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In general terms it could be said that the response of a sick

individual to accept the therapeutic measures whether they be

serums, vaccines, X-ray, radium, surgery, intravenous medications,

blood transfusions, glandular therapies, re-mineralization, vitamin

therapies, hyperpyrexias, refrigeration, osteopathic or chiropractic

manipulations, the new wonder drugs, and so forth, the best we could

say of those is that they are of a hit or miss proposition.

To date, no branch of the healing arts has as yet found a logical or

truly scientific basis on which to study the cause or treatment of

functional chronic or degenerative disease. The practitioner

frustrated by lack of satisfactory physical and mental response

among chronic patients has been skimping in his efforts to

rehabilitate them. However, he can and does justify his mere

routine consideration with the thought that the acutely ill need all

of his time and attention and that the chronics whom he generally

dismisses as hypochondriacs will manage somehow to get along. This

attitude for sometime has deeply concerned both medical and public

health men who are in a position to know the facts. Why is there

this appalling and utter disregard for treatment of the chronic

patient?

The medical man claims dogmatically, "I am the true physician and

mine is the correct approach of therapeusis." However, major

aspects of the general public are continually faced with incompetent

diagnosis such as just plain nerves, or neurasthenia, or nervous

digestion, or exhaustion of nervous energy, or nervous dyspepsia, or

nervous stomach, or hypochondriasis, or psychoneurosis, of essential

hypertension, or general asthenia, or imaginitis, and let it go at

that. There is no question but that American medicine and its

allied healing arts have utterly failed in their mission. We have

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for some reason allowed our medical practice to lag at least 50

years behind the times and are not only content with, but are

insisting upon, the same old unnatural therapeutic approaches to the

chronic disorders of age. Adequate medical care, the traditional

American dream is not even obtainable by the very rich!

We must attribute this failure to the fact that in the study of

chronic and degenerative disease, for too long a time, medical

science has passionately and blindly concerned itself with the study

of end results without due consideration of first, the manner in

which your health comes about, and second, the physiological

alterations that are occasioned long before tissue pathology sets in

and thirdly, the environmental conditions which have contributed to

its development and fourthly, that the disease is not a separate

entity or process all by itself but rather that it effects and is

effected in turn by the organism as a whole.

The pathological anatomy, the visible or palpable changes in the

structure that is found in the organs and tissues of the body was,

and still is, the foundation of practice of those who have not kept

abreast of the changes that modern science has brought about. And

yet there is a basic phenomenon which occurs over and over again in

the practice lives of physicians and healers. Every practitioner at

one time or another has seen or heard about one or more persons ill

with an acute disease hopelessly beyond human aid or of others

afflicted with an incurable chronic disease to have been able in

some inexplicable manner to reverse the vital processess of injury

and repair, action and reaction so that the body having acquired

natural immunity, or shall we say having increased the body's

resistance, there results an increasing cellular or tissue reaction

followed by destruction of the invader, restoration of balance,

repair of all injured and diseased tissues and a seemingly

miraculous recovery takes place.

As yet no one has come forward with an intelligent explanation

except to call them spontaneous recoveries, or better yet MIRACLES.

In search for a remedy that would stimulate the reticulo-endothelial

systems of the body, I performed a number of experiments. One

experiment was to introduce a number of substances under the cover-

glass slip of the microscope slide while observing the red, white,

and bacterial cells under dark field microscopy.

I experimented with serial dilutions of EDTA as a chelator and

hydrochloric acid (HCL) as a reducer. Once I had the dilutions down

to the point where red cell damage did not occur visibly I made the

discovery that I was looking for.

Two things were obvious by direct vision of the infected human blood

before my eyes:

1) The EDTA dissolved the bacteria.

2) The hydrochloric acid increased the activity of the white

blood cell.

The white cell observation was astounding and led me to a search of

the worlds literature on the use of hydrochloric acid in the human

body. The reports that came in were old but fascinating, I had no

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alternative but to begin to give myself the treatment and watch the

changes in my own blood.

A number of excellent reports were made by Drs. B. Ferguson, W.B.

Guy, I. Howell, W.G. Brymer, M.A. Craig, A.M. Allen, F.J. James,

O.P. Sweatt, R.L. Sills and E.D. Jackson, and perhaps the largest

concentration to the world's literature was by R.R. Garcia.

It was on the strength of their efforts and the years of clinical

work done by my mentor Dr. Black that I made this profound

discovery.

When hydrochloric acid is injected into the body in very dilute,

physiologic amounts, the white blood cell systems increase their

activity, the blood pH returns to normal regardless of whether it is

too acid or too alkaline and the number of white cells increase.

