WHEN I MOVED INTO MY NEW HOUSE, I WAS CONCERNED NOT only about the physical wellness of the house (roof, drains, etc.), but also the physical wellness of my own body. I have a ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, where Georgia O’Keeffe used to paint. I have lived there for fifteen years and never had trouble with juniper pollen. When I bought this new house in Santa Fe, I had no idea that allergies would soon prevent me from even visiting my ranch. The synchronicity of buying a house in Santa Fe saved me from taking up permanent residence in New Mexican clinics due to allergies and my inability to breathe in Abiquiu. The synchronicity of ageing has resulted in my putting my creative show business and film life on the blurry back burner of memory so I can focus on what is wrong with me now.
Because of my allergies I have had to educate myself about my overall physical condition, which has led me to investigate allopathic medicine (that is, traditional Western), as opposed to alternative medicine in this country.
I have been blessed in my life to be healthy. Good genes, exercise from dancing, and a fairly balanced diet. So to experience anything physically wrong has been difficult for me.
My surgeries have been expected. Knee surgery from dancing, neck surgery (from sticking it out, I would say), kidney surgery for a cyst that wasn’t cancerous, and a face-lift when I was fifty. All in all, that’s not too much anesthetic. But lately I’ve been having such problems with allergies that I thought it was causing very bad acid reflux.
Death by Modern Medicine is not just the name of a book by Carolyn Dean (whom I will quote extensively). It’s a condition afflicting doctors and patients. The statistics are staggering. From 1990 to 2000 about 7 to 8 million people suffered death by medicine. There have been thousands of fatalities linked to the drug Vioxx (prescribed to me after my neck surgery). Close to one third of the millions of women who took fen-phen to lose weight suffered heart or lung damage. Celebrex causes heart disease as do other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Suicides are occurring resulting from Prozac, and the list goes on.
All of these treatments focus on treating the symptoms, not the cause. Drug companies thrive when people remain sick. Modern medicine itself is the number one cause of death every year. The figure is 784,000 deaths a year due to medicine-related causes. That’s 2,150 deaths a day just in this country alone.
Medical doctors are licensed and regulated by their own medical boards, and increasingly these boards are populated with representatives of the drug industry and doctors who are paid advisers for the drug companies.
The failure of modern medicine began with its overriding desire to create a monopoly. Documentation goes back to the time of Henry VIII, when allopathic (another word for “conventional”) doctors convinced the city of London to pass a bylaw requiring a license to practice as a way of controlling herbalists. Women who were herbalists, midwives, and healers were burned at the stake for allegedly practicing witchcraft.
In North America, doctors are in the upper echelons of society, sit on government benches, and create laws and regulations to benefit themselves. In early modern-day medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, and chiropractic, naturopathic treatments, etc., were frowned upon, but today there is so much suspicion of allopathic medicine that patients resort to spending $21 billion a year for alternative medicine.
In conventional care, we have five-minute medicine. We wait two months for an appointment, one hour in the waiting room, twenty minutes in the examining room, for five minutes with the doctor. Rarely do we find family doctors anymore who know us and our families. Now everyone is a specialist. Medicine has become a servant of the technology of drugs instead of a healing art.
The separation between mind, body, and spirit has never been more obvious than in modern medicine. There is no education in medical training that the three are connected. In fact, most doctors will laugh at such a notion. Nutrition and emotional stress are not really considered relevant to a person’s physical maladies.
Every nutritionist I’ve ever met in a hospital is overweight and underaware of it. When my mother was recovering from surgery, the nutritionist came in with her lunch tray, which consisted of a Coke, a cheeseburger, chocolate cake, and ice cream. When I looked up at her in astonishment, she said, “It’s good for the patient because it makes her think she’ll feel better.” The woman weighed about two hundred pounds. In horror, I watched her waddle away.
For many people vitamins and supplements are extremely beneficial, but the medical and drug industries are attempting to move them into a drug category so that prescriptions are necessary. Monopoly of medicine and censorship are a way slowly but surely to erode the beneficial effect on human health outside of the accepted allopathic drug industry.
Why does modern medicine treat alternative cures with such shabby cynicism? The preferred treatments in Europe and Asia are supplements: herbal, homeopathic, and holistic. A holistic doctor treats the mind, body, and spirit. He knows they are connected and one affects the other.
