Masses of Info on Vitamin C
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..."Around 1942 Klenner’s
wife suffered bleeding gums and her dentist recommended pulling out all her
teeth. Dr. Klenner thought that solution too Draconian and remembered reading
about research using vitamin C to cure chimpanzees with a similar problem. He
gave her several injections of the vitamin and the bleeding stopped. Soon,
after, this dramatic result encouraged him to try vitamin C on an obstinate man
who was near death from viral pneumonia. Klenner described this seminal
experience in a 1953 paper “
The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic”:".......From 1943 through
1947 Dr. Klenner reported successful treatment of 41 more cases of
viral pneumonia using massive doses of vitamin C. From these cases he
learned what dosage and route of administration intravenously,
intramuscularly, or orally was best for each patient. Dr. Klenner gave
these details in a February 1948 paper published in the Journal of Southern
Medicine and Surgery entitled “Virus Pneumonia and Its Treatment
with Vitamin C”....
...when a measles epidemic came to Reidsville,
Klenner was so confident of vitamin C’s efficacy with these diseases that he
devised what would ordinarily be an outrageous experiment with his two little
daughters. He had them play with children known to be in the contagious phase of
measles. When the usual syndrome of measles had developed and his daughters were
obviously sick, vitamin C was started. Again Klenner’s words from his 1953
paper:
....“In this experiment it was found that 1,000 mg every four
hours, by mouth, would modify the attack. Smaller doses allowed the disease to
progress. When 1,000 mg was given every 2 hours all evidence of the infection
cleared in 48 hours. If the drug was then discontinued for a similar period (48
hours) the above syndrome returned. We observed this off and on picture for
thirty days at which time the drug (vitamin C) was given 1,000 mg every 2 hours
around the clock for four days. This time the picture cleared and did not
return.”...
....With this background of experiences with human
beings, not experimental animals Klenner gained confidence in and
control over his vitamin C treatment...
....
Dr. Abram Hoffer recalls that a controlled study, conducted in Great Britain
in the late 50s with 70 young polio victims, confirmed Klenner’s cure.
All those given vitamin C recovered completely, while a significant number of
those not given vitamin C suffered some permanent damage. (This study was not
published because of the success of the polio vaccines.) Dr. Klenner himself
reported that he received scores of letters from doctors in the U.S. and Canada
corroborating his striking results. Some of the letters described how they cured
their own children, others, how the doctors had cured
themselves....
....The strategy of medical leaders conscious or
unconscious, planned or unplanned was clearly to ignore Dr. Klenner and hope his
claims would be forgotten....
...It’s as though polio-vitamin C research
never happened....
....A thoroughly exasperated Klenner concluded a
February 1959 paper in the Tri-State Medical Journal with these
words:
“Should the disease be present in the acute form, ascorbic acid
given in proper amounts around the clock, both by mouth and needle, will bring
about a rapid recovery. We believe that ascorbic acid must be given by needle in
amounts from 250 mg to 400 mg per kg body weight every 4 to 6 hours for 48 hours
and then every 8 to 12 hours. The dose by mouth is the dose that can be
tolerated. To those who say that Polio is without cure, I say that they lie.
Polio in the acute form can be cured in 96 hours or less. I beg of someone in
authority to try it.”"....
This article clearly shows how the Medical
Mafia along with our politicians stonewall so many non toxic and efficacious
nutrients to protect their monopoly of disease treatment. Ironically Dr. Klenner
referred to Vitamin C as a drug! This is a tacit example on
why there is such an effort to regulate our nutrients as drugs.
Even
when one knows that IV vitamin C, magnesium, Hyperbaric and many many
efficacious but less profitable treatments exist majority are simply not able
realize these benefits It is clear that we all need to learn this information,
then hopefully use it against these shysters in the courts. Often the toxic
drugs they foist on us are
known be dangerous less efficacious than that can be shown with nutrients!
See:
How
to Get Intravenous Vitamin C Given to a Hospitalized Patient
Chris
Gupta
http://tinyurl.com/ckglySee also:
Cancer:
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The
Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C
Robert
Landwehr
1. 1250 Grizzly Peak, Berkeley, CA 94708.
In the late
spring of 1949 the United States was in the grip of its worst poliomyelitis
epidemic ever. On June 10 a paper on ways to save the lives of bulbar polio
victims was read at the Annual Session of the American Medical Association
(subsequently printed in its journal, JAMA, September 3, 1949, pages 1-8, volume
141, no. 1). Following the talk members of the audience were invited to comment.
