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Chapter 9

Orthodox Medicine's
Ultimate Mistake

To repeat: In my opinion this chapter and the previous chapter form the backbone of this book in that they throw light on every other chapter and, as such, they should be read together and in sequence.

While many people are hailing the so-called advances of science and the claimed breakthroughs of modern medicine, it is more than obvious that medical science is not winning in the battle against disease for, despite the many widely publicized "advances," and despite the many impending breakthroughs (that never quite materialize), people today are more seriously ill than ever before, and the situation is rapidly getting worse.

In the statement following, Dr. Alexis Carrel throws light on the tragedy of it all . . .

`Although modern hygiene has made human existence far safer, longer, and more pleasant, diseases have not been mastered. They have simply changed in nature. The organism seems to have become more susceptible to degenerative diseases, but we must still die and we die in a much larger proportion from degenerative diseases. The years of life which we have gained by the suppression of diphtheria, smallpox, typhoid fever, and so forth, are paid for by the long sufferings and lingering deaths caused by chronic infections and especially by cancer, diabetes and heart disease.' (As quoted by Dr. Jensen, The Science and Practice of Iridology, p. 129)

Yet this ever worsening situation is not at all surprising to proponents of the Nature Cure philosophy. For many decades they have sought to help the orthodox medical/drug establishment to recognize that our acute ailments are not enemies to be warred against and suppressed, but elements of a beneficial scheme of Nature that should be assisted in their kindly efforts to rid the system of unwanted, life-threatening impurities.

These warnings have gone unheeded, however, and powerful, and often highly toxic drugs are still commonly used to suppress our acute ailments - and the results speak for themselves. Dr. Harry Benjamin, a well-known, highly respected, and widely publicized Naturopathic writer, presents one very plausible reason why the human organism "seems to have become more susceptible to degenerative diseases." As he explains, . . .

`These methods [of treatment that suppress our acute ailments], instead of allowing the toxins and poisons in question to be readily ejected from the system - eliminated, that is - as Nature intends, and as the methods of Naturopathy allow, succeed only in forcing these same toxins and poisons farther back into the system, where - plus the drugs, vaccines, sera, etc., administered by the doctor - they collect around the deeper structures, or find lodging within the vital organs, to form the basis for far more serious troubles later on.' (Everybody's Guide To Nature Cure, p. 21, emphasis my own)

If our acute ailments are intended to relieve the system of life-burdening impurities - in other words, if our acute ailments are elements of a God-designed strategy that is aimed at preserving life, and if we keep taking drugs to suppress these healing, cleansing efforts, is it any wonder that the human organism becomes more susceptible to chronic and degenerative diseases?

In the light of the above, I urge my reader to once again consider figure 10 which is repeated below.

In order to appreciate better how suppressive medical treatment leads to "more serious troubles later on" - such as chronic and degenerative ailments - let us consider how the average cold has been "treated" for decades.

We are sneezing, we are coughing, our nose is running and, all-in-all, Nature is doing a fine job at ridding the system of toxic impurities. But, because we don't feel so good, and because vested interests have influenced us into believing that the cold is a deadly enemy, we take a decongestant cold "remedy."

Now, because the medicine contains alcohol, we immediately feel a little more cheery and, because it also contains analgesics, we are relieved of some of our discomfort and, because the medicine was formulated to dry up the mucous membranes in the nose and throat, we could well find ourselves praising the wonders of medical science - thinking all the while that the drug has cured us. The sad truth, however, is that we are now in a worse position than we were before we took the drug.

Had we studied the insert that accompanied the medicine, we might well have noticed that it was formulated "for the symptomatic relief of" our ailment. This means that even the manufacturers are not claiming that their medicine can cure the cold, but only that it can suppress the symptoms of the cold.

But what are the symptoms of the cold? A runny nose, coughing, sweating, sneezing - all of which are not enemies that should be suppressed, but the "friendly" efforts of nature that should be assisted in their vital emergency work of ridding the system of impure matter.

In short, therefore, all that we have achieved by taking such drugs
is to stop Nature from making us well!

More than this, the drugs have only added to the level of impurities in the system and, though we might be under the impression that the medicine has helped us, the sad truth is that by drying up the mucous membranes we have really only managed to "lock" into the system the very impurities that Nature was trying to get out of the system.

