There is fascinating material on the treatment of polio in a
booklet by Dr. Neveu, published by
Librairie le François, Paris, which is so sensational that
we are amazed that American doctors don't use it. The booklet is
entitled Therapeutic Treatment
of Infectious Diseases by Magnesium
Chloride--Poliomyelitis.
Both Dr. Neveu and Joseph Favier (the prostate man) obtained their magnesium
indoctrination from Dr. Pierre
Delbet.
Dr. Neveu's idea is that every household should have on hand a
mixture of a certain amount of magnesium chloride in water . . .
the mixture being 20 grams of desiccated magnesium chloride to
one liter (about a quart) of water, and at the first appearance
of a sore throat and a stiff feeling in the back of the neck, or
even as late as the first appearance of paralysis, the taking of
the magnesium mixture will put the patient out of danger within
two days, with an eventual total cure, he claims.
Dr. Neveu says that all sore throats do not predict polio, but
when a sore throat is accompanied by a stiffness of the vertebral
column, then treatment should begin as soon as possible, under
the care of a qualified physician.
Dr. Neveu says that the virus of Poliomyelitis destroys the
nerve substance of the anterior horns of the marrow, and that
this destruction leaves in its wake sclerotic scars that escape
all medical or surgical intervention. The destruction of the
nervous substance occurs in a period of time more or less long,
and the magnesium arrests the process. In my opinion, wherever
the nerves are involved, I would add massive doses of the whole
vitamin B complex.
Case 1
Dr. Neveu's first case occurred in September, 1943 . . . a
four-year-old boy, Jean-Claude, who suddenly contracted polio. He
couldn't stand on his left leg. He cried and at noon would not
eat. Dr. Neveu was called in and prepared the following
solution:
Desiccated magnesium chloride 5 grams
Water 250 cc.
The first dose of 80 cc. was given the child at 1 p.m. The
doctor came again at 4 p.m. The paralysis of the left leg was
complete. The child was then given the second dose, and was
scheduled to be given another three hours later, that is, at 7
p.m. The next morning the fever and the paralysis had
disappeared. Jean-Claude was cured! There has been no return of
symptoms.
Case 2
Let Dr. Neveu describe his second case of polio two years
later. "Yves A, age 11 years, after having suffered some time
previously with lumbar pains, is suddenly stricken on Thursday
morning, September 1, 1949, with frontal and temporal headache
and with painful distress in the neck and the back. He suffered
from an inflamed throat, and swallowed his saliva with
difficulty. His face was flushed, his eyes bright and moist. He
was unable to stand up. He said he had no feeling in his legs,
that they were legs of wool. He also felt pains in his upper
arms. He could not stand the light . . . Rectal temperature
102º.
Dr. Neveu gave this patient the same magnesium chloride
treatment. In this case:
Desiccated magnesium chloride 20 grams
Ordinary water 1 liter
In our terminology it is 0.7 ounce of magnesium chloride and
slightly over a quart of water.
The treatment was started Thursday, September 1, at 2:30 p.m.
. . . 125 cc. of the solution every six hours.
Thursday night: temperature 103 degrees.
Friday, September 2: Temperatures, morning, 100.1, evening,
101. All previous symptoms are gradually disappearing. The
little patient slept well last night, and on waking was able to
stand up. At night he asked for food.
Saturday, September 3: Temperatures, morning, 99.3, evening,
99.8. The patient said his head felt heavy, but his condition
was definitely improved. The magnesium treatment is given at
the rate of 125 cc. every eight hours.
Sunday, September 4: The patient seems definitely cured.
Still slightly sensitive to light. I prescribe continuation of
magnesium chloride solution, 125 cc. every, eight hours.
Monday, September 5: Recovery confirmed by the satisfactory
condition of the young patient. Temperatures, morning, 99,
evening, 100. Discontinuance of treatment.
Tuesday, September 6: Temperatures, morning, 98.6, evening,
99.4.
Case 3
The third case was that of Marcelle B., 47 years old whose
sickness was a little more resistant to the magnesium treatment.
She was completely paralyzed in the right lower leg and in the
lumbar region. But after 12 days of the magnesium therapy, there
resulted a complete cure.
Case 4
This case is so dramatic that we will give all of it, in Dr.
Neveu's own words:
"Fernand V., age 13 years, took a sea bath Sunday, August
14, 1955. He stayed in the water a quarter of an hour. On
leaving he got a chill and started shivering. Monday, August
15, he complained about his head and stayed in bed.
Temperature: evening, 40C [37 degrees Centigrade is equal to
98.6 Fahrenheit, which is normal]. A doctor, when called,
prescribed cryogen sulfonamide tablets.
