, accordingly, concerned with the relationship existing among various stages of mental
backwardness, pre-delinquency and criminality. To throw light on this subject, I visited our State
Penitentiary to observe the characteristics of facial and dental arch development of the individuals
whose unsocial traits had brought them to this institution. I visited the dental clinic with the director,
Dr. May, and saw the mouths of typical members of that colony as they were presented for oral
examination. I asked the director what, if any, special features of the oral cavity he had observed
to be characteristic of this group and different from those he had observed outside the institution in
his private practice. He stated that he had noted continually that there was a tendency for the
tongue to be too large for the mouth. This is a constant characteristic of another group of mentally
injured, namely, the Mongoloid. This institution has a population of approximately four thousand
individuals. A high percentage of them gave marked evidence of injury in the prenatal period as
expressed in disturbances of facial form and the shape of the dental arches. In observing over half
the population at work or exercise, I did not see one with a typically normal facial development. In
Fig. 122 will be seen typical examples of this group. These show front and side views (see
Hooton's recent book. 15a ).7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 215/250FIG. 122. Criminals. Were their unsocial traits related directly
to incomplete brain organization associated with prenatal
injury?
    Newspaper daily illustrated reports of crimes committed by young criminals show almost
continually these evidences of prenatal injury. Note the two characters Bird and Nixon, Fig. 123.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 216/250FIG. 123. Note the marked lack of normal facial development
of these notorious young criminals. Nixon is only 18. These
are typical samples seen frequently in the daily press.
    It is important to emphasize the fact that the disturbances in the development of the head, face
and brain may have a variety of expressions. In the more severe form characteristic of the
Mongoloid group, as seen in Fig. 124 the facial injury is typical and is associated with a mental
disturbance which, in turn, has been shown to be associated with typical brain lesions. The
individuals of that group, however, do not tend to be criminals. Indeed, their injury is too severe.
As a group they are apt to be docile, tractable and happy. Indeed, in the mentally backward and
criminal groups in their various stages, we find facial patterns typical of large numbers of individuals
we see on the streets, who are in school or in business, and entirely capable of maintaining a
respected and honorable position in society. Accordingly, it is not justified, and indeed would be
entirely unfair, to associate their disturbed facial and dental arch development with traits that would
be normally found in the grossly unsocial groups. We cannot by viewing the face evaluate the kind
or extent of brain injury that is associated with prenatal malnutrition of that individual. Indeed, these
various divergent facial patterns are accepted by our modern civilization as representative of the
many varieties or patterns constituting a normal population. It is not until we see primitive groups
living under a controlled natural environment that we see Nature's model and design of the human
physiognomy.
FIG. 124. This is a typical mongoloid defective. Note the
marked lack of development of the middle third of the face
7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 217/250and nose with the upper arch too small for the lower.
Individuals of this type look alike and act alike and all have
typical speech and behavior defects. These are now
associated with definite defects in the brain. Nearly all are
either a first or last child. A large percentage are born to
mothers over forty years of age.
    We are concerned to know the percentage in any typical colony of our modern civilization that
may be placed in the various classifications of normal, mildly backward mentally, severely
backward mentally, unsocial, delinquent, criminal, idiots, epileptic and insane. Tredgold (2) reports
two surveys in England and Wales which give figures on the proportion of the population that
could be identified with definite lesions. It would be fortunate if a survey could be made in the
United States that would indicate the extent of the increase in delinquents of various types,
including racketeers and criminals. It would be very helpful if these data could be related to the
degrees of prenatal injury. There are many phases of modern degeneration which lend themselves
to study from the standpoint of the probable role of progressive decline in the efficiency of nutrition
to the progressive increase in morbidity, mortality, mental deficiency and delinquency. This is
discussed in the next chapter on Soil Depletion, Plant and Animal Deterioration.
    From the point of view of this problem the differences between the modern white civilizations
and many of the primitive groups is interesting. Criminal tendencies in isolated primitives are so
slight that no prisons are required. I have referred to the Loetschental Valley in Switzerland, which,
until recently, has been physically isolated from the process of modernization. For the two
thousand inhabitants in that valley, there is no prison. In Uganda, Africa, the Ruanda tribes
estimated to number two and a half millions, had no prisons.
    Observation of Nature's normal facial patterns in the primitive racial stocks, establishes types
within the limits of normality. The readers of this text by observing the individuals in any given
families may see in how large a percentage of white families the progressive narrowing and
lengthening of the face in the younger members of the family as compared with the older occurs.
Further observations will enable one to recognize rapidly, even without experience and special
training in anatomy, these evidences of prenatal injury.
    I made a survey in the New England States, Quebec and Eastern Ontario, because the United
States death rate from heart disease as reported by the American Heart Association was shown to
be highest in Vermont and New Hampshire, followed closely by Massachusetts and New York. I
first visited the New York State Hospital for tuberculosis patients at Raybrook, near Saranac.
With the assistance of a member of the staff, I examined fifty young men and women in the wards.
In that group, only three were found with normal facial and dental arch development. These three
individuals were marble cutters who were suffering from silicosis. The forty-seven other individuals
examined (94 per cent) were found to have marked evidence of injury in the developmental
period. At the state fair at Rutland, Vermont, to which residents came from various communities
throughout the state, I was able to count, by observing and recording the individuals who passed,
that in each 100 people, three out of four gave evidence of injury in the developmental period.
Similar studies were made at the State Farm for delinquent boys and girls, almost all of whom had
been before the courts. 1 found that a very high percentage, approximating 100 per cent of those
observed, had received injuries in the prenatal period. I then went to Quebec and studied groups
of school children in the early teens. I observed groups in which a very high percentage gave
marked evidence of prenatal injury. This seemed aggravated in districts where the farms had been
abandoned, because the land was not producing as well as in the past. I studied Indians in two
Indian Reservations, also, and there again found marked evidence of injury typical of our
modernized communities. Similarly, a limestone district in Ontario was visited and critical
observations were made of the facial form of the new generation, in regions in which the fertility of
the soil had been definitely depleted through exhaustion. These again showed evidence of prenatal
injury through faulty nutrition. The prisoners in a jail were examined, and all of them except two
habitual drunkards showed marked evidence of prenatal injury.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 218/250    If space permitted, it would be interesting to include here a discussion and illustrations of the
physical characteristics of the racketeers and criminals whose pictures are shown in our
newspapers almost daily. It is rare that a normal face is depicted in this group.
    As an approach to more detailed study of the available information regarding the processes that
are involved in the production of facial deformities, it will be helpful to think of the face as
constituting the floor of the anterior part of the brain. The pituitary body is situated on the
underside of the brain just back of the eyes. It is the governing body for the activity of growth, and
largely controls the functioning of several of the other glands of internal secretion. It is, as it were,
the master of the ship. We are, accordingly, primarily concerned with the role that it plays, and the
forces which control its own development and function. Its dependence upon vitamin E has been
demonstrated by many workers. For example, Dr. M. M. O. Barrie (3) has reported that an
inadequate amount of vitamin E produces marked disturbance in the growth of the offspring of
rats. He states:
    The changes observed are similar in several ways to those produced by hypophysect


