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Translation of the Titles of Scientific Works
by Max Gerson, M.D.

1907 Dissertation Article: Influence of Artificial Hyperemia and Blood
 

Transfusions in the Treatment of Fractures in the Hip Joint.
 

1910 Bromocol Poisoning. Aerztliche Sachverstaendigen-Zeitung.
 

1916 Myasthenic Bulbar Paralysis. Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 53.
 

1918 Reflex Hyperesthesia. Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie.
 

1919 Paralysis Found in Diphtheria Carriers. Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 12.
 

1921 Concerning the Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis. Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Nervenheilkunde.
 

1924 Constitutional Basis for Nervous Symptoms. Fortschritte der Medizin, No. 1, p.9.
 

1926 Experiments Attempting to Influence Severe Forms of Tuberculosis Through Dietetic Treatment. Muenchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 2 and 3.
 

1929 Origin and Development of the Dietetic Treatment of Tuberculosis. Die Medizinische Welt 1929, No. 37.
 

1929 Treatment of Rickets and Tuberculosis, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 38.
 

1930 Several Experiments with the Gerson Diet in Tuberculosis. Medizinische Welt.
 

1930 Salt Association with Migraine (An early factor in dietetic treatment). Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Innere Medizin, No 23, p. 129.
 

1930 Basic approaches to the Gerson Diet. Muenchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 23, p. 967.
 

1930 Phosphorus, Cod Liver Oil and the Gerson Diet in the Treatment of Tuberculosis, Deutsche Medizinsche Wochenschrift No. 12.
 

1930 Several Factors in Dietetic Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Zeitschrift fuer Aerztliche Fortbildung, No. 11.
 

1931 Nicotine as a Deterrent Factor in the Treatment of Lupus. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fuer Innere Medizin.
 

1931 Several Experiments in the Dietary Treatment of Tuberculosis. V Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Innere Medizin.
 

1931 Resume of Varying Sensory Factors in the Treatment of Lupus. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Innere Medizin.
 

1931 Basis Underlying Discontinuance of Salt Free Diet in Tuberculosis Sanitariums. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, No 8.
 

1931 The Dietetic Problems of the Present Day in the Treatment of Tuberculosis. The Journal of State Medicine Vol. XXXIX No. 8, London.
 

1931 Sedimentation in the Dietetic Treatment of Lung Tuberculosis. Zeitschrift fuer Tuberculose, Bd.63 Heft 5.
 

1932 The Gerson Diet in Chronic Pulmonary Spastic Diseases and Hypertension. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 13.
 

1932 Observations on the Gerson Diet. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 37.
 

1932 The Gerson Diet in Practice - Technisch - Pharmazeutische Aerztezeitung, Wien, No. 20.
 

1932 Dietary Treatment of Migraine and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 45:744-748, June 10, 1932.
 

1932 Gerson Diet on Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Migraine. Mitteilungen des Volksgesundheitsamtes, Wien, Heft 9.
 

1932 Some Results of Diet Therapy in ((Kavernen)) after ((vorausgegangener)) Surgical Treatment, Verhandlungen der Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Innere Medizin, Kong. 44, pp. 222-224
 

1934 Psychic Reactions During the Gerson Diet in Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Psychotherapeutische Praxis. Vol. 1, Heft 4.
 

1935 High Fluid and Potassium Diet as Treatment in Cardiorenal Insufficiency. Muenchener Medizinische Worhenschrift, 82(15), 571-574, Apr. 11, 1935.
 

1935 Feeding of the Tubercular. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 9.
 

1935 Nonspecific Desensitizations by Means of Diet in Allergic Skin Diseases. Dermatologische Wochenschrift, 100:441, Apr. 20,
 

1935; Dermatologische Wochenschrift, 100:448, Apr. 27, 1935
 

1935 The Recession of Inflammation in Gerson Diet with Special Reference to Tubercular Inflammations. Wiener Klinsche Wochenschrift, No. 25.
 