Sooner or later, when Nature recovers from this abuse, and when she regains her energies, she will make a renewed effort to rid herself of this excessive accumulation of toxic impurities. This time, Nature's effort might be in the form of yet another cold or, sensing that she never quite gets her way via this avenue, she might try and eliminate these impurities through some other acute manifestation. Yet on this occasion, because the drugs have only added to the toxic burden on the system, Nature's renewed effort at cleansing might well be far more vigorous, far more distressing, and far more serious.

Now we know why so many people have such a struggle with repeated bouts of coughs and colds - they simply never allow Nature to complete her work of expelling unwanted and excessive impurities from the system.

Yet this sad, sad story does not end there for, every time Nature makes a renewed effort to clean out the closets of the body, we again resort to drugs to suppress those efforts. Then, as Nature's efforts become more and more vigorous, and as they become more and more desperate, so we will in all likelihood resort to more and more potent suppressive medications - even to the point that we will take double the suggested dosage in our desperate effort to overcome our "dis-ease."

Eventually the level of impurities in the system becomes so excessive and so unnatural that the body is forced into violent and unnatural action - and now, seemingly out of the blue, we suddenly come down with a chronic ailment such as bronchitis or pneumonia - or even asthma. You see, once we understand the true nature of disease, there really is no mystery as to why . . .

`Pneumonia often follows the common cold.' (Harold Shryock M.D., Your Medical Guide, p. 439)

Dr. Benjamin explains why this is so . . .

`As in all toxic conditions affecting the health of the system, wrong feeding habits and general wrong living are the main factors concerned in the development of pneumonia in any given case, but suppressive medical treatment of previous disease plays a very big part in the matter too (especially the medical treatment of influenza). The driving back of toxic matter into the system, and its collection in the lung tissue as a result of the suppressive treatment of acute toxic conditions such as influenza, etc., often leads directly to the setting up of pneumonia.' (Everybody's Guide To Nature Cure, p. 322).

Quite simply, therefore, had we never suppressed the cold, and had we lived a little more sensibly, we should never have contracted pneumonia.

Nevertheless, once we "come down" with one of these more serious ailments, we will bemoan our bad luck, and we will curse the germs and whatever other factors that we consider to have caused our condition, but the truth is that in our ignorance we have unwittingly brought the more serious ailment upon ourselves. By the unwise use of drugs to suppress Nature's friendly effort to make us well, we have turned our beneficial acute ailment/s into a life-threatening sub-acute or chronic ailment.

Dr. Boris Chaitow, D.O. N.D. D.C., founder/director of one of the world's premier Hydro's - The High Rustenburg Hydro - warns of this very danger:

`If from time to time we suffer a headache, a cold, a fever, a skin eruption or any one of the many [acute] ailments to which man is subject, and through ignorance or neglect disregard nature's warnings, continuing to suppress the body's efforts to eliminate the provocation, then as surely as night follows day the price paid will be in the more deep-seated and chronic nature of the eventual disease.' (My Healing Secrets, p. 14)

Unfortunately, once we have been diagnosed with one of these more serious ailments then, unless we are in the hands of highly trained personnel, we have no option but to take suppressive drug medications because, at this stage, the body's desperate efforts to rid itself of this unnatural accumulation of toxic matter could very well suffocate or even kill us.

What is most tragic about this scenario, however, is the fact that the drugs that enable us to suppress Nature's cleansing efforts in the first place are available to us without prescription and without professional consultation.

This then is how we graduate from being voluntary users of over-the-counter drugs to being involuntary and possibly life-long users of dreadfully expensive prescription medications . . .

¤  medications that do not lessen but only add to the level of impurities in the system . . .

¤  medications that do not heal, but that only suppress Nature's healing efforts.

If ever there were a vicious cycle, this is it.  

Now, as we find ourselves locked into a medication program that keeps us alive, but that also keeps us from getting well, the tragic downward spiral can only continue.

As we dutifully take our medication, we will in all likelihood develop certain side-effects - and additional medications will be prescribed to suppress or to "mask" these side-effects. The original impurities are still in the system, the lifestyle and diet that gave rise to our problem in the first place have not been changed and are still contributing to the build-up of impurities in the system, and all the while the medications themselves are contributing to our toxic condition.