, “Penicillin
G is good for me, yes. I’m a Red person and that’ s a Red product, right?
Okay, so it’ s harmonious with my ener gy,” or whatever. Now they put out a
generic brand of the same thing, only it tests out Green. So, now you’re a
Red person taking a Green pill, and this penicillin is not helping you. So
she’s worried about you—what are we going to do now? The generics are
coming out, and they are coming out in a dif ferent category. So kinesiology
can lead you into all kinds of conundrums, huh?We just numerically called it 200 because that worked out as far as the
logarithms go; 540 is the level of Unconditional Love. It just happens to be
there. Love is at 500, and we say you can be very loving but still have
conditionalities. When does Love become Unconditional? So, when Love is
Unconditional, we found it calibrates at 540.
Christ Consciousness
Have we ever calibrated the level before Christ appeared and then right
after Christ appeared? Let’ s see. “W e have permission to ask this question”
(True). “The appearance of Christ on the consciousness changed the overall
level of the consciousness of mankind: resist” (T rue). “It raised it: resist”
(True). “When we say ‘Christ,’  we mean the appearance of His teaching:
resist” (T rue). “W e don’ t mean the appearance of His physicality: resist”
(True).
So, we’re not talking about necessarily when the Baby Jesus sat there in
the swaddling clothes, or something. “Before the birth of Christ, the
consciousness level of mankind was over, oh boy, over 90: resist” (T rue).
“Over 95: resist” (Not true). “Before the birth of Christ, the consciousness
level of mankind as a whole was over 95: resist” (T rue). “96: resist” (Not
true). About 95. Let’ s see, where’ s 95? Man lived in fear. “After the birth of
Christ, the consciousness level of mankind increased: resist” (T rue).
“Increased over 5 points: resist” (T rue). “10 points: resist” (T rue). “15
points: resist” (T rue). “20 points: resist” (T rue). “30 points: resist” (T rue).
“40 points: resist” (Not true). “Just the physicality of Jesus Christ raised the
consciousness level of man over 40 points: resist” (T rue). The physicality of
the presence of Christ on the planet raised the consciousness level of
mankind 40 points. “The teachings of Christ as they spread through the
Roman Empire continued to increase the level of man’ s consciousness:
resist” (T rue). “The spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire
increased the consciousness level of mankind another 20 points” (T rue);
“Another 30 points” (T rue); “Another 40 points” (Not true).
The birth of Christ as a physicality apparently was like a window to God
and radiated that ener gy, jumped it 40 points, which is enormous. The
teachings of Christ, then, radiated out, and were carried throughout the
Roman Empire, and raised the consciousness level of mankind further.The history of the evolution of the Roman Empire is quite interesting
from the viewpoint of consciousness. Some of the Roman emperors were
really quite advanced, almost more advanced than modern man, recognizing
the equality of man; recognizing the right of the slave to a trial, a judicial
trial; tolerance for all religions, except with the proviso that you also had to
acknowledge the Roman gods. So, the Roman gods showed your allegiance
to Rome as an empire and to the emperor, but so long as you did that, you
could worship any gods you wanted. So it was pretty evolved. And it’ s
interesting because it is the foundation of our Western culture. I think it
helps advance one’ s spiritual awareness and consciousness because it
increases your tolerance for that which dif fers from yourself—when you
sort of become aware of how consciousness evolved and how the evolution
of that consciousness expressed itself in cultures as they spread out across
the world and the impact of the human experience. So, in a way, you’re sort
of owning yourself as the totality of mankind. There was certainly a period
in the evolution of this consciousness of owning the self as the Self and
totality of all of mankind. And so, understanding the evolution of humanity
as culture and as it expresses itself over time can have a broadening ef fect
and make one a little broader, which means less critical of that which dif fers
from yourself, which makes the ego a little easier to transcend—because
you sort of get of f rigid positionalities as you become more sophisticated
and see how consciousness evolved and expressed itself through the various
religions and cultures. We become tolerant of that which is dif ferent than
ourself. Of course, what we’re shocked by is the egocentricity of it and the
cost in society, but we can perhaps understand how it could evolve. So to be
compassionate toward all of life means to be really, relatively sophisticated
and educated about how consciousness evolved throughout time and then
expressed itself in society in its various ways. As we said before, to
understand society is to understand the ego. So, you are not wasting your
time in studying history or sociology, because you’re seeing how the ego
outcrops itself... what do you call it? Out-something-or -other itself—out-
something itself, out-pictures itself—how’ s that? How it expresses itself
collectively. The collective ego, then, is the individual ego projected
outward and expressed in human society on a grand scale where it’ s easy to
see.
[I was asked,] “Y ou indicate that there were something like 294,000
calibrations. Are the results of those calibrations available somewhere to be
a resource?” The book I’m working on now—well, I am finishing up I, the
book I. The original manuscript was revised, and now I’m revising the
revision. Then I will have to correct the revised revision... but in the
meantime, during the intervals, the book I think I’m going to call Radical
Reality [T ruth vs. Falsehood]— in it we do about a thousand calibrations,
going back through history—from Nero, Caesar, Caligula; through more
recent history; through Nazi regimes; and into recent events, from
Gorbachev to current rulers. I can give you examples. For instance, FDR
was 499; Churchill was 510; most American presidents are in the mid-400s.
Signers of the Declaration of Independence were about 510; the
Constitution of the United States is 700. So, we can go back through the
Magna Carta, we go through the evolution of democracy from the
beginning of time. We calibrate theologians from the founders of the
Christian church on down. We go through all the major events in human
history; and current life, from MTV—it calibrates about 190—to computer
games; and musicians—the great musicians, the popular musicians, and the
classical musicians. The great classical musicians were generally in the
500s; some were higher. The great architects—we calibrated the great
cathedrals of the world.
When I traveled in Europe, what attracted me was to go from cathedral to
cathedral. They calibrate around 700, so you can see why they are
attractive. To travel through the country of France and see Chartres
Cathedral arising above the level of the hayfields way of f in the distance is
an unfor gettable experience. So we do the great cathedrals and compare it,
let’s say, with the Crystal Cathedral currently in Los Angeles. We did all the
major spiritual writers throughout history, of ancient and recent times, in the
various books of the Bible and various things like that; various spiritual
traditions and churches and teachers and gurus. We have pretty much
covered all of human society. The scientists, the writers, the inventors, the
great industrialists, current politicians. I think the highest calibration we got
for a current head of state is the current president of Mexico. Surprisingly
enough, the current president of Mexico calibrates around 560 or
something, very, very high—the highest on the planet. And what does he
talk about? He talks about cooperation, mutuality—see, he’ s not against
winning and losing; he is not against make-wrong. He’ s not even into make-wrong. He’ s, “Here’ s where we are at and let’ s see how we can improve
from there,” so that everyone benefits. Well, that is a very advanced
spiritual concept, that everyone benefits and with an idea of integrity and
fairness and equality; and the same time, everything legal and cooperative.
So a lot can be learned, and therefore I think it’ s a worthy enterprise.
The negatives, of course, in current society are rather obvious to anybody
who’ s spiritually sophisticated at all. They hardly need calibration. Then we
calibrated a lot of the great criminals, famous


 and supportive.
The persons who have moved on up to the level of
Acceptance (cal. 350) really begin to experience the
harmony of life and discover synchronicity and how 36 HEALING AND RECOVERY
everything just sort offlows together. They experience
a world of cooperation because they are holding coop
eration as their own energy field. This helps them to
move up to Enthusiasm (cal. 390), and into Lovingness
(cal. 500) and the experience ofendless loving support
and the endless presence of that lOVing energy in the
universe.
The states of illumination (cal. 600 and up) reveal
the incredible beauty and perfection of life, the
absolute perfection of Creation, the actual experience
of the Divine essence and nature of all life, and the
incredible beauty of all its expressions. It is not just aes
thetic beauty, which is pleasing to the senses, but the
intrinsic beauty of Creation. When one walks down an
alley, which, to the eye of the unenlightened would
look ugly, one experiences the incredible perfection
and beauty of the aliveness of life and begins to see all
life as unfolding. One does not see imperfection but
process. That person sees the entire universe as the
unfoldment of that perfection.
Correlated with each of these various energy fields
are the concordant view and depictions ofDivinity. For
example, the person in apathy and hopelessnessexpe
riences God as uncaring or nonexiStent. The person
who is in this energy field sometimes says,"I believe in.
God, but 1 feel he wouldn't have anything to do with
me because 1 am just a worm and worthless. 1 am so
worthless that God just ignores me:'
The person who lives in fear projects a punitive,
frightening, terrifying image of God. The person who
lives in frustration feels separated from God.That is the
God who constantly withholds from them that which A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 37
would allow them to be happy; therefore, God is non
supportive. The person in anger expects a retaliatory,
punishing God, and because these things go together,
this is the God who is really demonic, the God who
really hates us and threatens to throw us into hell. He
is the ultimate destroyer, the punisher, the God who is
revengeful and jealous.It is an anthropomorphic depic
tion of a God who is fitfully jealous,'hates sinners', and
is given to emotional extremes of destructiveness.
When we get up to the level ofPride, there are two
directions to take because of the arrogance of the
inflated ego.The atheist is on one side and the zealot,
bigot, and unbalanced extremist is on the other.
As we move up to Courage, which is the level of
Truth, God can primarily be a question mark. For the
first time, because we are now approaching the level of
Truth, we can then have an open mind and say,
"Actually, I really don't know about God. It's only
hearsay that comes from all I've read and heard, and all
that religion teaches. It is really other people's experi
ences in other times and places. On the witness stand,
frankly, I would have to say I don't know anything
about God," so there is the question mark.The spiritual
seeker really begins at this level.The person says,"I, of
my own self, would like to know what is the truth of
this." The person is then free to move into the God of
one's own inner experience and understanding.
At the level of Neutral, one begins to experience a
world of okayness and God as freedom. One begins to
discover that there is no punitive, hateful, negative
God at all because one has moved out of those ener
gy fields. Instead, there is a God of absolute, infInite 38 HEALING AND RECOVERY
freedom allowing one to expand, explore, become, and
fulfill one's potential.
At the friendly level of Willingness, one begins to
experience God as something that is perhaps helpful,
promising, hopeful, and now positive. Down at the
bottom of the Map, it was negative, but at this level, it
opens to candidness and freedom and now begins to
look optimistic. The person on this level experiences
life as harmonious and realizes that God is all merciful.
The person in lOVingness then begins to experience
the God of unconditional love and the ever presence
of the love of God as the source of one's happiness
and life.
As we move into joy and the awareness of beauty
and perfection as the divine essence of all things with
in the oneness and unity of God, we move up to the
top of the Map, with God as Beingness, Isness, Reality,
Truth, and the Eternal Source of Existence.
There is now a context that will give a background
and a way to see one's spiritual work and progress
from a different perspective.We can see healing from a
different viewpoint and also how to approach that
great enigma called the ego.The energy fields of com
passion are at 540 and up; the people here are forgiv
ing and benign.
Students of spiritual work are often those who are
perfecting the levels of the 400s, where they have
acquired a dedicated learningness and knowledge
about spiritual matters. They then put the principles
into practice in order to reach the 500s. Some join A
Course in Miracles orTwelve-Step groups and are con
cerned with perfecting the capacity to love.They move A MAP 0 F CONSC IOUSN ESS 39
up to transcending what the world calls the ego and
lose attraction to money, wealth, power, sexuality, and
worldly success.
To repeat: the bottom of the Map is the world of
havingness. It is what one has that counts, and status
comes from that. At the bottom, people want to know
what others have and rate them accordingly. In the
middle ofthe Map is the world of doingness. Here, peo
ple want to know what others do in the world.What is
their position and function? Havingness is no longer
impressive.
At the lower levels, possessions are desired and
esteemed, but with progress in the evolution of con
sciousness, they are no longer so impressive because
everybody knows that ifsomeone works seven days a
week at two jobs, they can have all they want, so hav
ingness no longer has status.As one moves towards the
top of the Map, it is not what one has or does but what
one is. People seek that person out now for what they
have become, which is the truth they have owned
about themselves.We seek out those people because of
what they are and do not even care what they have. I
have known people like that for many years and never
actually knew what they did occupationally.
Utilizing this knowledge, we have an understanding
of many things. The way to heal the small self is to
reject taking a polarized, right/wrong position, which
makes it our enemy, and instead view life with loving
compassion and see the intrinsic innocence of the
child. We first see the innocence of the child's con
sciousness and then the programming that is superim
posed. It is because of the child's lovingness and trust40 HEALING AND RECOVERY
ingness that it is so programmable, and we begin to see
the innocence even within those who seem most hate
ful. Out of compassion to see into the hearts of things,
one fInds the intrinsic innocence within the ego that
then gets healed through that compassion and love.We
can love our humanness and that of others, and instead
of condemning it, we now say,"I see the seeming valid
ity of that at that time."
For example, instead of being ashamed ofanger and
hatred, we say to ourselves, "Well, being angry was
inevitable at that time," because a person who has
never hated will not move up to Love since they have
never cared that much about life. Ifone does not care
enough about life to have gotten angry and actually
hated, then they would be down at the level ofApathy.
When we look at our humanness from the view
point of forgiveness and compassion, we can then love
it and hold it within our greatness.We look at our small
ness like we look at the child and begin to heal it
through understanding and compassion. When we do
this, we are putting forth a very powerful energy fIeld
that is healing. When we look at ourselves from com
passion and lovingness, we begin to heal.We also now
know that what we forgive in others is forgiven within
ourselves and disappears from our perception of the
world.
Our perception ofthe world begins to shift, and we
begin to experience a world that is totally different. It
is like putting on a different pair of colored glasses
the world is not the same, and we can experience it in
a totally different manner.
The purpose of the Map of Consciousness is to A MAP OF CONSCIOUS


