In Memoriam:
Wayne E. Martin, B.S.
June 17, 1911 - May 13, 2006
by Perry A.Chapdelaine,Sr.
The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation
for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease
aka The Arthritis Trust of America/
The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation
Wayne E. Martin, B.S.
During the past twenty four years we’ve been fortunate to
have Wayne Martin as one of our most esteemed advisors. Wayne
was not just a knowledgeable advisor, but also a fine friend, one
who unstiningly gave of his medical knowledge to whomever in-
quired.
Wayne Martin graduated from Purdue University with a BS
in Chemical Engineering in 1933 with major emphasis on biochem-
istry and bacteriology. Depression years prevented him from ob-
taining a medical degree, his first love, but did not stop him from a
lifetime of interesting synthesis of the world’s medical literature,
often resulting in discoveries of interesting treatments used today
by many complementary/alternative medical practitioners.
His professional work in Chemical Engineering also resulted in
remarkable findings results of which are still used by people every-
where. Ninety percent of the beryllium copper alloys used world-
wide contain 1.80% of beryllium instead of the more expensive
form of 2.2 to 2.5% beryllium set by Germans at the Siemans and
Haliske Company. Working at the Beryllium Corporation, Wayne
Martin in 1935 discovered that the 1.80% beryllium to copper
alloy (Berylco 180) was superior in many ways and less expensive.
For more than fifty years automobiles -- and you -- have used
Wayne Martin’s beryllium alloy.
Early in World War II, at the Sperry Gyroscope Company, and
also as a "dollar-a-year" consultant with The War Production Board
(WPB), Wayne Martin developed two National Emergency (N.E.)
aluminum casting alloys (319, 380). Ninety-five percent of today’s
aluminum castings are made of these two alloys. Sixty million pounds
monthly of this aluminum alloy is currently used to produce the
modern automobile.
At end of World War II, the Beryllium Corporation was stuck
with a plant owned by the Atomic Energy Commission for which
they wanted a peace-time use. Wayne suggested that it be used to
make potassium titanium fluoride. The entire aluminum industry
uses it to grain-refine aluminum. After it’s return to the Atomic
Energy Commission, Henry Kawecki, Wayne’s friend, formed the
Kawecki Chemical Company to manufacture potassium fluoride,
becoming a multimillion dollar firm, all on Wayne’s ideas.
In 1950 Wayne Martin helped to place aluminium/magnesium
alloy (AL MG 35) for which there was a large market. In 1960 he
developed another aluminum alloy (Precedent 71) which, over a
period of 20 years, made his employer, U.S. Reduction Company,
a great deal of money. (Think of airplanes, among other uses.)
Wayne retired in 1979, becoming a salesman with The South-
ern Aluminum Casting Company of Bay Minette, Alabama. There-
after each retirement has led to further consulting jobs, so he never
truly retired.
So why was a Chemical Engineer who invented important
metal alloys featured as a consultant in medicine?
Although the great American depression had steered him else-
where for survival’s sake, he never lost touch with medicine. His
enquiring mind synthesized many medical articles and research pa-
pers to bring to light remarkable treatments in heart, cancer, and
other medical problems.
In one example from years’ gone by, in 1963 Wayne organized
the Nutrition Research Products Company dedicated to doing some-
thing about the 600,000 deaths each year from heart attacks. His
idea was carried to The Royal College of Surgeons and The National
Heart Hospital in London, England, where Nutrition Research Prod-
ucts Company spent $200,000, and proved that his ideas were
effective in preventing heart disease.
Wayne periodically gave himself weak hydrochloric acid shots
because he’d learned -- long before the advent of antibiotics -- that
administration of these weakened solutions stimulated macrophage
and leucocyte activity, thus killing and/or warding off invasive in-
fections. (See Three Years of Hydrochloric Acid Therapy, http://
www.arthritistrust.org,) His story
about the Harvard medical school graduate who became wealthy
by specializing in this treatment in Las Vegas, NV was very educa-
tional as well as hilarious.
Wayne had a lifetime love affair with study of problems re-
lated to the heart and circulation and also with various types of
cancers.
Many years before the expenditure of billions of dollars to
"find the cure for cancer," Coley’s toxin was bringing about remark-
able "permanent remissions." This so aggravated the medical mon-
etary and power structure that the simple mixture was forbidden.
Having seen at first hand cures brought about by this mixture in his
early adulthood, Wayne could never cease telling about it. Several
years ago he invested a good sum of his own money to have the
product made in Brazil, thus making it available to any patient who
wished to use it.
