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Max Gerson

1881 - 1959

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Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson therapy, a pseudoscientific dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he falsely claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases. Gerson therapy involves a plant-based diet with coffee enemas, ozone enemas, dietary supplements, and raw calf liver extract; the latter was discontinued in the 1980s after patients were hospitalized for bacterial infections. Gerson described his approach in the book A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases (1958). The National Cancer Institute evaluated Gerson's claims and concluded that his data showed no benefit from his treatment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Gerson is the 548th most popular physician (down from 481st in 2019), the 891st most popular biography from Poland (down from 806th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Max Gerson ranks 548 out of 726. Before him are Wladimir Aïtoff, Jan Janský, Nicolás Monardes, Willem Piso, Paolo Macchiarini, and John Ostrom. After him are Vivien Thomas, Pierre Marie, Ugo Cerletti, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Antonius Musa, and Arkady Vorobyov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Max Gerson ranks 161. Before him are Harry Edwin Wood, Henri Dentz, Howard Valentine, Eugénie Cotton, Eulalio Gutiérrez, and Nikolai Roslavets. After him are Kanno Sugako, Antti Hackzell, Refik Saydam, Arkady Averchenko, David Hammond, and Yosef Haim Brenner. Among people deceased in 1959, Max Gerson ranks 141. Before him are Roald Larsen, Alexander Rueb, Esfir Shub, Jean Grémillon, Friedrich Waismann, and Walter Bathe. After him are Abdul Muis, Pierre Frieden, Sténio Vincent, G. D. H. Cole, Benjamin Christensen, and Adolf Lindfors.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Max Gerson ranks 891 out of 1,694. Before him are Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Israel Gutman (1923), Ignacy Potocki (1750), and Henryk Sławik (1894). After him are Egon Franke (1935), Józef Mehoffer (1869), Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Tomasz Stańko (1942), and Eva-Maria Hagen (1934).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Max Gerson ranks 18. Before him are Robert Remak (1815), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Hilary Koprowski (1916), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Kazimierz Bein (1872), and Zofia Zamenhof (1889). After him are Adam Zamenhof (1888), Eugene Lazowski (1913), Ludwig Traube (1818), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858), and Bernhard Zondek (1891).

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