medical Dark Ages into a book that I wrote. In that version, I inserted many editorial comments regarding how the quotes related to my experiences. The rest of my web site does that talking, and I have decided to let the Medical Dark Ages quotes speak for themselves. Ralph's book is more than just quotes, and what follows are not all of them, but the next seventy pages will be a wild ride if you decide to take it. I have broken it into seven sections, to make it easier to plow through. In Medical Dark Ages, Ralph also summarized the results of published studies on alternative cancer treatments and their success rates. Ralph did it for hundreds of studies on dozens of alternative treatments. The suggested donation for receiving his book is $12.00. You can get the book through Ralph Hovnanian at 2128 Prospect Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201. Ralph is a friend of mine, and will always have my gratitude for the years of effort that he spent in compiling Medical Dark Ages. After reading this section, I hope he has yours. " The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day. " - Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/2/70. (for more on this quote see this link) (In response to above quote) " What is the FDA doing? As will be shown by the material that follows, the FDA is " doing " three things: " First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself. " Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors. " And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities. " - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer. " There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation without investigation. " - Herbert Spencer. " Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom. " - Abdul Baha " There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. " - Henry David Thoreau. " If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. " - Marcus Aurelius Antonius. " There are three things which build and maintain civilization throughout time: pure air, pure water, and pure food. And as an eternal truth I say unto you, that there are three things which bring the end of civilization, even the mightiest that have ever been and shall ever be, from the beginningless beginning to the endless end of all time: impure air, impure water, and impure food. " - Zenda Avesta, c. 3000 BC. " All the blood of the body is under the control of the heart and flows in a continuous circle and never stops. " - Chinese writing, 2697 BC. " The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. " - Socrates, (470-399 BC). " It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time. " - Hippocrates, (460-370 BC). " It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. " - Seneca (4 BC to 65 AD). (Advanced cancer is) " irritated by treatment; and the more so the more vigorous it is. " " Some have used caustic medicaments, some the cautery, some excision with a scalpel; but no medicament has ever given relief; the parts cauterized are excited immediately to an increase until they cause death. " " After excision, even when a scar has formed, nonetheless the disease has returned, and caused death; while ...the majority of patients, although no violent measures are applied in the attempt to remove the tumor, but only mild applications in order to sooth it, attain a ripe old age in spite of it. " - Celsus, (1st century AD). " When (a tumor) is of long standing and large, you should leave it alone. For myself have never been able to cure any such, nor have I seen anyone else succeed before me. " – Abu'l Qasim, (936 - 1013 AD). " It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians. " - Paracelsus, (1493-1541 AD). " Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened. " - James I, A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco, p. 32; 1604 AD. " Sugar...ingrendreth...cachexias...rotteth the teeth, making them look blacke... and therefore let young people especially beware... " - James Hurt, Doctor, The Family Companion, 1633 AD. " The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides. " - John Evelyn, 1661 AD. " Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter. " - Thomas Sydenham, (1624-1689). " Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases. " - Moliere, (1622-1672). " He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines. " " God heals and the Doctor takes the fee. " - Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790). " An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. But the regular profession stands firm in its belief that such experience is worthless and the whole history is one of quackery and delusion. " - William James (1842-1910). " You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910). " The doctor of the future will prescribe no drugs but will interest his patients in the care and nutrition of the human frame and in the cause and prevention of disease. " - Thomas Edison (1847-1931) " To protect herbalists from persecution by the Company of Physicians and Chirurgeons. Company of Surgeons in London, minding their own gain, and doing nothing for the profit or ease of the diseased, have sued, troubled and vexed honest persons (herbalist) ... Said persons have not taken anything for their pains and skill...Surgeons