`It seems we are in a Catch 22 situation because the more drugs and chemicals we take in, the sicker we become, which to most people simply calls for more drugs and chemicals to treat the symptoms, and we then begin to develop even more serious illness requiring more drugs. One must not forget that all drugs and chemicals are foreign to our bodies, [not only] do they add severe stress to our already stressed-out systems, but they cause an excessive burden on the organs of elimination, suppress the immune system, and severely compromise the imbalance of cations [positive ions] and anions [negative ions] in our blood, which in turn prevents maximum efficiency of all body processes throughout. Our health then suffers. No wonder the chronic degenerative diseases are increasing every year and the drug companies and many health practitioners keep getting richer and richer while unsuspecting citizens get sicker and sicker.' (Dr Gus J. Prosch, Jr., M.D., The Perfect Plan For Perfect Peace, p.10)

No wonder, therefore, that today at least 80% of the USA's medical needs involve chronic, degenerative conditions such as heart disease, cancer, MS, and arthritis, as opposed to acute infectious disease and injury, which make up approximately 20%? What a tragedy!

Yet this tragic scenario continues year after year until we arrive at a situation that Dr. Warmbrand describes in his article in the chapter on Cancer. The body has now become so saturated with toxic impurities, and it has so long been in this condition, that the environment surrounding our cells has been radically changed. Now, in order for our cells to survive in this strange new environment, they are forced to alter their characteristics. As a result, our natural cells are transformed from normal cells, "members of the community of cells to which they originally belonged," into abnormal cells.

This in turn can lead to . . .

¤  tissues losing their natural properties - as in the case of connective tissue disease (scleroderma),

¤  mutation of cells - as in the case of cancer,

¤  destruction of cells - as in the case of emphysema.

¤  Sometimes, in a desperate effort to protect our systems from the influence of toxic impurities, the body will encapsulate the offending impurities - thus giving rise to a tumor (a lump) or a cyst. Then even the cyst can start to mutate (cysts on the womb sometimes even grow hair, nails and teeth?).

Is this really the awful truth? To be absolutely honest, and with respect to the many doctors, chemists and nurses who have entered their profession with only the best of humanitarian motives and intentions, and recognizing that conventional medicine is often superb in areas such as surgery, emergency, and trauma, I fear, as many have feared before me, that an awful mistake has been made - one that has cost humanity dearly.

As Dr. Benjamin laments . . .

`It is surely the greatest tragedy of modern times that men such as these, actuated by the best and highest motives, - motives for the alleviation of the sufferings of mankind - should, by virtue of the methods they employ, be directly instrumental in actually causing disease to be far more widespread and prevalent than it otherwise need be, simply because the whole of their practice is based upon and upholds a philosophy of disease which is so completely and irrevocably false, so completely "unaware" of the true facts of the matter.

`By the administration of drugs, vaccines, sera, anti-toxins, etc., and the extremely free use of surgery, the medical profession seeks to rid mankind of "disease," simply because it can never understand that "disease" is a natural attempt on the part of the body to protect and free itself from the harmful effect of poisons generated and accumulated in the system as a result of wrong living, dietetic and otherwise.' (Everybody's Guide To Nature Cure, p. 21, emphasis my own).

Notable Quotes

While the information above and below might raise questions about the approach and the beliefs of orthodox medicine, we need to record that we have no axe to grind with the medical profession. We do have serious concerns, however, about the fact that America's number three killer after heart disease and cancer is now adverse reactions to medication, with properly prescribed medication causing an estimated 100,000 deaths per year, and improperly prescribed medications causing a further 80,000 estimated deaths per year. That amounts to 180,000 families in one country who are being devastated by medicinal drugs every year. (by contrast, 58,000 Americans were killed during the entire Vietnam war). More than this, it is estimated that over 2.2 million people in the USA are being hospitalized because of serious reactions to medications per annum (1994 estimate). If we were to add to this the number of people who are more seriously ill as a result of inappropriate treatment, this would be a sorry picture indeed.

What really concerns us is the fact that of 120 medical schools surveyed in the USA, only 100 of them offered a one semester course in pharmacology, and in all cases this course was given early in the medical student's training. Then, to make matters even worse, only about one third of the nation’s medical schools require students to take a course in nutrition, and most of these courses are very brief. This all translates into the fact that the average doctor leaves medical school with little or no training in nutrition (yet it is now well known that six of the ten leading causes of death are directly related to diet), and little or no training in pharmacology (yet he will spend most of his medical career prescribing drugs). All of which means that the average doctor leaves medical school ill-prepared to teach his patients about disease prevention, ill-prepared to deal with his patient's real needs, and well prepared to accept and believe whatever he is told by the representatives from the drug companies.