Our advertising and media contribute to how we heal ourselves. We are inundated with electronic information waves of every description. The advertising world is a scientific operation, and we are being advertised to death. We smoke, drink, overeat, and stress out as we rush to a yoga class and give ourselves only twenty minutes to meditate. We use our computers, cell phones, and Palm Pilots, ingesting all of those electromagnetic waves as we pop diet pills to look as though we are healthy.
It’s no secret that we all fear disease. But we should remember that disease is dis-ease. The word itself is a clue to what’s going on. We are being propagandized from every corner of our free society.
Alex Carey, a psychologist, said it best: “The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
The most manipulative propaganda is that modern medicine has anything to do with health. Drug companies who make sick pills for healthy people also make a lot of money.
When I had profound pain three months after my neck surgery, my surgeon (one of the best regarding surgery, one of the worst regarding sensitivity) wouldn’t even answer the phone. He left a message with his assistant: “Tell her to take Vioxx.” It turned out that I had a compacted rib bone from stress.
I have come to understand that I should approach the food that I eat as I would a medicine or drug. It’s that important. Yet our food is being polluted by pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. I eat only organic fruits and vegetables but that doesn’t mean they are not hybrid. I try to live without the whites: bread, sugar, flour, and pasta. I eat chicken and fish, hopefully raised without antibiotics. But how can we really tell?
My big problem in my life is my sweet tooth. I’ve had it since childhood. At times I am insulin resistant, which basically means I have an inability to transport sugar into the cells. The result is high blood levels of sugar and insulin. Chronically elevated insulin helps create obesity and, worse than anything, keeps me from losing weight. I do my workout every day and basically don’t eat much, but to lose weight? It’s a nightmare!
Death by sugar is clear, but a war on sugar…I don’t have the trained troops.
Dr. Nancy Appleton is a researcher and nutritional consultant who has made a life study of sugar and why we should wage war on it. She has compiled a mind-blowing list of 136 ways sugar is harmful to your health to prove her point.
Here is a list of conditions that are triggered or worsened by high sugar intake:
There are ten teaspoons of sugar in a can of soda pop and twenty-seven teaspoons in a milk shake.
Sugar-free substitutes are just as bad in different ways. Aspartame (NutraSweet) is a neurotoxin and should be avoided completely. Studies link it to birth defects, brain tumors, and seizures and say that it contributes to diabetes and emotional disorders. We should avoid any synthetic sweeteners and use honey instead. That means no Splenda, Equal, saccharin, or Sweet ’N Low. Stevia is okay if it’s natural.
Sugar is a legalized poison, and I try my best to be poison-free. I use honey on my cereal and have one bite of dessert from someone else’s plate when I’m out to dinner. I don’t eat the fat on chicken or fish, and rarely eat red meat anyway. My carbs come from vegetables and fruit. I’ve given up pasta and bread and am not happy about it at all. For salt I use Kymalazan or Celtic Sea Salt, which is not processed and is delicious.
I’ve allowed my yoga practice to be a glory of the past because I do so much other exercise (weight lifting, stretching, mountain hiking, and stomach exercising). But I still believe yoga is a miraculous discipline. Yoga itself means “union,” a union of balance, strength, and flexibility. Another discipline I do is Xi Gong. I do spontaneous Xi Gong, which means I stand very relaxed on the floor, allow my intelligent mind to take a backseat, and I get out of a disciplinarian mind frame and allow my body to move in whatever way it chooses to. I’m fascinated by the ways my body wants to move. Sometimes it is gentle, as I find myself swaying slowly as I watch my arms rotate in ways that tell me they have an intelligence of their own. It always makes me aware that the body is basically energy, and the energy tells me it needs to move in certain configurations to stay balanced. Sometimes my arms and legs and torso move for long periods of time and sometimes not. I notice that if something is physically bothering me (aches and pains from exercise or cold or even a restless night), the movement itself acts as a healer because it redistributes the energy, which contributes to the balance of my whole system.
