Dr. Max Gerson Healing the Hopeless
by Howard Straus
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Author: Howard StrausEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-01
ISBN: 155082290X
Number of pages: 411
Publisher: Quarry Pr
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Summary: 5 Stars
Here is the story of an authentic struggler; of a man of strict discipline and iron will; of a humble server of Humanity and courageous and strong defender of his profound convictions.
With the historical contexts provided by writer Barbara Marinacci, Howard Straus leaves the realm of his academic field with the noble purpose of doing justice to his grandfather in a biography that ought to be required reading in more than one college subject.
Its reading is not only beneficial for anyone who is curious about knowledge, but also for those who take courses on the history of medicine, on nutrition, and even on the History of Europe of the beginning of the past century. Its reading certainly is indispensable in the field of the research of cancer as a specialized and highly lucrative industry.
The smoothly flowing account is organized in two parts on a chronological basis "The European Years" and "The American Years." It begins with the years Dr. Gerson lived in Europe because it was there, in Germany, where he was born in 1881. It ends in America because it was in the City of New York, in the American hemisphere, where he took refuge with his family in 1936, without knowledge of English, after he anticipated the imminent Nazi's barbarian affront against Humanity.
Without sacrificing details and without being boring, Straus describes the life of animosities, persecution, rejections, and reprisals that doctor Gerson faced on the part of the so-called medical class ? as well as an attempt to kill him with arsenic ?for having dared to dedicate the power of his genial intellect to finding a cure for patients who had been sentenced to a certain death that their physicians believed to be imminent.
With his careful research and daring innovations, Gerson made those galens look bad when he brought many of them back to health ? something they could not forgive him for.
In the course of doing research for this book, Straus had the support not only of his relatives and of former patients of his grandfather, but had also the benefit of abundant clinical files, handwritten notes, Gerson's formal and personal correspondence and of the book the intrepid physician got to publish: A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases (1958). Reference is made also to the numerous articles that this pioneer of holistic and alternative medicine wrote, as well as to the many that the entities that tried to discredit him, systematically refused to publish.
Although the justified pride with which the author describes his grandfather's odyssey in scientific research and in his unconventional practice of medicine is evident, the fact that he allows to see personality traits of him that could seem negative, at least at first glance, such as his rigid discipline and self esteem, is no less evident.
Moreover, plenty of evidence is shown pertaining to the role of some well known organizations to sabotage Gerson's work, that is, of entities which historically have reaped lucrative benefits from the fact that cancer is deemed an incurable disease. Within this context, Gerson told one of his patients in a letter in October 1954, that his "main opponent" was Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, whose name the American Association for Cancer Research has dropped recently from one of its awards.
When he learned that his physician and friend died of chronic pneumonia in March 1959, his compatriot, patient, and colleague, Albert Schweitzer, said about Gerson that he was "one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine." Read this book and you will see why.
J. Ortiz
San Juan, P. R.
Summary of Dr. Max Gerson Healing the Hopeless
Life story of controversial health care pioneer, Dr. Max Gerson, including his dietary and detox therapies for treating cancer and chronic disease, including his well-known coffee enema. Dr. Gerson was the first medical ecologist, making the connection between health and environment. Born in Germany, he practiced medicine there until 1933 and made his reputation by curing tuberculosis and other degenerative diseases. He cured Dr. Albert Schweitzer's Type wife of lung tuberculosis with his special diet. Moving to the U.S., he wrote a controversial book on the links between nutrition and cancer: A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases(1958), and practiced medicine until his death in 1959. Undaunted by attacks on his ideas, Dr. Gerson founded nutritional treatment centers in New York State for cancer and other illnesses. The Gerson Institute in San Diego, CA, and the Gerson Clinic in Mexico, both founded by his daughter, Charlotte Gerson, still thrive.Medical Books
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