"Tuesday, August 16: Temperature: morning, 38.8°C. The
child's condition became aggravated during the night. He could
not tolerate the tablets prescribed and vomited. The headache
became very painful and the patient began to suffer in the neck
and back. He could no longer stand the light. "The light hurts
my eyes," he said. Temperature: 40.4 C. The physician, when
summoned, told the mother: I suspect poliomyelitis: He said he
would return Thursday morning, if called.
"Wednesday, August 17: Temperature: morning, 38.5 C. The
child was no better. The preceding night had been very bad and
this morning the headache and the pains in the neck and the
back had become insufferable. The child was highly agitated. He
cried. His mother, literally quite beside herself, believed him
doomed.
"Just then someone brought her a newspaper which had just
published a story about the treatment of poliomyelitis with
magnesium chloride, a treatment that I had been studying since
1936 in the case of dogs and since 1943 with people as my
subjects, and with which I was just beginning to have very
satisfactory experience.
"The poor mother came to my house to see me. She arrived
breathless and begged me to come to see her son, to heal him.
She was highly excited. She would pay, she said, whatever the
cost would be. I just read, she said, that you can cure
poliomyelitis; come and cure my son.
"I asked her to come into my consultation room an made her
sit down. She calmed down. I questioned her and she related to
me the preceding events.
"It was evidently an acute case of swiftly progressing
poliomyelitis, but it was of recent beginning, which permitted
me to tell this mother that her little one would be out of
danger in 48 hours. I told her to wait for me, and she waited
with complete trust.
"I prepared the following solution:
Desiccated magnesium chloride 20 grams
Ordinary water 1 liter
"To begin, the patient was to take 125 cc. Every six hours.
The treatment began at noon. In the evening a slight
improvement. Temperature: 39.6 C. The next morning, Thursday,
August 18, the pains in the head, the neck and the back
subside. Temperatures: morning, 37.1 C.; evening, 37.8 C. The
child believes him self cured, raises himself and begins to
divert himself in the afternoon in the garden.
"Saturday, August 20: He takes no more than two doses of the
solution during the day. In the evening he complains of his
head. Temperature: 38.2 C. Was this slight return of a
temperature and of the headache of which the child complained,
due to his playing yesterday afternoon or to some other reason?
It matters little. The doctor treating him, when called, was
told of the treatment which I had prescribed. He himself then
prescribed tablets to soothe the head pains, and without
hesitation advised continuation of the magnesium chloride.
"Sunday, August 21: The child took three doses the of
magnesium chloride solution during the day. Temperatures:
morning, 38.6 C.; evening, 38.1 C.
"Monday, August 22: Everything was back to normal.
Discontinuance of the magnesium treatment. Temperatures;
morning, 37.2 C.; evening, 37 C. The child was definitely
cured.
"I saw this child Wednesday, September 7, in good health,
but he had grown thin and taller during his illness, his mother
told me.
"The first doses prescribed--125 cc. of the solution every
six hours--had reduced to 100 cc. then increased again to 125
cc. Thereafter the child tolerated them perfectly.
"The mother came every day to keep me posted on her son's
condition. When she understood, on Friday morning, August 19,
that her little Fernand was out of danger and when she saw him
play in the garden in the afternoon, this woman, who had
progressed in 48 hours from the most frenzied anguish to the
greatest joy, was seized with a vociferous frenzy when she came
to my office to see me.
"The cytophylactic method of Professor Pierre Delbet by
means of magnesium chloride, which I had been practicing in the
treatment of infectious diseases with unexpected results, had
just saved little Fernand."
I wish there was space here to cover fully all of the 15 cases
of complete cures of polio, but I will just have to touch upon
them.
Case 5
Bernard L., age 9. Right lower leg became paralyzed. The
regular doctor prescribed Sanclomycine, only to raise the boy's
temperature. Cured with magnesium therapy by Dr. Neveu in a
week.
Case 6
Françoise B., age 13. Stiffness of the dorsal vertebral
column. Two doctors called. Lower limbs agitated by nervous
trembling. Neveu called. The therapeutic effect of the magnesium
chloride was rapid. The next day all symptoms began to regress .
. . but her parents stopped the treatment too soon . . . Dr.
Neveu continued it. There was a cure, but in this case there is
still a paralysis of the extensor muscle of the big toe in the
left foot.
Case 7
Yvette R., age 20, suffered a persistent headache which
progressed to vomiting and stiffness of the neck and dorsal
vertebral column. Family physician suspected polio, prescribed
optalidon suppositories. Pain became unbearable and patient
threatened suicide. Treatment with 125 cc. of magnesium chloride
solution was, begun by Dr. Neveu. An hour after the first
glassful, pain began to abate and the patient was able to sleep.