I think the reason I’ve never really been sick in my life is because I’ve led a drug-free existence. I always have. I’ve never done a line of coke or taken any drugs for recreation. But once Robert Mitchum gave me some bang brownies, and I thought I was walking around in my own brain cells (fascinating, by the way). And I smoked pot in a hotel room in London, and afterward nearly ate the furniture, I was so hungry. At a fancy dinner party in Hollywood, I put a teaspoon of what I thought was very refined sugar in my demitasse coffee. The hostess was horrified, because it was a thousand dollars’ worth of coke. I didn’t drink the coffee, and I was never invited back.
I naively wondered why so many of my show business friends would congregate in bathrooms with the windows open and come out looking like they’d dunked their faces in powdered sugar doughnuts. So I have no education in the drug world. I am a novice. And where prescription drugs are concerned, I’ve taken antibiotics a few times, and every now and then 2 mg of Valium to sleep. I do take melatonin. It’s calming before bed and wonderful for the hair.
Alternative medicine has become a bridge to other realities we know very little about in the West. It comes, I think, from a basic distrust in the limited thinking of conventional doctors. Millions of people are taking active steps to venture outside the medical mainstream with acupuncture, herbal treatments, homeopathy, supplements, and holistic points of view in general. Forty-eight percent of American adults, according to the New York Times, use at least one alternative or complementary therapy. The percentage continues to grow every year. They feel their overall well-being is not being addressed. They are looking for ways to assist the body in its own capacity to fight off disease and heal. More and more people are learning to use their own intuition as to their bodies and mind, body, spirit connections. People who follow naturopathic techniques find fewer drug side effects, unhurried service, more affectionate care, and say they feel they are being treated as whole persons, not persons with specific symptoms.
I have had a hiatal hernia, which caused me severe acid reflux for many years. It was recommended that I take Prilosec to decrease the hydrochloric acid. I took the Prilosec for years until I began seriously to question the role of hydrochloric acid in our bodies. If we have such an abundance of this acid, isn’t there likely some reason for it to be there in the first place? Do we need a natural amount of hydrochloric acid for proper digestion?
Some doctors say that an infant who is not breast-fed in the first twelve hours will suffer digestive tract maladies later in life because the digestive computer isn’t turned on by the colostrum in mother’s milk. I wasn’t breast-fed, which I came to realize might have been the reason for my digestive computer problems. (There is a reason why nature meant for mothers to breast-feed their children immediately.)
I began to make a study of what the digestive tract meant to my human health. My research led me to understand that the seat of my health resides with the “inner terrain” of my body, which is governed by digestion.
Our bodies are alkaline by design and acid by function. Maintaining a proper balance is essential for life, health, and vitality. Without the alkaline balance, our “inner terrain” is a breeding ground for bacteria, yeast, and other unwanted organisms. I found that all leading biochemists and medical physiologists recognize that our pH balance (acid-alkaline balance) is the most important aspect of a balanced and healthy body. Our digestive tracts have varying degrees of acid by design and our urinary tracts should be slightly acidic for healthy function.
My pH had been out of whack for many years, and I was taking a proton pump inhibitor (a drug like Prilosec or Nexium, acid depressors) which was alleviating the burning acid, but at what cost? My doctors saw nothing wrong with 40 mg in the morning and 40 mg at night, until it began to become evident in patients over fifty that there was a correlation between heartburn drugs and more and more broken hips and fractures. Broken bones and fractures in the elderly often lead to life-threatening complications.
Patients over fifty who used acid-reducing drugs for more than a year had a 44 percent higher risk of hip fractures than nonusers. The longer the patient took the drugs, the higher their risk.
Most people do not take enough calcium to start with. Add the lack of calcium absorption, and there is a real problem. Women over sixty taking heartburn drugs put themselves at risk of developing osteoporosis.
I soon understood I needed to get off the drug. (Nexium, which is similar to Prilosec, is the second-most-profitable drug in the world with global sales of $4.6 billion a year, as reported by IMS Health, which tracks drug sales.)
So I was learning that I—and everyone else who had digestive problems—was at war within myself. We were becoming more and more susceptible to bacteria, fungus, yeasts, and molds.
I found I had developed a bad cough and was more bothered by allergies than ever before. I needed to take my pH imbalance seriously and get off the heartburn drugs.
The germs were nothing; my inner terrain was everything.