have small cunning, yet take great sums of money and do little for it. " - Act of Parliament, 1512 AD. Appendix 2, chapter 2. p.2. " The answer of Richard Guy, Surgeon...to certain insidious Falsehood and Reflections upon his Method of Curing Cancers without Cutting...London 1764 AD. 100 cases Successfully treated..Breast...incipient cancer...how easily in that State they are remediable by Care and Proper management;...the cancerous Humor is a Virus...the lymphatic vessels are the immediate instruments of its Circulation...carried and lodged..to those more remote ('glands'). " - Richard Guy, Practical Observations, 1762 AD. " Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship...To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic..., and have no place in a republic...The Constitution of this Republic should make special provisions for medical freedom as well as religious freedom. " - Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of Declaration of Independence; member, Continental Congress; B.S. Princeton U. " ...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine. " - Dr. Benjamin Rush. " Samuel Thomson (1769-1843, herbalist) so upset New Hampshire doctors that they persuaded the state legislature to pass a law specifically naming him, not for practicing medicine 'illegally' ('the usual charge with which to charge non-allopathic practitioners') but to prevent him (from) healing people without charging them. " - Donald Law, A Guide to Alternative Medicine. " The entire medical profession of the United States in so far as its organization is concerned, is today at the mercy of one man and a board of trustees that is subservient to him. " - Editorial, Illinois Medical Journal, Dec. 1922, p.478. " The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching. " - Clarence Darrow, (1857-1938). " A conspiracy, not a profession...Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. " " ... I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the re-vaccinated cases (of smallpox) as 'pustular eczema, varioloid' or what not - except smallpox. " - George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950). (allow access of cancer patients to) " unconventional therapies, (i.e.) any method used for the control and cure of cancer which has not been approved by the Federal FDA. " - Cancer Therapeutic Research Bill of 1981, State of Florida, HB747 passed by legislature, vetoed by governor. " (The AMA is) " just another mean trust. " - Harry S. Truman. " ...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved. " - Dwight D. Eisenhower. " (Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group. " - Jimmy Carter. " I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it. " - Ronald Reagan. " But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors... " " It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation. " - US Senator Paul Douglas, Congressional Record, 1963. " Yet, not only has the FDA done everything it could to discourage ('a good or better and non-toxic') treatment of human cancer, but also the NCI appears to have been negligent in not pursuing this whole line of investigation. " " Government controlled medical research, which verges on monopoly, may possibly delay medical advances " There has been very little emphasis in NCI on relatively non-toxic approaches, some radically different. " " ..serious shortcomings in the administrative practices...of the FDA..there is no appeal to the courts in cases involving medical research. " - US Senator Edward Long, " Enzyme Treatment of Cancer " , Congressional Record, 1966. " The hearings have revealed police-state tactics...possibly perjured testimony to gain a conviction,...intimidation and gross disregard for the Constitutional Rights...(of) First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, (by the FDA) " The FDA (is) bent on using snooping gear to pry and invade... " " Instance after instance of FDA raids on small vitamin and food supplement manufacturers. These small, defenseless businesses were guilty of producing products which FDA officials claimed were unnecessary. " " If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served. " - Senator Long from various Senate hearings. " (It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions... " " Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations. " " The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer. " - Benedict Fitzgerald, Special Counsel to the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, " A Report to the Senate IFCC on the Need for Investigation of Cancer Research Organizations " 1953. " I and many other Members of Congress have received a large volume of mail from individuals...benefited from Laetrile treatments,...who believe the Government is party to a conspiracy to suppress an inexpensive, non-toxic and effective anti-cancer drug. ...public confidence in our Government has not been strengthened by the highly unusual actions of the FDA in first advising...that clinical studies with Laetrile could be initiated and then terminating this authorization... " (There is a) " deeply held conviction of a large number of Americans that they are being forced by their Government to leave the country in order to obtain therapy with a drug that is both safe and