What follows are some random thoughts on this subject.

The most obvious clinical observation in the treatment of an acute

infectious disease with the use of hydrochloric acid is that a

greater phagocytic activity is imparted to the white cells by the

injection of the dilute solution of hydrochloric acid into the

bloodstream, and that the activity varies in intensity with

different individuals. It proved to be a very important factor in

the improvement of the state of resistance of the organism.

Leukocytes and phagocytosis, important as they are, are but a link

in a chain of events of its defense mechanism to combat disease,

whether it be acute, chronic or degenerative. As part of the

natural mechanism of defense and repair we can make several

observations in the acute disease. The body must marshall all of

the forces of the defensive mechanism in order to sustain the

successful struggle in the favorable cases. The unfavorable

conditions are increasing injury and diminishing reaction. These

must be changed to increasing reaction and diminishing injury with

destruction and ultimate repair of the injured and diseased tissue.

In order to accomplish this effectively there must take place an

adequate febrile reaction to bring about attenuation of the invading

pathogenic microorganisms, rapid elimination of accumulated

bacterial and normal production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.

There must be an increased presence in the bloodstream as the acid

responsible for the maintenance of a normal pH. Obviously in the

treatment of any disease process we must do away with all

predisposing conditions such as malnutrition and local infection.

We must bring about elimination of all accumulated bacterial and

metabolic poisons. There must take place restoration of tissue

susceptibility, the production of hydrochloric acid whether too

much, or too little, or none at all, and its presence in the

bloodstream must be restored to normal. In other words a

physiological balance must be restored. It is reasonable to believe

that the acid-base balance of the blood is maintained through the

acid cells and since hydrochloric acid is the only inorganic acid

normally made in the body and that it is to this acid specifically

that we must attribute the apparent acidic response of the white

cells. When this condition of physiologic balance exists the

individual is in the state of absolute immunity. He is in good

health and in the possession of a normal pH in the bloodstream and

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other fluids in the body. The normal pH in itself is what could

constitute what is generally known as a natural immunity. Certain

organs and tissues possess an ability to modify their own immunity

make up or local defense mechanism. These seem to be governed by a

normal production of HCL in the stomach and a normal pH in the

bloodstream. Consider continuity of the skin covering, with its

acid mantle, the acidity of the stomach contents, the defense

mechanisms within the nasal passages, the secretions and linings of

the eyes, mouth, intestinal tract, female and male genital urinary

tracts, and at times the presence of specific immunity.

It is well known that practically everyone is harboring at various

times in the membranes of the throat, mouth and nasal tract the

germs of influenza, pneumonia, scarlet fever, croop, measles, mumps

and other contagions without becoming a victim of the disease

itself. It is also known that in order that infection shall develop

it is not only necessary that the bacteria grow in the tissues but

it is necessary that they injure the tissue and thus induce the

reaction of disease. This they do at times by producing injurious

substances in sufficient quantities, that is, bacterial forms.

The presence of a normal production of hydrochloric acid and its

presence in the bloodstream and other fluids of the body is the

agent responsible for the acidity of the white cells and the

maintenance of a normal pH. It is the agent that renders the fluids

and tissues of the body bactericidal and unfavorable as a media.

The more the white cells are maintained in a phagocytic state the

better is the natural immunity.

(HCL and EDTA have both been used with DMSO to get these

substances in the blood stream without the usual shots.

DMSO can often be obtained in Health Food storeas and Vet

Suppliers. Diluted with 50% sterile water some treat

themselves..... Such treatment CANNOT BE CONDONED of course,

and any medical problems are best taken care of by private

physicians....G)

An infection can go in only so many ways. It can either be aborted,

arrested, or carried on a successful termination. In the treatment

of all functional metabolic, endocrine, allergic, chronic and

degenerative disease, once the production of hydrochloric acid

becomes restored to normal there takes place a restoration of the

normal acid base balance, reversal of the vital processes, followed

by repair of all injured and diseased tissues with restoration of

good health. When the production of hydrochloric acid falls short,

a fact easily demonstrable by laboratory techniques and which may be

observed to take place at birth or at any time during our natural

expanse of life, the conditions of hyper-chlorhydria, hypo-

chlorhydria or achlorhydria take place. This deficiency in

hydrochloric acid production may be temporary or permanent in

character, and may be brought about by one or more predisposing

factors such as malnutrition, focal infection, chronic poisoning,

exposure, fatigue, emotional distress, shock and so forth.