 malfunctioning immune system of
the general population, allergies of all kinds are more widespread than ever. According to one
estimate, one in three people are affected by some kind of allergy, and more than 50 million
Americans are believed to have nasal allergies. Orthodox medicine treats allergies with symptom-
suppressing drugs, which may bring relief but invariably have undesirable side ef fects.
By contrast, Gerson patients generally overcome most of their food allergies on the pure
organic foods they consume. The improvement often arrives surprisingly quickly. For instance,
one patient’s severe allergy to carrots disappeared in one day. Another person’s allergy to onions
ended within the first week of treatment. On the other hand, hard-to-digest foods, which are
actually forbidden for Gerson patients, such as seafood, soy, milk, nuts and peanuts, would
continue to cause them allergic reactions.
Many patients who suffer from migraines, which they believe are of allergic origin, find
almost immediate and lasting relief after starting the therapy. Even intractable allergic reactions
to inhaled items, such as pollen or certain smells, are reduced by the therapy; in some cases, they
even cease for good. And while Dr. Gerson banned the consumption of berries at the start of the
treatment, since they often cause allergic reactions, after 18-24 months on the protocol patients
may eat them without suffering adverse reactions.
Addiction
Addictions of all kinds are the plague of our times. They come in many forms and, if they
persist, invariably lead to ill health and even death.  People become addicted for many reasons.
The young start experimenting with street drugs, because it is trendy. Others try to soften their
psychological/emotional problems by getting drunk or taking hard drugs. Indeed, people can
become addicted to almost any substance, such as alcohol, tobacco, sleeping pills, sugar, milk,
tranquilizers, painkillers, prescription drugs, and of course food—the major addiction behind the
alarming spread of obesity.
Yet apart from all other factors, most addictions are caused—or at least aggravated—by
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www.thegersonway.comjunk food. But the addict does not realize this and keeps consuming the wrong substance, leading
to ever-stronger craving.
In the many cases of addiction we have seen, the newly arrived patient, on being given an
hourly glass of freshly pressed organic juice, loses the craving almost immediately. However,
withdrawal symptoms may appear almost at once, since the body is now able to release the
large amount of toxic residues it has stored for a long time. These are carried to the liver via the
bloodstream and must be eliminated.
The coffee enema fulfils that task very efficiently, so much so that addiction, even to the
heaviest street drugs, and the ensuing withdrawal symptoms, have been overcome on the Gerson
therapy in as little as three days. Medical morphine, in some cases of severe pain administered
for many months, takes longer to clear out.
Case History: Some nine years ago E.H., a young man aged 34 was admitted to the Mexican
Gerson Hospital. He told a sad story: All his friends who had been using street drugs were dead!
He was aware of displaying ominous symptoms himself and frankly believed that if the Gerson
treatment could not help him, he too would also be dead in about three months’ time. E.H. was
not only seriously addicted to cocaine, he was also a heavy smoker, and the combination of those
two poisons caused him severe breathing difficulties and chest pain.
As most people with substance addiction, he too was terrified of withdrawal symptoms.
Indeed, these are sometimes almost unbearable if the patient is unable to get his “fix.” Fortunately,
tackling drug addiction by the Gerson method makes it possible to deal easily with the problem.
As E.H. was drinking his 13 glasses of freshly prepared organic juices, he immediately noticed
that his cravings were almost completely gone. When the withdrawal symptoms set in almost at
once, he also realized that the coffee enemas dealt with them very well. As a result he enjoyed
very good days, filled with fresh nutrients that overcame all cravings, and coffee enemas that
cleared withdrawal symptoms.
However, the nights were a different matter. At the Gerson clinic the last juice arrives
around 7 p.m. and the last enema is usually taken around 10 p.m., after which the patient goes
to sleep; that means that for some eight hours his body receives no support. Sure enough, E.H.
was wakened by heavy nightmares some four hours after retiring: the tissues were releasing the
accumulated toxins into his blood stream, with no means to evacuate them. In such cases, E.H.
was told, a coffee enema had to be taken in the middle of the night. He was provided with some
fruit in order to replenish his blood sugar and a little herb tea for fluid. A coffee enema cleared the
toxins and E.H. was able to enjoy a dreamless sleep till the morning.
This night-time routine continued for three or four nights, after which the withdrawal
symptoms were cleared during the day and the patient’s nights were undisturbed. The real problem
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www.thegersonway.comrelatives who use addictive substances, it is easy for him to relapse and undo all the good work
of the Gerson Therapy.
Hyperactivity
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is much in the news these days. It
refers to children who show disturbed, hard to manage behavior: constant overactivity, lack of
concentration, aggression, impulsiveness and distractibility. In the official view it could be caused
by central nervous system dysfunction—a debatable opinion.
Over thirty years ago Dr. Benjamin Feingold, M.D., developed a dietary treatment for this
condition, which is in strong sympathy with the Gerson principles. He excluded all artificial
flavors and colors, all preservatives, some kinds of sugars, yeast, salicylates, and prescribed
instead fresh, preferably organic foods. His method attracted enthusiastic support and sharp
criticism, the latter mainly from the food industry.
Since then many naturopaths and nutritionists have had good results, treating ADHD children
by simply changing their diet to wholesome organic food, excluding all additives. Unfortunately
orthodox physicians, who are unfamiliar with dietary principles, prescribe hyperactive youngsters
the drug Ritalin, a highly addictive substance closely resembling cocaine. Not surprisingly the
side effects, including permanent brain damage, are dire. The drug is prescribed even for children
younger than six years old, sometimes on the say-so of a nurse who considers the child ‘ill
behaved’ and wants to keep him/her quiet and obedient—in fact zombie-like.
It is a terrifying fact that nearly two million American children are drugged with Ritalin,
and the number is rising. Mothers are grateful for Ritalin, which eliminates their children’s
destructiveness and aggression, since they don’t understand the true—nutritional—cause of such
behavior, and therefore don’t know how to deal with it sensibly and effectively. Their pediatricians
don’t know, either, how to advise them correctly—all they are trained in is the use of drugs. ( see
Ritalin  in Chapter 5. pg. 64)
Even the mildest form of the Gerson protocol puts an end to ADHD in no time at all.
Depression
All over the developed world depression is rapidly becoming a major mental health problem,
causing much suffering and incapacity, loss of earnings, plus growing expenditure on treatment,
mainly by drugs.  According to the World Health Organisation, by 2020 clinical depression will
become the second leading cause of disability worldwide.  Alarmingly enough, already now more
and more children and adolescents become depressed; many of them react by developing eating
disorders or committing self-harm.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comWe need to differentiate between two kinds of depression: one caused by psychological, the
other by physical factors, although they often affect each other. Human life has never been free
from problems and difficulties, and the resulting depression needs to be alleviated by professional
psychological help and support. (Ways to deal with depression caused by a cancer diagnosis are
described in Chapter 24)
Here we are concerned with the physical basis of depression, turning our spotlight on the
brain. Clearly, our thinking, outlook, feeling reactions, handling of daily problems, as well as
control of movement, physical coordination and many more vital activities are directly related to
the brain. Thus its function is basic and depends on the health and correct working of the brain
cells. Although it is a relatively