effective for the control of cancer... (A) review should be done by cancer experts who have no conflicting interest and who are able to evaluate the evidence objectively...In light of the tremendous sums of money that have been spent with relatively little productivity..., I find it very surprising that the NCI has not sought on its own initiative to do further animal testing with this drug which apparently has shown some activity in the tests sponsored by the McNaughton Foundation. " - US Congressman L.H. Fountain (in a letter to HEW Secretary), 1971. " Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses... " " Six patients with advanced cancer were treated with amygdalin at dosages similar to those employed by Laetrile practitioners....intravenously... (and) orally...No clinical or lab evidence of toxic reaction was seen (by us). " " One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief... " Charles Moertel, MD, (and 3 MD's and 2 PhD's), Dept. Oncology and Comprehensive Cancer Center., Mayo Clinic / Foundation, " A Pharmacologic and Toxicological Study of Amygdalin. " Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), February 13,1981. " Amygdalin (Laetrile) is listed in the US Pharmacopeia of 1870...so the Grandfather Clause in the Food and Drug (and Cosmetics) Act prevents FDA from claiming jurisdiction. The US Court of Appeals, 4th district, #71-1243, May 23, 1972, upheld this... " " ...Amygdalin..is listed in (FDA's) GRAS (Generally Accepted As Safe) list.. " - Walter Ermer, International Health Council, inserted by Senator Edward M. Kennedy into Banning of the drug Laetrile from Interstate Commerce by FDA, Hearing, 1977. " Most shocking, from the point of view of scientific ethics, is...that...every one of their (SRI - Southern Research Institute) errors was in the direction of lowering the efficacy of the (Laetrile) treatment (of animals). ...There is essentially zero probability that such a system of misrepresentation is inadvertent. There is no doubt to give anyone the benefit of! " - Dr. Bernard Kenton, City of Hope National Medical Center, in Harvard Political Review, 1977. " ...The NCI...retrospective analysis...of Laetrile( ...among 67 case records that were all submitted...the NCI...could find complete responses in only two patients... " " The NCI...prospective trial...of...Laetrile could be neither controlled and randomized nor blinded...The lack of concurrent controls was partially offset by the fact that all patients were in advanced stages of a disease known to be almost uniformly and rapidly fatal. Any objective responses in tumor size or prolongation of survival could be identified by comparison with historical controls. " - Arnold Reman, Editor, New England Journal of Medicine, " Closing the books on Laetrile " 1982. " The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number and types of human cancer cases selected...the omission of necessary additional measures ('e.g dietary'), the far too short observation periods, and the undefined chemical properties of the (Laetrile)... all contributed to devaluation of...conclusions. " " The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind of fraud which I expressed...and which was openly published...has...not resulted in any denial. " - Hans Nieper, MD, President, International Academy of Preventive Medicine; Director, German Society for Medical Tumor Treatment; author of over 200 articles, listed in Who's Who of World Science, and many other credentials. " ...About Laetrile...we submitted two articles. The editor turned the article over to his medical advisor and received the same advice that had been given to another (another magazine): Don't touch it. " " ...We were told that owners of drugstores, a vital outlet for paperbacks, had been notified that any druggist who displayed my book on his paperback racks, would not receive any more prescriptions from members of the AMA. " " ...After years of paying my income tax without any problems, in 1964, after my Laetrile book came out, I was summoned by the IRS for an audit...It took three years...Again (in) 1974. The year before I had (written) a book about corruption in Congress. I was summoned for another (IRS) audit, and there went another three years. " ...The Salk polio vaccine ( When the final report of the (Salk) tests was ready for publication, there were no takers in the scientific field. The report was handed out at a press conference... " - Glen D. Kittler, (author of 40 books, and articles in Reader's Digest, The Saturday evening Post, etc.) Laetrile: Nutritional Control for Cancer with Vitamin B-17. (In) " 1970, in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania....Bruce Butt...convened a meeting at which he showed...Nature's Answer to Cancer. The film was made by the International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends (IACVF)....