The first speaker, a leading authority from Pasadena, focused on details of
tracheotomy techniques caused when paralyzed breathing, swallowing and coughing
muscles of victims threatened their lives. Why the next person was recognized is
puzzling. The only national recognition he had received and it was
obviously very limited was that his picture appeared in Ebony in 1947 for
having delivered of a deaf-mute black woman the first known surviving, identical
quadruplets in the country. Here is the abstract of his remarks as recorded in
JAMA:
“Dr. F. R. Klenner, Reidsville, N.C.: It might be interesting to
learn how poliomyelitis was treated in Reidsville, N.C., during the 1948
epidemic. In the past seven years, virus infections have been treated and cured
in a period of seventy-two hours by the employment of massive frequent
injections of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C. I believe that if vitamin C in these
massive doses 6,000 to 20,000 mg in a twenty-four hour period is
given to these patients with poliomyelitis none will be paralyzed and there will
be no further maiming or epidemics of poliomyelitis.”
The discussion
period was, of course, to be devoted to hearing relevant comments of the world’s
leading authorities on the treatment of bulbar polio symptoms, not to airing
another claim of a cure. One can imagine the silence that must have greeted this
sweeping, out-of-place declaration by a small-town general practitioner. Four
other speakers, three more bulbar experts and an anesthesiologist, followed.
None referred to Dr. Klenner’s remarks.
The empirical, clinical basis for
Klenner’s statement is found in his paper “The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and
Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C”, published in the July 1949 issue of the
Journal of Southern Medicine and Surgery. On pages 211-212 he writes:
“In
the poliomyelitis epidemic in North Carolina in 1948, 60 cases of this disease
came under our care. These patients presented all or almost all of these signs
and symptoms: Fever of 101 to 104.6°, headache, pain at the back of the eyes,
conjunctivitis, scarlet throat; pain between the shoulders, the back of the
neck, one or more extremity, the lumbar back; nausea, vomiting and constipation.
In 15 of these cases the diagnosis was confirmed by lumbar puncture; the cell
count ranging from 33 to 125. Eight had been in contact with a proven case; two
of this group received spinal taps. Examination of the spinal fluid was not
carried out in others for the reasons: (1) Flexner and Amoss had warned that
‘simple lumbar puncture attended with even very slight hemorrhage opens the way
for the passage of the virus from the blood into the central nervous system and
thus promotes infection.’ (2) A patient presenting all or almost all of the
above signs and symptoms during an epidemic of poliomyelitis must be considered
infected with this virus. (3) Routine lumbar puncture would have made it
obligatory to report each case as diagnosed to the health authorities. This
would have deprived myself of valuable clinical material and the patients of
most valuable therapy, since they would have been removed to a receiving center
in a nearby town.
“The treatment employed was vitamin C in massive doses.
It was given like any other antibiotic every two to four hours. The initial dose
was 1,000 to 2,000 mg, depending on age. Children up to four years received the
injections intramuscularly. Since laboratory facilities for whole blood and
urine determinations of the concentration of vitamin C were not available, the
temperature curve was adopted as the guide for additional medication. The rectal
temperature was recorded every two hours. No temperature response after the
second hour was taken to indicate the second 1,000 or 2,000 mg. If there was a
drop in fever after two hours, two more hours was allowed before the second
dose. This schedule was followed for 24 hours. After this time the fever was
consistently down, so the drug was given 1,000 to 2,000 mg every six hours for
the next 48 hours. All patients were clinically well after 72 hours. After three
patients had a relapse the drug was continued for at least 48 hours longer
1,000 to 2,000 mg every eight to 12 hours. Where spinal taps were performed, it
was the rule to find a reversion of the fluid to normal after the second the of
treatment.
“For patients treated in the home the dose schedule was 2,000
mg by needle every six hours, supplemented by 1,000 to 2,000 mg every two hours
by mouth. The tablet was crushed and dissolved in fruit juice. All of the
natural “C” in fruit juice is taken up by the body; this made us expect
catalytic action from this medium. Rutin, 20 mg, was used with vitamin C by
mouth in a few cases, instead of the fruit juice. Hawley and others have shown
that vitamin C taken by mouth will show its peak of excretion in the urine in
from four to six hours. Intravenous administration produces this peak in from
one to three hours. By this route, however, the concentration in the blood is
raised so suddenly that a transitory overflow into the urine results before the
tissues are saturated. Some authorities suggest that the subcutaneous method is
the most conservative in terms of vitamin C loss, but this factor is
overwhelmingly neutralized by the factor of pain inflicted.