 them respond or react in a particular
manner, depending upon the initial thought or emotion. A good example of
this is fear. If you see something that terrifies you, your adrenal glands will
produce adrenaline (epinephrine) to stimulate the heart and blood flow, and
to encourage muscle movement. This gives you much added strength and
energy to run or fight. The adrenal gland first got its message to release
adrenaline from the brain, which received its message through your
awareness.
Cells respond to stimuli. This can have positive results or negative results
depending upon the source of the stimuli. As I have reinforced throughout
this book, the foods you eat, what you drink, breathe, and what you put on
your skin, can have a positive and enhancing effect or a negative effect upon
cells, tissues, organs or glands. A negative effect can cause hypoactivity of
cells and their respective tissues. These negative influences can even kill cells.
As your cells become weakened or die, they can change their
morphology (function). They can be invaded by parasites to finish them off,
and/or be consumed by an immune cell and thus eliminated.
As this process of cellular deterioration takes place, your body as a whole
begins to suffer. This creates a domino effect causing a change in the way
your body functions. These many changes are like signs. Linked together
they become a body “language” for you or your healthcare practitioner to
read. If you are observant and learn about your body’s language or
communication methods, you will be able to determine what organs and
glands are failing you. This module should be used in conjunction with
Module 5.12
, Health Questionnaire, which concludes this chapter. That
Questionnaire will allow you to reflect upon various bodily processes and
systems, and to pinpoint their weaknesses.
For now, the lists that follow are some “body language” cues, or side
effects, that I have learned in my thirty-plus years of experience as a
healthcare practitioner. Some of these might sound like diseases to you, but
they are merely the effects of organ or glandular weaknesses and failures.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE GLANDS, ORGANS AND SYSTEMS
 Thyroid (Endocrine Gland System)
Weakness or failure of the thyroid will show up as:
Obesity (if your pancreas is weak, you can be thin and still have a
thyroid weakness)
Low Metabolism (can give you poor digestion)
Low Body Temperature (cold extremities and cold intolerance)
Hair loss and balding
Failure to sweat properly, affecting skin elimination (creates dry skin and
other conditions)
Parathyroid (Endocrine Gland System)
Calcium requires a parathyroid hormone so it can be utilized properly by
your body. Failure to utilize calcium results in:
Bone loss (Osteoporosis, spinal deterioration or herniated disks)
Bone (calcium) spurs
Arthritis (adrenal gland weakness must also be present)
Connective tissue weakness, causing prolapsed conditions (dropping) of
skin, bladder, uterus, bowels, and other organs
Varicose veins and spider veins
Hemorrhoids
Depression
Nerve weakness
Spasms, cramping of muscles, convulsions
Dehydration
Ridged, brittle or weakened fingernails
Anemia (low calcium causes poor iron utilization)
Scoliosis
Ruptured Discs
Hernias
Aneurysms
MVP (mitral valve prolapse—heart)
Adrenal Glands (Endocrine Gland System)
Linked to the nervous system, inflammation, carbohydrate utilization, healing
and repair of tissues. Weakness or failure of these glands will be seen as:“itis’s” (all inflammatory conditions)
Fibrocystic conditions
Fibromyalgia, scleroderma and sciatica
Ovarian cysts
Excessive bleeding
Endometriosis and atypical cell formation
Prostatitis
Prostate cancer
All female cancers
M.S. and Parkinson’s Disease
Tremors
Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
Shortness of breath
Cholesterol plaquing
Dehydration
Anxieties, excessive shyness, emotional sensitivities, and other related
conditions
Sleep disorders
Memory problems
Early puberty, initial menstruation, and irregular menstruation
Conception problems
Sexual problems (including lack of or excessive sex drive, impotence,
erection problems, frigidity in women, and fertility problems)
Low Energy (Chronic Fatigue)
Low endurance
Pancreas (Digestive and Endocrine Gland System)
Hypoactivity (underactivity) of the pancreas can cause the following:
Gas and bloating during digestion
Undigested foods in your stools
Excessive thinness
Loss of muscle tissue
Moles growing on your skin
Low blood sugar (Hypoglycemia)
High blood sugar (Diabetes, etc.)
Acid reflux
Gastritis
EnteritisNausea
Liver and Gallbladder (Hepatic/Blood System—Your Chemical Factory)
When the liver or gallbladder becomes toxic, inflamed and full of stones, the
following symptoms may appear:
Bloating and Acid-Reflux conditions
Enteritis
Poor digestion
Anemia
Low amino acid utilization
Low hemoglobin and albumin count
Skin toxicity (resulting in dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, and other
conditions)
White stools
Liver spots (skin pigmentation changes)
Starvation
Low cholesterol production = low steroid production = more
inflammation
Lower resistance to inflammation
Lowers cell wall protection
Gastritis
Nausea after eating
Loss of muscle tissue (low protein utilization)
Low cholesterol levels
Sugar problems (high or low blood sugars)
Gastrointestinal Tract (Digestive and Eliminative Systems)
Your gastrointestinal tract (stomach to anus) is the “hub” of your body.
When it fails to do its job because of impactions and inflammation, this can
weaken and starve the body. When the GI tract fails, the rest of the body will
soon follow. The following are just some of the side effects of its failure:
Malabsorption and starvation
Gastritis, enteritis and/or colitis
Diverticulitis (when “pockets” are formed from impactions)
Gas
DiarrheaConstipation (also connected to adrenal medulla weakness)
Parasites (worms, and others; the unfriendly type)
Crohn’s disease
GI cancer (now second most prevalent type of cancer in the U.S.)
When the GI Tract becomes toxic, it sends toxicity to all parts of the
body
Appendicitis
Lymphatic congestion (blocks proper lymphatic elimination)
Nausea upon eating
Lymphatic System (Immune and Eliminative “Septic” System)
The job of the lymphatic system is to clean and protect the body. This system
is just as important
as the blood system. The lymphatic system is the most
neglected and needs the most attention. All diseases begin when this system
becomes overburdened and fails. The following are just some of the
noticeable effects:
Colds and flu-like symptoms
Many childhood diseases (mumps, measles, etc.)
Most respiratory congestive issues
Sinus congestion
Earaches
Hearing loss (causing the need for tubes in the ears)
Sore throats
Cysts and tumors
Boils, pimples and the like
Lymphatic cancers
Appendicitis
Low immune response
Low lymphocytes (when the lymph gland called the spleen is affected)
Low platelets and a lack of blood cleansing can take place.
Lymph edema from removed or degenerated lymph nodes
Lymph node swelling
Allergies
Cellulitis
Blurred vision
Cataracts and glaucoma
Snoring
Sleep apneaTonsillitis
Stiff neck
Cervical spine deterioration from stagnant lymph system in neck
(especially when tonsils have been removed)
Dandruff
Kidneys and Bladder (Eliminative/Urinary Tract System)
These organs are vital in your body’s elimination process. Without proper
elimination of metabolic wastes, both cellular and digestive, toxic by-products
will cause auto-intoxication of cells. This causes cellular weakness and death.
The following are side effects or warning signals that your body experiences
when the kidneys and bladder become weak.
Bags under your eyes
Vision problems
Lower back weakness and pain
Kidney stones (contributing factor to parathyroid weakness)
Urinary tract infections—UTI (burning upon urination)
Loss of bladder control (incontinence)
Difficulty urinating (can be urinary tract infections as well)
Increased acidosis
Dehydration
Edema (contributing factor)
Toxemia
Headaches
Can affect your breathing
Heart and Circulation (The Circulatory System)
Many conditions that affect the heart and circulation have already been
covered under various glands and their effects upon the body. This is because
many conditions within the body are reflex conditions that have an
origination point other than the obvious symptoms. Examples of this are
mitral valve prolapse and heart arrhythmia, which have their origins in the
parathyroid, where connective tissue and the nervous system can be affected.
The adrenal glands, of course, play a vital role in the nerve that feeds the
heart. Cholesterol will plaque itself if the adrenal glands are weak and
acidosis goes unchecked. All this can lead to strokes, heart attacks and
blockages in the vascular system. One must think this out and take all thisinto consideration when dealing with the heart and circulatory issues. The


 group of conditions where muscular
spasm is the primary pathology.The heat is not the answer to the relaxation, else heat by itself would
bring just as much response. It doesn’ t. But it is also questiona ble that the
pack without the heat would do as well. The combination of the castor oil
and the heat seems to bring about a more substantial therapeutic effect. As
will be seen in the next case,  that of the injured finger, the castor oil
apparently bring s about a specif ic response without the use of heat, and this
is in body tissues where organs are not concerned. Here we find only skin,
subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia, fat, interstitial tissue, blood vessels,
nerves, lymphatics, and bone. There are no organs, no gland s, no tubular
structures, no lymph centers, and no ganglia or other nerve centers. We are
again led to the conclusion that the castor oil, when absorbed, directs its
activities in an exquisitely minu te relationship to the tissues it contacts and
stimulates those  tissues afflicted toward a healthier function. It becomes
difficult to deviate far from a concept that the cleansing or purifying of the
individual cells affected is brought about through the medium of the
lymphatics as related, at least in part, to the autonomic nerve supply to the
area.
Case No. 44, the sixty-two-year -old man already referred to in the
previous paragraph, presents really a rather remarkable story. Fingers such
as his which have been infected and which have developed  a pustular
reaction so severe as to cause a rather diffuse cellulitis, simply do not very
often clear up entirely in two days under the very best of therapeutic
circumstances. This case, however, is somewhat representative of others
which needed care in a postoper ative or post-injury situation, such as those
(Nos. 13, 14, 54, 65, 71, 74, and 76) in “Selected Cases.” All of these
people show how local tissues respond to the packs when injury  or infection
is present. The results are interesting and follow a certain pattern that has
already been discussed.
Thus, we find the various areas where the packs can be used beneficially,
the manner in which they may be used, and the type of response which may
be seen are fairly well represented in the comments to this point.
OceanofPDF.comAppendix
Notes About This Appendix
TABLE II IS A COMPILA TION OF ALL  THE diagnoses which were
arrived at in the eighty-one cases which are being presented. Table III gives
a breakdown of the types of illness treated and their response as a group.
These are grouped together, as they seem to be relevant to this study rather
than according to systems specifically or otherwise.
In Table IV can be found the most common conditions which were
treated and how they responded.
Table V is a listing of all eighty-one cases showing identification, age,
sex, diagnosis, and response to therapy.
From the information in this Appendix, it is seen that 74 of the 101
conditions respo nded in such a manner that they were rated in response as
“excellent.” This gives a healthy flavor to the results. It is fortunate that the
human body takes even the least assistance at times and responds in a noble
fashion. Even taking the assist of the unconscious vital forces of the body
into consideration, the responses, especially in the group treated only with
the packs, are highly gratifying.
When analyzing  the information, one notes that there are no treatments
for cardiac conditions, respiratory illnesses, basic neurological diseases (in
spite of the important part this system plays in health and disease), or trueendocrine difficulties (except those associated with the ovary and its
function as seen in the diseases of the female generative system listed).
There are prese nt, however, muscular conditions, arthritic disturbances,
and systems problems with gastrointestinal, genitourinary, circulatory as it
involves hypertension, and neurological as it involves headaches and
tension syndromes. Trauma is also represented.
By far, the most common area treated anatomically is the abdo men and
that which lies within the abdominal and pelvic cavities, the
gastrointestinal, and the genitourinary systems. These make up well over
fifty percent of the conditions treated. It would be helpful to recall at this
point that Cayce  speaks of the importance of the assimilation of foodstuf fs
into our bodies and the eliminati on of body wastes, and there is reference to
castor oil packs being of benefit to both these systems. The kidneys,
stomach, intestines, and their associated organs are the major areas of
assimilation and elimination in the body. Thus, we would expect these areas
to show  benefic ial response to the packs, if information from the readings
were to have significance in clinical trial.
From Table III we see that there were a total of thirty treated conditions
which have their site of pathol ogy in the abdominal cavity or pelvis and
which were treated with castor oil packs only. Results obtained were
twenty-five excellent—eighty-three percent—two good, and three poor.
This is slightly better than the percentage found in the entire series when
this mode of therapy was used by itself. Diseases of the large bowel
produced the highest percentage  of excellent response—ninety- two percent
—these including such conditions as constipation, intestinal obstruction due
to fecal impaction, colitis, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, and rectal fissures.
Interestingly, the two conditions which were most refractive to treatment
in this series were essential hypertension and peptic ulcer (see Table IV).
The two which produced the most consistently excellent results were those
conditions found  under traumatically induced conditions and post-sur gical
care of wounds. All twelve of these responded promptly and were rated as
excellent. Only two of the twelve were given therapy other than the packs.
TABLE I
Number of Cases Surveyed   81Number of Dif ferent Diagnoses   52
Total Conditions Treated 101
Treated with Castor Oil Packs Only   57
Excellent Results   47% - 82%
Good Results     4% - 7%
Poor Results     6% - 1 1%
Treated with Combined Therapy*   44
Excellent Results   27% - 61%
Good Results     3% - 7%
Poor Results   14% - 32%
*Combined therapy is the use of castor oil packs associated with other therapies  that may have
influenced the outcome of the condition.
CLASSIFICA TION OF RESUL TS
Excellent:  Those cases in which response was prompt, as evaluated
clinically, and complete—that is, progressing to expected end point and
having no residual signs or symptoms of presenting condition.
Good:  Those cases in which response was slower than expected; and/or
whose presenting signs and symptoms did not completely disappear at the
end point of therapy.
Poor:  Those cases which showed no response to therapy, or which
worsened under treatment given, or in which signs and symptoms did not
materially change.
TABLE II LIST  OF DIAGNOSES
Abscess Trichomoniasis Peptic Ulcers
Abdominal Tenderness Menopausal Syndrome Constipation
Essential Hypertension Mastitis (in male) Appendicitis
Subpatellar Bursitis Gastritis Endometritis
Cholecystitis Acute Cervical Sprain Sprain of L. Biceps
Intestinal Obstruction Salpingitis Uterine Fibroid
Ovarian Cyst Pyelonephritis DiarrheaCystitis Cervicitis Colitis
Low Back Pain Uterine Inertia Infectious Hepatitis
Furuncle Verruca Vulgaris Threatened Abortion
Tinea Corporis, Perineum Osteoarthritis Fibrohematoma
Menorrhagia Rectal Fissure Hemoperitoneum
Peritoneal Adhesions Cellulitis of Axilla Hemorrhoids
Sebaceous Cyst Vaginitis Tenosynovitis
Purpura, Traumatic Oophoritis Bursitis of Shoulder
Hematoma, Subungual Headache, Myositis Tension Syndrome
Abrasions, Lacerations Infected Puncture Wound Oral Contraceptive Reaction
TABLE III TYPES AND NUMBER OF CONDITIONS TREA TED AND RESPONSESTABLE IV  MOST  COMMON CONDITIONS TREA TED AND RESPONSETABLE V: RESPONSE TO THERAPYOceanofPDF.comSelected Cases
This portion of the appendix is a group of narrative summaries of a
selected group of cases that are, in my opinion, of the most interest to the
reader. These summaries are in addition to the cases that have already been
cited.
The emotions, responses within  the individual to conditions outside the
body in relationship to other people and self’s evaluation of self, bring
about within the body a disturbance that often sees certain areas affected
according to the emotions’  experiences. But the balance within the body
organs and body systems becomes disturbed, elimination is hindered, intake
of food is assoc iated with turmoil, and the beginnings of body sickness are
seen through just the mechanisms which here have been only lightly
touched upon.
The circulatory system to various parts of the body, as it is related to the
autonomic, is a site of disturbance frequently mentioned. These
relationships were not


