Article originally titled Drama In The Medical World

Published in 1964 by The Journal of Borderland Research

by J. A. Morrill

Under our great enterprise economy, famed for its industrial wealth, its cartels, its power politics, its kickbacks, and billion dollar grants to buy anti-communist friends, there have emerged wealthy and powerful political action associations. These are organized for the purpose of safe guarding and advancing the material welfare of their membership through co-operative action. These organizations maintain highly paid lobbyists in the nation’s capital to prevent the passage of legislation they regard as inimical to their interests, and work for the passage of legislation favorable to their interests. The public interests seldom receive any consideration.

Outstanding among these behemoths of political skullduggery is the American Medical Association, probably the most powerful because its tentacles reach out from the capital into every town and city in the United States, holding in their hands the power of life and death. Too often the angel of death haunts the hospital corridors where patients suffering from the most cruel diseases are being treated.

We are not criticizing those individual members of the AMA who lead dedicated lives, and give generously of their time and skill often at personal expense. We are discussing the problem of cancer, and our criticism is that of the high command of the AMA responsible for its policy. In this field, individual AMA members have been placed in straight jackets. It seems quite apparent the only weapons they are permitted in the fight against cancer to use, are those three recognized as standard by the high command. These are the surgeon’s knife, X-ray treatments, and radium. Cobalt is also sometimes used. Some case histories reveal that these forms sometimes spread cancer instead of stopping it. Incredible as it may seem, no further research is being made to find other successful treatment. The American Cancer Society not withstanding all the millions of dollars tossed into its lap by the trusting public, as yet has nothing to offer except its shop worn slogan, “Come through with a check and a checkup” which literally means that surgery is the answer. Surgery, popular with the profession because it brings fatter fees, sometimes brings about a cure, but it proves to be only a temporary one in many cases.

Outside the AMA, independent doctors, realize the futility of surgery, X-rays, and radium as a cure for cancer and therefore have been conducting research and experimentation in this field. Over the past years they have come up with some remarkable effective treatments for this disease. All of these have been effectively suppressed in the U.S.A. by the AMA using their chore boy the F.D.A. and the P.H.S. Until today, patients had to journey either to Canada or to Mexico to obtain these advanced forms of treatment.

This almost incredible story is just now coming into the public view in books, giving the intimate stories of the persecution of the promoters, outstanding among which are the Dr. Hoxey medication, Dr. Koch’s Glyoxlide, Dr. Lincoln’s treatment, Krebiozen and Laetrile. Also from the Canada came Dr. Hett’s serum formula. We will touch here just briefly upon the struggle that these men had against overwhelming odds.

HOXEY

Dr. Harry Hoxey operated a cancer clinic in Dallas, Texas, coming into the lime light in 1949. He really got under the skin of the AMA because thousands of patients flocked into his clinic and a remarkably high percentage were cured. Some arrived on stretchers and left by their own power. The Senator Tobey Investigating Committee visited the clinic and gave it the green light. He won a libel suit against Dr. Fishbein, Secretary of the AMA, but his victory was short-lived, for while he was hauled into court and tried on technical grounds, he was also deprived of his license to practice. We understand that today he is operating a clinic in Mexico. A former patient of Dr. Hoxey’s, a post surgery case, given a new hold on life, told this writer that the outstanding feature at the Hoxey clinic was the atmosphere of cheerfulness and optimism which prevailed among both patients and attendants. The former went there with the conviction that they would get well, and most of them did.

KOCH

William F. Koch M.D. Professor of histology and physiology at the University of Michigan was one of the first non-conformists to attract the ire of the AMA. As a member of the old school of medicine he had made the study of cancer, its cause and treatment, his life work. In 1918 he developed Glyoxylide an oxidative catalyst as a treatment for cancer. Given intramuscularly and reacting in the blood stream as a catalyst, it broke down and then destroyed the toxins upon which the cancer virus fed, and thus weakened the virus itself. This treatment at the same time broke down oxidation. The success of this treatment is revealed in its wide spread use by independent doctors in many states from the Atlantic to the Pacific. About this time, Dr. Koch was twice tried in the federal courts on charges originating with the AMA of the fraudulent misrepresentation of his remedy. In his defense, he presented on the witness stand an impressive array of doctors, nurses, attendants, treated patients, and relatives all testifying to the good effects of his treatment. At both of these trials, the jury refused to convict, and therefore action by the AMA banning Glyoxylide brought an end to the use of this useful drug in the curing of cancer. Discouraged, he went to Brazil at the invitation of the government there to head their public health service in wiping out jungle fever.

LINCOLN

The Dr. Lincoln treatment for cancer made headlines and the Congressional Record when Senator Charles Tobey of New Hampshire, in his speech early in 1950 announced that his son Charles Tobey, Jr. had been cured of cancer at the Lincoln Center at Medford, Massachusetts. The treatment was described as an inhalator and a bacteriological phage. These terms sounded quackish to AMA ears, as indeed they branded him a quack. Nevertheless, this remarkable treatment did work in the cure of cancer.