A better understanding of the concept of disease and immunity can be

had by evaluating a few of the things that we are known about

immunity. First of all, antibodies are specific as the organisms

which have called them into existence. Second, the bactericidal

power manifested by blood serum of man or animal toward all

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microorganisms outside the body is not dependent on the presence or

absence of specific antibodies. Thirdly, the presence of immune

bodies does not convey absolute immunity against a specific disease

and fourth, when invasion takes place and the reactions of disease

manifest, the disease may be mild although not infrequently may be

severe irrespective of the presence or absence of immune bodies.

The question that follows is how can we explain the inherent value

of specific immunity and the manner in which it affords protection?

Why does this protection fail so frequently? It is possible that

the it comes into play only when the latter has failed to prevent

invasion? The leukocytes, or the white blood cells, are factors

which aid or supplement the natural immunity. At times, however,

when the virulence of the invading pathogen and the influx of toxins

into the bloodstream is of such a preponderant nature, the immune

bodies become overpowered. The excess toxins not only paralyze or

shock the white cells into inactivity but they also bring about

tissue injury and the resultant reactions of disease. Many times in

doing dark field microscopy of individual's blood, I have found

massive accumulations of L-form bacteria and yet the white blood

cells are completely dormant, non-motile, non-phagocytic and huddled

up in a little ball doing nothing.

Good health and the presence of absolute immunity depend on the

existence of a normal production of hydrochloric acid and its

presence in the bloodstream and other fluids of the body. When the

HCL production falls short, and a progressive diminution takes

place, we find a loss of absolute immunity, a decreasing degree of

tissue susceptibility, an imbalance of blood chemistry, and poor

digestion and assimilation. This is the starting point of general

ill-health and malnutrition. It is a logical assumption that a lack

of sufficient minerals in the daily diet must of necessity give rise

to a deficiency in the hydrochloric acid production. It is known

that certain salts, such as potassium, are needed by the glands

responsible for its production.

It is also known that when the hydrochloric acid production falls

short the required amount necessary to maintain the acidity of the

white cells and the acid-base balance becomes insufficient and

hydrogen chloride eventually vanishes from the circulation. When

hydrogen chloride disappears from the circulation some other acid

must take its place immediately in order to maintain the pH of the

circulating fluids. The acid wastes assume the role of hydrogen

chloride in the blood chemistry. This is followed by an imbalance

of the blood chemistry.

The acid wastes can not be thrown off as quickly as they are formed

so they begin to accumulate in the fluids and tissues of the body

with the resultant struggle between these and the alkaline reserve.

The result is a depletion of the latter.

Functional disorders of a metabolic, endocrine and allergic nature

and the condition of acidosis become manifest. The person loses his

natural immunity and is highly prone to develop focal infection

followed by acute disease. In this depleted condition they lack the

necessary reserve to destroy the invading microorganisms completely.

It has been well established that in all cases of malnutrition the

condition of acidosis is always present. There follows a reduction

of physiologic functions and the EVER INCREASING accumulation of

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acid metabolic wastes in the bloodstream. The hydrogen chloride

production becomes diminished. The hydrogen ions necessary for the

maintenance of a normal pH fall short and sooner or later

hydrochloric acid is replaced by the waste acids in the maintenance

of the acid base balance. These acid wastes include carbonic acid,

diacetic acid, lactic acid, acetic acids, fatty acids, uric acid,

etc. These acid wastes however, are abnormal constituents of the

bloodstream and will act as a disruptor of the natural blood

chemistry.

When hydrochloric acid vanishes from the circulation hypersecretion

of hydrochloric acid takes place in the gastric cells responsible

for its production. A condition known as hyperchlorhydria

supervenes. The excessive secretion of hydrogen chloride is but an

effort on the part of nature to restore its presence in the

bloodstream by sheer force of numbers. Sooner or later however, the

gastric cells begin to tire and the component chemistry begin to

dwindle. Thus the production of hydrogen chloride begins to fall

short. Focal infection pours a continuous stream of bacterial

poisons into the blood stream bringing about a diminution and

ultimately a disappearance of hydrogen chloride from the circulation

with a resultant loss of phagocytic activity. There then follows an

extension of the primary focus to one or more parts of the body

creating newer disease processes and newer foci of infection and the

probability of a chrnoic poisoning such as lead, arsenic, monoxide

gas, narcotics, alcohol, and so accumulation of the absorbed poisons

plus the acid metabolic wastes causes a resultant condition of

acidemia. There follows a deficiency of HCL production,

malnutrition, loss of tissue susceptibility and thus the general

causation formulation that leads to the chronic and degenerative

disease. Recent studies in Germany and in this country demonstrate

that cancer, diabetes, acute infection, neurosis, passive

congestions, gastric catarrh, severe anemia, arteriosclerosis,

hypertension, chemical poisoning, affections of the heart,

neoplastic growths, metabolic and endocrine disorders, senile

insanities, dyspepsia, chronic ulcers of the stomach and duodenum,

cholecystitis, appendicitis, duodenitis, worry, anxiety and pyloric

obstruction show pronounced changes in the hydrochloric acid

production. Too much, too little or none at all.

