Cornelis Moerman

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Cornelis Moerman (1979)

Cornelis Moerman (born January 6, 1893 , † August 27, 1988 ) was a Dutch general practitioner and alternative practitioner who became known for a Moerman cancer diet named after him .

Life

Cornelis Moerman was born on January 6, 1893 in Hoogstad . After graduating from high school, Moerman wanted to study veterinary medicine in Utrecht . Due to the mobilization in the course of the First World War , however, he was drafted into military service and then studied medicine in Leiden in 1918 . Due to his stubbornness during his studies, he had regular arguments with his professors.

When Moerman completed his studies, he was the first and only family doctor to settle on his parents' estate in Vlaardingen in 1929 .

Here he also continued his passion, pigeon breeding, which he pursued since childhood. He began experimenting with pigeon feed and fed the animals with peas , beans , corn , minced meat , rice , cod liver oil , vegetables , milk and water .

Moerman believed he discovered that a special diet could cure cancer in 1939 , and it was also the year he first used his diet on a patient. Leendert Brinkman , whose cancer had been diagnosed as " terminal " by the hospital , came into contact with Moerman and stated that he was ready to follow strict food regulations.

After a few months, Brinkman was declared cured by Moerman. However, the doctors previously treating them doubted whether Brinkman ever had cancer; and suspected a complicated appendicitis . Brinkman himself and Dr. However, Moerman both assumed that cancer was present.

In the spring of 1940 , Moerman reported his findings to the Cancer Institute (Nederlands Kanker Instituut, NKI) and the Ministry of Health , but was ignored.

During the Second World War, the Germans ordered Moerman to kill all pigeons for fear of espionage .

After the liberation of the Netherlands , Moerman was arrested for alleged membership in the Nationaal-Socialist Bewegungsing . However, research did not confirm this suspicion. Moerman said he had treated UCB women for cancer and was therefore falsely suspected. Throughout his life, Moerman believed that what he believed to be an unjustified stamp of traitors ensured that his cancer therapy never received serious attention after the war.

After the war, Moerman continued to treat cancer patients on a small scale. His regular research inquiries about his therapy go unanswered and other doctors and scientists ignored him. The public did not find out about him until October 5, 1955 , when a full-page article was published in De Typhoon magazine , naming four patients who said they had been cured of cancer by Moerman. Hospitals had indicated that these people had terminal cancer, and a Hague doctor was called in to examine the patients after Moerman’s treatment. He stated that the patients were found to be "perfectly healthy". The publication of these " miraculous healings " resulted in many people sending letters to the editorial office. Many doctors accused the Typhoon of sensationism. Despite these negative reactions, there was a large influx of cancer patients who saw Moerman as their last hope.

In 1956 , a committee headed by the doctor Delprat was set up to investigate Moerman's therapy. In 1958 a final report was published which stated that some patients had improved. However, the committee did not believe that this was the result of Moerman Therapy. The improvement is only short-lived or a late effect of the conventional treatment carried out previously. In summary, it was stated that cancer could not be cured by the Moerman diet.

However, Moerman was still convinced that his diet was working and many sick people continued to go to his practice, believing that they could be cured of cancer through him.

The doctors Dr. Ronhaar and Dr. Wiese publicly supported Moerman. In 1974 , an association for Moerman patients was founded, which put pressure on politicians to have the Moerman Therpaie re-examined by a committee. In 1978 , the new Minister of Health, Els Veder-Smit, wanted to accommodate Moerman's supporters and invited Dr. Wiese for a public discussion about the Moerman Therpaie.

In 1979 a parliamentary debate on the Moerman Therpaie took place in response to numerous letters and newspaper articles. The debate culminated with a request for new research into the mechanism of the Moerman diet, which some scientists criticized as undue interference.

Another committee, the Begeleidingscommissie Onderzoek Moerman method (German supervisory committee Moerman method), was set up by the Ministry of Health; the Queen Wilhelmina Fund made almost two million guilders available to finance the research. Two groups of patients should be treated with either the Moerman method or conventional therapy.

However, due to constant disagreements, the work of the committee was discontinued in 1984 with no result.

In 1988 Cornelis Moerman died.

Moermann diet

The Moermann diet ("Moerman method") is a supposed treatment method for cancer, which consists of a special diet and the administration of additional nutrients through dietary supplements.

Before World War II, Moerman published his view that cancer was not a local disease but the terminal stage of degeneration of the whole body. Strengthening the immune system is the answer to this disease, and diet plays a central role in this.

Moerman, a passionate pigeon fancier, found that healthy birds do not develop cancer, unlike weak and malnourished birds. He argued, based on his own experiments with his pigeons, that cancer was a metabolic disorder, a lack of iodine , citric acid , B vitamins , iron , sulfur and vitamins A, D, E and later C.

A special diet supplemented with these substances forms the basis of Moerman Therapy.

Moerman recommended or rejected the following foods:

reception

Moerman’s diet recommendations are not part of modern medicine.

In September 1976 Moerman was invited by Linus Pauling to the conference of the International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends in Los Angeles . As a Guest of Honor, Moerman received an award for his work with cancer patients and for his approach to cancer treatment. Pauling praised him and named him for one of his colleagues fighting for the acceptance of nutritional medicine.

The invention of the diet earned him a place at the top of a "List of the Twenty Greatest Quacks of the Twentieth Century" published by the Dutch Union Against Quackery in 2000.

Publications

  • Cornelis Moerman, Rudolf Breuss; Cancer. Leukemia and other seemingly incurable diseases - cure by natural means; Advice on the prevention and treatment of many diseases . 11th edition, Edition Aurum, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89901-310-7 (The work has been translated into various languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian, and has been sold over 900,000 times in total)

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Afleveringen Other Tijden in de klas Moerman . Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ Cornelis Moerman, MD 1893-1988 Hall of Fame 2005 . http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2005/cmoerman.html .
  3. ↑ Cornelis Moerman, MD 1893-1988 Hall of Fame 2005 . http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2005/cmoerman.html .
  4. ↑ Uiteenzetting van dokter Moerman omtrent diens method . Cornelis Moerman, Vlaardingen, December 1955. Weergegeven as bijlage 2 in het zogenoemde "Delprat-rapport"
  5. ↑ Cornelis Moerman, MD 1893-1988 Hall of Fame 2005 . http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2005/cmoerman.html .
  6. ↑ Dutch Quackbuster chooses the biggest quacks of the 20th century . NCRHI Newsletter November 2000: 2.
  7. ^ Rudolf Breuss Cancer Cure . Retrieved August 25, 2010.

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SURNAME Moerman, Cornelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch alternative practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1893
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1988