The triumph of a Jewish physician who suffered hard ships including expulsion from the Medical Society in the process of finding a new cure for tuberculosis is described by Deputy Moses, member of the Reichstag, and official physician of that body.
Dr. Max Gerson of Bielefeld, the Jewish physician whose new method of curing tuberculosis through diet was recognized a short time ago by the Berlin Medical Society, following approval given to him by the famous Sauerbruch clinic, was engaged in experimenting with this method for many years. He was denounced by his non-Jewish colleagues as a quack and was excluded from the medical association, Deputy Moses now relates. Dr. Gerson for many years, despite his poverty, continued to carry on his research work. Now that his discovery has received recognition, the German nationalist press suppresses his name, giving credit only to the Sauerbruch clinic “It is high time, Deputy Moses declared, “that the entire world learned that Dr. Max Gerson was the unknown soldier of German science.”
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