Little wonder, therefore, that the majority of people in the USA today are choosing to consult with alternative practitioners. Having been founded on a misconception of disease, orthodox medicine has no hope of working, no hope of being the best bet when we are seeking healing and, as the above statistics confirm, no hope of being anything other than a risky choice. Yes, this is hard to believe, especially for those of us who have grown up believing in medicine, but if you have any doubts about what we are saying here, we highly recommend that you read Dr. Strand's book - see footnote below. Having read this book, you will understand why we believe as we do - that medicine today is more about making money than it is about healing people.

It is our sincere prayer, therefore, that this information will bring to light the obvious chinks in the medical armor, that it will help more than a few people to recognize those chinks, that it will help more people to consider drugs as an absolute last resort - and this with extreme caution, and that it will give at least some impetus to the medical reformation that is now long overdue.

Nutritional Ignorance:

`The art of healing is, to a great extent, the ability to cooperate with biologic processes in fortifying the natural immune system. As basic and logical as this principle is, medicine still finds it hard to adjust to recent biological and biochemical findings which emphasize the great role which natural, balanced nutrition plays in helping the body to heal itself and prevent disease.' (Dr. Michael Sharon, Complete Nutrition, p.9)

`Many people already are aware that doctors are woefully ignorant in nutrition. Only about one third of the nation’s (USA) medical schools require students to take a course in nutrition, and most of these courses are very brief. This is a shocking statistic, considering that six of the ten leading causes of death are directly related to diet.’ (Julian Witaker, M.D., as quoted by Dr. George A. Malkmus, God’s Way to Ultimate Health, p.75)

If it is true that "six of the ten leading causes of death are directly related to diet," then we might safely assume that most diseases are directly or indirectly related to diet. This being the case, the disclosures above confirm that the average general practitioner leaves college hopelessly ill-equipped to deal with the real needs of his patients . . .

Sincere Ignorance:

`My motive for going into medicine was to help people get well. Although I was able to manage some symptoms by using pharmaceuticals, I was unable to reverse any serious disease process or see my patients return to genuine wellness. `Then [after 15 years in practice] I learned that the Office of Technological Assessment of the United States Government had shown that 80 to 90 percent of the therapeutic approaches which were accepted by the medical profession as standard care were actually unproven! No wonder I wasn't seeing anyone cured! I suddenly realized that 80 to 90 percent of what I had been taught in medical school was unproven!' (Dr David A. Darbro, God's Way to Ultimate Health, p.ix-x)

`Science, technology, medicine, and the knowledge explosion seem to spell progress in every area of modern society. Yet, behind the scenes of apparent progress, we find an ever increasing amount of sickness, disease, ill health, fatigue, hospitalization, heart disease, cancer, and medical side effects.' (Dr. Albert Zehr, Healthy Steps, p.3)

Patient Ignorance:

`In all their habits . . . they have manifested a recklessness in regard to health and life; and when, as the result, sickness has come upon them they have made themselves believe that God was the author of it, when their own wrong course of action has brought the sure result. When in distress they send for the doctor, and trust their bodies in his hands, expecting that he will make them well. He deals out to them drugs, the nature of which they know nothing, and in their blind confidence they swallow anything that the doctor may choose to give. Thus powerful poisons are often administered which fetter nature in all her friendly efforts to recover the abuse the system has suffered, and the patient is hurried out of this life.' (E. G. White, How to Live, p.175)

Tragic Ignorance

`The effects of medicine on the human system are in the highest degree uncertain: except indeed that it has already destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine all combined.' (Dr Mason Good, a London Professor, As Quoted by Dr Hartley-Hennessey, Water the Healer, p.215)

`Orthodox medicine, by suppressing the outward manifestations and symptoms of disease and seemingly effecting a "cure", actually aids materially in the increase of disease - the very thing it is out to prevent!' (Harry Benjamin, N.D., Everybody's Guide to Nature Cure, pp.22)

`In the April 15, 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, an analysis of drug side effects found that toxic reactions to correctly prescribed medications make more than two million Americans seriously ill every year and kill 106,000 [per annum], putting the side effects of doctor-directed drug taking among the top 10 causes of death in the United States. Among children, antibiotics and vaccines cause more adverse reactions than any other prescribed medicines, according to a Canadian study presented at the American Academy of Allergy and Asthma in 1998.' (Barbara Loe Fisher, Redflagsweekly.com)