(The) attorney...defending Mr. Butt (said): Mr. Butt is criminally charged with 'unlawfully procuring and showing the film, Nature's Answer to Cancer, which the state of Pennsylvania claims 'constitutes dissemination of false or misleading advertisement, concerning the efficacy of Laetrile , as a cure or treatment for cancer'. (And) this constitutes a misbranding of a drug, ...although ....all parties ( " stipulate " ) that no drug ( " Laetrile " ) was sold or offered for sale! Present at the preliminary hearing were...USDHEW, and the FTC,...and FDA... Again when the film was advertised for showing in a public theater in San Jose, the owner was threatened by the DA's office with a criminal charge, arrest, and seizure of the film. " - IACVF, Cancer News Journal, 1964. " The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature( isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible. " - Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. discoverer of vitamins B-15 and B-17. " ..Dr. Krebs...is facing the possibility of a jail sentence stemming from violation of a 1977 court order not to speak publicly about Laetrile " - Voice of Medical Freedom, April 1981. " Dr. Ernest J. Krebs, Jr., (and his secretary) ...began serving a six-month prison term in May (1983) in the San Francisco County Jail. (They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction. " - Choice, spring 1983. " Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile. " - Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. (FDA's ban on Laetrile is) " arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable. " - Dec 1977 (What) " disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is effective. " " ...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame. " - Aug 1980 (The FDA is) " to refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. " - May 1981, Judge Luther Bohanon, US District Court, Oklahoma City; Rutherford vs US. " Dr. (Donald R.) Cole (formerly of Sloan-Kettering and St. Vincent's Hospital in New York) was charged with three counts: giving false hope to the terminally ill, using experimental drugs illegally, and practicing medicine in an unlawful and dishonest manner....The illegal drug charge was defined as the use of vitamins, enzymes, and Laetrile. ....Dr. Cole administered Laetrile at the request of patients in the legally prescribed manner with a signed affidavit....An oncologist from Rosewell Park (Memorial Institute) who was brought in by the hearing panel...could not substantiate a single case of incompetence or negligence. ...Dr. Cole's license was revoked. " - CCS, Cancer Control Journal, January 1978. " Dr. Emory Thurston, PhD, ScD, (lecturer, College of Pharmacy, USC; member APA (American Pharmaceutical Assoc.), Executive Secretary of Nutritional Research (had) ...inspectors from the Calif. Food and Drug office armed with a search warrant, (who) raided his business office. They confiscated several bottles of Laetrile...and every piece of literature that contained the word 'cancer'. (They) serve(d) a warrant for the arrest of Dr. Thurston on the charge of selling Laetrile and practicing medicine without a license. He was taken to county jail... " International Association of Cancer Friends and Victims, Cancer News Journal, 1973. " The (MSKCC) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center report on amygdalin, or Laetrile( It is incomplete because at least half a dozen experiments with amygdalin performed at the (MSKCC) between 1972 and 1976 have been omitted from the report. (These,) the positive experiments (showing effectivity against cancer) with amygdalin, carried out by veteran researcher Kanematsu Sugiura appear to be valid and are not successfully challenged by the report. (In contrast,) there are numerous errors in many of these (reported) experiments which allegedly prove amygdalin's ineffectiveness as a palliative or cure for cancer. " - Second Opinion, Special Report: Laetrile at Sloan Kettering, 1977, published January 1978. " In 1977, when the Laetrile bill was first introduced to the North Dakota Legislature, I was the only MD to testify for it...After that, my successful tenure...was ended and I was called before the State Medical Examiners Board in ND, for using vitamins and Laetrile. ...I travelled...to work...with Dr. Davis, Dr. Cole, and Dr. Manner...When I returned...I was refused re-instatement to the medical staff...We are being investigated by the (state) attorney general's office because our methods are not 'usual and customary'. " " The doctors at M.D. Anderson (Hospital) in Houston...were recently developing a cancer prevention program for Texas, the money and direction for which were appropriated by the Texas legislature 40 years ago. " - Brian Briggs, MD, in a letter, 1981. " Toxicity of Laetrile in dosages currently employed for human cancer is assumed to be minimal. " - NCI Clinical Protocol for Laetrile. " Despite intensive effort over many years, the FDA, the AMA, the ACS (American Cancer Society), the NCI and independent researchers have been unable to find any scientific evidence that Laetrile has any effect on cancer. " - FDA (press release, Feb 17, 1977.). " The cyano group of vitamin B-12 (cyano-cobal-amin) is more labile and potentially more harmful than the cyano group found in Laetrile. Yet we know how safe and essential vitamin B-12 is. " - Dr. R.A. Passwater, testimony, FDA docket # 77N-0048. " On the very day that the NCI announced Laetrile's alleged worthlessness..., West Virginia became the 24th state to allow the use of Laetrile...In signing the bill into law, Gov. Jay Rockefeller said the study, 'made no difference at all.' - National Health Federation, July, 1981. " ..The woman...had