Archie Kalokerinos - Every Second Child

Every Second Child by Archie Kalokerinos

Foreword by LINUS PAULING, PH.D

Introduction by IRWIN STONE, PH.D.
Keats Publishing, Inc. New Canaan, Connecticut

Pivot Original Edition published 1981 in arrangement with Thomas Nelson ( Australia )
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ISBN ; 0-87983-250-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-84455

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10,000 INFANTS DIE EVERY YEARNEEDLESSLY FROM CRIB DEATH. WHY? HERE ARE LIFE-SAVING ANSWERS IN A DRAMATIC EXPOSITION OF THE LIFE- DEATH ROLE OF NUTRITION.

A GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. LINUS PAULING, PHD.

EVERY SECOND CHILD WAS DOOMED TO EARLY DEATHUNLESS ONE DEDICATED DOCTOR COULD OPEN HIS COLLEAGUES EYES AND MINDS

Baby Evelyn was normal at birth. But at six months, she was emaciated, weak, dying ... and covered with bruises. To the medical authorities and the police, this was an open and shut case of child abuse. According to their lights, her mother Nancy, a typically ignorant Aboriginal, had neglected her child, then beaten her fatally.Mother Nancy was tried, convicted and jailed. But Dr. Archie Kalokerinos knew better. He immediately saw Baby Evelyn's case for what it was: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or Crib Death, resulting from the standard Aboriginal diet of junk food, worthless baby formula and no vitamin C. What is more, Kalokerinos had evidence from his own experience in treating thousands of Aboriginal babies, plus the expert testimony of medical colleagues, to prove his diagnosis. The result: Nancy was declared innocent one month before her sentence for killing her baby was completed. Still the needless deaths go onin Australia, in the United States, where Dr. Irwin Stone estimates that 10,000 baby deaths occur annually because of this same lack of recognition of the true cause and throughout the world. Here, in Every Second Child, a true detective story, is heartbreak and tragedyin a chronicle of medicine, offtcial blindness, and perhaps hope for the future.

To the mothers of those tiny children.
Because they suffered so.
They knew not of the trees,
They knew not of the flowers.
The river flows beside them.
The wind they cannot hear.
These little Aborigines
So small in death.
So early to the grave.
'Tis sad they did not know
The legends of their land .

THIS book presents the engrossing account of the attack, in large part ultimately successful, made by Dr. Archie Kalokerinos on the problem of the very high death rate of Aboriginal children in the part of New South Wales in which he was working. After he had recognized the problem and had rejected the usual explanations of the high death rate of the Aboriginal infants, he was led finally to the conclusion that the infants were suffering from scurvy, a deficiency of vitamin C. This discovery was at first rejected by the authorities, and by most of his fellow physicians; but the weight of the evidence has finally led to acceptance of his views. Through his work Dr. Kalokerinos has made a great contribution to the health and welfare not only of the Australian Aborigines but also of people everywhere in the world. The idea that there might be a rather general deficiency in vitamin C was developed slowly during the twenty years from about 1949. In that year G. B. Bourne pointed out that the gorilla, which like man requires vitamin C in his food in order to keep alive, obtains in his daily supply of food a very large amount of vitamin C, about 5,000 milligrams, 100 times the amount usually recommended for human beings. In 1965 the American biochemist Irwin Stone presented several arguments to support the thesis that the optimum intake of vitamin C, the intake that leads to the best of health, probably for most people lies between ,000 and 5,000 milligrams per day. One argument leading to this conclusion is that most animals manufacture vitamin C in their own bodies, and the amount manufactured corresponds to an intake by man of between 4,000 and 16,000 milligrams per day. It is interesting also that the Committee on Human Foods and Nutrition of the United States Academy of Sciences-National Research Council recommends only 60 milligrams per day for human beings, whereas the Committee on Feeding of Laboratory Ani m als, also a committee of the United States National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, recommends 2,000 milligrams per day for monkeys. It is likely that the second committee has more reliable experimental information to support its recommendation than the first committee, because it is possible to carry out controlled experiments on monkeys more easily than on human beings. In the period between 1942 and 1961 several investigations were reported in which it was found that people receiving 200 milligrams to 1000 milligrams of vitamin C per day had fewer colds than people who were given an inactive tablet. During the last three years six more studies have been made of people who receive either vitamin C or an inactive tablet over a period of weeks or months, and they were observed to see whether the incidence and severity of colds were affected. It was found in every one of these investigations that an added intake of vitamin C leads to a decrease in the number of colds and also to a decrease in the amount of illness caused by colds. Moreover, it has been found that there is a decrease in the incidence of nonrespiratory diseases, as well. We may conclude from these studies that an improvement in health may in general be expected to result from an increased intake of vitamin C. The problem of obtaining a suitable amount of vitamin C is, of course, a far more serious one for the Australian Aborigines than for other people. I believe that the conclusion reached by Dr. Kalokerinos that the high infant mortality and generally high incidence of disease among the Aboriginal infants are to be attributed in considerable part to a low body content of vitamin C is correct. Moreover, it seems to be not unlikely that the Australian Aborigines have a special immunological problem, as described by Dr. Kalokerinos, and that in addition the deficiency in vitamin C is exacerbated by immunizations and inoculations, since it is known that immunization and inoculation lead to destruction of vitamin C. Dr. Kalokerinos deserves much credit for having made these discoveries.
LINUS PAULING, Ph.D.