Statistical surveys have been made of the gastric acidity of

patients of all ages and it was found that 25-30% of those over the

age of 45 showed no free or combined hydrochloric acid. The

incidence of achlorhydria in the whole series of more than 3,000

patients examined was more than 10%. We know that pepsin is

inactive unless a considerable amount of hydrochloric acid is

present. We also know that very few bacteria can survive the acid

conditions in the stomach and that the gastric juice partially

sterilizes the food preventing putrifaction during the gastric phase

of digestion. Without acid in the stomach the benefit of this

action is not obtained.

Let us consider the protective agencies of the animal organism but

instead of talking about antibodies, vaccines, antitoxins, immunity

of the blood, dietary regimens, etc. let us go to rock bottom and

consider the very essential mineral elements of which our body is

composed. It is generally believed that organic life began in the

saline ocean many eons ago and that the chemical formula of that

ocean, of the blood serum, and the temperature of the body have not

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changed materially since that time. That the ocean is generally

always free from corruption no matter how many of its animals die

within it, is probably due to its chlorine content. Chlorine

related not only to sodium chloride but also to the chlorides of

magnesium, calcium, and other minerals present.

Let us study the part that chlorine plays in the digestion of food

and its absorption into the body tissues. Chlorine may be found

free as hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice or combined with

albumin in albuminosis or it may be found united with sodium chiefly

in the fluids of the body and with potassium in the solids.

Potassium was also found as a chloride by preference in

morphological elements like blood corpuscles, muscle cells, etc.

Calcium chloride is found in the gastric juice as a secondary

product. Hydrochloric acid favors the excretion of calcium

phosphates.

The normal gastric juice in man contains some two to three parts of

hydrochloric acid per thousand. In healthy dogs five parts is

found.

It is curious that a healthy dog can eat septic meat and if its

stomach is opened one half hour later the foul odor of the meat will

be found sterile. The acidity and the germicidal quality of the

chorides perform this action. Too often; however acidity of the

stomach is not due to an excess of hydrochloric acid but rather to

an excess of lactic acid and if content of the stomach is alkaline,

oxibuteric, diacetic and other acids due to putrefaction processes

are present. What is true of lactic acid is also true of the other

organic acids such as butyric, formic, and acetic, all of which are

especially abundant where there is stagnation of gastric contents

due to pyloric obstruction. Hydrochloric acid is the ONLY normal

inorganic acid in the body's economy. All other acids such as

lactic, carbonic, uric, etc. are WASTE PRODUCTS eliminated as

quickly as possible. The normal acid would be the most likely one

to accomplish this end.

If we have too great an excess of carbonic acid we have COMA, as in

diabetes or later stages of pneumonia.

If the uric acid is too high we have deposits in the valves, the

arteries and articular surfaces.

When the hydrochloric acid content of the gastric juice is deficient

or absent we must expect grave results which will inevitably appear

in the human metabolism.

First of all we shall see an increasing and gradual starvation of

the mineral elements in the food supply. The food will be

incompletely digested and failure of assimilation must occur.

Secondly, a septic process of the tissues will appear, pyorrhea,

dyspepsia, nephritis, appendicitis, boils, abscesses, pneumonia,

etc. will become increasingly manifest. Again a normal gastric

fluid demands activity of the gallbladder contents and of the

pancreas for neutralization. Deficiency of normal acids leads to a

stagnation of these organs, leading to diabetes and gallstones.

In the absence of or in a great deficiency of hydrochloric acid we

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find a rise in the multitudinous degenerative reaction which

prepares the way to all forms of degenerative disease. What then

are the causes of hydrochloric acid disappearance in the gastric

fluid following eating of food?

We have discovered that hydrochloric acid secretion may be

completely SUPPRESSED by emotion or worry and in these days of

emotional worry and distress, loss of homes, business, income and

monies, we may well fear that in the near future a great increase of

degenerative diseases such as cancer, nephritis, cardiac, nervous

and mental afflictions must assuredly occur unless man can rise

above worldly affairs and find the true and only source of

contentment and happiness.