1935 The Administration of Liver Extract in Relation to Diet in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 40.
 

1935 The Gerson Diet in Home Practice, Der Oesrerreichische Arzt. Folge 2, Jahrgang 2.
 

1941 Feeding the German Army. New York State Journal of Medicine, No. 41.
 

1943 Some Aspects of the Problem of Fatigue. The Medical Record, New York, Vol. 156, No. 6.
 

1945 Dietary Considerations in Malignant Neoplastic Disease. Review of Gastroenterology. 12(6), 419-425, Nov.-Dec., 1945.
 

1948 The Significance of the Content of Soil to Human Disease.
 

1949 Effect of a Combined Dietary Regime on Patients with Malignant Tumors. Experimental Medicine and Surgery, New York, 7: 299-317, Nov., 1949.
 

1954 No Cancer in Normal Metabolism. Medizinische Klinik, Munich, No. 5, page 175-179.
 

1954 Cancer a Problem of Metabolism. Medizinische Klinik, Munich, No. 26.
 

1955 Cancer is a Problem of Soil, Nutrition, Metabolism.
 

1955 Are Soil, Food and Metabolic Disturbances Basically Responsible for Cancer Development?
 

1955 The Gerson Therapy and Practice in the Prevention of and Treatment for Cancer.
 

1955 Five Case Histories.
 

1955 Cancer Development and Treatment. Lecture at the Academy of Applied Nutrition (Pasadena).
 

1956 Rehabilitation of the Cancer Patient.
 

1956 The Problem of Cancer Based upon the Law of Totality.
 

1956 The Historic Development of the Combined Dietary Regime in Cancer.
 

1957 Can Cancer be Prevented? Prevention Magazine
 

1957 New Therapeutical Approach to Cancer,
 

1957 Cancer - Reflected Symptoms of Abnormal Metabolism.
 

1978 The Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy: A Summary of 30 Years of Clinical Experimentation", (Lecture given in 1956), Physiological Chemistry and Physics 10:449-463, 1978.
 

Books by Max Gerson, M. D.

1934 Diet Therapy of Lung Tuberculosis. Franz Deuticke, Vienna and Leipzig (with monographs and X-ray pictures of the cases).
 

1936 My Diet. - Edited - Berlin 1930.
 

1954 Diet Therapy in Malignant Diseases (Cancer). Scala, Handbuch der Diaetetik, Vienna, Franz Deuticke.
 

1958 A Cancer Therapy - Results of Fifty Cases. Gerson Institute.
 

References

Urbach, E. & Lewinn, E. B - "Skin Disease, Nutrition and Metabolism", published by Grunn & Stratton, New York, 1946
 

Cope, F. W. - "A Medical Application of the Ling Association-Induction Hypothesis: the High Potassium, Low Sodium Diet of the Gerson Cancer Therapy", Physiological Chemistry and Physics, 10(5): 465-468, 1978
 

Cone, C. D. - "Unified Theory on the Basic Mechanism of Normal Mitotic Control and Oncogenesis", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 30, 151-181, 1971
 

Zs.-Nagy, I., Lustyik, G., Zs.-Nagy, V. and Balazs, G. - "Correlation of Malignancy with Intracellular Na:K Ratio in Human Thyroid Tumors", Cancer Research 43, 5395-5402, November 1983.
 

Cope, F. W., - "Pathology of Structured Water and Associated Cations in Cells (the Tissue Damage Syndrome) and its Medical Treatment", Physiological Chemistry and Physics, 9(6), 547-553, 1977.
 

Ling, G. N., - "The Association-Induction Hypothesis: A Theoretical Foundation Provided for the Possible Beneficial Effects of a Low Na, High K Diet and Other Similar Regimens in the Treatment of Patients Suffering from Debilitating Illnesses", Agressologie, 24(7), 293-302, 1983.
 

Good, R. A., - "Zinc and Immunity", Clinical Immunology Today, 12, Jan., 1985.
 

Kramer, T. and Good, R. A., - "Increased In Vitro Cell-Mediated Immunity in Protein Malnourished Guinea Pigs", Clin. Immunol. Immunopathol. 11, 212-228, 1978.
 

