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because it changed form. Livingston and Alexander-Jackson asserted: because it changed form. Livingston and Alexander-Jackson _ story. asserted: Thus, within the few, short years from 1934 to 1939, the cure "The organism has remained an unclassified mystery, due in for cancer was clinically demonstrated and expanded into curing part to its remarkable pleomorphism and its stimulation of other other diseases on a daily basis by other doctors, and then terminat- micro-organisms. Its various phases may resemble viruses, ed when Morris Fishbein of the AMA was not allowed to "buy micrococci, diptheroids, bacilli, and fungi." in". It was a practice he had developed into a cold art, but never again would such a single mercenary deed doom millions of THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Americans to premature, ugly deaths. It was the AMA's most The American Medical Association was formed in 1846 but it shameful hour. wasn't until 1901 that a reorganisation enabled it to gain power Another major institution which 'staked its claim’ in the virgin over how medicine was practised territory of cancer research in the 1930-1950 throughout America. By becoming a period was Memorial Sloan-Kettering confederation of state medical associa- : : Cancer Center in New York. Established in tions and forcing doctors who wanted to ..the cure for cancer was 1884 as the first cancer hospital in America,. join the stale association, the AMA soon Clinically demonstrated and TS"os0. was tne cone of drug testing fe Ee ah oes expanded into curing other = a eannsind ae. majority of physicians. Then, by accred- A . see ‘ornelius P. Rhoads, who had spent the iting medical schools, it began determin- diseases on a daily basis by 1930s at the Rockefeller penta ataned Those who refused to conform lost heir Other doctors, and then to ean aved mn that postion unt his licence to a medicine. a terminated when Morris — ay aw Rhoads ~~ the _ 4 > Morris Fishbein was the virtual dictator e . chemical warfare service from 1943-1945, of the AMA from the mid-1920s until he Fishbein of the AMA was and afterwards became the nation's premier was ousted on June 6, 1949 at the AMA not allowed to "buy in". advocate of chemotherapy. convention in Atlantic City. But even It was Dr Rhoads who prevented Dr Irene after he was forced from his position of Diller from announcing the discovery of the power because of a revolt from several : . cancer micro-organism to the New York state delegations of doctors, the policies he had set in motioncon- Academy of Sciences in 1950. It also was Dr Rhoads who tinued on for many years. He died in the early 1970s. arranged for the funds for Dr Caspe's New Jersey laboratory to be A few years after the successful cancer clinic of 1934,DrR.T. cancelled after she announced the same discovery in Rome in Hamer, who did not participate in the clinic, began to use the pro- 1953. An IRS investigation, instigated by an unidentified, power- cedure in Southern California. According to Benjamin Cullen, ful New York cancer authority, added to her misery, and the labo- who observed the entire development of the cancer cure from idea _ratory was closed. to implementation, Fishbein found out and tried to “buy in". Thus the major players on the cancer field are the doctors, the When he was tured down, Fishbein unleashed the AMA to private research institutions, the pharmaceutical companies, the destroy the cancer cure. Cullen recalled: American Cancer Society, and also the US government through "Dr Hamer ran an average of forty cases a day through his the National Cancer Institute (organising research) and the Food place. He had to hire two operators. He trained them and aid Drug Administration (the dreaded FDA which keeps the out- watched them very closely. The case histories were mounting siders on the defensive through raids, legal harassment, and up very fast. Among them was this old man from Chicago. He expensive testing procedures). had «2 ma anc 4, araund hie fara and nacl It ume 3 ann "The organism has remained an unclassified mystery, due in part to its remarkable pleomorphism and its stimulation of other micro-organisms. Its various phases may resemble viruses, micrococci, diptheroids, bacilli, and fungi." "Dr Hamer ran an average of forty cases a day through his place. He had to hire two operators. He trained them and watched them very closely. The case histories were mounting up very fast. Among them was this old man from Chicago. He had a malignancy all around his face and neck. It was a go mass. Just terrible. Just a red gory mass. It had taken over all around his face. It had taken off one eyelid at the bottom of the eye. It had taken off the bottom of the lower lobe of the ear and had also gone into the cheek area, nose and chin. He was a sight to behold." "But in six months all that was left was a little black spot on the side of his face and the condition of that was such that it was about to fall off. Now that man was 82 years of age. | never saw anything like it. The delight of having a lovely clean skin again, just like a baby's skin." "Well he went back to Chicago. Naturally he couldn't keep still and Fishbein heard about it. Fishbein called him in and the old man was kind of reticent about telling him. So Fishbein wined and dined him and finally learned about his cancer treat- ment by Dr Hamer in the San Diego clinic." "Well soon a man from Los Angeles came down. He had sev- eral meetings with us. Finally he took us out to dinner and broached the subject about buying it. Well we wouldn't do it. The renown was spreading and we weren't even advertising. But of course what did it was the case histories of Dr Hamer. He said that this was the most marvellous development of the age. His case histories were absolutely wonderful " "Fishbein bribed a partner in the company. With the result we were kicked into court—operating without a license. | was broke after a year." THE MAN WHO FOUND THE CURE FOR CANCER In 1913, a man with a love for machines and a scientific curiosi- ty, arrived in San Diego after driving across the country from New York. He had been born in Elkhorn, Nebraska, was 25 years old, and very happily married. He was about to start a new life and open the way to a science of health which will be honoured far into the future. His name was Royal Raymond Rife. Close friends, who loved his gentleness and humility while being awed by his genius, called him Roy. Royal R. Rife was fascinated by bacteriology, microscopes and electronics. For the next seven years (including a mysterious period in the Navy during World War I in which he travelled to Europe to investigate foreign laboratories for the US government), he thought about and experimented in a variety of fields as well as mastered the mechanical skills necessary to build instruments such as the world had never imagined. By the late 1920s, the first phase of his work was completed. He had built his first microscope, one that broke the existing prin- ciples, and he had constructed instruments which enabled him to electronically destroy specific pathological micro-organisms. Rife believed that the minuteness of the viruses made it impos- sible to stain them with the existing acid or aniline dye stains, He'd have to find another way. Somewhere along the way, he made an intuitive leap often associated with the greatest scientific discoveries. He conceived first the idea and then the method of staining the virus with light. He began building a microscope In 1939, under pressure from the local medical society, Dr R. T. Hamer abandoned the cure. He is not one of the heroes of this 26*NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1993