been relieved of her cancer by Laetrile.....In the hospital they would not inject Laetrile as it was illegal. She died. This so incensed the editors of the Santa Ana Register (Dean and Martinez) that they wrote ( " Laetrile Story " ) a series of articles on cancer and the true story for the first time was sent by UPI to (almost) every country in the world. " - Howard H. Beard, ScD, PhD, Yale U. The Anthrone Test. " ... The cancer statutes (are) discriminatory against the cancer patient.... No other disease is so restricted by politics.... It is also discriminatory against the Negro because Laetrile helps sickle cell anemia.... It is discriminatory against the poor because the poor can't afford to go to Mexico or Germany (for therapies outlawed in the US)... " " ...In July 1974 About 15 agents (of Cal. Food and Drug) arrested me on the charge of selling Laetrile and other substances in the diagnosis, cure and alleviation of cancer. In Citrus Municipal Court, West Covina, on Feb 3, 1975, Judge Sam Cianchetti declared this statute unconstitutional. On Oct. 1974, I received a phone call from...police at 1 (AM, Saturday morning) and he told me that my office was broken into. I went down to my office...and 2 agents arrest(ed) me on a felony charge - conspiracy...The law states that before you are even arrested, they must give you a hearing (Cal. Health Code 1707.4) (Another) judge denied this motion for a ....hearing and he gave no reason. " - Dr. James Privitera; Roswell Park Memorial Institute,; Scripps Clinic; " The Nutritional Battle. " " ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy. " - California Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird, dissenting opinion. " In 1964 (we) conduct(ed) an intensive investigation of Laetrile...conclud(ing) that there was no justification for making (it) illegal...Yet, 16 years after... , doctors are still being jailed for (it). Dr. James Privatera,... was recently released from 55 days...much of it doing hard labor...on a road gang...If he were solely interested in making money, as he points out, there is a great deal more to be made from traditional cancer treatments, than by use of Laetrile. " - Santa Ana, The Register, April 13, 1980. " Does it make sense that a (Laetrile) smuggler who is supposed (by the Medical Establishment - Ed.) to be making millions of dollars off of what he is smuggling, would spend five years of his life trying to legalize it.? " - Frank Salaman, grad., northwestern U. (In) " 1970, the Pennsylvania Health Dept., swooped down on a meeting...after the movie Laetrile,...was shown. The film was confiscated and the association president arrested. " - Michael Culbert, Vitamin B-17, Forbidden Weapon Against Cancer. " Important Elements of FDA Policy: Encourage local medical licensing authorities to investigate and take appropriate action to deal with the use of Laetrile by physicians in their practice. " - FDA Division of Federal-State Relations Director, 1974. " Not that there are not real quacks in the field of cancer... But ....no legitimate MD...with a thriving practice and after years of study and faithful service would give all that up to become a quack and subject himself and his family to Hell... " - John Richardson, MD, Laetrile Case Histories. " I had to stand three expensive trials in California courts, where in all three actions against me, the charges were dismissed. Then I had to stand and even longer and more expensive trial in Federal Court in San Diego, where I was convicted of 'conspiring to smuggle Laetrile' and was fined $30,000. ... Cal. then revoked my license. - John Richardson, MD. " The ...Times..headlined the Assistant US Attorney...grand jury investigation of myself, six months before the grand jury was even selected. ...Soon after Bantam printed 200,000 copies of our book, ....Times bought the serial rights to it. ...After sitting on the serial rights for a suitable period, the ...Times...unctuously begged Bantam to be released from their gentlemen's agreement, and the serial market had been destroyed. ...Most libraries will not accept a book that has not been reviewed by the ...Times or its affiliate... " - John Richardson, MD, Richardson Newsletter, 1979. " Federal, state, and local police raided Dr. (John) Richardson's Clinic,...beat up a(n) aide, manhandled a nurse, and dragged the business manager off in handcuffs. " " 20 Federal agents in 13 undercover cars...arrested and...jailed...Robert Bradford (President, Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy.)