Robbins, S. L. - "Pathology", Published by W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia and London, 1967.
 

Fernandes, G., Alonso, D. R., Tanaka, T., Thaler, H. T., Yunis, E. J., and Good, R. A., - "Influence of Diet on Vascular Lesions in Autoimmune-prone B/W Mice", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 80, 874-877, Feb., 1983.
 

Friend, P. S, Fernandes, M. S., Good, R. A., Michael, A. F., Yunis, E. J., "Dietary Restrictions Early and Late: Effects on the Nephropathy of the NZB x NZW Mouse", Lab. Investigations 38(6), 629-632, 1978.
 

Fernandes, G., Friend, P., Yunis, E. J., and Good, R. A., - "Influence of Dietary Restriction on Immunologic Function and Renal Disease in (NZB x NZW)Fl Mice", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 75(3), 1500-1504, 1978.
 

Fernandes, G., Yunis, E. J., Miranda, M., Smith, J., & Good, R. A., - "Nutritional Inhibition of Genetically Determined Renal Disease and Autoimmunity with Prolongation of Life in kdkd Mice", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 75(6), 2888-2892, June, 1978.
 

Fernandes, G. & Good, R. A., - "Inhibition by Restricted Calorie Diet of Lymphoproliferative Disease and Renal Damage in MRL/lpr Mice", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 81, 6144-6148, Oct., 1984.
 

Good, R. A., West, A., Day, N. K., Dong, Z-W., Fernandes, G., - "Effects of Undernutrition on Host Cell and Organ Function", Cancer Research (Suppl.) 42, 737s-746s, Feb., 1982.
 

Good, R. A., Fernandes, G., and Day, N. D., "The Influence of Nutrition on Development of Cancer Immunity and Resistance to Mesenchymal Diseases", Molecular Interrelations of Nutrition and Cancer, M.S. Arnott, J. van Eys, and Y. M. Wang (eds.) (New York: Raven Press, 1982).
 

Sarkar, N. H., Fernandes, G., Talang, N. T., Kourides, I. A., & Good, R. A. "Low Calorie Diet Prevents the Development of Mammary Tumors in C3H Mice and Reduces Prolactin Level, Murine Mammary Virus Expression, and Pro-liferation of Mammary Alveolar Cells", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 79, 7758-7762, Dec., 1982.
 

Good, R. A., Fernandes, G. & Day, N. K., - "The Influence of Nutrition on Development of Cancer Immunity and Resistance to Mesenchymal Diseases, Molecular Interrelations of Nutrition and Cancer", published by Raven Press, New York, 1982.
 

American Cancer Society, "The Gerson Method", Unproven Methods of Cancer Management (New York: American Cancer Society, 1961 ).
 

Beeson, Paul B., "Changes in Medical Therapy During the Past Half Century", Medicine 59:79-99, 1980.
 

Bonner, Thomas Neville, American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in International Relations 1870- 1914 (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1963).
 

Cairns, John, "The Treatment of Diseases and the War Against Cancer", Scientific American 253:51-59, 1985.
 

Cone, Clarence D., Jr., "Unified Theory on the Basic Mechanism of Normal Mitotic Control and Oncogenesis", Journal of Theoretical Biology 30:151 - 181, 1971.
 

Cope, Freeman W., "A Medical Application of the Ling Association-Induction Hypothesis: The High Potassium, Low Sodium Diet of the Gerson Cancer Therapy", Physiological Chemistry and Physics 10:465-467, 1978.
 

Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, American Medical Association, Report of the Council, "Cancer and the Need for Facts", JAMA 139:93-98, Jan. 8, 1949.
 

Crile, Geo., Jr., "Factors Influencing the Spread of Cancer", Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 103:342-352, Sept. 1956.
 

Hoffman, Frederick L., Cancer and Diet: With Facts and Observations on Related Subjects (Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1937).
 

