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information was derived from Daniel Haley's book, "Politics In
Healing." All quotes have a bracketed page number by them. Thank you.
Gavin Phillips.
Dr Koch and Glyoxylide/Malonide
These days polio is a virtually unheard
of disease in America. But there was a time when it was devastating and greatly
feared. In August 1949, 19-year-old Mary Lou Barnes’ leg gave way. The next day
the leg became paralyzed and their doctor, Harold Wilson, told them it was
Polio. Wilson injected Mary with 2cc of Glyoxylide. The next day sensation
returned to Mary’s leg and that evening she came down to dinner. The news of
Mary’s startling recovery immediately made headline news across the country.
This was the first time Wilson had used Glyoxylide and he asked city hospital
authorities if he could try it on more Polio cases. Permission was denied. The
AMA had blacklisted the drug. In December 1952 the local branch of the AMA
expelled Wilson from membership thereby denying him hospital privileges. It
didn’t matter that Dr. Wilson had done his job and saved Mary from at least
severe physical problems, probably paralysis. What was important to the AMA was
that he had done it using a drug unapproved by them.
Glyoxylide/Malonide was developed by
Dr. William Koch (pronounced “Coke”). Koch (1885-1967) received his BA, MA and
Ph.D. (Biochemistry) all from the University of Michigan. In 1914 he became
professor of physiology at the Detroit College of Medicine where he earned his
MD in 1918. Koch noticed that cancer and other diseases broke down the bodies
oxidation system; if there was healthy oxidation in the body there was no
disease. Koch decided to develop a nondestructive cancer therapy that would
work with the body’s natural chemistry. He found that heart and brain tissue
was particularly resistant to oxygen starvation. He identified carbonyl
compounds as being responsible for producing energy and was vital to the body’s
oxidation process. Now it was time to test his theory, and in 1917 he was given
his chance. A woman in late stages of metastasis liver cancer in a Detroit
hospital was only expected to live a week. Koch gave her a carbonyl rich
extract of heart and brain tissue. When visiting the following week Koch found
the hospital bed empty and assumed she had died. The following June however Koch was
astounded to bump into the woman on the street who gave him a big hug. The
woman said she’d asked after him but the hospital had lied and told her he went
off to work for the U.S. Army.
After Koch wrote an article about this
in the Detroit Medical Journal an AMA representative came to visit. He asked
for all rights to the treatment as well as all the research and methodology of
creating it. Not surprisingly, Koch refused. A couple of months later Koch was
denounced as a quack in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). Koch soon
developed a method of creating oxygen rich carbonyls synthetically that was far
cheaper and easier than the complex heart and brain tissue extract. They were
called Glyoxylide and Malonide. A simple explanation of Koch’s treatment is
that it kick starts the body’s oxidation system.
In 1919 Koch requested the Wayne County
Medical Society to appoint a committee to test his treatment in five terminal
cancer cases. The committee chose five “stretcher” cases, all at deaths door.
Koch treated them and in three weeks they were all up and about, cheerful and
gaining strength. The committee immediately ordered them all home and “forbade them any more care from Koch.” (p
55). The committee’s final report was no results. Koch wrote about one of the
patients’ recoveries in his 1955 book,
“Survival Factor.”
“Mrs.
Edith Fritts had cancer of the uterus proven by laporotomy as extending
throughout the abdomen and perforating the stomach so as to cause severe
bleeding. She lived fifteen years in good health after the treatment and died
from an accident. The coroner’s autopsy showed no cancer was present…” Koch had
given Edith one shot of Glyoxylide. "(p55.)
In 1923 Koch appealed to the committee
to change its false report made in 1919. They refused. Dr. Dewey M.D., a
professor of homeopathy at the University of Michigan had observed the Cancer
Committee’s official review and wrote to Koch on October 25, 1924.
“I
have received what is termed the latest report on your treatment. This claims to
be an account of the séance held on Nov. 5, 1923, at which I was present and
took notes of each case. For a studied intent to falsify, a premeditated
determination to condemn everything, and an unscientific, un-American
assumption to be judge, jury, and prosecuting witnesses, the report of this
so-called committee outstrips in bias, unfairness, and mendacity anything that
has ever been my lot to observe in a medical practice of forty-two years.”(
p56/57.)
The letter concludes “I hope that some day your treatment will
have an investigation before a body of seekers after the truth. These you will
not find in American official medicine, which is a trust to keep all progress
not coming from it’s own out of the field.” Incredibly, during 30 some
years of Koch’s therapy being used in the U.S. the Wayne County Medical
Society’s “trial” is the only official test ever carried out despite repeated
requests from Koch.
Dr. C. Everett Field of the Radium
Institute of New York reviewed the Institute’s October 1923’s “Investigation of Thirty-Four Koch Cases”. Field
wrote, “The exhibit without doubt formed
the most remarkable experience of my medical career.” (p57) Field spent
many years documenting and publishing the results of many of Koch’s cases.
Field was also reprimanded by the AMA for supporting Koch and suffered as a
result.
In 1935 Koch went to Belgium at the
invitation of Dr. Maisin who was a world-renowned cancer expert. Six weeks
later a group of powerful American doctors came to Belgium and tried to convince
Maisin that Koch was a fraud. But Maisin was only interested in the truth and
told them, “I am convinced it is
scientifically sound and clinically efficient.” (p63) The motive for the
American’s visit was that one of them had large investments in radium and did
not want competition from Koch’s treatment.
Dr. Arnott was acquainted with Maisin
and told the Ontario Cancer Commission (1939) what Maisin had told him. (p64)
Dr. Koch’s
formula is a new method for treating disease. The Koch formula should not be
called merely a cure for cancer. It is a very important step and is likely to
change the whole picture of medicine and pathology because of the clinical
results.
In January 1943 Koch was in court
fighting the first of two trials brought by the FDA for supposed labeling fraud
. It is in large part because of these two trials that we know how effective
and how much evidence there was to support Glyoxylide’s effectiveness. Koch
organized a large amount of case histories with biopsies and patient testimonials.
The
Koch lawyers presented hard evidence of cures of cancer of the bone, uterus,
stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, ….,breast…as well as cures of TB, polio,
asthma, heart thrombosis, leprosy, hyperthropic arthritis…The government
lawyers presented various experts who admitted they had no experience with the
Koch therapies. Still, they testified, Glyoxylide and Malonide could not be
effective “in their opinion.” (p71-72)
One particular case was Wesley Roebuck,
who had surgery in 1926 for cancer of the stomach. The disease returned so he
went to Koch and received a shot of Glyoxylide. The cancer cleared up and he
testified at Koch’s trial over 14 years later and cancer free. In the first
trial, two newspapers closely followed the proceedings, the “Detroit Times” and the “Detroit Free Press.” Headlines taken
form court testimony read, (p72)
Three
Cancer Cures Put in Record at the Koch Trial…Hospital Executive gives Case
Histories as Defense Witness…Doctor Testifies Koch Formula Aided 16
Cases…Cancer Doctor Says Koch Cure Replaced X-Rays.
Even though Koch provided vast amounts
of evidence that his treatment worked it was a hung Jury. The country was at
war. Americans found it difficult to believe the government would suppress an
effective cancer treatment. Koch’s second trial in 1946 was declared a
mistrial.
Dr. Albert Wahl of Mt. Vision, NY, is
an interesting example of how people can change dogmatic opinions when they
investigate, or are forced to face, the facts for themselves. For
years Wahl dismissed Koch’s treatment as worthless, basing his opinion on JAMA
misinformation. His sister became ill with cancer and his father took her to
Koch, over Wahl’s objections. “She
promptly recovered in characteristic fashion” (p81) Wahl wrote in his 1947
book “Least Common Denominator,” in
which he documented 150 cures he had observed using the Koch treatment. Wahl
said of the Koch treatment, “The most
startling element is the utter simplicity of the Koch treatments… After using
them, I felt I’d never practiced medicine before.”(p81/82)
Fearing further government harassment
and possible further trials that he could not afford to defend against, Koch
left the U.S. in 1948 never to return. He died in 1967 and with him went Glyoxylide.
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