Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

Earl Taylor of Cairo, Illinois, is no longer alive, but his story is so
dramatic and touching that it is well worth hearing and thinking
about.

In 1966, when Earl was 69 years old, he was told by his
doctors to 'put his affairs in order,' as he was dying of prostate
cancer. The cancer had spread extensively into his bones and he
also had a large mass in his groin. The hormone treatments he had
received were no longer effective; the doctors told him outright
that there was nothing more they could do for him.

Earl had dropped out of school after the sixth grade and had
received no further education. He had spent all his life working in
a junkyard, sorting various types of metals.

When his doctors gave him his 'death sentence', he recalled
reading something about Dr. Gerson and the Gerson Therapy in
Prevention Magazine, which sounded promising. So he contacted
Dr. Gerson's oldest daughter, Johanna Oberlander (now deceased)
in New York, and asked for her help and guidance. She did the
best she could, which was to send him Dr. Gerson's book, A
Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases. Earl began to read it, but
after a short while he called Mrs. Oberlander back and told her
that he couldn't understand the book, it was way beyond him.
Upon this she suggested that he just follow the treatment outlined
on page 235 of the book and forget about the rest.

At a later stage Earl said that doing the therapy at home was
the hardest thing he ever did in all his life. His wife had passed
away years earlier and he was all alone. One day, as he was
leaning over the arm of a chair, one of his ribs broke, having been
weakened by bone metastases from the prostate cancer. He was in
severe pain and felt tempted just to stay in bed, but he knew that
if he didn't help himself, he would die. So with a huge effort he
got up every day, ground and pressed the vegetables for his hourly
juices, and carried out the rest of the therapy. Shortly afterwards
he was free from pain. After a month the doctor could no longer
feel the large mass that had been growing in his groin. Earl soon
felt welI and enjoyed much greater energy - and carried on with
the Therapy.

Then one day he received a call from a friend, the chiropractor
Dr. Gwinn Dunbar, who lived in Kentucky. He told Earl that he
was dying of lung cancer spread through both lungs - and asked
if he could come and help him. Earl promptly traveled to Dr.
Dunbar's home and helped him to set up the Gerson Therapy.

Something incredible happened: both 'terminal' patients
recovered! Fifteen years later, in 1981, both were alive and well,
Earl by then aged 84. Dr. Dunbar was a good deal younger and
lived for many more years (eventually we heard from his son that
he had passed away).

In October 1981, when the Gerson Institute celebrated the
100th anniversary of Dr. Gerson's birth, Earl was invited, along
with some fifty other cured 'incurables,' to come and testify about
his recovery. He had never been in a plane and at age 84 was
rather shaken by the new experience, but joined in the celebration
and told the amazed audience the story of his recovery.

Earl died in his late 80s. What makes his story of lasting value
is that it shows how a simple uneducated man, sent home to die
by his doctors, was able, without any outside help, to heal himself
and his terminally ill friend, by simply following Dr. Gerson's
directions. What he possessed was quiet heroism of the highest
order.