When one considers that this normal acid, hydrochloric acid, is

derived from the tissues of the stomach or gastric membrane and not

directly from the sodium chloride of the blood, one readily realizes

that an ample supply of sodium chloride alone is insufficient to

restore normal gastric acidity. Rather, that it is instead a

complex process. The sodium atom is picked up and combined with the

phosphorous atom giving rise to sodium phosphate which must be

eliminated thus allowing the chlorine atom to be set free. The

chlorine atom combines with the potassium and other minerals and

albumins in the gastric acid and is made ready for future digestive

functions.

In my estimation it is not in the life of the cell that the secret

to malignancies is to be found but rather in THE MEDIA IN WHICH THE

CELL LIVES and the nerves that control it.

Cell growth is materially influenced by the nerve centers of the

spinal cord. This is undoubtedly true as is shown by the rapid

wasting of the cellular tissue when involvement of the anterior

horns of the spinal cord occurs in infantile paralysis and

progressive muscular atrophy. Such being the case, a toxin causing

destruction of the inhibiting control of cell growth probably

present in the posterior spinal nerve centers would allow wild

growth of cell life. Therefore, neoplasms in all of their

multitudinous forms and a general failure of the antiseptic powers

of the blood serum could bring about what is known as malignancy.

We see cancerous growths frequently appearing when the blood

pressure is low indicating a beginning failure of the adrenal system

to combat toxemia. When hypertension is present the other group of

degenerative diseases makes itself evident.

What can we conclude? That normal hydrochloric acid is necessary

for complete healthy digestion, that deficiency of this acid tends

to sepsis, suppuration, and general toxemia, that if adrenals are

inactive degenerative forms of disease usually appear, that if the

adrenals are impaired malignant neoplasms may be expected, that

neoplasms are most likely caused by failure of the inhibitory nerve

control probably located in the posterior nerve centers of the

spinal cord, that emotional worry, grief, anxiety, depression are

factors to be considered as causes of acid deficiency of gastric

fluid and thus give rise to many condtions causing degenerative

processes in alkalescence so commonly found in cancerous disease.

What is acidosis? An accumulation of acid or a diminution of the pH

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reaction. But what acid? We can glibly say, carbonic acid in the

blood or lactic acid in the tissue, uric acid in the joints and

blood vessels, lactic, diacetic, butyric in the stomach or

intestines, etc. We may even visualize hepatic acids in the liver

but unless we know why these acids appear in excess and their

relation to alkalosis, we shall never be able to understand their

true significance or marshall our remedies effectively against them.

The only normal acid in the animal body is hydrochloric acid found

in the gastric juice. All other acids are waste products. The

carbonic acid of the breath is created by the oxidation of the

lactic acid of the tissues and therefore an excess of lactic acid is

a failure to oxidize this acid sufficiently. In diseases such as

cancer, tuberculosis and fevers, this failure of complete oxidation

is present. The amino acids are but stages of food digestion and

when present in excess show an impaired hepatic and pancreatic

function. The most pernicious form of acidosis is that produced

when a stoppage occurs in the duodenum or pylorus. In this

condition the hydrochloric acid of the gastric fulid disappears and

other acids such as the acetic, butyric, and lactic take its place.

The condition of chlorine of the blood is usually diminished, the

urea is increased and the capacity of the blood to combine with

carbon dioxide is increased.

Achlorhydria occurs in some cases of apparently healthy persons and

in many cases of gastrointestinal disease. It is also stressed that

it appears frequently in diabetes and with still greater frequency

in thyrotoxicosis as well as in certain nonmegalocytic hypochondriac

anemias. Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice is a

common symptom in depressive neuroses. It is frequently associated

with mental fatigue, persistent worry and strain especially in

persons with a congenital unstable psyche. The symptoms are very

vague, lack of appetite, fullness after eating, gaseous eructations

and diarrhea is more common than constipation. Pain is absent.

Hydrochloric acid reacts with the duodenal membrane to produce a

hormone called secretin which stimulates the pancreas to release

insulin, increase the formation of bile and upgrade the activity of

the gallbladder. If we were to summarize the sequence of events

occurring as a result of hydrochloric acid deficiency we would list

the following:

Improper digestion

Fermentation and later putrifaction

Reduced absorption

Reduced liver and pancreas function

Ulcer formation

Elevated blood sugar

Reduced oxidation of lactic acid

Retention of carbon dioxide

Reduced activity of the white blood cells

Reduced destruction of bacteria

Unbalanced mineral levels

Improper digestion means an unbalanced assimilation, an unbalanced

mineral content of the body. What are some of the symptoms of

mineral imbalance?

First a surplus of sodium. This is following by tissues that are

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too watery and a tendency toward edema and asthma, flabby muscles

and a lack of chlorine.

