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Alive and Well

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Dedication

***** This book is dedicated to my wife Betty who stood by me through all of the trouble she wou...

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to my six children for their support and generous help in so many ways: Mary Anne a...

Preface

First of all, please understand that all that follows is absolutely and completely the fault of M...

Introduction

You are about to discover that the author of this book is no ordinary doctor. He is one of those ...

Chapter One: Case Dismissed

It was early December, 1977. My office girl, Ruthie Coe, called me on my intercom to tell me that...

Chapter Two: The Nutrition Connection

So, how did a Family Physician from a small town in Ohio ever get involved in a conflict with the...

Chapter Three: New Doc on the Block

After having spent those eight months studying all of the material sent to me by The Committee fo...

Chapter Four: Preparing for Battle

To the best of my knowledge, there was no law in the State of Ohio which would prevent me from us...

Chapter Five: The Battle Begins

My first confrontation with the FDA came when Patrick Mahoney, a long time friend, who was then w...

Chapter Six: Laetrile and Cyanide

In Chapter Five I mentioned the testimony of a doctor from the FDA who said that Laetrile contain...

Chapter Seven: Debunking the Debunkers

Between the years 1975 and 1980 there were so many things happening that I am sure I do not remem...

Chapter Eight: The Joey Hofbauer Story

One Tuesday night about eight o'clock, in late November, 1978, I received a telephone call from P...

Chapter Nine: The Media

At the beginning of Chapter Seven, I stated that there were many things going on in the years bet...

Chapter Ten: Re-Enter the State Medical Board

After my 1976 confrontation with the Ohio State Medical Board, I heard nothing from them until Se...

Chapter Eleven: The Total Nutritional Program

In Chapter Two, I discussed the work done by Drs. Krebs, Burk, Nieper, Contreras, Navarro and Sak...

Chapter Twelve: Boring Statistics and Exciting Cases

Nothing that has been said so far in this book would be of any significance if them were not some...

Stories

Chapter Thirteen: The Quality of Life

In the previous chapter I talked mostly about the quantity of life (the length of life) that I wa...

Chapter Fourteen: Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom!

The most logical question for anyone to ask at this point is, "If nutritional therapy is as succe...

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