Again, alas! The long arm of "forbidden medicine" reached
into Brazil, and the US supply was again halted.
Nonetheless, Wayne found another way to help cancer pa-
tients by publishing the formula for Coley’s toxin so that any pa-
tient or doctor can make up their own supply, if desired.
Toxin formula is now found at our website at http://arthritistrust.org,
"Research and Letters" tab, under Wayne Martin’s name.)
http://www.arthritistrust.org/research%20documents.htm
But even prior to his publication of Coley’s toxin, certain
doctor friends began manufacturing their own Coley’s toxin and are
having great success in bringing about "permanent remissions,"
among some of their patients!
Wayne Martin’s thinking about medical treatment has been
frequently reported in Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients (911
Tyler St., Port Townsend, WA 98368-6541; http://
www.towsendletter.com). It is there one should go for the articles.
In his youth, Martin’s motorcycle accident resulted in loss of
a leg. Phantom pain haunted him for years until he discovered that
it could easily and safely be diminished thru the use of ginger.
Martin’s recommendations for the safe easing of pain through
the use of ginger can be found in our Arthritis Trust of America
Summer 2001 Newsletter at http://www.arthritistrust.org, "News-
letters" tab.
Martin was a remarkable human being, one who cared greatly
for his fellow man, who gave without concern for rewards, who
loved life, and who made each hour, each minute count toward
bettering his fellow man.
We are so glad that he passed away peacefully -- not in pain or
suffering from degenerative disease -- just a few months before his
95th birthday! But, we are not at all happy that he passed so early
in his life -- and we shall sorely miss this intelligent, generous, kind
scientific advisor!
The legacy of Wayne Martin.
Wayne Martin, in his letters and articles appearing in the Townsend Letter, has made many valuable contributions in the fight against cancer and other diseases, as presented in the second edition of my book Cancer and the Search for Selective Biochemical Inhibitors (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis; 2007). Some of the highlights are presented as follows.
Calcium, Cesium, Selenium, and Other Nonferrous Elements in the Diet
A treatment utilizing cesium produced remission in late-stage cancer patients (October 2000), which brings up the matter of cesium in the diet (January 2003). Enter the low incidence of cancer among the Hopi and Pueblo Indians of Arizona, whose basic diet was blue Indian corn, as supplemented by other foods plus the ash derived from burning green chamisa leaves (Adenostoma fasciculatum, a member of the rose family). Grown in volcanic soil high in cesium, rubidium, calcium, and potassium, these foods can be related to a cancer incidence one-fourth that of the US average.
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In 1984, a report by Keith Brewer on the cancer benefits from cesium treatment was published in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior (5[1]:1-5). Many cases of remission were supplied for late-stage cancer patients on treatment with cesium. Martin's article also mentions that the Pueblo Indians nearby to the Hopi also had a very low cancer incidence--until they went on high-meat diet like everyone else. The Hopi, however, avoided a high-meat diet and, as late as 1974, the cancer incidence was one case per 1,000 population--compared to one in four for the whites.
In the same January 2003 letter, Martin cited information that reported Canada's lower cancer-death rate can be traced to calcium and selenium in the water. In an area of China, the death rate from esophageal cancer was reduced from 275 per 100,000 per year to only 54 by adding calcium to the drinking water. Senegal, which has a very high selenium content in its soil, has the lowest rate of esophageal cancer in the world, also with virtually no cancer of the lung, breast, colon, and prostate. As to HIV/AIDS, Senegal has only 1.77% of its population affected, whereas Zimbabwe--with a very low selenium content in its soil--has an incidence of over 25%.
Red Meat and Iron vs. Vegetarianism
Martin correlates meat consumption with colorectal cancer, whose incidence is near zero for populations following vegetarian diets (April 2002). Thus, Martin takes note of an editorial appearing in the April 27, 1974, issue of The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other . Titled "Beware of the Ox," the editorial emphasized that the incidence of colon cancer is proportional to the amount of beef consumed in the human diet. For example, in Scotland, red-meat consumption is higher than in England, as is the incidence of colon cancer. More than this, there was a small Asian population of circa 15,000 living in Scotland, who were mostly from India and were lactovegetarians who did not experience the same high rate of cancer.
As another example, the case of Denmark during WWI is set forth, whereby Denmark had gone on a vegetarian diet, courtesy of the British blockade. There were no deaths from protein malnutrition, and the overall death rate showed a significant drop with fewer cancer deaths.