LAETRILE

Dr. Ernest J. Krebs, Sr. of San Francisco spent thirty years of his life during his practice of medicine in the study, research, and experimentation, trying to find a real cure for cancer. During the last ten years, his son Dr. Krebs, Jr. gave almost his entire life to this work. In studying the reports of other researchers he came across a report issued by Dr. John Beard of Edinburgh, Scotland revealing a new theory as to the origin of cancer to the effect that both the origin and cure lie within the human body as the unitarian-trophoblastic cell theory. This cell in its form is a duplicate of the cancer cell itself, but its primary function is to give sustenance to the embryo during its first fifty-six days, after which it is destroyed by the enzymes through the periodic gland failure, in which the cell would be receptive to malignancy. The treatment then is duplicated by the enzymes originating with the pancreatic glands.

This chemical element was found in the pits of apricots, a type of cyanide which effectively controlled the cancer cells, but had to be combined with another element to prevent injury to the surrounding tissues. This he found, and the finished serum was called laetrile. For the first test on humans, he took an injection into his blood stream and found that he had been successful. There were no harmful side effects. In 1958, having been denied the green light by the AMA, in spite of favorable tests that were submitted, laetrile came to the attention of the McNaughton Laboratories in Montreal, Canada. Canadian doctors experimenting with this new remedy, were amazed with the favorable results that were obtained. Today, the McNaughton Laboratories are producing this new serum, and it is available under prescription from qualified physicians [now illegal in U.S.].

KREBIOZEN

Krebiozen, the most recent cancer treatment and probably the most controversial of them all, came to the public attention when presented to the FDA for the green light in the U.S.A. This medication, also based on the theory of the origin and treatment originating within the human body, began with Dr. Stevan Durovic in Yugoslavia. It is extracted from hormones and enzymes found in the blood stream of horses, and submitted in the form of a powder from which the serum was made. Dr. Durovic came to Chicago in 1949 on the advice that he consult with Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of the University of Illinois who rated high in American Pathology and held many degrees from institutions of higher learning. In Dr. Ivy’s report, he stated that tumor growth was arrested in 52% of 2,934 patients who took Krebiozen – 95% of whom were in terminal or last ditch stage prior to that treatment. He also said that only 12% did not improve. In spite of these impressive reports, the FDA ignored case histories that were presented, and based their verdict on their own so-called laboratory tests to the effect that Krebiozen had no value in the treatment of cancer. However, the last chapter has not yet been written in the story of Krebiozen.

HETT

The most tragic figure in this unfolding drama, is that of Canadian born Dr. J. E. Hett. He spent more than fifty years of his life as a general practitioner and dedicated his life and work to the study of the cause and cure of cancer. He started his research work about the year 1903. In 1911 he went to Europe to compare notes with researchers there and to study their methods. In 1931 he produced and began using his formula, a serum given intravenously. By 1953 he had published a book entitled, “Cancer, Its Causes, Prevention, and The New Treatment”. It was a summing up of his life’s work in that field. By 1950, Dr. Hett was still practicing medicine, and his remedy was used only to some extent in the Pacific Coastal area. It was during the same year that this writer contacted a French doctor practicing in San Diego, Dr. Couche, then in his eightieth year, who had been associated with Dr. Hett in the treatment of his cancer patients, told of a remarkable record of cures and relief of pain in the treatment of many cases. This was even in cases where the virus had invaded the bone structure. Meanwhile, the AMA had taken notice of this treatment and resolved that it must come to an end. The closing chapter of Dr. Hett’s long and useful life of dedicated service to the relief of human suffering is summed up in a quotation from a letter written May 7, 1964 from a prominent L.A. Physician who was using the Dr. Hett formula in 1950:

“It may interest you to know that Dr. Hett was severely persecuted and jailed and had to fight to clear his name because he was using this treatment. I visited Dr. Hett four times and was very impressed with his method. Unfortunately, the Medical profession of today considers everything except the standard methods as “Quackery” and makes it almost impossible for a doctor who is a member of the AMA to practice anything except the standard method which unfortunately does not always produce uniform results in the cure for cancer!”

This climaxing episode brought to an end the professional career of Dr. Hett. His only crime being that his life-saving medication, produced in Canada, had strayed across the border into the forbidden domain of the AMA who wanted no cure for cancer outside of their own hands. He had been approached by some American interests offering a considerable sum for the exclusive use of his formula. This the Dr. declined, fearing the adulteration or sabotaging of his remedy. There is no question as to the effectiveness of this treatment. In this book, Dr. Hett quoted several case histories with almost uniform results. First the relief of pain, then the checking of the virus. It also was a test of the presence of the malignancy of cancer. For as the first injection of the serum produced immediate chills and fever where there was a malignancy. So far as we know, this serum perished with the death of Dr. Hett.

Conclusion

The outstanding revelation presented here is that a well financed, well organized group for political action can acquire greater power and influence than the government itself. Not only did the AMA suppress the distribution of these effective cancer cures in the U.S.A. but there was the case of the Senator Tobey Investigating Committee headed by Attorney Benedict Fitzgerald and staffed by recognized specialists in the field of chemistry and pathology. After an exhaustive investigation of the various cancer remedies in use in the early 1950s they gave the green light to the Hoxey cancer clinic, Koch glyoxylide, Drosnes-Lazenbey, Lincoln, Inhalant therapy and Krebiozen. Their report, turned over to Senator John Bricker who had succeeded Senator Tobey, was never presented to the U.S. Senate Body. Why not?

Also, I bring to the attention of our readers, what promises to be a nationwide organization called the International Association Of Cancer Victims and Friends dedicated to the right of life. [Now renamed Cancer Control Society – website here]. Their purpose is to secure the qualified medical doctor the right to use whatever therapy for cancer that he deems advisable and which his patients may request.