Supplement to The Art of Getting Well

Abstract

Magnesium Chloride HexahydrateTherapy Sources are given in references. Back in 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet, M.D., was looking for a solution to cleanse wounds, because he had found out that the traditional antiseptic solutions actually mortified tissues and facilitated the infection instead of preventing it. He tested several mineral solutions and discovered that a Magnesium Chloride solution was not only harmless for tissues, but it had also a great effect over leucocytic activity and phagocytosis; so it was perfect for external wounds treatment. Dr. Delbet performed a lot of "in vitro" [in test tube] and "in vivo" [in life] experiments with this solution and he became aware that it was good not only for external applications, but it was also a powerful immuno-stimulant if taken by injections or even by mouth. He called this effect "cytophilaxis." In some "in vivo" experiments it was able to increase phagocytosis rate up to 300%. Dr. Delbet serendipitously discovered that this oral solution had also a tonic effect in many people and so became aware that the Magnesium Chloride had an effect on the whole organism. In a brief time, he received communications of very good therapeutic effects of this "therapy" from people that were taking Magnesium Chloride for its tonic properties and who were suffering from various ailments. Prof. Delbet began to closely study the subject and verified that the Magnesium Chloride solution was a very good therapy for a long list of diseases. He obtained very good results in: colitis, angiocholitis, chole-cystitis, in the digestive apparatus; Parkinson's Disease, senile tremors and muscular cramps, in the nervous system, acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts, itch of various origins and chilblains, in the skin. There was a strengthening of hair and nails, a good effect on diseases typical of the aged (impotency, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory troubles) and on diseases of allergic orgin (hay-fever, asthma, urticaria, and anaphylactic reactions). Then Prof. Delbet began to investigate the relationship between Magnesium and cancer. After a lot of clinical and experimental studies, he found that Magnesium Chloride had a very good effect on prevention of cancer and that it was able to cure several precancerous conditions: leucoplasia, hyperkeratosis, chronic mas-titis, etc. Epidemiological studies confirmed Delbet's views and demonstrated that the regions of soil with richer incidence of magnesium had less cancer, and vice versa. In experimental studies, the Magnesium Chloride solution was also able to slow down the course of cancer in laboratory animals. Prof. Delbert wrote two books, Politique Preventive du Cancer (1944) and L'Agriculture et la Sante' (1945), in which he stated his ideas about cancer prevention and a better living. The first is a well documented report of all his studies on Magnesium Chloride. In 1943 another French doctor, Dr. A. Neveu, M.D., used the Magnesium solution in a case of diptheria to reduce the risks of anaphylactic reaction due to the anti-diptheric serum that he was ready to administer. To his great surprise, when the next day the laboratory results confirmed the diagnosis of diptheria, the little girl was completely cured, before he could use the serum. He credited the immuno-stimulant activity to the solution for this result, and he tested it in some other patients. All the patients were cured in a very short time (24-48 hours), with no after-effects. Dr. Neveu then began to treat some cases of poliomyelitis, and had the same wonderful results. He was very excited and tried to divulge the therapy, but he ran into a wall of hostility and obstruc-tionism from "official medicine." Neither Neveu or Delbet (who was a member of the Academy of Medicine) was able to diffuse Neveu's extraordinary results. The opposition was total: professors of Medicine, Medical peer-reviews, the Academy itself, all were against the two doctors. "Official medicine" saw in Magnesium Chloride therapy a threat to its new and growing business-vaccinations. Dr. Neveu wasn't discouraged by this and continued to test this therapy in a wide range of diseases. He obtained very good results in: