This 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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