Frederick Klenner

Frederick Robert Klenner (born October 22, 1907 in Johnstown , † May 20, 1984 in Reidsville , Rockingham County , North Carolina , United States ) was an American physician and researcher with a doctor's office in his hometown. In the 1940s, he began to use vitamin C in high doses on an experimental basis as a therapy for numerous diseases, in particular poliomyelitis (polio). He published a total of 28 research reports in the course of his life and is one of the founders of orthomolecular medicine . However, his work is practically ignored in generally accepted medicine. Klenner appears in several treatises on orthomolecular medicine. A recent book is dedicated to him and summarizes his work in an updated way. He is sometimes counted among the pioneering medical researchers. Part of his work is contained in a book on the intravenous use of vitamin C.

Life

Klenner was born as the youngest of eight children of Austrian immigrants. In 1908, his sister Gertrude died as a result of exposure to smoke and fumes from the ironworks of the steel mills in Johnstown, where her father worked. Frederick was considered a tender, sensitive child and the most intelligent in the family. In his free time he played various instruments in an Austrian band. He studied first at St. Vincent College in Latrobe (Pennsylvania) and then at St. Francis University in Loretto (Pennsylvania) . There he achieved his bachelor's and master's degrees in biology in 1931. He has received awards and scholarships for his outstanding achievements. He then taught chemistry at the Catholic University of America in Washington, where he received his doctorate in physiology . In 1936 he received his medical degree from Duke University in North Carolina . After three years of hospital training and his marriage, he set up his own practice in Reidsville, North Carolina, where he worked for the rest of his life.

Vitamin C Studies

Originally he dealt primarily with pulmonary medicine , but then developed an interest in the use of vitamin C in very high doses in the treatment of numerous diseases. He initially carried out many experiments on himself. In 1948, he published his first research report on the use of high doses of vitamin C in the treatment of viral diseases .

In 1949 he published a study in the journal of the American Medical Association and lectured at its congress on how he had achieved a complete cure from polio by intravenous administration of sodium ascorbate in 60 of his 60 sick patients. This study has been cited by other medical professionals. The dose used was generally 350 to 700 mg per kg of body weight per day.

Tetanus cure

In September 1951, Dr. Klenner diagnosed tetanus (tetanus) with massive doses of vitamin C (sodium ascorbate) and the muscle relaxant tolserol (mephenesin), both administered intravenously. In the first 24 hours, Dr. Klenner gave the boy multiple injections of vitamin C every three to five hours, a total of 22 g. He did this for a further 24 hours and administered another 24 g of vitamin C. The boy had only minor stomach cramps, which were relieved by tolserol injections. In between, he also gave the boy penicillin and calcium gluconate to replace the calcium in the body that was possibly reduced by the high dose of vitamin C.

During two weeks of hospital treatment, Dr. Klenner also gave five intravenous tetanus antitoxins, which was the common therapy for tetanus at the time. After each dose the boy fell back into severe convulsions, from which Dr. Klenner concluded that the antitoxin "has no healing properties and is at best harmful". On the other hand, he recommended a deep intramuscular (non-intravenous) injection of the antitoxin above the lesion through which the tetanus bacterium and other toxic bacteria had invaded.

Clinical case reports and scientific studies

Klenner reports that he gave up to 300 g (300,000 mg) of pH-neutral sodium ascorbate per day. He published 27 papers, most of them on the use of vitamin C in more than 30 diseases, two on the treatment of severe neuropathies, including multiple sclerosis (MS), at the highest doses. He wrote a 28th specialist article around 1980, which was an unpublished addition to an MS treatment. She was posthumously from Lendon Smith in Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C added (Clinical guide on the use of vitamin C).

His motto was: The patient should "receive large amounts of vitamin C in all illnesses while the doctor thinks about the diagnosis".