The experiences of Albert Schweitzer and other physicians are recounted, circa the early 1900s, noting the absence of cancer in African natives. The diet then was cassava cassava (k?sä`v?) or manioc (ma(n`e-o(k), name for many species of the genus Manihot of the family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family). and millet with very little protein. Death from myocardial infarction (a cessation of blood supply to heart muscle) was also nonexistent.
The November 27, 1978, issue of The Lancet had an article by Allen Cunningham titled, "Lymphomas and Animal Protein Consumption." In Japan, where a vegetarian diet with much seafood was the rule, there was a much lower death rate from cancer than in the industrial West.
With regard to leukemia, in 1976, The Lancet reported on the work of Stanislaw Garwicz of the University Hospital in Lund, Sweden. It was observed that leukemia, especially childhood leukemia, correlated with the amount of protein in the diet.
Martin further takes up the matter of high iron content as per the meat-eating population of the US, observing that a diet high in iron is immunosuppressive, elevating the risk of cancer. As to freedom from myocardial infarction, a lowering of the dietary iron may be far more effective than reducing serum cholesterol. A further recommendation is that iron in vitamin-mineral pills be avoided by taking those with no iron (ferrous sulfate). Furthermore, iron-added breads and cereals should be avoided. Martin mentions Dr. Maria de Sousa, who was for many years with the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, and who found that excess body iron was immunosuppressive and, hence, cancer-causing. Dr. de Sousa subsequently wrote that leukemic children survived longer when on low-iron diets. As an aside, Martin mentions that the cyanide-bearing nitrilosides in the African cassava diet might also be responsible in part for a reduction in cancer occurrence.
Infections
Martin mentions that iron-deficient anemia develops in patients with a bacterial infection (June 2002), and there is the indication that selenium is antiviral (June 2000), the latter as per work performed by Professor Harold Foster of the University of Victoria, Canada, which was earlier reported by Foster in the December 2000 issue. As previously indicated, regions of Africa The continent of Africa can be conceptually subdivided into a number of regions or subregions. Directional approach
One common approach categorises Africa directionally, e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. with soils of high selenium content have a much lower incidence of AIDS (with selenium also known as an anticancer agent). Another viral infection is caused by the Coxsackie B virus Coxsackie B virus
A mild virus belonging to a group of viruses (coxsackievirus) that may produce a variety of illnesses, including myocarditis.
Mentioned in: Myocarditis , resulting in a severe disease of the heart, called cardiomyopathy, which Martin notes has been correlated to patients who have had a myocardial infarction, as was reported in the April 23, 1977, issue of The Lancet. (More about the Coxsackie virus cox·sack·ie·vi·rus also Cox·sack·ie virus
n.
Any of a group of enteroviruses that are associated with a variety of diseases, including meningitis, myocarditis, and pericarditis, and primarily affect children during the summer months. was reported by Martin in a letter in the July 2002 issue of the Townsend Letter.)
Fiber: Boon or Bane?
Another intriguing letter by Martin questions dietary fiber in preventing colon cancer (August/September 2001). Thus the sharp silica fibers are apparently conducive to esophageal cancer, as per an article in the May 29, 1982, issue of The Lancet, "Silica Fragments from Millet Bran in the Mucosa Surrounding Oesophageal Tumors in Patients in North China." For instance, the Chinese and Iranian esophageal cancer rate was 50 times that in England. Martin later cited the work of Dr. David Horrobin of Magdalen College, Oxford University, whereby a diet low in red meat but high in vegetables and whole cereal grains acts against arthritis as well as against colon cancer (August/September 2005). A culprit was said to be arachidonic acid, a principal source being red meat.
Homogenized Milk
Martin had a word against the use of homogenized milk, as per the work of cardiologist Kurt Oster, MD, of Fairfield University (December 2003). Natural milk contains xanthine oxidase, an oxidizing enzyme occurring in large particles, which do not get into the bloodstream. Homogenization reduces the particle size, allowing entry into the bloodstream, which Oster claims is harmful to the vascular system.
Martin continues by citing the work of Professor Stephen Seely of the University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is a research university, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Reputation
Sheffield was the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2001 and has consistently appeared as their top 20 institutions. , who studied the effect of milk and cheese consumption on heart attacks. At the time of the study, Finland had the highest death rate from heart attacks in the entire world, whereby the higher consumption of protein from liquid (homogenized) milk corresponded to a death rate ten times that in Japan. A further study by Seely on milk protein in cheese found no increase in heart attacks from eating cheese. (Thus, in cheese-making, homogenized milk is never used.)