Because of the animosity that the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies have in general for alternative healing procedures, I am going to be deliberately careful with the specifics of how I’ve healed myself. I am disguising the doctors’ names because they could lose their licenses if their work is seen as too expert and successful!
I reconnected with a naturopathic dentist whom I had known for twenty-five years. He had become a researcher in what is called “energy medicine” and had been practicing with much success as a doctor. His knowledge of teeth was instrumental in furthering his research because he understood that each tooth in the human mouth is connected to a meridian energy line that connects to various organs in the body. But I don’t want to get ahead of my story.
Dr. Lin took my case, which was: I had allergies, horrible acid reflux, and some problems dealing with menopause.
Dr. Lin is a spiritual dowser. That means he uses a dowsing rod, which is literally and physically moved by his own spiritual guides to diagnose the maladies in a patient. It was fascinating to watch how it worked.
I was used to dowsing techniques because I had employed dowsers to locate underground water on my ranch in New Mexico. The water dowser simply holds his rod over the ground as he walks the property. Whenever it moves and points down, we know water is there. When he asks how many feet below the surface, the rod will respond by moving up and down. My water dowser was never wrong. He said he didn’t know if it was his own higher knowledge of the location of water or whether it was a spiritual guide of his. He learned it all from an Indian shaman.
So as I watched the dowsing techniques of Dr. Lin, I quickly realized I had to know enough medically to ask the right questions. So did Dr. Lin.
I began by wanting to know what the operating level of hydrochloric acid was in my body. The dowsing rod moved eighteen times, which according to Dr. Lin meant that I had only 18 percent efficacy of what my hydrochloric acid should be. The Prilosec had reduced the effectiveness of my acid down to 18 percent. No wonder I didn’t have heartburn anymore! But at what cost? I was coughing all the time. I felt weak. I wasn’t sleeping, and my allergies were terrible.
I agreed with Dr. Lin I should get off the Prilosec right away or a hip fracture could be next, according to the statistics.
I was nervous at first because I knew the heartburn would return, as the body would endeavor to restore its acid, which was needed for the functioning of so many other things.
I went cold turkey off the Prilosec. Dr. Lin gave me a formula that tasted like chalk in powder form. Whenever I mixed a half a teaspoon of it in water and swallowed, the heartburn went away. I’m not sure what was in the chalklike powder. I was told it was a process of H20, which meant another version of water to me, so I really don’t know what to say except that it worked.
I took a half teaspoon of the “chalk” in water whenever I was bothered by heartburn, and I must say I was fine.
My hydrochloric acid began to return, and the last time I checked it was close to what it should be in order to restore a balanced alkaline and acid “inner terrain” in my body.
I’m careful with how much protein from fish, meat, and fowl I eat because it galvanizes the hydrochloric acid back into action. For me, a third-world diet is the best: one-third protein, one-third carbs, and one-third fruits and vegetables.
After my healing was in full swing, I learned how to make my own homeopathic remedies with a portable machine that Dr. Lin purchased for me. I mix a sample of whatever mold or spores or pollen I remove from the trees around where I live with a little bit of my own urine in a shot glass and place the glass on one side of the machine. On the other side I place a dropper bottle full of sterilized water. I turn on the machine, wait for it to do its work, and within a few minutes the energy of the contents of the shot glass has transferred to the homeopathic water, and I have my remedy. It’s quite an amazing medical and natural process and, most of all, it is working.
I take this machine with me wherever I am in the world and use my urine mixed with whatever pollutants may be in the air in the shot glass and wait for the machine to transfer the energy of the shot glass into the bottle of water, which makes my own homeopathic remedy. It’s a procedure known as “radionics” and is without the side effects of allopathic medicine. I have to be careful not to allow the homeopathic remedy to go through security at the airport because the energy of the security machines neutralizes the remedy. That’s why I take the machine with me. I know I can rely on it.
If Terry picks up a mold, or something is in her dander, I include some of her dog hairs in the shot glass and anything else I think may be causing my allergies.
If I were to ask now what is making me sick, I would know that acidosis is the answer. A state of acidosis is simply the lack of oxygen and available calcium, which the body uses to maintain its alkaline balance. I know now that an acidic, anaerobic (lacking oxygen) body environment encourages the breeding of fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses.