...on leave from Stanford University...and two Mexicans..on charges of conspiracy to smuggle (Laetrile). " " The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic ACT,...defines any article 'intended for use in the diagnosis, ...treatment, or prevention of disease' as a 'drug'...Water...to an individual dying of thirst could ...be called a 'drug. " - Michael Culbert, Freedom From Cancer. (This MD) " utilized (Vitamin B-15 & 17) as therapeutic agents in the treatment of cancer. (These) are not recognized vitamins in human nutrition. Laetrile...is unsafe for self medication... " The management of cancer patients with...vitamins...to the exclusion of...conventional modalities is an extreme departure from the standard practice of medicine. " (MD) " Certificate...of John A. Richardson...is revoked. " - California Board of Medical Quality Assurance, 1975. - the four paragraphs above in John Richardson, Laetrile Case Histories. " What water is to thirst, so normal metabolism is to cancer. " - John Richardson, MD, Richardson Newsletter, 1978. Section 2 " In early 1978 I sent a serious article on approaching trends of unorthodox cancer treatment to a major British doctor's publication,..., to which I had frequently contributed before. It was declined, as was the editor's privilege. This decision I accepted without comment...But when I published a similar article for a more general readership in a non-medical publication, the Deputy Editor of .... published a most offensive attack on me and my views. ...This year another major medical publication, Doctor, was pleased to accept and print my views. A huge correspondence from doctors seeking further information ensued. " " The violent disagreements and vehement proclamations of different 'experts' at cancer symposia are now well-known, as each defends his own pet programme. " " In most European countries amygdalin (Laetrile) has never been illegal...Bitter almond, ...peach (are some) sources of amygdalin.... Celsus in ancient Rome used almond to treat 'putrid flesh'. Largus, another Roman, used it for bladder tumours. Galen,,,used almonds for 'scirrhus of the liver'. ...Avicenna also used (almond) oil for tumours of uterus, spleen, stomach, and liver. " " The psychosomatic element...in cancer causation and treatment.( Gendon in 1701, Burrows in 1783, Nunn in 1822, Walshe in 1846, the famous Sir James Paget, describer of Paget's disease, in 1879, Snow in 1893 and Elida Evans in 1922, are the names of just a few (Doctors). - Dr. Dick Richards, Kent Private Clinic, England, The Topic of Cancer: When the Killing Has to Stop. " " ...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards. " " The enzyme beta-glucoronidase is necessary to ...'trigger off'.. laetrile.....after the laetrile injection, we injected directly into the tumor...beta-glucoronidase. The result was white slough which encompassed the (tumor) growth. ...The slough resorbed and was replaced by normal (tissue). " - Arthur T. Harris, MD, U. Edinburgh (under John Beard); PhD, Med.; DSc, Biochem. " Early one morning in 1946 our lab was mysteriously destroyed by fire....We then established a lab at ...our present location. Then again one morning in 1947, this lab was set on fire and completely destroyed. " - Howard H. Beard, ScD; PhD, Yale U. Porter Fellow, Physiology;MA, Columbia U; Professor and Director., Biochem Dept., author of 150 articles and three books, etc., etc. Director John Beard Lab of Clinical Biochemistry.: A New Approach to the Conquest of Cancer, Rheumatic and Heart Diseases. " ...Medical mankind in particular, were supposed to be waiting for the advent of some new scientific discovery concerning the nature of cancer... ...The physical martyrdom was lacking; but there are, as I can testify from experience, many more ways than one of burning a scientific man at the stake. " - John Beard. D.Sc., The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and its Scientific Basis. c. 1911 AD. " Dr. (Howard H. )Beard 'was ...charged with...mail fraud...rendering fake and medically worthless cancer reports...Postal Investigators satisfied themselves the reports were willfully falsified...' On Oct. 30, 1967, Dr. Beard was sentenced in US Federal Court, Ft. Worth, Texas, 'to...mail fraud...He alleged he could detect the presence of cancer in urine in 95% of all tests made. " - FDA Papers, 1967-1968 (in ACS, Unproven Methods of Cancer Management, 1967). " Arthur Harris (MD, PhD)..was soon forbidden to use Laetrile on hospitalized patients. ...In...1953, Harris reported: 'Of total number of cases (82) treated with Laetrile, 43 have been pay patients, many have paid only a part of their bills...' ...Dr. Harris...received a summons from the LA County Medical Association to appear for trial...for unethical conduct in overcharging 3 patients for Laetrile...Files showed that the (3 patients) had not paid a cent of their bills....Harris received notice that he had been expelled from the county medical society. " - Glenn D. Kittler, Laetrile: Nutritional Control for Cancer with Vitamin B-17, c. 1963. " Why is it that the US Supreme Court says physicians may perform abortions on the ground that the physician - patient relationship is inviolable; but that the same physician is not permitted to prescribe Laetrile for his patients...but not to destroy life but to save it? Why are we told that a patient has the " right to die with dignity " , but may not take Laetrile in an attempt to live? " - Alan Stang, American Opinion (from Princeton paper, " The Political Implications of Laetrile... " ). " The average citizen in this country does not have...the background that will enable him to make enlightened decisions concerning the selection and use of therapeutic agents. " - Acting director, National Cancer Institute. " In a study of 252 people who attended a Laetrile symposium sponsored by the CCS (Cancer Control Society), we found that those attending were predominantly white, female, rural, and highly educated. " - Gerald E. Markle and James C. Petersen, Professors of Sociology, Western Michigan