`The British Law Commission's report of 1974 by Britain's top doctors and lawyers disclosed that 1000 handicapped children are born weekly in Britain suffering the effects of drugs and medical treatment during the mother's pregnancy. Dr. R. Bellingham said that in Australia, one in every fifty children born had major abnormalities.' (Dr. M. Silverman, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, As Quoted by Ross Horne, The Health Revolution, p.340)

`There are segments of the population who use drugs about which research has never been done as to the safety and efficacy of those drugs in that particular group. For example, there are therapeutic orphans: 90% of the drugs used on children were never tested for use on children.' (Dr James P. Carter, Racketeering in Medicine,  p.185)

`The anti-arthritis drug, Opren, killed many elderly people partly because they had lost their ability to break down the drug quickly and excrete its dangerous components from their bodies. Yet Opren was never thoroughly tested on people above the age of 65, even though arthritis is a disease which mainly afflicts the old.' (Dr. Joe Collier, The Health Conspiracy, p.59)

`Drug medication, no matter in what disguise or under what name it is practiced, consists in employing, as remedies for diseases, those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia medica is simply a list of drugs, chemicals, dyestuffs -in a word, POISONS. They may be vegetable, animal or mineral, and may be called "apothecary stuff" or medicines; but they are nevertheless poisons . . . all are incompatible with vital functions; all are antagonistic to living matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living domain; ALL ARE POISONOUS . . . I would reject drugs if there were no other remedial agents in the universe, because if I could not do good I would cease to do evil. I would not poison a person because he is sick. No physician has ever yet given the world a reason that would bear the ordeal of one moment's scientific examination, why a sick person should be poisoned more than should a well person; and I do not believe the world will endure until he finds such a reason. The medical profession may prosecute this enquiry another 3,000 years and destroy other hundreds of millions of the human race in experiments with drugs and doses, but they will never arrive any nearer to a solution to the problem. They will never be able to give a satisfactory answer to the question, for none exists.' (Dr. Russell D. Trall, As Quoted by Dr B. Jensen, You can Master Disease, p.43)

`Aspirin use in Britain is the cause of more than 7,000 hospital admissions for acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage each year, and of six per cent of cases of anemia.' (Dr A. Melville & C. Johnson, Cured to Death, p.165)

`There is general agreement that an association exists between the use of the pill and subsequent development of thrombotic stroke (stroke brought on by clotting of blood) . . . The risks are increased by age, obesity and by cigarette smoking. Irritability and chronic fatigue can progressively increase in frequency and severity and the term "bitchiness" has been used to describe this condition. These changes may affect the personality of the previously happy, active and loving young wife in a way that neither the husband nor the wife can understand. Is it possible that these ill-understood personality changes could be contributing to the high divorce rate . . . ?' (Ian Wiseman, Druggists Digest, No 1/85, p.2)

`When it was thought that oral contraceptives were only very rarely associated with thrombosis, stroke and other serious cardiovascular hazards, the risk was generally disregarded. As information accumulated, it became clear that the rise in the probability of some sort of cardiovascular disease is enormous, especially for women over thirty-five and those who smoke. For oral contraceptive users the risk of stroke, for example, has been found to be twenty-six times the risk for women of a similar age who do not use the Pill.' (Dr A. Melville & C. Johnson, Cured to Death, p.16)

`Every additional drug given to the patient will complicate the case, and make the patient's recovery more hopeless. An evil, simple in the beginning, which nature aroused herself to overcome, and which she would have done if left to herself, aided by the common blessings of Heaven, has been made tenfold worse by introducing drug poisons into the system, which cause of themselves a destructive disease, forcing into extraordinary action the remaining life forces to war against and overcome the drug intruder.' (Ellen Gould White, How to Live, p.57)

In Summary

`Much as we cling to the notion of science as a force of redemption, our faith is misplaced. The truth of it is that medical science actually isn't working too well. The United States and Britain are losing the `War on Cancer.' Despite state-of-the-art mammogram screening equipment and surgical techniques, breast cancer mortality rates stubbornly refuse to fall. Despite hundreds of thousands of prescriptions of cholesterol drugs and the hundreds of thousands of eggs avoided on low-cholesterol diets, heart attack rates in the West basically remain unchanged. With all the fancy chemicals and computerized testing equipment we have to hand, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, cancer - virtually all the chronic degenerative diseases known to mankind - are thriving, and medicine hasn't [positively] affected their incidence one tiny bit.' (Lynne McTaggart, What Doctors Don't Tell You, p.5)

