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A
Cancer Therapy
Results
of Fifty Cases
and
The Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy
by
Max Gerson, M.D.
$19.95
Softcover
- 434 pages
Max
Gerson, M.D. was born October 18, 1881 in Wongrowitz, Germany. He attended
the universities of Breslau, Wuerzburg and Berlin, and graduated from
the University of Freiburg. Dr. Gerson, who suffered from severe migraines,
discovered that a change in diet prevented the onset of these crippling
headaches.
His
outlook on the nature and treatment of degenerative disease shifted
dramatically when a patient of his whom had been following the Gerson
"migraine diet" was cured not only of migraines, but of skin
tuberculosis as well. Dr. Gerson published his findings on skin tuberculosis
in a dozen of the world's leading medical journals, establishing the
Gerson Therapy as the first cure for this disease.
Through
his work with tuberculosis, Dr. Gerson attracted the friendship of Albert
Schweitzer, M.D. In 1931, after nine months on the therapy, Mrs. Helene
Bresslau-Schweitzer (1879-1957) was cured of lung tuberculosis. Dr.
Schweitzer himself came to Dr. Gerson at age 75 depressed
and weary with advanced adult onset diabetes. In a few weeks Dr. Schweitzer
was completely off his heavy insulin dosage. He returned to Africa,
invigorated and full of optimism. This great humanitarian worked past
age 90 and was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for his medical missionary
work. Schweitzer followed Gerson's progress over the years, seeing the
dietary therapy successfully applied further to heart disease, kidney
failure and cancer.
Prior
to World War II, Dr. Gerson and his family immigrated to the United States.
In 1938 he passed his medical board exams and received his license to
practice medicine in the state of New York. For twenty years, he treated
hundreds of cancer patients who had been given up to die after all conventional
treatment had failed. Although only a handful of peer-reviewed journals
were receptive to the "radical" idea of using nutrition in the
treatment and prevention of disease, Dr. Gerson continued publishing articles
on his therapy in Europe. In 1958, based upon thirty years of experimentation,
Dr. Gerson published his theory, treatment plan and case studies here
in this medical monograph, A Cancer Therapy: Result of 50 Cases.
Dr.
Gerson, a pioneer in holistic health, was a man of vision. He was correct
in his prediction that a toxic environment combined with a diet deficient
in essential nutrients would lead to the escalation of cancer and many
other degenerative diseases. Although ridiculed in his time, research
finding now confirm that nutrition is a powerful and effective means of
treating disease.
Dr.
Max Gerson died in 1959, eulogized by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who wrote:
"I see in him one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of
medicine. Many of his basic ideas have been adopted without having his
name connected with them. Yet, he has achieved more than seemed possible
under adverse conditions. He leaves a legacy which commands attention
and which will assure him his due place. Those whom he has cured will
now attest to the truth of his ideas."
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