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95 THE  WJSDOM  OF INSECURITY
the pine  accumulate  snow  until  they  crack,  the
springy boughs of the willow bend under its
weight,  drop  the snow,  and jump  back  again.
If, whcn swimming, you are caught in a strong
current, it is fatal to resise. You must swim with
it and g radually edge to che side. One who falls from
a hcight with stiff limbs will break them, but if
he relaxes like a cat he will fall sa[ely. A building
with - out "give"  in ils structure  will easily
collapse  in storm or earthquake, and a car
without the cushion - ing of tires and springs will
soon come apart on the  road.
The mind has just che same powers, for it has
give  and can absorb shocks like water or a
cushion. But chis giving way toan opposing force
is not at all the  same thing as running away. A
body of,vater <loes  not run away when you
push it;  it simply gives at  thc poin  t of che push
and endoses  yo ur hand.  A shock  absorber does not
fall clown likc a bowling -pin when  struck; it gives,
and yet stays in the same place. To run away is
the only defense  of something rigid  against an
ovenvhelming force. Therefore the good  shock
absorber has not only "give," but also stability  or
"weight."
This  weight  is likewise  a function  of the mind,
and
appears in the much -misunderstood phenomenon
of laziness. Significantly enough, nervous and
frustrated  people are always busy, even in being
idle, such idle - ness  being  the "laziness"  of fear,
not of rest.  But the
96 TIIE  MARVELOUS  MOMENT
mind -body  is a system  which  conserves and accumu -
lates energy. '\Nhilc doing this it is propcrly
lazy.  When the energy is stored, it is justas happy to
move,  and yet to move skillfully -along the line of
least re - sistancc. Thus it is not only necessity,
bue also lazi - ness, which is the mothcr of
invention. One may ob - serve the unhurried,
"heavy" movcmcms of a skillful  laborer at some
hard task, and even in going against  gravity the
good rnountaincer uses gravity, taking  slow,
hcavy stridcs. He seems to tack up the slope,  like
a sailboat  against  thc wincl.
In the light of these principies, how <loes the
mind  absorb suffering? It discovers  that
resistance and escape -the ''J'' process -is a false
move. The pain is inescapable, and resistance as a
defense only makes it  worse; the whole systern is
jarred by thc shock. Sce- ing the impossibility of
this course, it muse act ac- cording to  its nature -
remain  stable  and absorb.
To remain stablc  is to refrain from trying to
sepa - rare yourself from a pain because you know
that you  cannot.  Running away from  fear is  fear,
fighting pain  is pain,  trying  to be brave   is being  sea
red.  If the mind  is in pain, the mind is pain. The
thinker has no othcr  form than bis thought.
There is no escape. But so long as you are not
aware of the inseparability of  thinkcr  and
thought,  you will try to escape.
From this follows, quite naturally, absorption.
It is no effort; the mind does it by itself. Seeing
that  there  is no escape  from  the pain,  the mind
yields  to
97 THE  WISDOM  OF JNSECURITY
it, absorbs it, and becomes conscious of just
pain  without any "I" fecling it or resisting it. It
cxperi - ences pain in the same complete,
unselfconscious way  in which it cxpcriences
plcasure. Pain is the nature  of this present
moment, and J can only live in this moment.
Sometimes, when resistance ceases, the pain
simply  goes away or dwindles toan easily
tolerable ache. At other times it remains, but the
absence of any resist - ancc brings about  a way of
fccling pain  so unfamiliar  as to be hard to
describe. Thc pain is no longer  problernatic.  I
fecl it, bue  there is no urge to get rid  of it, for  1
have   cliscovered   that  pain  and  the effort  to be
separa  te frorn   it are the same   thing.   Wanting  to gel
out of pain is the pain; it is not thc "reaction" of
an "I" distinct from the pain. When you
discover  chis, the desire to escape "merges" into
the pain it - self and  vanishes.
Discounting aspirin for the moment, you
cannoc  remove your head from a headache as
you can re- move your hand  f rom a flame.  "You"
equah  "head"  equals "ache." \,Vhen you accually
see chat you are the pain, pain ceascs to be a
motive, for there is no  one to be moved.  lt
becomes,  in the true  sense,  of no consequence.  lt
hurts -period.
This, however, is not an experiment to be held
in reserve,  as a trick,  for moments  of crisis.   lt is a
way of life. lt means being aware, alert, and
sensitive to the  present  moment  al ways,  in ali
actions  and relations
98 THE  MARVELOUS  MOMENT
whatsoever, beginning at this instant. This, in
turn,  depends upon seeing that you have really
no choice  but to be aware -becausf.: you cannot
separate your - self from the present and you
cannot define it. You  can, indeed, refuse to admit
this, but only at the cost  of the immense and
futile effort of spcnding your  whole  life
resisting  che inevitable.
Once chis is understood, it is really absurd to
say that there is a choice or an alternative between
thesc  two ways of life, between resisting the
stream in fruit - less panic, ancl having one's eyes
opened to a new  world, transformed, and ever
new with wonder. The  key is undcrstanding. To
ask how to do this, what is  the technique or
method, what are the steps and  rules, is to miss
thc point uttcrly. Mcthods are for  creating things
which do not yct exist. '\Ve are con- cerned  here
with  understanding  something  which  is
-the present  momcnt.  This  is not a psychological
ar spiritual discipline for self-improvement. It is
simply  being aware of chis present experience,
and realizing  that you can neither define it nor
divide yoursclf  from  it. There  is no rule  but
"Lookl"
lt is no mere poetic sentiment to say that, with
the mind chus opened, we look into a new world,
as ncw  as on the first <lay of creation "when the
morning  stars sang together, and all the sons of
God shouted  for joy." By trying to understand
everything in terms  of mcmory, the past, and
words, we have, as it were,  had our noses  in che
guidebook  for most  of our lives,
99 THE  WJSDOM'.  OF INSECURITY
and have never looked at the view. Whitehead's
criti - cism  of traditional  education  is applicable  to
our whole  way  of living:
We are loo cxclusively bookish in our scholastic rou -
line....  In thc Carden  of Eden  Adam  saw 1he animals
before he namcd lhem:  in the tradilional systcm, chil -
dren  named  lhe animals  before  they  saw  them.1
In the widest  sense  of the word,  to name  is to
in- terpret  cxperience  by the past,  LO translate  it
into  tcrms of memory,  to bind the unknown  into
the sys - tem  of thc known.  Civilizcd  man  knows
of hardly  any other  way  of understanding  things.
Everybody,  everything, has to have  its label,  its
number,  certifi - cate,  registration,  classification.
What  is not classified  is irregular,