“Two patients
in this series of 60 regurgitated fluid through the nose. This was interpreted
as representing the dangerous bulbar type. For a patient in this category
postural drainage, oxygen administration, in some cases tracheotomy, needs to be
instituted, until the vitamin C has had sufficient time to work in our
experience 36 hours. Failure to recognize this factor might sacrifice the chance
of recovery. With these precautions taken, every patient of the series recovered
uneventfully within three to five days.”
This paper is quoted at length
to allow readers to judge for themselves whether or not Dr. Klenner made up all
these details. In subsequent publications he gave details about curing
life-threatening polio cases, and described his general procedures in his paper
“The Vitamin and Massage Treatment for Acute Poliomyelitis”, appearing in the
Journal of Southern Medicine and Surgery in August, 1952.
One of the
reasons why Klenner’s declaration at the AMA annual session was undoubtedly met
with silence was that since 1939 polio experts were quite certain that vitamin C
was not effective against polio. There seemed little doubt that Dr. Albert B.
Sabin, a highly respected figure in medical research even before he developed
his successful vaccines, had demonstrated that vitamin C had no value in
combatting polio viruses. In 1939 he published a paper showing that vitamin C
had no effect in preventing paralysis in rhesus monkeys experimentally infected
with a strain of polio virus. He had tried to corroborate the work of Dr. Claus
W. Jungeblut, another highly respected medical researcher, who had published in
1935 and 1937 papers indicating that vitamin C might be of benefit. Sabin could
not reproduce Jungeblut’s results even though he consulted Jungeblut during the
course of the experiments. It seemed to be a fair trial, and Sabin’s negative
results virtually ended experiments with vitamin C and polio.
How then
could a Dr. Fred R. Klenner, a virtually unknown general practitioner
specializing in diseases of the chest, from a town no one ever heard of, with no
national credentials, no research grants and no experimental laboratory, have
the nerve to make his sweeping claim in front of that prestigious body of polio
authorities?
Around 1942 Klenner’s wife suffered bleeding gums and her
dentist recommended pulling out all her teeth. Dr. Klenner thought that solution
too Draconian and remembered reading about research using vitamin C to cure
chimpanzees with a similar problem. He gave her several injections of the
vitamin and the bleeding stopped. Soon, after, this dramatic result encouraged
him to try vitamin C on an obstinate man who was near death from viral
pneumonia. Klenner described this seminal experience in a 1953 paper “The Use of
Vitamin C as an Antibiotic”:
“Our interest with vitamin C against the
virus organism began ten years ago in a modest rural home. Here a patient who
was receiving symptomatic treatment for virus pneumonia had suddenly developed
cynosis [sic: cyanosis]. He refused hospitalization for supportive oxygen
therapy. X-Ray had not been considered because of its dubious value and because
the nearest department equipped to give such treatment was 69 miles distant. Two
grams of vitamin C was given intramuscularly with the hope that the anaerobic
condition existing in the tissues would be relieved by the catalytic action of
vitamin C acting as a gas transport aiding cellular respiration. This was an old
idea; the important factor being that it worked. Within 30 minutes after giving
the drug (which was carried in my medical bag for the treatment of diarrhea in
children) the characteristic breathing and slate-like color had cleared.
Returning six hours later, at eight in the evening, the patient was found
sitting over the edge of his bed enjoying a late dinner. Strangely enough his
fever was three degrees less than it was at 2 p.m. that same afternoon. This
sudden change in the condition of the patient led us to suspect that vitamin C
was playing a role of far greater significance than that of a simple respiratory
catalyst. A second injection of one gram of vitamin C was administered, by the
same route, on this visit and then subsequently at six hour intervals for the
next three days. This patient was clinically well after 36 hours of
chemotherapy. From this casual observation we have been able to assemble
sufficient clinical evidence to prove unequivocally that vitamin C is the
antibiotic of choice in the handling of all types of virus diseases. Furthermore
it is a major adjuvant in the treatment of all other infectious
diseases.”
Again this paper is quoted at length to allow readers to judge
for themselves whether or not the author made this up or deluded himself in some
way. From 1943 through 1947 Dr. Klenner reported successful treatment of 41 more
cases of viral pneumonia using massive doses of vitamin C. From these cases he
learned what dosage and route of administration intravenously,
intramuscularly, or orally was best for each patient. Dr. Klenner gave
these details in a February 1948 paper published in the Journal of Southern
Medicine and Surgery entitled “Virus Pneumonia and Its Treatment with Vitamin
C”. This article was the first of Dr. Klenner’s twenty-eight (through 1974)
scientific publications.