A deficiency of calcium means an excess of sodium and a deficiency

of potassium. Lack of hydrochloric is the main cause of alkalosis.

When the cellular tissue are too alkaline, the fatty acids tend to

disintegrate and give off glycerol. It is interesting to note that

the Progenitoracae, a series of bacteria similar to the

Actinomycetales which are similar to the Microbacteria which is the

Tuberculosis bacillus, and that all of these grow rapidly in

glycerin or sugar medias. It is also interesting that fluorine is

the most potent inhibitor of the enzyme enolase. When this enzyme

is inhibited, it causes the intake of carbohydrate to be shunted

into the production of Glyceryl instead of being combusted as fuel

energy. In this way industrial fluoride pollution aggravates

infection. If an alkaline condition exists in the body and is

accompanied by a physiologic overcompensation of the gastric chief

cells, an unaware physician, or the patient himself may

inadvertently dose himself with alkali antacids. This results in an

aggravation of the existing alkalosis and could force the body into

a compensatory acid production within the tissues.

The net result of this activity is the production of toxemia and the

reduction of the final line of defense and repair.

I have made repeated reference to the inactivity of the white blood

cells.

It is interesting to note that within two hours of the injection of

hydrogen chloride intravenously, 32% of the white cells were showing

pronounced phagocytic activity and engulfing microorganisms.

Twenty-four hours after the injection phagocytic activity showed

that 69% of the white cells were in phagocytic activity.

The average human has 7000-8000 white blood cells per milliliter of

blood. Projected out for a 160 pound male with six liters of blood

we would arrive at a white blood cell population of around 48

billion cells. With the use of hydrochloride injections we can

predictably increase the white blood cell population by another 2000

milliliter and add around 10 billion more cells into the fight,

whatever it may be.

We, of course, know that there are many things which can produce a

similar reaction. Gamma globulin, pancreatic extracts, nucleic

acids and so on. But none of these is as effective or as

physiologic as hydrochloric acid.

To show the tremendous support for healing such a therapy can be,

consider this case.

An individual who had ulcers in the duodenum and pyloric for 22

years. X-ray confirmed an active state of one of the lesions. He

received 10 injections of hydrogen chloride and all evidence of the

peptic ulcer disappeared.

It is probable that several hormones influencing the motions of the

intestine and its accessory organs are liberated when the acid

gastric juice containing digested food comes in contact with the

duodenal mucous membrane. We know that iron salts precipitate in a

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neutral or slightly alkaline medium and thus the presence of

hydrochloric acid in the stomach serves a useful purpose in those

who are being given iron for the treatment of anemia.

We know that Vitamin B-1 is unstable in neutral or alkaline

solutions and for this reason hydrochloric acid plays some part in

the efficient utilization of this substance given orally. By

preventing the decomposition of thiamine which would otherwise take

place in the achlorhydric stomach, hydrochloric acid allows the full

amount taken into the stomach to reach the duodenum.

All disease processes, whether functional, metabolic, endocrine,

allergic, acute, chronic or degenerative are accompanied by the

condition of acidosis and the deficiency of the hydrochloric acid

production. It goes without saying that the longer that ill health

is permitted to exist in the body the less capable the tissues

become to respond to physiological stimuli. Use of hydrogen

chloride therapy in rheumatism and arthritis is rather rewarding.

In the treatment of acute articular rheumatism it is imperative that

treatment be started immediately. If treatment is given when only

one joint is effected the process can be stopped right there and

then. In the treatment of arthritis we give intravenous injections

of dilute hydrochloric acid solution daily for about three weeks.

When the pain has subsided we proceed to eliminate or cure all focal

infections such as abscessed teeth, infected tonsils and turbinates,

an infected or lacerated cervix, prostate glands and rectal crypts,

etc.

Carbon monoxide has an affinity for hemoglobin 300 times as strong

as that of oxygen. We have found the use of an injection of dilute

hydrochloric acid intravenously will accelerate the release of

carbon monoxide from the hemoglobin.

It is well known that a certain reserve of alkaline salts is

necessary to normal physiology and that among many functions which

might be mentioned the oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange carried on

through the presence of an optimal amount of alkalies in the blood.

Decrease this reserve and oxidation becomes materially reduced.

Actually the amount of oxidation going on in the cells or tissues

does not depend on the quantity of oxygen absorbed or on the amount

available in the blood but rather on the capacity of the tissues to

use it. The nature of this catalyst or enzyme is not clearly

determined but most physiologists at present recognize that some

such agent as a catalyst is necessary for normal oxidation. It

appears likely that the presence of hydrogen chloride in the

maintenance of the acid base balance is responsible for this normal

oxidation. Here is an interesting case history from the annals of

medicine.

