Crude Black MOLASSES #2

MARVEL MOLASSES!

INTRODUCTION
(TO THE FIRST EDITION)

It hardly seems necessary for me to apologize for my frequent
allusions in the following pages (1) to the late Dr. Forbes Ross,
who, I think, was the first English doctor to draw attention to
the prophylactic and curative properties in Crude Black Molasses,
(2) to Mr. James Persson of Palmerston N., New Zealand, who,
having been cured of a serious disease by this valuable
substance, altruistically resolved to supply it at a very low
price for the benefit of his fellows. To Mr. Persson I am
indebted for the brief case-histories published in this booklet.
Many of these cures are those imparted to him by the estwhile
sufferers direct, others are cases reported to him (and passed on
to me) by the increasing number of persons who have resorted to
Molasses-therapy with the most gratifying results, among them
doctors and clergymen. Although the names of these doctors are
known to me, it would not be wise to mention them, for that might
be regarded as indirect advertising. Where the Medical Profession
is concerned one is constantly treading on dangerous ground, and
the desire to be useful is often frustrated by the demands of
etiquette, or other considerations somewhat difficult for the
layman to understand. For instance, in one of my books I
mentioned certain useful preparations by name, only to be accused
of subtle advertising. In my more recent book, "Medicine:
Rational and Irrational," I therefore avoided this by saying that
certain effective remedies for one or two disorders I dealt with
were on the market, but I refrained from stating the names. In
consequence I was merely taken to task for not being sufficiently
explicit; how was a would-be purchaser sure of getting the right
remedy if he did not know its name, and the name of the
manufacturer? In short, whatever one does is wrong. Again, there
are a number of laws and rulings which make it practically
impossible for a writer on medical matters to state what he may
believe to be the whole truth. If a doctor writes that a
particular preparation is definitely harmful, he runs the risk of
a libel action. On the other hand if a doctor has found some
preparation or invented a formula which has proved effective in
curing, say, cancer, he is not permitted to circularize his
confreres, for that is denounced as "unprofessional conduct."
Nevertheless he is allowed to give the particulars of his
treatment to a medical journal - but there is no certainty that
they will be published. All this is fully known to doctors
themselves yet not to laymen, for whom these pages are largely
written. As for a doctor stating that a remedy for a number of
chronic and intractable diseases can be procured at any grocers,
he would to say the least be likely to become unpopular among the
less altruistic of his colleagues. This is a further good reason
why in this connection the names of living orthodox physicians
cannot be mentioned. But apart from these restrictions and one or
two others it is advisable to impose on myself, I as a musical
composer with no personal axe to grind can write more or less
what I have good reasons for believing to be true. I say
advisedly "more or less" because of fairly recent legislation
regarding such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, etc., which may
or may not have some bearing on the matter, for to the non-legal
mind they are not very clear. To be explicit: no person other
than a qualified doctor is allowed to make known that he can cure
cancer, tuberculosis and certain diseases specified, nor is any
person or firm allowed to advertise a cure for these disorders.
(Not that such rulings can apply to myself as I am neither a
practitioner nor an advertiser of any sort.) But here we are
faced with a curious situation: the Cancer Research Ring affirm
that so far no cure for cancer has yet been discovered. Yet what
is precisely meant by a cure; a formula that will exclusively
cure cancer in practically all patients, or a "something" that
will cure a variety of diseases including cancer, or again a
substance that so promotes health that, where a cancer is
exhibited, it automatically vanishes? As the Cancer Research Ring
and the Orthodox Medical Profession have never clearly provided
the answers to these questions, speculation on the subject
becomes useless. But this must be said; in view of the dictum
that no cure for cancer has been discovered, the Profession is
obliged to fall back on the assumption that all cases said to be
cured by whatever means (excluding surgery and radium) could
never have been genuine cancer but merely growths wrongly
diagnosed. As to how far the Law does or can be stretched to
uphold this dictum I am unable to gauge. But in any event, if I
mention cases said to be cancer or tuberculosis, it is with
reservation - for which I here apologize to the doctors concerned
- that faulty diagnosis may have led to their being thus defined;
Mr. Persson himself never stated otherwise.
THE AUTHOR.
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