Klenner realized, of course, that vitamin C’s
effectiveness with viral pneumonia opened up the possibility of curing other
viral diseases. “With a great deal of enthusiasm,” in Klenner’s phrase, he tried
its effectiveness with all of the childhood diseases, particularly measles. By
the spring of 1948, when a measles epidemic came to Reidsville, Klenner was so
confident of vitamin C’s efficacy with these diseases that he devised what would
ordinarily be an outrageous experiment with his two little daughters. He had
them play with children known to be in the contagious phase of measles. When the
usual syndrome of measles had developed and his daughters were obviously sick,
vitamin C was started. Again Klenner’s words from his 1953 paper:
“In
this experiment it was found that 1,000 mg every four hours, by mouth, would
modify the attack. Smaller doses allowed the disease to progress. When 1,000 mg
was given every 2 hours all evidence of the infection cleared in 48 hours. If
the drug was then discontinued for a similar period (48 hours) the above
syndrome returned. We observed this off and on picture for thirty days at which
time the drug (vitamin C) was given 1,000 mg every 2 hours around the clock for
four days. This time the picture cleared and did not return.”
With this
background of experiences with human beings, not experimental animals
Klenner gained confidence in and control over his vitamin C
treatment.
One reason he turned his attention early to treating measles
was that he knew that measle [sic: measles] viruses were about as small as polio
viruses and he hoped massive doses of vitamin C would be effective against the
dreaded Crippler. By 1948 he was ready to treat polio with vitamin C, and in
that year North Carolina suffered its worst epidemic ever 2,518 new cases.
Dr. Klenner’s hopes were realized when, as has been related above, he cured
sixty patients with massive frequent injections of vitamin C.
With seven
years of experience behind him one can understand not only why Dr. Klenner had
the nerve to speak up on June 10, 1949 but why he undoubtedly felt morally
obligated to do so.
After 1949 polio epidemics continued to take their
terrible toll. The peak year for The Crippler in the U.S. was 1952 57,628
cases. During the 1950s isolated doctors around the world tried Klenner’s cure.
Those who used vitamin C at doses below those recommended by Klenner reported no
benefit; those who followed his dosages reported good results. Dr. H. Bauer of
the University of Switzerland Clinic, Basel in 1952 reported benefits to his
polio patients with 10 to 20 grams of vitamin C per day. Dr. Edward Greer, using
doses in Klenner’s recommended range of 50 to 80 grams per day, recorded in 1955
good clinical results with five serious cases of polio. Dr. Abram Hoffer recalls
that a controlled study, conducted in Great Britain in the late 50s with 70
young polio victims, confirmed Klenner’s cure. All those given vitamin C
recovered completely, while a significant number of those not given vitamin C
suffered some permanent damage. (This study was not published because of the
success of the polio vaccines.) Dr. Klenner himself reported that he received
scores of letters from doctors in the U.S. and Canada corroborating his striking
results. Some of the letters described how they cured their own children,
others, how the doctors had cured themselves.
What kind of reception did
Dr. Klenner’s discoveries receive from the medical establishment? There are two
references to Klenner’s 1949 paper in national, mainstream publications. The
title of that paper was included in the October 7, 1949 issue of the Current
List of Medical Literature, published by the U.S. Army Medical Library. The
paper was also included in the second edition of A Bibliography of Infantile
Paralysis 1789-1949, published in 1951 and prepared under the direction of
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Instead of abstracting the
paper in the usual manner, it printed only Dr. Klenner’s last paragraph, which
was not a summary but an obvious rhetorical statement Klenner felt necessary to
counter the skepticism he knew would greet his quick, inexpensive cures. Other
than these two references, mainstream medical publications made no mention of
Klenner and his work. One of JAMA’s regular departments was Current Medical
Literature, in which its editors abstracted papers they considered of special
note. Many polio papers were abstracted in 1949, but not Klenner’s.
The
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was founded in 1938 by polio’s most
famous victim, President Franklin Roosevelt, to raise money through the March of
Dimes to combat the disease. Most polio research was funded by the National
Foundation. There is no mention of Dr. Klenner’s work or of vitamin C’s possible
benefits to polio victims in any of the Foundation’s annual reports. Not one
dime was spent to prove or disprove Klenner’s claim. Before 1949 a claim of a
cure was promptly looked into and money spent until it was proved false. But
with Klenner’s claim nothing happened.
