Erwin Liek

Erwin Liek (born May 13, 1878 in Löbau in West Prussia , † February 12, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German physician and publicist. In 1928 Liek founded the general medical journal Hippocrates , which was initially supported by physicians, medical historians, homeopaths, psychologists and parapsychologists, who were open to homeopathy and healthy nutrition. Liek studied from 1896 to 1902 medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, and Königsberg. Liek wrote two books on cancer. In his 1932 volume on The Spread, Prevention, and Control of Cancer, the Danzig surgeon argued that cancer was a disease of civilization, a “cultural disease” whose incidence was on the rise. A natural way of life was the best protection: “the simpler and more natural one’s way of life, the rarer is cancer.”

MY FIRST CONSULTATION

Only later on I learned the following great verity: Only too often doctors receive from patients the warmest gratitude in case in which they have either done nothing or in which they have made acute by a fluke. That is a certain compensation for the numerous cases in which our labours, our anxiety and sleepless nights are repaid with black ingratitude.

UNNECESSARY OPERATIONS

The discovery of anaesthetics and and antiseptics, the elimination of pain and risk in operations has opened the road to surgery and has enabled surgery to give ready help wherever mechanical intervention can help. “Nowadays we are apt to give the normal position to very organ in the human body.” These words proclaim incredible conceit.

THE REFORM OF THE HEALING ART

THE REFORM OF THE HEALING ART. TWO years ago the great surgeon, August Bier, wrote significantly in the Munch. Med. Woch: “I am a practicing physician and a professor of surgery,” in justification of the fact that he had occupied himself with homoeopathy and the medicinal treatment of disease, for which he had been blamed.

THE CANCER PROBLEM

Cancers experimentally produced in animals are totally different from the spontaneous cancers found in human beings.Primitive races have excellent teeth. The teeth of the civilized are deplorable, notwithstanding our excellent dentists. All doctors are agreed that dental caries, a typical disease of civilization, is due to faulty nutrition.

THE NEW NUTRITION

THE NEW NUTRITION. (From Hippokrates).

OUR diet was excellent as long as there was no science of dietetics. During thousands of years experience and traditi……