A very sick woman was seen on a house-call basis. Upon examination

her temperature was found to be 100 degrees, respiration 56, pulse

160, she was highly toxic, cyanotic with a glassy glare in her eyes

and she was unconscious. She was immediately given 20 cc. of a

dilute solution of hydrochloric acid intravenously and within 5

minutes there was a marked improvement in the heart, the breathing

and the general condition. The cyanosis disappeared, she opened

her eyes and spoke. The attending physician returned three hours

later. The temperature had gone up 1.5 degrees. She was still

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conscious and her general condition was good. It was then found

that she had a septic incomplete abortion which was then surgically

corrected and the patient went on to complete recovery.

There was a case reported before the American Association for the

Advancement of Science by a doctor. He stated a case history; "The

patient was moribund due to the unexpected effects of an anesthetic.

The hydrochloric acid was injected at 10:15 AM, eight minutes later

the lips began to twitch and ten minutes the hands moved and in

forty minutes the patient was talking coherently."

Early in the month of January, Dr. B. Ferguson was called to see a

patient, a man of 55 apparently dying from angina pectoris. He was

alone in the hotel room and could give no history of his ailment. A

partly empty bottle of Digitalis was on the dresser. Breathing from

water-filled lungs precluded any possibility of hearing anything of

the very rapid and tumultuous heart. With the aid of a bellboy he

was given an intravenous injection of hydrochloric acid dilute.

Before the completion of the injection the breathing had improved

and the patient rested easier.

It has been observed that an injection of hydrochloric acid dilute

intravenously does not markedly change the carbon dioxide capacity

of the blood while the oxygen content is markedly increased in 30

minutes.

It is entirely possible that intravenous solutions of hydrochloric

acid can result in more oxidation of red blood cells than the

inhalation of oxygen through a nasal breathing device.

In a previous passage I showed a sequence of events when hydrogen

chloride supplies diminish. The bacterial growth within the body

accelerates, the toxic levels rise and the sequence continues.

Usually the disappearance of hydrogen chloride is gradual and the

bacteria wander into the circulation casually without provoking the

defensive mechanism.

There begins a constant and unending flow of bacteria toxins into

the bloodstream followed by slowing up of the circulation and all

other physiological processes. As a result of this the bacterial

toxins start to accumulate in the bloodstream and a mild toxemia set

in. It is generally known that the patient presents himself for the

first time to consult with his family doctor. He complains of mild

functional disorders such as general weakness, a loss of appetite, a

lack of endurance, a sallow complexion and irritability.

The avidity with which the white cells absorb or destroy every

foreign substance entering the bloodstream soon manifests itself in

the fact that the white cells become smothered and overpowered by

the increasing accumulation of bacterial toxins. The great influx

of bacterial poisons having rendered the white cells impotent, the

phagocytic response almost nil, even though there may be a high

leukocyte count. Examination of the blood picture after an

injection of hydrogen chloride will reveal a great increase in

leukocytic and phagocytic activity.

When the hydrogen chloride supplies in the bloodstream become too

low the body begins to manufacture other kinds of acids to

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neutralize the alkalosis that supervenes. This is accomplished by

lactic, carbonic, butyric, diacetic, acetic and fatty acids.

This is followed by a functional stimulation of the gastric glands

responsible for the production of hydrogen chloride. As a result of

this disturbance an over-production of hydrogen chloride begins to

take place. An over-production of the acid takes place and a

condition of hyperchlorhydria and toxemia becomes manifest. Our

patient now pays his respects for a second time to the family

physician and reiterates his former complaints but with the new

added ones of the sympotoms of gastric distress.

A disordered chemistry follows the vanishing of hydrogen chloride

from the circulation and its replacement by the acid metabolic

wastes. Some of these wastes cannot be converted into substances

suitable for excretion. This factor plus the presence of bacterial

toxins or any other form of poisons entering the blood and the

progressive slowing up of the circulation and all other

physiological processes of the varied tissues gives rise to the

inability of the body to throw off completely metabolic acid waste

as quickly as they are formed, and therefore they begin to

accumulate in the bloodstream bringing about the condition of

incipient acidosis and toxemia.

Our patient now makes a third visit complaining of a lack of

endurance, irritability, nervousness, insomnia, vague pains and

digestive problems. Observe that as the functional disturbances are

beginning to become aggravated new symptoms are beginning to appear.

In the disposal of the acid wastes the bloodstream serves merely as

a conveyor. The absence of an adequate supply of potassium salts,

for example, gives rise to a diminution of the hydrogen chloride

production. Be that as it may, the production of hydrogen chloride

falls short and the condition known as hypochlorhydria supervenes.