University; editors of Politics, Science, and Cancer; the Laetrile Phenomenon. " Nearly 8 out of 10 persons agree that, 'since we don't know how to cure cancer, if Laetrile is harmless, people ought to be able to buy it if they want to use it.' Reinforcing this view are public doubts about the FDA and other government health agencies. " - Lou Harris Poll of 1600 Americans, July 1977. " A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.... " - Leon Chaitow, ND, DO, Member, British Naturopathic and Osteopathic Association., An End to Cancer? " Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place. " - Dr. Dean Burke, co-founder, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cyto-chemistry section: open letter July 3, 1973. " I was about the most negative person in the country about interferon. " - Dr. Frank Rauscher, Director, NCI, vice president, ACS (American Cancer Society) in Time, 3-31-1980. I would certainly not turn off Laetrile if it had an iota of activity that we could pinpoint. Unfortunately, there's no evidence at all. " Dr. Frank Rauscher, 60 Minutes 3-31-1974. " We don't have any pesticides showing up in the food chain anymore. " - NCI Director and ACS vice president, Dr. Frank Rauscher. " ...there is no basis for the use of Laetrile in man based on data derived from experiments on animals. " : - Dr. Jesse Steinfeld, Surgeon General, US Public Health Service. " The data provided by the McNaughton Foundation certainly indicates some activity (of Laetrile) in animal tumor systems.: - Dr. Carl Baker, Director, NCI 1970-1972. (Laetrile) " may be useful in sickle cell anemia...(Laetrile) used in animals with tumors show: a decrease in lung metastases; slower tumor growth; and pain relief. " - Lloyd Old, MD, vice president, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, at FDA 7-2-1974. " When results of the (Laetrile) toxicity tests at Loyola (University, Chicago) were complete, (Dr. Harold Manner, Chairman Biology Dept., author 50 articles, 5 texts) asked NCI to publish the findings in Journal NCI. This the agency refused to do. Publication in other journals was also denied him. " - in National Health Federation, Bulletin, Nov. 1977. " When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum. " " But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal. " " ...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford. " - Paul Harvey, " Cancer Remission with Laetrile " , LA Times, 10-10-1977. " ...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ....This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.... " - James Kilpatrick, Washington Star, 1976. " For some places you want harsh regulations backed by full weight of the law - (we) have had IND's (request to test on humans and Investigational New Drug) for Laetrile, for example, and other hoax remedies...Sometimes we say it is proper to hinder research. " (The FDA has) " what some people call the worst personnel in government...Open drunkenness...for months...intimidation...tittering in corners, throwing spitballs; I am describing physicians, (who) slouch down in a chair, not respond to questions, moan and groan with sleeping gestures, a kind of behavior I have not seen in any other institution as a grown man. " - FDA, Bureau of Drugs Director, Dr. J. Richard Crout. " Dr. Helen Calvin...spearheaded...Indiana to approve Laetrile, and then she used the Laetrile and metabolic program...until the FDA arbitrarily and illegally held up her Laetrile shipments...patients started dying...When four of them had died, Dr. Calvin ended her own life. " - Arlin Brown, Cancer Victory Bulletin, Oct. 1978. (Maurice Kowan, MD) " served three months in jail, paid a fine of $3,000, and was forbidden to see a cancer patient...for three years. Before sentencing, it had been suggested to Dr. Kowan...to sign a statement that...Laetrile...had proved no benefit....He refused any 'deals'... " - Betty Lee Morales, " The National Health Federation, Do We Need It? " . " The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan...was...age 70... " - G.E. Griffin, Cancer Control Journal, 1977. " ...In treating approximately 100 cancer cases, most ...terminal, (Dr. Kowan) was able to achieve dramatic relief from pain in virtually every single case. ...Several patients told...that the fees Dr. Kowan charged were ridiculously low.... Dr. Kowan was sentenced (including) 30 days in the workhouse... " - David Martin, Staff member, US Senate Internal Security Committee, in Cancer News Journal, Jan 1971. " In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective. ... " " Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ....the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question. " " Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice. " - US Congressman Philip M. Crane, Congressional Record, 1975. " More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed. " - Dr. Alex Carrel 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine, " in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs. " " Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ....,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing. " - Dr. Alexis Carrel, " ...