Urea as an Anticancer Agent
Urea has been variously cited as an anticancer agent, with a confirmation furnished by Wayne Martin (November 2005). He mentioned the work of Professor Evangelos Danopoulos of Athens, Greece, which had appeared in Clinical Oncology in 1983, where oral urea was used to treat liver cancer and colorectal cancer. Two successful examples are cited. Dosage levels quoted were 15 grams of urea per day.
Some Miscellaneous Anticancer Agents
Martin mentions the antiacid cimetidine, trade name Tagamet, as an effective anticancer agent (April 2000, July 2003). The drug is thought to allow cancer-cell-killing lymphocytes to invade malignant tumors. Other anticancer agents discussed include dipyridamole dipyridamole /di·py·rid·a·mole/ (di?pi-rid´ah-mol) a platelet inhibitor and coronary vasodilator used to prevent thromboembolism associated with mechanical heart valves, to treat transient ischemic attacks, and as an adjunct in , digitoxin digitoxin: see digitalis. , and azelaic acid. Azelaic acid may inhibit the enzyme tryosinase, a known suspect in certain cancers. Another is Coumadin (the rat poison warfarin), noted to dissolve the fibrin that ordinarily coats and protects cancer cells from the immune system. Others include chlorella chlorella
Any green algae of the genus Chlorella, found in fresh or salt water and in soil. They have a cup-shaped chloroplast. Chlorellas are used often in studies of photosynthesis, in mass cultivation experiments, and for purifying sewage wastes. , bromocriptine bromocriptine /bro·mo·crip·tine/ (bro?mo-krip´ten) an ergot alkaloid dopamine agonist, used as the mesylate salt to suppress prolactin secretion and thereby treat prolactinomas and endocrine disorders secondary to hyperprolactinemia; , and aminoglutethimide. Another is theophylline theophylline /the·oph·yl·line/ (the-of´i-lin) a xanthine derivative found in tea leaves and prepared synthetically; its salts and derivatives act as smooth muscle relaxants, central nervous system and cardiac muscle stimulants, and , potentially active against cancer, as well as against asthma (June 2002). Evening primrose oil evening primrose oil
one of the few plant oils containing ?-linolenic acid. Obtained from seeds of Oenothera biennis, it is used for its anti-inflammatory effects in the treatment of skin diseases. contains a high percentage of gamma-linolenic acid, in its pure form sometimes injected against cancer. Turmeric or curcumin is an immune system enhancement agent (anticancer agent) and can prevent blood clots (April 2004).
The work of Dr. Eric Newsholme of Oxford University was cited. Newsholme found that the polyunsaturated fats are highly immunosuppressive, read cancer-causing (August 2002, January 2005). Nonetheless, some diseases require immunosuppression, and Newsholme tells how two children were cured of the disabling Guillain-Barre syndrome by taking 50 cc of sunflower seed oil each day. Polyunsaturated oils contain linoleic acid, which, in a series of steps, will convert cancer cells back to normal cells. A similar effect is observed for the theophylline contained in tea.
Mention is made that vitamin C seems to be effective against bladder cancer, purportedly acting by preventing the formation of cinnabarinic acid, as associated with tumor formation. Martin speaks to the immolation im·mo·late
tr.v. im·mo·lat·ed, im·mo·lat·ing, im·mo·lates
1. To kill as a sacrifice.
2. To kill (oneself) by fire.
3. To destroy. of metastatic cancer and notes that blood-thinning agents such as coumarin coumarin /cou·ma·rin/ (koo´mah-rin)
1. a principle extracted from the tonka bean; it contains a factor, dicumarol, that inhibits hepatic synthesis of vitamin K–dependent coagulation factors, and a number of its derivatives are cancel angiogenesis (formation of a vascular system) by dissolving the fibrin jell that surrounds cancer cells (July 2005). Incidentally, a study reported in the October 17, 1964, issue of The Lancet reported that myocardial infarction patients never died from cancer metastasis.
Coley's Toxins as a Major Anticancer Agent
Martin was an advocate of the mixed vaccine called Coley's Toxins, even having instituted a website on the subject. These toxins constitute a killed vaccine from the Streptococcus that causes the disease erysipelas erysipelas (e(r?si(p`?l?s), acute infection of the skin characterized by a sharply demarcated, shiny red swelling, accompanied by high fever and a feeling of general illness. , an acute feverish condition with intense local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The therapy is described as a form of immunotherapy (October 2000).