He inspired Linus Pauling and Irwin Stone to expand research into the far-reaching benefits of vitamin C. In the foreword to the Clinical Guide , Linus Pauling wrote: "In the early research reports of Dr. Fred Klenner there is a lot of information about the use of vitamin C in high doses for the prevention and cure of many diseases. These reports are still important."

literature

Own publications

• Klenner, F. (1971) Significance Of High Daily Intake Of Ascorbic Acid In Preventive Medicine, Journal of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, Spring 1974, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 45-69
• Klenner, Frederick Robert, MD FCCP Observations On the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A Vitamin , Human Pathology Journal of Applied Nutrition Vol. 23, No's 3 & 4, Winter 1971.
• Fred R. Klenner, MD 1948 Virus Pneumonia and Its Treatment With Vitamin C.
• Klenner, Frederick Robert, MD. The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C , 1949 paper
• Fred R. Klenner, MD 1953 The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic

Posthumous summary of Klenner's 28 specialist articles:

• Lendon H. Smith, MD, Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C - The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, MD

• Thomas E. Levy MD, JD: Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases and Toxins . LCCN  2008-942812 , ISBN 0-9779-5202-9 (softcover). Third Edition: 2009

Translation to German:

• Frederick Robert Klenner: Vitamin C cures polio in 72 hours. 20,000 mg of vitamin C daily. Published by the citizens' association Orthomolecular Enlightenment Isernhagen 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Landwehr. "The Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C" , Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine , 1991. Vol 6, No 2, pp 99-103.
2. ↑ Saul AW. "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Pioneering Work of Frederick Robert Klenner, MD" Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine , 2007. Vol 22, No 1, pp 31-38.
3. ↑ Thomas E. Levy : Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, & Toxins . Xlibris, 2002, ISBN 1-4010-6963-0 .
4. ↑ Riordan HD. (1989) Medical Mavericks , Bio-Communications Inc. ISBN 0-942333-09-8
5. ↑ Injectable Vitamin C: Effective Treatment for Viral and Other Diseases http://www.injectablevitaminc.com/
6. ↑ Klenner, Frederick Robert, MD. "The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C" "Southern Medicine & Surgery," v. 111, no.7 (July, 1949) pp. 209-214 . Seanet.com. February 22, 2003. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
7. ↑ Galloway, T. and Seifert, M. (1949) Bulbar polyiomyelitis: favorable results in its treatment as a problem of respiratory obstruction. Journal of the American Medical Association, 141 (1): 1-8
8. ↑ Klenner, Fred R., MD. "Recent Discoveries in the Treatment of Lockjaw with Vitamin C and Tolserol" "Tri-State Medical Journal" vol. 2, no.5, (July 1954) page seven .
9. ^ Levy, Thomas E., MD Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases and Toxins . LivOn Books, 2009, pp. 123 & 174.
10. ↑ Klenner, Fred. "Recent Discoveries in the Treatment of Lockjaw with Vitamin C and Tolserol". Tri-State Medical Journal , vol. 2, no.5, July 1954. page eleven.
11. ↑ Klenner F. (1973) Response of peripheral and central nerve pathology to mega-doses of the vitamin B complex and other metabolites. Journal of Applied Nutrition pp16-40.
12. ↑ Lendon H. Smith, MD, `` Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C - The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, MD (1988) ISBN 0-943685-13-3 . Seanet.com. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
13. ^ Significance of High Daily Intake of Ascorbic Acid in Preventive Medicine . Seanet.com. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
14. ↑ Klenner 1971 Vitamin C paper . www.doctoryourself.com. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
15. ↑ Virus Pneumonia and Its Treatment With Vitamin C . Seanet.com. February 22, 2003. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
16. ↑ The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C . Seanet.com. February 22, 2003. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
17. ^ The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic . Seanet.com. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
18. ↑ Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C . Seanet.com. Retrieved January 17, 2016.

Web links

• [1] Biography of Klenner by Andrew Saul 2007 (English)
• Fred R. Klenner, "The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C." Southern Medicine & Surgery , vol. 111, no. 7, July 1949. [2]
• Fred R. Klenner, "Recent Discoveries in the Treatment of Lockjaw with Vitamin C and Tolserol." Tri-State Medical Journal , vol. 2, no. 5, July 1954. [3]
• Dr Frederick Robert Klenner, Sr.: Find-A-Grave