On the other hand if I don’t have a balance of enough acid (which I didn’t because of the Prilosec), I’m in trouble, too. Calcium makes up 1.6 percent of our body weight. It is literally the human glue that holds the body together. Calcium is used by the body to maintain its alkaline balance. Calcium is so biochemically active that it has been likened to an octopus. A calcium ion can hold on to seven other molecules while it grabs on to one molecule of water. No other ion can do this. And it is the right size to get in and out of the human cell easily. As it does this, it takes a chain of nutrients into the cell, then leaves to get more nutrients.
Our lives depend on our biological inner terrain. In other words there are really no specific diseases, there are only specific disease conditions.
The human body is very intelligent, and I am learning to rely more and more on its intelligence rather than drugs.
If I am properly alkaline, I feel stronger, my energy is higher, and my mind functions more effectively. I also have more memory. When I am acidic, my immune system doesn’t function as well, my energy is low, and my mind can’t focus properly.
This inner terrain balance depends on many things. But probably the most important is diet. In making a study of which foods were more alkaline in the body and which were acidic, I was stunned. For example, all citrus fruits and juices turn alkaline in the system even though they are acid when we drink them. Meat, fish, fowl, and most animal products turn acidic. All vegetables, except cooked tomatoes, turn alkaline.
So we should observe a diet that is 20 percent acidic and 80 percent alkaline. There are several good books written by experts on the subject that can guide us on what to eat, but here are some quick tips for those days when you just can’t get your pH up. Some of what I’m going to share with you will surprise you. Some of it may make you laugh. But try it and be amazed at the difference you feel.
I know this is quite a bit to “digest”…but keeping an alkalized body will help you feel your best.
Once my healing of the inner terrain was in progress, I began to learn the importance of our teeth. I was more astonished at what I learned about teeth than anything else.
Our eyes may be the window to our souls, but to know about our physical health we should open our mouths wide and look inside. As someone said to me, “It’s all in your head!”
Every time we brush our teeth, especially if there is any inflammation in the mouth, it puts bacteria into our bloodstream. Dental problems, receding or inflamed gums, cavities, tooth loss, gingivitis, and other dental dilemmas in adults can indicate the presence of serious health problems in the rest of the body, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, vitamin deficiencies, and even the risk of having a premature or low-birth-weight baby.
Often it’s a naturopathic dentist who is the first to identify a systemic health problem because of what he or she finds in a patient’s mouth. After forty years of research, the great German physician Dr. Reinhard Voll estimated that nearly 80 percent of all illness in the human body is connected in some way to problems in the mouth. Oral toxicity has also been shown to be the cause of much anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, and suicidal behavior as well as other psychological conditions.
All teeth are linked to the body through the energy/ acupuncture meridians. Root canals, amalgam fillings, non-precious crowns, or any substance that is not compatible with the body may create an “interference field,” blocking or altering the energy flow of the associated meridian. Such a blockage results in a lack of energetic nourishment and physical symptoms in an organ or body function remote from the tooth.
When a tooth is diseased, the dentist has the choice of taking the tooth out or doing a root canal treatment. These days, a dentist will usually offer to treat the abscess, deal with the pain, and save the tooth. This is where opinions split as to what is best to do. Do we look to save individual teeth or do we look to treat the whole patient?
That is what happened to me.
I was having a toothache in my lower wisdom tooth on the left side when I went to Dr. Lin. Being a naturopathic dentist he educated me as to the important connections between each tooth and the body’s overall health or sickness. My wisdom tooth was directly connected to the acupuncture meridian to my stomach and all my attendant problems with digestion.
Long story short, I had the tooth removed by a cavitation process by another dentist. Cavitation removal is not taught in schools of dentistry. The common belief is that just pulling the tooth that aches removes the problem. I learned differently.
Under the aching tooth, deep down in the bone, there was a bad infection, which was blocking the energy flow of the stomach meridian. Cavitation removal is not just the process of removing the tooth but also scraping out the bacteria and infection that reside in the bone underneath. In my case much of the bone needed to be removed. After that, my digestive problems cleared up.
I won’t go into specifics here about which tooth goes into which meridian to organs in the body, but at the end of this book you will find a very useful chart detailing this. If you are interested in a further exploration, I encourage you to look into naturopathic dentistry.