It was certainly not for lack of
research funds that nothing happened. John M. Russell, in the 1960 book The
Crisis in American Medicine, edited by Marion K. Sanders, described the glut and
waste of money for medical research in the l950s. Russell points out that the
public clamor for a cure for polio was so great that in 1954 Congress
appropriated $1,000,000 specifically earmarked for polio research. It turned out
that there was so much polio money floating around that the recipient of this
largess, the U.S. Public Health Service, classified such unlikely diseases as
hepatitis as “poliolike” so that none of this money would have to be returned to
the U.S. taxpayer.
Five International Poliomyelitis Congresses were
convened every three years from 1948 to 1960 to deal with the polio epidemics
around the world. In all of the voluminous reports of these conferences there is
no reference to Klenner or to vitamin C. Only the first congress dealt briefly
with the possible effect of nutrition, and this was dismissed by the statement
of an expert “that no clinical evidence is known to me which justifies an
increase in intake of vitamins beyond usual recommended allowances”.
Thus
in 1949 the polio experts at the Annual Session of the AMA knew of Klenner’s
claim, as did the many readers of JAMA’s lead article of its September 3 issue,
the many researchers who used the National Foundation’s Bibliography, those that
kept up with the titles in the Current List of Medical Literature, and the
relatively few readers of the Journal of Southern Medicine and Surgery. All this
exposure led to no official inquiry or follow-up of Dr. Klenner’s work by U.S.
government health authorities or the National Foundation. No one in authority
anywhere stepped forward to insist that it be checked out. The strategy of
medical leaders conscious or unconscious, planned or unplanned was clearly
to ignore Dr. Klenner and hope his claims would be forgotten.
It worked.
Klenner’s cure never became well known and today has sunk almost into oblivion.
A synopsis of polio infection and research by Ernest Kovacs entitled “The
Biochemistry of Poliomyelitis Viruses”, published in 1964, makes no reference to
Klenner. In 1985 Friedrick Koch and Gebhard Kock published The Molecular Biology
of Poliovirus. It contains in its opening chapter a history of the disease, but
it says nothing about Klenner, or even about the extensive vitamin C research
done by Drs. Jungeblut and Sabin with monkeys in the 50s. It’s as though
polio-vitamin C research never happened.
To this day it is mainstream
medicine’s position that there is no cure for polio. The Encyclopedia American
quotes Richard W. Price of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York
City: “No specific treatment is effective once neurological involvement becomes
manifest.” A thoroughly exasperated Klenner concluded a February 1959 paper in
the Tri-State Medical Journal with these words:
“Should the disease be
present in the acute form, ascorbic acid given in proper amounts around the
clock, both by mouth and needle, will bring about a rapid recovery. We believe
that ascorbic acid must be given by needle in amounts from 250 mg to 400 mg per
kg body weight every 4 to 6 hours for 48 hours and then every 8 to 12 hours. The
dose by mouth is the dose that can be tolerated. To those who say that Polio is
without cure, I say that they lie. Polio in the acute form can be cured in 96
hours or less. I beg of someone in authority to try it.”
Today there are
areas of the world where polio vaccine is still not used and where the incidence
of polio is increasing. Polio remains The Crippler, and the only effort of the
World Health Organization is to increase vaccination. The leading medical
authorities the editors of the leading journals, the heads of the AMA and
the National Foundation, U.S. Surgeons General and the heads of other U.S.
governmental health agencies were, and are, responsible for stonewalling
for 42 years Dr. Klenner’s simple, inexpensive cure for many viral diseases,
including the dreaded polio.
1949 a year in medicine which will
live in infamy.
From Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 6, Number
2, 1991, pp. 99-103
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polio and iodine and vitamin c, DoctorYourSelf.com
http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/199x/index.htm#Landwehr-1991
The Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C
Landwehr, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, 1991
"Dr. F. R. Klenner, Reidsville, N.C.: It might be interesting to learn how poliomyelitis was treated in
Reidsville, N.C., during the 1948 epidemic. In the past seven years, virus infections have been
treated and cured in a period of seventy-two hours by the employment of massive frequent injections
of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C."
Diet Prevents Polio by Dr Sandler (Whale.To Site)
http://www.mercola.com/article/Diet/sugar/polio_sugar.htm
Sugar Increases Polio Risk -- Lessons For Other Viral Infections
A chapter from the book Diet Prevents Polio written by Benjamin P.
Sandler, M.D., and published in 1951, at the height of the polio epidemic.
In 1938, the only laboratory animal that could contract polio by experimental inoculation was the monkey.
[Rabbits were completely immune to polio...]
The next step was to lower the blood sugar of the rabbit to
subnormal values with insulin injections, and then inoculate the rabbit with polio
virus. This was done and it was found that the rabbits became
infected and developed the disease.