Treatment began on May 24, and by June 5, Yvette R. was
completely cured.
Case 8
Brigitte M., age three, was hospitalized for polio and
returned home paralyzed in both legs. Magnesium chloride
treatment was only begun 25 days after onset of the disease. In
two weeks there were striking results, with much leg mobility
restored. Physical rehabilitation has been excellent. She walks
with a slight limp.
Case 9
Remy T., a farmer of 20, was paralyzed in both lower legs and
the right arm. Magnesium chloride treatment was begun 32 days
after the attack. There was noticeable improvement. After four
months of treatment, he was once more able to walk with the aid
of crutches. Two years later, he could discard the crutches and
walk with a cane.
Case 10
Mariette B., age 19, was brought to Dr. Neveu four months
after a polio attack. Her left leg was paralyzed, and had already
begun to atrophy. She was treated with 125 cc. of magnesium
chloride solution every six hours, then every eight hours after
15 days. There was marked improvement of the paralyzed leg though
it could never be returned to normal. She can ride a bicycle and
walk with a limp.
Case 11
Marie-Madeleine M., a child of 26 months, received Dr. Neveu's
treatment after a delay of 17 days. She was unable to stand or
move her right arm. He prescribed 60 cc of magnesium chloride
solution every four hours. Her legs recovered perfectly. Her
right shoulder remains paralyzed.
Case 12
Frances B., age four, was paralyzed in the right arm and leg.
Ten days after the attack began, she started magnesium chloride
treatment She recovered 100 percent of her arm function and 60 to
75 percent of its strength. In the paralyzed leg, there was a 75
percent recovery of function and 50 to 60 percent of its
strength.
Case 13
Christopher C., age two-and-a-half, was brought to Dr. Neveu
10 days after a comparatively mild attack of polio with a good
prognosis. In two days he showed definite improvement of his
abdominal paralysis. In two-and-a-half months he had made a
complete recovery.
Case 14
Jean-Yves M., 20 months, was attacked by polio which was not
diagnosed until a spinal tap and analysis was made 12 days later.
His left foot was completely paralyzed. Magnesium chloride
treatment brought improvement. After five months he was nearly
normal, but required orthopedic shoes.
Case 15
Jocelyn C., age 12, was brought immediately to Dr. Neveu as
soon as she complained of a sore throat and stiff neck. That day,
even after commencement of magnesium chloride treatment, neck
stiffness increased and spread down the spine. Treatment was
continued. Stiffness disappeared the, next morning. The following
day the sore throat was gone. She was cured except for needing
time to convalesce and regain weight that had been lost.
Here is another confirming bit of evidence, in a letter
(February 4, 1958) to Neveu from D.
Jean Desoutter, member of the Academy of Agriculture of
France, a biologist like Pierre Delbet:
"Permit me to offer you my best wishes for the year now
beginning, with the hope that the ideas which you defend will
finally be disseminated among the public, despite an ostracism
which, if not incomprehensible, is at least indefensible.
"For my, part and to the limit of my means I spread and
practice magnesium chloride therapy, and as I believe you too
have said, it has given excellent results in the case of an
infant attacked by poliomyelitis. This child was the daughter
of a friend and was attacked by the disease twenty-five days
ago.
"My friend did not hesitate to have magnesium chloride
administered to his child for a long period, and of all the
children attacked at the same time as she, it is she who made
the best recovery, and her parents hope to see her become
normal again, despite the too tardy intervention of the
chloride. In any case, the father has recently confirmed to me
his conviction that the magnesium chloride has had the best
result in the case of his child."
In spite of this evidence, Dr.
Pierre Lepine, chief of the virus service at the Pasteur
Institute, writing in The Republic of the Center,
said:
"In my laboratory we have tested the so-called treatment of
Dr. Neveu, as we test without exception all treatments that
have been proposed for the prevention or the treatment of
poliomyelitis. I affirm from my 30 years of uninterrupted
experience in researches on this subject that the treatment of
Dr. Neveu is totally without efficacy in poliomyelitis. To set
oneself up as the apostle of a method resting on inconsistent
theories and defeated by established fact, is to make oneself
an accomplice in a veritable moral swindle with respect to
one's kinsmen.
"There are the facts, which do not prevent us from being in
a Republic."
Doctors who do not wish to give up the current accepted
treatment for polio could add magnesium chloride therapy to
it!
In closing, how many people are going, about today crippled
because of polio, who could have been whole of limb had they been
given the magnesium chloride treatment?
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