I was interested in how osteoporosis was connected to tooth disease and found that osteoporosis and tooth loss often go hand in hand because the same decrease in bone mineral density that boosts the risk of hip and other fractures affects the jawbone and teeth. That’s one reason older women are especially vulnerable to tooth loss following menopause and why hormone replacement therapy became so popular even though the doctors still don’t seem to know what to do about their recommendations. I say, fix the teeth!
There are apparently four stages in a female’s life when she is most vulnerable to oral problems: puberty, monthly periods, pregnancy, and menopause. Certain hormone levels are elevated, which stimulates inflammatory mediators that make them more susceptible and responsive to bacteria in the mouth. So we should mark our calendars and have dental exams during any of these times. But the exams should be done by dentists who understand the connections between the teeth and the acupuncture meridians to the organs. Toothaches and other oral problems are caused by the stagnation of circulation within the meridians that travel to the oral cavities. The meridians that lead from the stomach and intestines are usually the ones treated when we have toothaches. Acupuncture therapy can alleviate some of the problems and pain, but cavitation is recommended to cut the disease away. The disease is not only in the tooth, it is also in the bone. And much of the reason for that is that the inner terrain of the body itself does not have an equal alkaline and acid balance.
I learned the hard way. My tooth (and much of the bone beneath it) is gone and my digestion is much better. I had all but two of my silver fillings removed some years ago. But as we now know, silver fillings are really mercury, and most everyone knows what mercury does to the system and its inner terrain. The wisdom tooth I had removed was one of the remaining mercury fillings.
The reason the teeth are such a threat to our health is that, in addition to their connections to every organ and gland in the body, they can harbor infections without symptoms—there is no pain or discomfort very often, yet there may be chronic infection eroding the body’s immune response, wearing out the immune system. And this infection is very difficult to detect. I had had the infection long before the toothache. About 98 percent of Americans have some areas of diseased gum tissue in their mouths, and half of these are also experiencing a progressive “bone loss.”
The mouth, unfortunately for those who like to kiss, is a hostile environment. It’s warm, moist, and full of nutrient-laden saliva, decaying teeth, and saggy gums, which makes a haven for bacteria.
The philosophy underlying the teaching of dentistry today, in the main, limits its practice to mechanics, pain control, and aesthetics. I was fortunate in finding naturopathic doctors and dentists who could really help me. I was fortunate to meet and be helped by Dr. Bill Wolfe. He practices in Santa Fe, and I urge you, dear Reader, if you are having tooth problems, to go to his website at www.drwolfe.com.
Along with my wisdom tooth problem I have three root canal teeth that are on the meridian points to my stomach and lungs. I thought perhaps I should have the root canal teeth pulled, but Dr. Wolfe tested the toxicity of the teeth and found that they weren’t bad enough for removal. He suggested laser treatment for me so that I could save the teeth. I seem to be doing fine now, but without the laser treatment I think my immune system would have suffered.
As Dr. Voll says, we have only so much currency in our immune system bank accounts. If our immune systems are always concentrating on keeping our teeth healthy, some other part of the body is paying the price with neglect.
I am grateful I have come to understand the naturopathic way of looking at my health. Unfortunately, the vast majority of states in the U.S. do not recognize naturopathic care of any kind, so it is difficult to get your insurance to cover your treatment. It is a shame that most insurance companies do not recognize the long-range benefits of such care.
As we all know, vitamins, herbs, and supplements are not regulated by the FDA, and therefore are not covered by insurance companies. Lab tests for patients using alternative care are not covered in most instances unless administered by an allopathic physician.
The Naturopathic Doctors Association recommends contacting your insurance company and asking (1) what they cover in the alternative medicine field, (2) why they don’t cover more, and (3) for them to please cover all forms of naturopathic and alternative care for medical and dental.
I can afford alternative care without my insurance covering it. But for those who can’t—it’s a crime on every level. It’s time we reeducate our human health system to include alternative and complementary systems of treatment. The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, is proposing just that. They are in the initial stages of building a clinic for complementary and alternative medicine, and they’ve asked me to be a part of it, which I’m very excited about.
I’m reminded of Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote: “Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship…to restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic…The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom.”