eworked
onthemolecularbasisofmemoryandpublished,in1968,hispaperon
orthomolecular psychiatry.Thisinterestinorthomolecularmedicinecon-
tinuedthroughouttheperiodofhisprofessorship atStanfordUniversityin
thelate1960sandearly1970sandledtohisfounding,in1973,ofthe
LinusPaulingInstituteofScienceandMedicine.
Throughout thislatterphaseofhiscareer,Pauling'sinteresthascen-
teredonnutritionandtheroleofthemicronutrients, especiallyvitaminC
(ascorbicacid),inthephysiologyoftheorganism.Fromthisworkcame
abookforthelayreader,VitaminCandtheCommonCold,published
in1970,whichreceivedthePhiBetaKappaAwardasthebestbook
onscienceofthatyear.Soonafter,Paulingbecameinterestedintheuseof
ascorbicacidinthetreatmentofcancer,largelythroughhiscontactwith
theScottishphysician,Dr.EwanCameron.Theircollaborationresultedin
his1979book,CancerandVitaminC,withDr.Cameronascoauthor.
Nowinhiseighties,Paulingcontinuestotravelallovertheworld,lec-
turingbothonhisclassicworkinchemistry,biology,medicine,andpeace,
andonhispresentamplificationofhisearlierideas.Healsocontinuesto
312 ABOUTTHEAUTHOR
writeonthesetopics.In1983,forexample,thetwenty-fifthanniversary
revisededitionofNoMoreWar!waspublished.Inallthishehasremained
faithfultohisstructuralvision,whetherheisusingittounderstandthe
worldofmatterortohelpimprovetheworldofman.
Dr.RobertJ.Paradowski
RochesterInstituteofTechnology
NameIndex
Abbott,P.,117,277
Abraham,S.,80,277
Acharya,P.T.,139
Adams,JohnM.,20,277
Addis,Thomas,138
Alexander,W.,196,201,289
Allen,MaryB.,11,187
Altschule,MarkD.,149,277
Anah,C.O.,200,277
Anderson,R.,103,200,263,265
Anderson,T.W.,114,118,119,121,
121n.,133
Andrewes,Christopher,108,124-25
Anson,George,48
Asfora.J.,118
Atkins,G.L.,98
Audisio,M.,150,286
Baig,H.A.,200,277
Baird,G.,170, 240,281
Baker,A.B.,21,22,113,227,230,284
Banks,H.S.,115,278
Banks,W.L.,Jr.,263
Banting,F.G.,17
Barnes,F.E.,Jr.,115,278
Barness,L.A.,257,279
Barr,D.P.,149,279
Bartley,W.,115,279Bates,C.J.,150,279
Beadle,G.W.,56
Beaton,G.H.,114,121n.,265
Belfield,W.O.,78,79,279
Beller,GeorgeA.,98-99
Bessel-Lorck,C,114,279
Best,C.H,17
Bietti,G.B.,209,258,279
Bishop,KatherineScott,153
Bjelke,E.,166,279
Bjorksten,J.,218
Boissevin,C.H.,128,279
Bouhuys,A.,200,307
Bourne,G.H.,76,137,280
Boyd,A.M.,159,280
Boyd,T.A.S.,209,280
Bozian,R.,263,285
Braenden,O.J.,15,280
Brandt,R.,263,280
Breslow,Lester,84,151,216
Brewer,T.H.,266,280
Brock,J.F,280,284
Brody,JaneE.,252,258,280
Brown,E.A.,201,280
Brown,W.A.,140,280
Bruce,Robert,169,259,280
Bruppacher,R.,216,301
Buchman,E.R.,54
Burr.R.G..139,280
314 NAMEINDEX
Callaway,E.,190,300
Cameron,Ewan,67,100,102,105,122,128,
133,143,164,166,169-80,172,215,220,
234,240,245,246,252,266
Campbell,A.,170,209,281
Capp,Ruth,187,288
Carr,A.B.,114,121n.,282
Carroll,Lewis,74
Cartier,Jacques,48
Cathcart,RobertR,121-22,129-33,258,282
Cederblad,G.,143,282
Celers,J.,108,284
Chain,E.B.,17
Charleston,S.S.,121n.,282
Chatterjee, I.B.,77,139,197,198,282,296
Chattopadhyay,D.K.,139,290
Cheraskin,E.,50,97,137,165,209,211,218
Chevreul,MichaelEugene,28
Chope,H.D.,39,84,150,216,283
Chrystowski,G.A.,261,293
Cleckley,H.M.,183,283,303
Clegg,K.M.,121n.,282,283
Clemetson,C.A.B,197-98,199,283
Cohen,A.M.,41,283
Cole,T.J.,150
Collier,R.,124,283
Collins,C.K.,137,283
Collip,J.B.,17
Cook,James,49,50
Coon,W.W.,139,283
Cooper,Theodore,144
Cortes,Hernando,48
Costrini,A.M.,103,120,121,299
Cottingham,E.,103,283
Coulehan,J. L.,121n.,284
Cousins,Norman,206,284
Cowan,D.W.,21,22,113,139,227
Crandon,J.H.,139,284
Dallegri,R,133,297
Daniel,C.W.,94,284
Davidson,S.,230,284
Davis,DonaldR.,187,288
DeBakey,M.E.,159,296
Debre,R.,108,124,284
DeCamp,P.T.,159,296
DeCosse.J.J.,87,169,284
Dice,J.R,94,284
Diehl,H.S,21,22,113,227-228,280,284
Donegan,C.K.,158
Douglas,J.D.,200,296
Dreisbach,RobertH.,241,252,253,284
Dreyfus,P.,190,300
DuBois,A.B.,200,295,296
Dubos,Rene,22
DujarricdelaRiviere,R.,124,285
Dykes,M.H.M.,231,284
Eaton,S.Boyd,62-63,285
Edelman, I.,39,307Eder,H.A.,149,279
Edwards,CharlesD.,229
EdwinE.,183,285
Eichhorn,H.H.,57,307
Eijkman,Christiaan,51
Einstein,R.,114,282
Eisenhower,DwightD.,35
Ekvall,S.,263,285
Ellis,JohnM,204-205,285
Elliott,B.,121n.,285
Elliott,H.C.,150,285
Elvehjem,C.A,54
Enloe,CortezR,Jr.,226,286
Enstrom,J.E.,151,286
Ericsson,Y.,128,286
Ertel,H.,112,285
Evans,HerbertM.,153
Farmer,A.W,138,140
Feigen,GeorgeA.,102,286
Fordman,T.D.,267,301
Fidanza,A.,150,286
Fishman,S.,169,306
Fleming,Alexander,17
Fletcher,I.C.,115,286
Fletcher,J.M,115,286
Florey.W.H.,17
Folkers,Karl,205,285
Forbes,AllanL.,229
Foster,F.G.,121n.,306
Fradkin,M.J.,208
Franks,W.R.,140,280
Franz,W.L.,121n.,286
Freese,H.L.,108,297
Freud,Sigmund,182
Friedman,G.J.,87,286
Frost,David,111
Fullmer,H.M.,210,287
Funk,Casimir,52,287
Gama,Vascoda,48
Garcia-Webb, Briggs,261
Geeslin,L.E.,183,283
Gehler,J.,85
Gehrig,Lou,98
Gildersleeve,D,115-16,287
Ginter,E.,149,150,287
Glazebrook,A.J.,112,228,230,287
Glover,E.,150,287
Goldberger,J.,54
Goldblatt,M.W.,239,287
Gompertz,Benjamin,212-13,221,288
Greenberg,L.D.,77,301
Greenblatt


 page 332), will provide you with motivation to continue
making improvements.
Though food diaries and numerical analyses can be helpful, you do not need to buy  a food scale or log meals each day to
receive value from this book. On the pages that follow, I provide the informat ion, meal plans, and sample calculations to give you a
clear idea of how to incorporate the 80/10/10  formula into your life, with or without the high-tech tools.
Just giving conscious thought to what you eat with the caloronutrien t ratio in mind is a first step in the right direction. You can
spend as much or as little effort as you want becoming familiar with you r current diet and how it compares with the 80/10/10  plan.
Please, look to this book for inspiration and guidance toward the body and the health  you desire, but do not be discouraged.
Some people tell me that they feel overwhelmed as they become painfully  aware of how much fat they have been eating and how far
they have strayed from their goals. To those I say take heart … and relax. T he confusion will clear as we step through these pages
together.
By the time you finish reading this book, I venture to say that the road to su ccess will seem nearer and easier for you to follow.
If what you read makes sense and you are ready to take your health and your body t o new levels, simply start steering toward
80/10/10  … the results will come quickly. If you need support and more information, vis it my online discussion group, at
www.VegSource.com  (click on Raw & Sports/Graham).
Even when you have the 80/10/10  concept down to a science, you will never eat in that ratio at every meal, nor even every
day (nor should you). In reality, you will you eat more fat on some days and less  on others. The goal is to eat 80/10/10  as an
average, for an entire year or more. Once you have done that, I’d wager you w ill never look back.

Chapter 5. Carbohydrate: 80% Minimum

Nutritionists and health-minded diet professionals generally agre e that 60 to 80% of our calories need to come from carbohydrates.
Having established so far in this book that the percentage of total calori es in our diet to be provided by both fat and protein should
run in the single digits (not more than 10% each), we can see that the h igh end of this range is just about right. For most people, I
recommend 80% carbohydrates, or even higher. In fact, if we consume much le ss than 80% of our calories as carbohydrates, we
are destined to consume too much protein, fat, or both—but more likely it wi ll be fat.
Insufficient carbohydrate in the diet leads to an array of health conc erns, primary among which are eating disorders, severe
food cravings, lethargy, weakness, and all of the conditions associated wit h the overconsumption of fats. As we increase protein
intake above ten percent of daily calories, we start seeing low energy a nd increased acid toxemia, a precursor for osteoporosis,
kidney disease, arthritis, immune dysfunction, and cancer. Eating subs tantially more than ten percent of daily calories from fat can
lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and many other ma ladies. Any way you slice it—too few carbohydrates,
too much fat, or too much protein—you will suffer serious health consequ ences.