Martin has furnished extensive information about Coley's Toxins for intractablecancer, with much of its early history (February/March 2003). The protagonist was William Coley, MD, who, in 1891, at age 29 was already a successful young surgeon (and was later to become chief bone surgeon at Memorial Hospital, which became the world-renowned Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center). The initial discovery was made when a patient with a huge ulcerous ulcerous /ul·cer·ous/ (ul´ser-us)
1. of the nature of an ulcer.
2. affected with ulceration.
ul·cer·ous
adj.
1. Of the nature of ulcers or an ulcer. malignancy on the neck also developed a severe case of erysipelas. The patient survived the infection, and the malignancy healed in just a few days. Subsequent results were mixed until Coley prepared a killed vaccine, but which had little anticancer activity until the newly discovered nonpathogenic bacterium Seratia marcescens was added.
Successes followed despite adverse publicity in medical circles. In fact, the Mayo brothers advised cancer surgery patients to go home and find a doctor who would administer Coley's Toxins. Coley died in 1936, but his daughter Helen Coley Nauts (now deceased) subsequently founded the prestigious Cancer Research Institute in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City
City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
..... Click the link for more information.. In Cancer Research Institute Monograph No. 8, dated 1980, documentation is furnished for some 449 cases of cancer remission in patients with bacterial infections. An update is provided in an article by Nauts in the June 2004 Townsend Letter, introduced by Martin. Other potential benefits are against osteoarthritis and such vascular diseases as thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) and may be against arteriosclerosis--and as a possible alternative to angioplasty or heart bypass surgery. In spite of attempts to suppress the use of these toxins, the therapy continues at present on a limited basis, with dramatic remissions in evidence. Overdoses can be countered by a rectal suppository suppository /sup·pos·i·to·ry/ (su-poz´i-tor?e) an easily fusible medicated mass to be introduced into a body orifice, as the rectum, urethra, or vagina.
sup·pos·i·to·ry
n. of Tylenol.
An article by Martin in the February/March 2006 issue of the Townsend Letter documents almost unbelievable remissions or cures for cancers of immense sizes. The toxins were injected directly into the tumor, producing an intense reaction, with chills and fever Noun 1. chills and fever - successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
ague
malaria - an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of . Martin details several alternative methods for preparing Coley's toxins, which can now be injected intravenously rather than into the cancerous mass. Dr. de Sousa of Sloan-Kettering commented that remission involves the infection's action in causing iron-deficientanemia, which then liberates imunocytes to kill the cancer cells.
Antibiotics as Immunosuppressives
Early data on cancer incidence shows very little lung cancer among men who smoked (January 2003). Thus in 1930, some 80% of the men smoked, but the death rate from lung cancer was only one death per 100,000 per year. Yet by 1948, with only about 40% of the men smoking, the rate had increased to 60: a 60-fold increase. This astounding increase can be blamed on the overuse of antibiotics, which are highly immunosuppressive and favoring cancer.
Gangrene and Amputations
The famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer found that African natives refused to go with amputation amputation (a(m'py?ta-`sh?n), removal of all or part of a limb or other body part. Although amputation has been practiced for centuries, the development of sophisticated techniques for treatment and prevention of infection has greatly , so he treated the bacterial infection with the dyestuff methylviolet--which worked (January 2003). The case of Dr. Frederick Banting (the discoverer of insulin) is also cited. In World War I, Dr. Banting was wounded at the front lines, developing gangrene in his right arm. Instead of amputating, he cured himself with methylviolet.
Martin (an amputee am·pu·tee
n.
A person who has had one or more limbs removed by amputation. himself) further discusses amputations as a consequence of diabetes (December 2003). The experiences of a Dr. M.S. Mazel, then owner of the Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, are described; he avoided amputations by using the proteolytic enzyme urokinase urokinase /uro·ki·nase/ (UK) (u?ro-ki´nas) u-plasminogen activator; an enzyme in the urine of humans and other mammals, elaborated by the parenchymal cells of the human kidney and acting as a plasminogen activator. . The pioneering work on vitamin E by Canada's Evan Shute, MD, ScD, is described, whereby amputations were avoided by the use of vitamin E as d-alpha tocopherol tocopherol: see vitamin. .