`For most of those who decide to consult their doctor, prescribed relief is purely symptomatic [dealing with symptoms instead of causes]; it is designed to deal only with the symptoms offered by the patient. Medication may suppress symptoms but it will not affect their source, and the result can be indefinite drug use [which is good for business] or the production of more symptoms as the body tries to reinforce its original message [which is also good for business]. A circle of increasing medication and proliferating of symptoms is set up which can have no healthy outcome. Even treatment which is aimed at a perceived cause of illness - such as antibiotics for an infection - will not take account of the crucial precipitating factors which led the patient to fall ill. The pursuit of symptomatic relief solely through the use of medication is clearly unsatisfactory.

`Unless the condition is self-limiting, eradicating symptoms generally has one of two outcomes. Either the patient remains on medication in a more or less stable state of pharmacosis [drugged state], or the condition worsens and the process of symptomatic relief is intensified. The best that can be hoped for is the permanent repression of symptoms at the price of becoming a permanent patient. It must be accepted that very few modern pharmaceuticals have anything to do with promoting health. They are predominantly concerned with servicing illness by masking symptoms and creating illusions. Cures are rare, but cushions and crutches abound in the pharmaceutical armory. The question must be answered: are drugs doing more harm than good?' (Dr A. Melville M.D. & C. Johnson, Cured to Death, pp.188,220)

`We are still emerging from the darkness, waging war against `disease' instead of war against the cause of disease; we are still struggling along the road of so-called progress and yet we are still completely blind to the fundamental laws of health and life that were so clear to the ancient philosophers.' (T. Hartley- Hennessy, A.R.C.A., Healing By Water, p.29)

`Western medicine has made a fundamental error in allowing itself to become reliant on the universal use of drugs. Drugs have become the predominant force in health car, to the detriment of other approaches.' (Dr. Arabella Melville & Colin Johnson, Cured to Death, p.3)

`If the whole Materia Medica [encyclopedia of drugs] as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind.' (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

`The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.' (Thomas A. Edison)

Highly Recommended Reading

Please take note that the Natural Health Foundation does not derive any financial benefit from any publication that is recommended on this website.

Overdosed America, Dr John Abramson, Harper, ISBN: 978 0 06 056853 5 (First published 2004). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs, Patrick Holford & Jerome Burne, Piatkus, ISBN: 0 7499 2766 6 (First published 2006)

Selling Sickness, How the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients. Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels, ISBN-10: 1-56025-856-X or IBN-13: 978-1-56025-856-8

Death By Prescription: by Dr. Ray D. Strand. This experienced doctor writes his patients prescriptions every week, but he also believes that prescribing drugs should be the last resort in most medical cases - not the first choice. In this book Dr Strand provides simple guidelines to help you protect yourself and your family from suffering adverse reactions to prescription medication. (Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-7852-6484-1)

The Health Conspiracy. "Dr Joe Collier, a clinical pharmacologist in a London teaching hospital, explains why the national and community emphasis has never been on prevention rather than cure. He demonstrates how the Department of Health, the Universities and the medical establishment have all been undermined by the cash and lobbying power of the giant drug companies." (Century Hutchinson. ISBN 0-7126-1859-7)

Cured To Death, Dr Arabella Melville & Colin Johnson, "A fine cogent analysis of drug side-effects and the harmful consequences of our profound belief in drug therapy for all diseases, discomforts and distresses." (New English Library. ISBN 0-450-05637-6)

Racketeering in Medicine - The Suppression of Alternatives by Dr James P. Carter. Can we assume that our health is always the prime concern of organized medicine? Or are the world's citizens being deprived of effective, economical treatments because those treatments are not highly profitable for surgeons and pharmaceutical companies? Dr James Carter exposes disturbing and thought-provoking evidence . . . (Hampton Roads Publishing Company. ISBN 1-878901-32-X)

Proceed To Chapter 10: Now that we have a good understanding of the nature and purpose of disease, and now that we better appreciate the very real dangers of drug therapy, we are well positioned to consider how our acute ailments should be treated.

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