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected. " " The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... " " Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men. " - Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown. " Dr Alexis Carrel,...( After his book was published in 1935, titled Man the Unknown, he was eased out of the Rockefeller Institute of Research, and he went to France...When he arrived, he was arrested on a false charge and put into prison...Two months later he died.: - Professor Hilton Hoptema, Health Research Sheet. " The discovery of radium by the Curies was facilitated by observing a witch doctor treating sick people by burying them up to their necks in radium-bearing mud. " - Donald Law, A Guide to Alternative Medicine. " Everybody should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud, and that the NCI and the ACS are derelict in their duties to the American people who support them. " - Linus Pauling 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for " his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances. " , and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. " ..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter to some generally accepted belief ( " which may just be biased " ), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source. " - Linus Pauling " 'Cancer dialogue '80'...(was) sponsored by the Omega Institute, and co-sponsored by the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American Holistic Medical Association....The New York Times reported on Oct. 13, 1980 that 9 of the 27 (speakers: NCI Directors, Drs. Arthur Upton and Frank Rauscher, Sr. V. President of ACS; Dr. Emil Frei III, Director, Sidney Farber Cancer Institute; et al)..had withdrawn about two weeks before the opening...from this discussion of traditional and 'alternative' approaches to cancer treatment...Some of the speakers said that pressure had been put on them...the Medical Tribune (Oct., 1980) 'Most of the 8 dropouts received influence-wielding phone calls from (the) chairman of the ACS's committee on unproven methods of cancer management, or other ACS officials.' " - Linus Pauling " ...Terminally ill cancer patients,...100...who took 10 grams of Vitamin C daily lived four times longer (from date of diagnosis as 'untreatable', than controls)...Dr. (Linus) Pauling submitted these findings in a scientific paper to Journal of the AMA, and New England Journal of Medicine, and both have refused to publish this illustrious Nobel Laureate's work. " - D. Ian Thierman, Yale U. Grad., (in International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, Jan. 1979). " Dr. Anthony Verlangieri, ..Rutgers U. ..., was refused funds for...reducing athero-sclerosis with Vitamin C. ..Dr. Jorgen Schlegel (is) combatting cancer with vitamin C at Tulane Med. ...And Dr. Eli Seifter (discovered) that vitamin A (fights) cancer tumors of viral origin. Yet both distinguished scientists have been refused funds. ....Dr. Linus Pauling,...two time Nobel Prize winner..., has found it impossible to get federal funds for his research in treating cancer with...vitamin C. " - Jack Andersen, " Tired Blood in Federal Health Research " . Rocky Mountain News, 1975. " The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation. " - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, discoverer of vitamins C and P, 1937 Nobel Prize , " for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process, with special reference to Vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid. " . " (The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity). " " The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer. " - James Watson, co-discoveror of the DNA double helix, and 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for that discovery and related work. " The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. " - Dr. David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for, " their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell. " . " ...cancer...there is no disease whose prime cause is better known...In the meantime, millions of men must die unnecessarily. " - Otto Warburg, Nobel Laureate in Medicine in 1931 " for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme. " . " But how long prevention will be avoided depends on how long the prophets of unbelief will succeed in obstructing the application of scientific knowledge in the cancer field. In the meantime, millions must die of cancer unnecessarily. " Otto Warburg. " ...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian. " - Linus Pauling. " ...What kills science in this country now, (is) that you must tell in advance what you will find, and what you will do exactly, and what you will spend your money on. And if you knew it all, then you wouldn't need to do it. ... And so you cannot have (any) new discoveries.: - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. " Money appropriated for FDA in 1945 (was) $3 million; in 1968, $66 million. Number of employees in 1945, approximately 850; in 1968, 5100. Seizures of foods in 1945, 2504; in 1968, 384. Injunctives for violative foods in 1945, 26; in 1968, 3....Prosecutions for violative foods, in 1945, 278; in 1968, 70. - US Congressman L.H. Fountain (In Beatrice T. Hunter, Mirage of Safety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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