Medicine orthomolecular

Pauling agreed to give it a try. In the spring of 1973 an arrangement was made for funding, and he and Robinson announced that they were going to open the new Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine a few miles away from Stanford. 

Siblerud RL, Kienholz E. 1997. Evidence that mercury from silver dental fillings may be an etiological factor in reduced nerve conduction velocity in multiple sclerosis patients. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine 12(3) 169-172. 

Similarly, in the December 2005 issue of the same periodical, an item on page 18 has the title Intravenous Vitamin C is Selectively Toxic to Cancer Cells. This was confirmed by researchers at the NIH and was reported in an article pnblished in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Bio-Conunnnications Research Institute (BCRI) in Wichita, Kansas, has published some 20 scientific articles on the subject, notably in the British Journal of Cancer, in 2001. Hngh D. Riordan, M.D., was the principal investigator at BCRI, and the work done by him and his associates using vitamin C parallels and follows that of Linns Panling and Abram Hoffer in orthomolecular medicine. 

Hattersley, J.G. 2003 The Negative Health Effects of Chlorine. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, no. 238 (May) 60-63. (Previously pubhshed in Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine 15, no. 2 (2000) 89-95.. 

Pauling, Linus Carl (1901-1994) American chemist and peace activist was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum chemistry, molecular biology, and orthomolecular medicine. He is one of only two p>eople to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields (the Chemistry and Peace prizes), the other being Marie Curie (the Chemistry and Physics prizes), and the only person to have been awarded each of his prizes without sharing it with another recipient. 

SP 131 describes Pauling s 1933 discovery and verification of the superoxide free radical, which now, 67 years later—has become of much interest as an active agent in oxidative damage to tissues and in the aging process. The control of this substance in living organisms, by means of the superoxide dismutase enzyme that catalyzes its decomposition, is an example of a potential task of orthomolecular medicine (see below). 

SP 130 and SP 142 are examples of results of experimental work from the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine, which Pauling founded in 1973 to carry out scientific studies in support of the principles of orthomolecular medicine. It was later renamed the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, and is now located at Oregon State University (Corvallis), Pauling s alma mater. 

I have introduced the expression orthomolecular medicine to describe one aspect of molecular medicine. In 1949 my oo-workers Harvey Itano, S. J. Singer, and Ibert C. Wells and I published a paper with the title Sicklecell Anemia, A Molecular Disease. In this paper we communicated our discovery that patients with the disease sickle-cell anemia have in their erythrocytes a form of hemoglobin differing from that manufactured by other people. We pointed out that the difference in molecular structure of the hemoglobin manufactured by persons suffering from this disease leads to a difference in properties of the hemoglobin molecules from those manufactured by other people, and that this difference in properties is responsible for the manifestations of the disease. The disease can properly be described as a disease of the hemoglobin molecule, rather than of the erythrocyte itself, and in consequence it may be called a molecular disease. 

Photo 43 Linus Pauling gets a hug from Dr. Arthur Sackler (left) on the occasion of the opening of the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978. Dr. Sackler, publisher of The Medical Tribune, was supportive of Pauling s efforts to advance the field of orthomolecular medicine (Chapter 17). 

At Stanford, Pauling s demands for more laboratory space for his orthomolecular medicine... 

Malattie molecolari e medicina ortomolecolare (Italian Molecular disease and orthomolecular medicine). In Enciclopedia delia Scienza e della Tecnica Mondadorl, Mondadori, Milan, (1972), pp. 258—266. 

Quantitative chromatographic analysis in orthomolecular medicine. In Orthomolecular Psychiatry Treatment of Schizophrenia, David Hawkins and Linus Pauling, eds., W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, (1973), pp. 35—53. (Arthur B. Rohinson and Linus Pauling). 

Preventive orthomolecular medicine. In New Dynamics of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 3, Leon R. Pomeroy, ed., Symposia Speciahsts, Miami, FL, (1974), pp. 13-19. 

Some aspects of orthomolecular medicine. J. Int. Acad. Prev. Med. 1 (Spring 1974) 1-30. 

What about vitamin E in A Physician s Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine, Roger J. Williams and Dwight W. Kalita, eds., Pergamon Press, New York, (1977), pp. 64-66. 

The AMA and orthomolecular medicine. Medical Tribune 19(2) (1978) 18. [78-9] Orthomolecular enhancement of human development. In Human Neurological Development Past, Present, and Future, Ralph Pelligra, ed., NASA Conference Publication 2063 (1978) 47—51. 

The future of orthomolecular medicine. In The Roots of Molecular Medicine A Tribute to Linus Pauling, Richard P. Huemer, ed., W. H. Freeman, New York, (1986), pp. 249-253. 

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