Sugar: The Fuel We Are Designed For
Before our cells can utilize any food for fuel, whether it contains prim arily carbohydrate, protein, or fat, it must first be
converted into simple sugars. Carbohydrates are by far the easiest to con vert to useful sugars. Glucose (a simple sugar) is the
primary, preferred source of fuel for every tissue and cell of our bodies. In f act, some of our cells (the brain, red blood cells, and
some nervous tissue, for example) depend almost exclusively on glucose a s their fuel source.

Fuel vs. Energy
A major misconception people have about food is that it is a source of energy. Th is fallacy is partly supported by the fact that
in the nutritional sciences, the words “fuel” and “energy” are use d synonymously. The lethargy that follows a holiday meal easily
demonstrates the fault in this line of thinking.
In health sciences however, the term “energy” is defined as a low-v oltage electrical current produced by your brain during
sleep, which runs through your body via your nervous system (also known as v ital nerve energy). When you are awake, you use
nerve energy more rapidly than the brain can produce it. Hence, you event ually run out of energy. After an appropriate period of
hours procuring sleep, you awaken, fully recharged and full of nerve ener gy again.
 On the other hand, food is referred to as “fuel.” W e need to consume fuel for three primary reasons— nutrition, hydration,
and pleasure. Through the process of digestion, we “burn” our fuel (f ood) to release its own energy potential and utilize it for
ourselves. During this complicated process, we receive a net gain in e nergy by using our own nerve energy to release the potential in
food.
To help explain the difference, we can apply the analogy of a car. We have n o difficulty understanding that the fuel in our gas
tank (food) is completely different than the energy supplied from the batt ery of our car (vital nerve energy). Either without the other
is completely useless, but in combination they work to create motion and act ivity.

Humans have little or no capacity for storing excess protein or excess  carbohydrate, but we can convert both to fat stores for
later use as fuel. When we do not eat sufficient carbohydrates to meet ou r fuel needs, our bodies break down stored fats into
glucose through a complex chemical process called gluconeogenesi s (literally, “the creation of new sugar”). While this can be a
lifesaving process in times of hardship, in the absence of sufficient  carbohydrates, gluconeogenesis results in the production of by-
products known as ketones.
Circulating in the bloodstream, ketones adversely affect our decision- making abilities, because they exert an influence upon
brain chemistry similar to that of alcohol. Effectively, a heavy ket otic state renders us “under the influence.” In such a state, we
should not make decisions important to our life and health, such as those made  when driving a car, doing sports, or performing any
work that requires precision of body or mind.

Types of Carbohydrates
The definitions of carbohydrate and its constituents are evolving. Am ong lay people, carbohydrates are thought to fall into two
broad categories, complex and simple. Science recognizes intricate diff erences between the various carbohydrate compounds, and
considerable confusion exists in the literature that describes the m. Here is a simplified summary of terms, which is by no means
definitive; you will find many variations on this list:
Simple sugars (mainly monosaccharides consisting of one sugar molecule and disacch arides made of two monosaccharides).
Primary among these are glucose, fructose, galactose, and dextrose (mon osaccharides), as well as lactose, maltose and
sucrose. They are found in most foods, including fruits, vegetables, milk, an d honey.
Oligosaccharides (short-chain sugars consisting of three to nine sugar molecules) : Oligosaccharides include raffinose,
stachyose, verbascose, fructo-oliogosaccharides, and maltodextrins. Most  renowned for causing the flatulence associated
with beans, some oligosaccharides are entirely indigestible, while ot hers are partially digestible.
Polysaccharides (“complex carbohydrates” that contain 10 or more—as many as several t housand—sugar molecules):
These include starches  (amylose and amylopectin) and dextrins  found in grains, rice, and legumes, as well as nonstarch
polysaccharides, also known as fiber (cellulose, pectin, gums, beta-glucans, and fructans ), found in grains, fruits, and
vegetables.

Together, monosaccharides and disaccharides comprise the “sugars” f ound on the Nutrition Facts portion of food labels.
Monosaccharides are the only carbohydrates that can be absorbed directly i nto the bloodstream, through the intestinal lining. Our
digestive system easily breaks down disaccharides into their monosacc haride constituents.
Simple carbohydrates come in two forms: refined sugars  (extracted from fruits, grains, tubers, and sugar cane) and whole-
food sugars (the sugars found in whole, fresh plant foods, primarily sweet fruits). B oth refined and whole-food simple sugars taste
sweet to the tip of the tongue. Unfortunately, widespread misinformation  and general ignorance about nutrition causes the great
majority of the population to equate simple carbohydrates with the nutrit ionally bankrupt refined sugars. Unaware that whole-fruit
sugar is profoundly different in nature than extracted sugar, these  misguided dieters lump all simple carbohydrates together and then
shun them as a category. Government guidelines and short-sighted nu


ir ement s or demands:  T here are no required memberships,
dues, regulations, oaths, rules, or conditions.
9. Noncontr olling:  S piritua l purity has no interest in the personal lives of
aspirants, or in dress, sex lives,  economics, family patterns, lifestyles,
or dietary habits.
10. Fr ee of for ce or intimidation:  T here is no bra inwashing, adu lation of
leaders, training rituals, indoctrinations, or intrusions into private life.
11. Nonbinding:  There are no regulations, laws, edicts, contracts, or
pledges.
12. Fr eedom:  P articipants are free to come and go without persuasion,
coercion, intimidation, or con sequences. There is no hierarchy;
instead, there is voluntary fulfillment of practical necessities and
duties.
13. Commonality:  Rec ognition is a consequence of what one has become
rather than a result of ascribed titles, adjectives, or trappings.
14. Inspirational:  T ruth eschews and avoids glam orization, seduction, and
theatrics.
15. Nonmaterialistic:  T ru th is  devoid  of need for worldly wealth, prestige,
pomp, or edifices.
16. Self-fulfilling:  T ruth is already  total and complete and has no need to
proselytize or gain adherents, followers, or “sign up members.”
17. Detached:  There is noninvolvement in world af fairs.
18. Benign:  T ru th is identif iable along a progressive gradient. It has no
“opposite” and therefore no “enemies” to castigate or oppose.
19. Nonintentional:  T ruth does not intervene or  have an agenda to
propose, inflict, or promulgate.
20. Nondualistic:  All transpires by virtue of intrinsic (karmic) propensity
within the field, by which potentiality manifests as actuality rather thanby cause and ef fect.
21. T ranquility and peace:  There are no “issues” or partialities. There is no
desire to  change others or imp ose on society. The ef fect of higher
ener gies is innate and not dep endent on propagation or ef fort. God
does not need help any more than gravity needs the “help” of an
apple’ s falling of f the tree.
22. Equality:  This is expressed in reverence for all life in all its
expressions and  merely avoids that which is deleterious rather than
opposing it.
23. Nontemporality:  Life is realized  to be eternal and physicality to be a
temporality. Life is not subject to death.
24. Beyond pr oof:  T hat which is  “provable” is linear, limited, and a
product of intellectualization and mentation. Reality needs no
agreement. Reality is not an acquisition but instead is a purely
spontaneous, subjective realization when the positionalities of the
dualistic ego are surrendered.
25. Mystical:  The origination of truth is a spontaneous ef fulgence,
radiance, and illumination, which is the Revelation that replaces the
illusion of a separate individual self, the ego, and its mentation.
26. Ineffable:  Not capable  of definition. Radical subjectivity is
experiential. It is a condition t hat replaces the former ego-centered
condition. W ith this event, context replaces content, devoid of
temporality and beyond time. Reality does not exist in time, of it,
beyond it, or out side of it, and it has no relationship to that which is an
artifice of mentation. It is there fore beyond all nouns, adjectives, or
verbs, transitive or intransitive.
27. Simplistic:  O ne sees the intrinsic beauty and perfection of all that
exists beyond appearance and form.
28. Affirmative:  T ruth is beyond opinion or provability. Confirmation is
purely by its subjective awareness; however, it is identifiable by
consciousness-calibration techniques.29. Nonoperative:  T ruth does not “do” anything o r “cause” anything; it is
everything.
30. Invitational:  As contrasted with promotional or persuasive.
31. Nonpr edictive:  B ecause Reality is nonlinear, i t cannot be localized or
encoded in restriction of form, such as secret messages, codes,
numbers, and inscriptions, or hidden in runes, stones, the dime nsions
of the pyramid, DNA, or the no stril hairs of the camel. T ruth has no
secrets. The Reality of God is o mnipresent and beyond codifica tion or
exclusivity. Codes are indicative of human imagination and not the
capriciousness of Divinity.
32. Nonsentimental:  Emotionality is based on perception. Compassion
results from the discernment of truth.
33. Nonauthoritarian:  There are no rules or dictates to be followed.
34. Nonegoistic:  T eachers are respected but reject personal adulation or
specialness.
35. Educational:  Provide s information in a variety of formats and ensures
availability.
36. Self-supporting:  Neither mercenary nor materialistic.
37. Fr eestanding:  Complete without dependence on external or historical
authorities.
38. Natural:  Devoid of induced, altered status of consciousness or
manipulations of ener gies by artificial exercises, postures, breathing,
or d ietary rituals (that is, non reliance on form or physicality; no
invoking of entities or “others”).
39. Complete:  Devoid of exploitation or gain.
40. Nonviolent:  Not coercive, benign, nonthreatening.
Spiritual truth is universal. The  same essential truth has been taught by
the enli ghtened mystics, saints, sages, and avatars who have appeared
throughout histo ry, in dif ferent r eligions and cultures, separated by dif ferent
sides of the globe and across many centuries. No person or religion orgroup is  the sole possessor or purveyor of truth. A truth is true at all times
in all places, in dependent of cultures, customs, opinions, pers onalities, or
circumstances.
A true teacher claims no specialness but rather points the seeker to
realize the same truth from within. The Self of the student is said to be the
same Se lf of the teacher, whose state of Self-realization serves  to activate
the s tudent’ s own inner awakeni ng. T rue teachers humbly acknowledge that
divine states are a gift of G race and therefore do not of f er spiritual
teachings for a price beyond covering expenses required for dissemination.
Integrous teache rs and or ganizations are not interested in contr olling the
personal lives of students, promotionalism, gaining followers, or
entertaining peo ple with theatrical presentations. Their integr ity requires
them to share t he gift of Real ization they were given, with the unique
capacities bestowed them, but they have no attachment to the response;
what peo ple do with it is up to them. People are free to come and go as they
wish.
Notable is that pure spirituality has no requirements, obligations,
dependencies, attachments, or other evidence of specialness, nor the
imposition of control, such as  oaths, financial pledges, or signing up
members for classes or “traini ngs.” Commitment is to the core of truth
itself, n ot to the person of the teacher, and pure spirituality  is free of
seduction by proselytization or secrecies. All that is necessary are curiosity
and an attraction to truth, which is complete, total, and self-suf ficient.
The teachers, teachings, or groups found attractive or meaningful depend
on the karmic propensities and evolution of the seeker at any given time.
Dif ferent teachers and teaching s will appeal to dif ferent seekers and be
appropriate for dif ferent life tas ks. What is best for one person or situation
may not  be best for another. Just because a teaching calibrate s at 600 or
higher does not mean it is the most appropriate or helpful; wha t matters is
that a teaching or teacher calibrates over 200, the level of integrity.
SPIRITUAL EDUCA TION
Fortunate is the seeker who has  not been led away from the straight and
narrow path of spiritual truth by diversions and popularized attractions.
People spend lifetimes searching for authentic teachings and becomesidetracked by the seduction of attractive, glamorized aberrations away
from truth. These turn out to be fictional or romanticized fa ntasies that
attract the naïve person’ s inne r child. Spiritual fairy tales a bound and
impress the credulous, for who m anything labeled “spiritual” is imbued
with a magical glamour. T o go through that stage is routine during initial,
uncritical enthusiasm and exploration.
The primary problem initially i s the lack of awareness of the dif ference
between the truly spiritual reality and the astral, paranormal, or supernatural
domains. T o the naïve, thes e latter alternatives seem amazing and
impressive. A “right-on” psychi c reading is indeed impressive to a novice.
The majority