The progressiveness of this metabolic disorder is apparent for

sooner or later there is a total suppression of the production of

hydrogen chloride and the condition know as achlorhydria becomes

manifest.

Clinically this train of events manifests itself as malnutrition and

a so-called physiological disturbance, metabolic, endocrine and

organic. Any of the infectious arthritis and osteoarthritis,

endocarditis, ulcerative endocarditis, myocarditis, rheumatic

pericarditis, acute chorea, muscular rheumatism, peripheral

neuritis, herpes, abscess of the brain, acute appendicitis,

cholecystitis, salpingitis, oophoritis, thyroiditis, nephritis,

osteomyelitis, phlebitus, synovitis, various skin disorders,

arteriosclerosis, bacteremia and the list goes on and on.

Faulty digestion and assimilation due to a deficiency of the

hydrogen chloride production in the stomach brings about a resulting

serious depletion of the alkaline reserve, malnutrition, impaired

metabolism, and a derangement of the physiologic functions of the

varied tissues.

Furthermore, the bloodstream becomes stagnant with the ever

increasing accumulation of bacterial toxins, metabolic acid wastes,

acid wastes, acid salts altered secretions of the endocrine gland

and bacteria. The bloodstream becomes a literal cesspool against

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which the varied tissues, particularly those with an inheritied

weakness or susceptibility, begin to react. Clinically there

becomes manifest the condition of advanced acidosis and toxemia.

Our patient is still with us and by now he complains of marked

general weakness, nervousness, insomnia, digestive disorders,

various functional disturbances of a metabolic and endocrine nature,

functional disturbances of the heart, severe headache, allergic

manifestations, malnutrition, vague pains all over the body and in

addition the symptoms of any inflammatory or organic lesions

present. He again visits his family physician.

He is now advised to consult the elite of the profession, the

surgeon, neurologist, endocrinologist, allergist, the stomach

specialist and others. In due time having made the rounds of the

various specialists he finds himself relieved of various appendages

and certain sums of money. His condition, however, continues

progressively worse. The deficiency of hydrogen chloride

production, starvation of minerals, vitamins and amino acids and

other food elements and a total unbalance or derangement of all

physiological functions of the varied tissues of the body. Also

there is ever decreasing degree of tissue susceptibility.

Furthermore it is to be observed that at this stage it no longer

matters what the predisposing factor has been that brought about the

ill health.

Well, time marches on. The ever increasing degree of

intensification of each and every component comprising the general

causation coupled with the presence of one or more pathological

processes brings back our patient not only with the symptoms of the

demonstrable pathology but also the symptoms of advanced progressive

acidosis and toxemia, exhaustion and easy fatigability, insomnia,

feeling of pressure in the front of the head, the top of the head

and the back of the neck, the region of the throat and sternum are

also favorite locations in which tight feelings occur. There may be

backache, bellyache, severe headace, dizzy spells, muscular pains

and weakness, dyspepsia, extreme nervousness and irritability,

sexual disorders, mental disturbances, numbness of hands, fingers

and toes, clammy hands and feet, vague pains all over the body,

subnormal or above normal temperature, high or low blood pressure

and various functional heart disorders. By this time one or more

allergic diseases have already become manifest.

By now our patient finally realizes the futility of seeking further

aid be it allopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic, chiropractic,

neuropathic, or what have you and settles down in the bitter frame

of mind to await his day of deliverance.

On and on the process continues until all the varied tissues become

saturated with these poisons with complete loss of tissue

susceptibility and the aberration of all physiological functions.

Degenerative disease is but a reaction of the tissues against the

general pathology. It can take any number of forms such as

areteriosclerosis, diabetes, nephritis, affections of the heart,

neoplastic growths, pernicious anemia, leukemia, lymphadenoma,

senile insanity, multiple sclerosis, and arthritic degenerations.

Now let's take a look at this patient in the final stages. Let us

visualize the patient in his final stage of advanced acidosis and

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toxemia. Look about you as your friends, your loved ones. Look at

yourself. Ask yourself, "How do you feel, really?" All of this

tragedy, the death, the pain, and despair solvable by simple

therapies generated by a simple process of thought and administered

in a simple gesture of help and kindness.

All of this available for more than thirty years. But what has

become of the genius that sprouted forth from the minds of a few

physicians long ago? A simple call to the Bureau of Medical

Investigation will reveal them to be "dead quacks!"

At this moment we need an Emergency Survival Philosophy.

In the future we will all participate in the Health Crimes Trials of

the Twentieth Century.