NEARLY three decades of clinical research in the conquest of infant mortality, both before and after the publication of the original Australian edition of this book in 1974, has taught Dr. Archie Kalokerinos what is of value and what is useless in saving the lives of babies. He has a wealth of clinical data, which point to the inevitable conclusion that acute infantile scurvy is the prime cause of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and is responsible for these infant deaths. This is a condition that can be so simply, harmlessly and inexpensively corrected, thus preventing these babies from dying. Dr. Kalokerinos solved the SIDS problem in Australia and long ago offered his simple and logical solution to the world through publication in the medical literature. Instead of cooperating and testing this simple procedure to prove to themselves that it works, the medical establishments of both Australia and the United States have met his suggestions with derision, hostility and rejection. The Government SIDS Research Units have failed to investigate Dr. Kalokerinos* technique and claims. The medical advisors to the lay organizations that collect money from the public to support research on SIDS have not allowed any of this money to be used in any large scale test on the effect of megascorbate in the prevention of SIDS. The reception of the results of Dr. Kalokerinos* long clinical studies by the medical establishments of both countries amounts to a national scandal. In the United States alone about 10,000 babies each year are sacrificed to this medical bias. This is not the first time that this bias has taken its toll. Dr. Frederick R. Klenner of Reidsville, North Carolina, many years ago independently solved the SIDS problem in the United States. Dr. Klenner reached the same conclusion from his extensive clinical observations that acute infantile scurvy kills the babies. Dr, Klenner received the same medical disbelief and rejection that was also the lot of Dr. Kalokerinos. Dr. Klenner found that the best way to fight SIDS is to treat the babies through their mother before they are born, and devised a simple technique for doing this. In hundreds of pregnancies, he gave 5 to 15 grams of ascorbate each day throughout pregnancy and lactation. This corrects the chronic subclinical scurvy existing in the mothers and prevents the scurvy, which otherwise would develop in the fetus, in utero. Under this megascorbic regime the mother has a much easier time throughout pregnancy and in labor. The neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbatecorrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth. After the infants are weaned they routinely get up to I gram of ascorbate daily during their first year. They then receive one gram of ascorbate per day per year of age up to age ten, then ten grams per day thereafter. SIDS is an unknown entity in this population of infants. My own long research on the Genetics of Scurvy and the Human Defective Gene for the Liver-Enzyme, GLO, provides the rationale for giving these daily mega-doses of ascorbate to the babies, to correct their potentially fatal birth defect. If there is any doubt that potential SIDS victims have scurvy and are on inadequate daily intakes of ascorbate, this can be simply and rapidly demonstrated by means of an inexpensive dip-stick urine test, used by Dr. Kalokerinos, which measures the urinary spillover of ascorbate. In scurvy, the urinary spillover is either nonexistent or at very low levels. When doses of ascorbate are given that will prevent SIDS, then the urinary spillover is high and definite. In 1976, 1977, 1979 and again in 1980. Dr. Kalokerinos and his Australian colleague. Dr. Glen Dettmann, embarked on nationwide lecture tours of the United States, to publicize the simplicity, harmlessness and effectiveness of their megascorbate-SIDS technique. Their only goal in these visits was to speed the elimination of SIDS as an infant disease. Their tours included contacts at the National I nstitutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. The ineffectiveness of their many lectures and contacts in changing the response of orthodox medicine to their views and clinical data may be judged by the present prevailing official viewpoints on SIDSthat the cause of these deaths is unknown. They could not induce anyone to start a program of testing their data; they were rebuffed in all their attempts. At the time of this writing I know of no tests, planned or in progress, large scale or small scale, that will effectively check their data in halting these unnecessary SIDS deaths and the severe traumatic effects on the parents lives. The present recommendation of the government and private SIDS agencies is to hook up the potential SIDS victim or near miss to an expensively rented electronic monitoring equipment while the babies are asleep. This apparatus monitors their breathing patterns and heart rate. If either diverges from normal , an alarm is sounded and the parent has to rush in and try to revive the baby. If the baby remains in shock, the parent is supposed to rush it to the nearest hospital emergency room, this at a time when every second counts. If this is the best solution that Medicine can come up with in its years of research, why has it ignored testing Dr. Kalokerinos megascorbate technique where a few pennies worth of vitamin C a day may avoid all this and permanently solve the SIDS problem? Since 1974, the date of the original Australian publication of this book , about 60,000 babies have succumbed to SIDS in the United States alone. These deaths may have been prevented if the recommendations in this book had been followed . SIDS. Crib-Deaths, Cot-Deaths, or whatever name you want to give this unexpected killer of apparently healthy babies, is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. We now have to wait until a dilatory medicine, the health authorities and public health officials, supported by your tax money, finally decide that enough babies have been sacrificed and start financing large-scale testing of this harmless technique, and not until then will these unnecessary deaths cease. In the meantime, if you are a prospective parent and you want to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic, just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate, from conception on, is sufficient to assure the full correction of its birth defect for GLO and its health and survival. It is hoped that the wide circulation of this book will be a major factor in the early elimination of this insidious fatal disease.