Journal of American Medical Association, "Gerson's Cancer Treatment", editorial, JAMA 132:645-646, Nov. 16, 1946.
 

Keusch, Gerald T., Wilson, Carla S., and Waksal, Samuel D., "Nutrition, Host Defenses, and the Lymphoid System", Advances in Host Defense Mechanisms, John I. Gallin and Anthony S. Fauci (eds.) (New York: Raven Press, 1983), Vol. 2.
 

Lai, Chiu-Nan and Becker, Frederick F., "Potassium-induced Reverse Transformation of Cells Infected With a Temperature sensitive Transformation Mutant Virus", Journal of Cellular Physiology 125:259-262, 1985.
 

Lechner, Peter, "Dietary Regime to be Used in Oncological Postoperative Care", translated from the German as presented at Graz, Austria, June 21-23, 1984.
 

Ling, G. N., "The Association-induction Hypothesis: A Theoretical Foundation Provided for the Possible Beneficial Effects of a Low Sodium, High Potassium Diet and Other Similar Regimens in the Treatment of Patients Suffering From Debilitating Illnesses", Agressologie 24:293-302, 1983.
 

Lowell, James, "The Gerson Clinic", Nutrition Forum 3:9-12, Feb. 1986.
 

Lurie, Max B., "The Reticuloendothelial System, Cortisone, and Thyroid Function: Their Relation to Native Resistance to Infection", Annals of the New York Academy of Science 44:43-94, 1960.
 

McCarty, Mark F., "Aldosterone and the Gerson Diet - A Speculation", Medical Hypotheses 7:591-597, 1981.
 

Moss, Ralph W., The Cancer Syndrome (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1980, 176-178.
 

Natenberg, Maurice, The Cancer Blackout: A History of Denied and Suppressed Remedies (Chicago: Regent House, 1959), 136-145.
 

Neuburger, Max, Die Lehre von der Heilkraft der Natur in Wandel der Zeiten (Stuttgart, 1926).
 

Neuburger, Max, "An Historical Study of the Concept of Nature from a Medical Viewpoint", Isis 35:16-28, 1944.
 

Newell, Guy R., and Ellison, Neil M. (eds.), Nutrition and Cancer: Etiology and Treatment (New York: Raven Press, 1981).
 

Regelson, William, "The 'Grand Conspiracy' Against the Cancer Cure" (Commentary), JAMA 243:337-339, Jan. 25, 1980.
 

Rorty, James, American Medicine Mobilizes (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1939).
 

Sauerbruch, Ferdinand, Master Surgeon, trans. Fernand G. Renier and Anne Cliff (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953), 167-171.
 

Seifter, Eli, and Weinzweig, Jeffrey, "Contributions of Dr. Max Gerson to Nutritional Chemistry", paper presented at 1985 meeting of American Chemical Society, History of Chemistry Division (abstract supplied by Gar Hildenbrand).
 

Shimkin, Michael B., "Neoplasia," Advances in American Medicine: Essays at the Bicentennial, John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell (eds.) (New York: Josiah Macy Foundation, 1976), Vol. 1, 210-250.
 

Siguel, Eduardo N., "Cancerostatic Effect of Vegetarian Diets", Nutrition and Cancer 4:285-289, 1983.
 

Simone, Charles B., Cancer and Nutrition (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1983), 64.
 

Tannenbaum, Albert, and Silverstone, Herbert, "Nutrition in Relation to Cancer", Advances in Cancer Research 1:452-505, 1953.
 

Thorbecke, G.J., and Benacerraf, B., "The Reticulo-Endothelial System and Immunological Phenomena" Progress in Allergy 6:559-598, 1962.
 

United States Congress, Senate, Subcommittee of the committee on Foreign Relations, Cancer Research, hearings July 1, 2, and 3, 1946 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946).
 

Warner, John Harley, "'The Nature-Trusting Heresy': American Physicians and the Concept of the Healing Power of Nature in the 1850's and 1860's" Perspectives in American History 11:291-324, 1978.