Coley's Toxins were effective in treating patients with foot ulcers and a gangrenous condition (December 2003). When used by a Dr. Harry Gray at a Veterans Administration hospital in the 1930s, amputation was avoided. It was noted that Glen Wilcoxson, MD, of Spanish Fort, Alabama Spanish Fort is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. The 2000 census lists the population of the city as 5,423. [1] Development
Since 2003, Spanish Fort has seen major growth. , was treating patients utilizing Coley's Toxins.
Hydrochloric Acid and Bacterial Infections
Martin addressed the use of intravenous dilute hydrochloric acid solutions as a defense against bacterial infections, citing many letters from doctors that appeared in the journal Medical World between 1932 and 1935 (October 2005). The successes were such that Martin believed that the discovery of antibiotics would be anticlimactic. He describes the dramatic recovery of a young patient as administered by William Howell, MD, of Lexington, Kentucky. Martin added a thought about appendix treatment versus removal, since the latter increases the risk for colon cancer twofold, as the appendix is an important part of the immune system.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
The treatment and cure of this insidious disease were addressed, detailing the protocol used by Dr. Frederich Klenner of Reidsville, North Carolina Reidsville is a city located in Rockingham County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 14,485.
Originally established in the early 19th century as an outpost and stop on the stage line that ran between Salisbury, NC and Danville, VA (January 2005). Reference was made to the successful cure of a certain Dale Humphreys using the Klenner treatment, as had been described in a previous letter from Humphreys (November 2004). The inference is that a virus (Coxsackie?) causes small hemorrhages to the nerves, resulting in scars, in turn restricting the flow of blood to the nerves. To counter this effect, the Klenner protocol uses significant amounts of vitamin E and niacin, with regeneration in the damaged myelin sheath of the nerves afforded by massive amounts of vitamin C. Other details are furnished in Martin's letter.
The Prudent Heart Diet
In an article in the August/September 2002 issue of the Townsend Letter, Martin compares polyunsaturated fats to saturated fats in the prevention of heart attacks. Referring frequently to articles in The Lancet, an interesting conclusion reached is that myocardial infarction, read coronary thrombosis, is not alleviated by a diet in polyunsaturated fats, but the cancer rate goes up. In an article in the August/September 2003 issue of the Townsend Letter, Martin again concluded that saturated fats are preferable to polyunsaturated fats. Moreover, aspirin was found to have no beneficial effect against heart attacks.
Hyperbaric Oxygen
Martin reported on hyperbaric oxygen for stroke, whereby his daughter recovered by the use of the treatment (June 2005). In an update, his daughter continued to improve, using air under pressure with no added oxygen (January 2006). Martin noted the difficulties in obtaining hyperbaric hyperbaric /hy·per·bar·ic/ (-bar´ik) having greater than normal pressure or weight; said of gases under greater than atmospheric pressure, or of a solution of greater specific gravity than another used as a reference standard. treatment, outside of buying one's own unit. He also suggested that hyperbaric oxygen treatments might prevent diabetic amputations.
Vitamin E
In late 2004, it was reported that taking vitamin E increased the death rate. This was contested by Martin and by Alan R. Gaby, MD (February/March 2005). Contrarily, the National Institutes of Health, of which the National Cancer Institute is part, had been studying the treatment of prostate cancer utilizing vitamin E and selenium (January 2003).
Alternative Medicine Clinics
Martin evidently did not recommend various alternative clinics, although he once reported on a visit to the BioPulse Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico (June 2000). Here, the treatment called "insulin-induced hypoglycemic hypoglycemic /hy·po·gly·ce·mic/ (-gli-sem´ik)
1. pertaining to, characterized by, or causing hypoglycemia.
2. an agent that lowers blood glucose levels. therapy," or IHT, was used against cancer. Another method used naltrexone, and still another used digitoxin. Naltrexone was described as a harmless drug that could be used at home.
E. J. Hoffman
Martin W. Coley's toxins: A cancer treatment history. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. February/March 2006;229/230;113-118.
Martin W. The prudent heart diet and cholesterol lowering drugs: Why they don't prevent heart disease. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. August/September 2002;229/230:100-107.
Martin W. Report on visit to BioPulse Clinic in Tijuana. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. June 2000;83-85.
Martin W. The role of dietary polyunsaturated fats in heart disease and arteriosclerosis arteriosclerosis (ärti(r'e-o-skl?ro-`sis), general term for a condition characterized by thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of the walls of the blood vessels. . Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. August/September, 2003;241/242:80-84.
Nauts HC. Coley's toxins--The first century. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. June 2004;251:107-116.
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