 will say in a fewwords that some of our experiments have proved that evenin Turin there are vibrios of benign septicaemia, that is tosay, of septicaemia that is not fatal; and they have furtherproved that the blood of sheep and horned cattle sufferingfrom anthrax, the blood of the latter not anthracised, thejuice of the flesh a prey to putrefaction, containing septicvibrios in the sense understood by Pasteur, may sometimesproduce neither pure anthrax nor pure septicaemia, noranthrax and septicaemia combined…
And that such negative result may be obtained even when
the blood contains millions of the vibrios that Pasteur regardsas septic, and when these are in very active movement.”
The pamphlet then describes the Commission’s experiment in full
detail, showing how lowered conditions of temperature, etc., musthave retarded putrefaction and that, according to Pasteur’s own
dogmas, it was
“certain that there were neither vibrios of putrefaction nor
other evidence of septicaemia in the blood inoculated intoour animals, vaccinated or non-vaccinated. But suppose thatthere had been the vibrios of septicaemia and that neitherwe nor other competent persons had perceived them, whatthen ought to have happened according to the dogmasproclaimed by Pasteur in 1877?
The International Medical Congress and some Pasteurian Fiascos   287288   Béchamp or Pasteur?Either the little droplet or two, spread out in a thin layer
upon the wound of each animal and exposed to the action ofair, would become harmless as a septic agent of infection,because the vibrios, thronging the septic fluid in the form ofmoving threads, were destroyed and disappeared on contactwith the air, since it was said that air seems to burn the vibrios.(But in this case the bacillus anthracis  ought to be able to
develop easily, as, being aerobic, it would not have to struggle,on contact with the air, with anaerobic vibrios.)
Or, alternatively, the vibrios are not destroyed on contact with
the air… and in this second case, there would necessarily developin the inoculated animals a malady that in its course, duration,symptoms and lesions would exhibit characteristics ofsepticaemia and septicaemia only. But in such a case, lesions ofsepticaemia and not of anthrax should be found in the carcass.
Even admitted as a hypothesis that the blood of the
anthracised sheep which we employed on the 23rd Marchhad also been septic, but that we in our crass ignorance andincapacity were unable to perceive it, nevertheless it couldnot have produced in the animal, inoculated in the way thatwe have described, anything but pure anthrax.
This result, which before the new experiments of Roux
was passionately contested by Pasteur because he thought itimprobable, is today admitted to be possible, because it doesnot find itself any more in contradiction with the new dogma,reformed in accordance with the new results of experimentsof the month of May 1883, which he has communicated tothe Academy of Science in Paris.”
The pamphlet winds up by showing that the quotations of the
Commission had been accurately given, and that it was Pasteur who
had suppressed certain words to modify his original assertion. Moreover,although he had asked the Commission to correct the faults in the
French translation of their Italian Report, he actually published this in
the Revue Scientifique  without paying the slightest attention to the all
too numerous corrections of mistakes that put a totally different
construction upon the original signification.
Perhaps it is not a surprise that while the Turin controversy was
raging, his son-in-law should put on record
1 that Pasteur
“was tired of incessant and barren struggles.”
1. Life of Pasteur, p.369.The Italian professors, however, did not consider their time to have
been wasted. On the contrary, they declared themselves satisfied,
“because we have attained our proposed end; the research
and demonstration of truth and the refutation of error.”
It is only to be regretted that this attitude of scientific doubt should
have given way to the simple credulity, the unquestioning faith, of
modern medical orthodoxy towards almost any dogma enunciated bythe followers of Pasteur.
It did not require much perspicacity to realise that if Pasteurian
treatment could secure any appearance of success, the pecuniaryadvantages would be considerable. Thus Pasteur inaugurated the era
that was to see the prostitution of science to commercialism.
Bacteriological institutes for experimentation upon living animals andfor the production and sale of vaccines and sera came into being all
over the world, modelled upon the one opened in 1888 in Paris.
Odessa was one of the places provided early on with such
an institution; but its experience with the anti-anthrax vaccine
was calamitous.
1
The vaccine was sent to Kachowka in Southern Russia, where it
was administered, according to Pasteur’s description, to 4,564 sheep,
of which number 3,696 were very soon dead.
The first vaccinations were performed in August 1888 by Dr.
Bardach, commencing on the 8th. 1,582 mother sheep were divided
into two flocks. One lot was vaccinated before 11a.m., of which one
sheep died within 24 hours and seven others within 36 hours ofthe operation.
The second lot was vaccinated on the evening of the 10th August.
The first to die succumbed during the night of the 9th–10th August.The greatest mortality occurred on the 10th and 11th. Of the 1,582
sheep vaccinated, 1,075 died from the effects – 68%.
Another trial took place at a farm belonging to a man called
Spendrianow. The first flock consisted of 1,478 sheep of one, two and
three years of age. The other flock consisted of 1,058 sheep, some
older than those in the first lot and some younger. The sheep werevaccinated on the 10th August, between 7 and 11a.m.
The next day, at 1p.m., the first death took place; the following day
the mortality was at its highest and it diminished from August 13th.Altogether, out of 4,564 animals vaccinated, 3,696 died – 81%.
1. See introductory letter from Professor Peter (pp.8-9) to Études sur la Rage, Dr. Lutaud.
The International Medical Congress and some Pasteurian Fiascos   289290   Béchamp or Pasteur?Thus the Turin disaster is shown to have been by no means an
isolated example, and, in answer to Pasteur’s supposed benefactions,
these unfortunate animals, had they been given a voice in the matter,would certainly have prayed to be delivered from such a friend.
Moreover, Vallery-Radot, in his biography of Pasteur, tells us nothing
of the private owners in France and elsewhere whom Pasteur had tocompensate for animals killed by his vaccine.
1
A special Commission in Hungary recommended that the
Government of that country prohibit its use; Koch and Muller inGermany pronounced against it; the English Board of Agriculture
declined to recommend it; while finally, before the last Royal
Commission on Vivisection, its protagonists could not do any betterthan damn the modern ‘modified’ edition with faint praise.
Alas for Pasteur and his pronouncement that ‘the only sovereign
judge must be history!’
1. Études sur la Rage, Dr. Lutaud, p.419.17.
Hydrophobia
To the average person of the present day, the mention of the name
Pasteur immediately conjures up the thought of a horrible malady –
hydrophobia. To the many who have only a superficial understanding
of his connection with fermentation, silkworm troubles and anti-anthraxinoculation, he is nevertheless famous as the saviour of humanity from
the ravages of mad dogs!
The pity is that since Pasteur’s day there should have been so much
fear mongering on the subject, for hydrophobia is a complaint of the
nerves and, consequently, fear is its primary factor. Various instances
have been recorded of cases unquestionably brought on by suggestion.
For example, two young Frenchmen were bitten at Havre by the
same dog in January 1853. One died from the effects within a month,
but before this the other young man had sailed for America, where helived for fifteen years in total ignorance of the death of his former
companion. In September 1868, he returned to France and learned of
the tragedy, and then himself developed symptoms; within three weekshe was dead of hydrophobia!
1
Again, a patient who had first threatened to bite his medical
attendant, after being told that the correct symptom in a human beingwas actually the use of the fists, struck out all round him like a boxer
and indulged up to the time of his death in this quite novel form
of paroxysms.
2
The avoidance of fear is, therefore, of fundamental importance after
a dog bite, and the very slight risk of serious disease is confirmed by
the thousands of innocuous bites received by veterinary surgeons andothers who constantly handle animals. Occasionally there may be a
victim to a bite in the same way that deaths have been known to occur
after pin-pricks and stings of insects, while scratches and woundssometimes bring about tet