Fred R. Klenner

Frederick Robert Klenner (October 22, 1907 – May 20, 1984) was an American medical researcher and doctor in general practice in Reidsville, North Carolina. From the 1940s on he experimented with the use of vitamin C megadosage as a therapy for a wide range of illnesses, most notably polio. He authored 28 research papers during his career. He was one of the originators of orthomolecular medicine.[1] Klenner is the subject[2] or mentioned or referenced in a number of orthomolecular medicine related papers and articles.

Life and career

Klenner was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on October 22, 1907, to Mary (née Bewak) and Frank Klenner, the youngest of their eight children. His parents had come to the United States from Austria as children. When Fred was born, Frank and Mary were living on a farm near Johnstown, although Frank kept working at Bethlehem Steel Corporation, where he had worked since a young man. In 1908, Fred's 16-year-old sister Gertrude died from respiratory problems caused or aggravated by smoke spewing from blast furnaces at Johnstown's steel mills. It was said that Fred was a smart child — some said, the smartest of all the Klenner children, sensitive and earnest. In his free time he enjoyed playing in an Austrian band and could play several instruments, including the cornet, violin, harpsicord, zither, and piano. Klenner attended St. Vincent College for two years and St. Francis College now Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania, where in 1931 he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology. He was graduated with honors and was awarded a teaching fellowship. He was also awarded the college medal for scholastic philosophy. He then took another teaching fellowship in chemistry at Catholic University, where he studied for his doctorate in physiology.

In 1936, he was graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine. After three years of hospital training and his marriage to Annie Hill Sharp, sister of Susie Sharp,[3] he entered private medical practice in her hometown of Reidsville, North Carolina. He continued to work there all his life.

In May 1946 in Reidsville, Dr. Klenner delivered the "Fultz Quadruplets",[4] using his high vitamin C maternity regimen. Annie Mae Fultz, a deaf-mute woman married to Pete Fultz, a tenant farmer, gave birth to the quadruplet girls. They were the first recorded set of identical African-American quadruplets and the first quadruplets to survive in the Southern United States. Klenner later brokered a deal with the PET milk company, a Saint Louis dairy, which provided the girls with PET milk formula, food, medical care, a private nurse, and a 147-acre (0.59 km2) farm when they reached adulthood—in exchange for the right to use their images in PET milk advertisements.[5]

Vitamin C studies

In 1949 Klenner published in and presented a paper to the American Medical Association detailing the complete cure of 60 out of 60 of his patients with polio using intravenous sodium ascorbate injection.[6] Galloway and Seifert cited Klenner's presentation to the AMA in a paper of theirs.[7]

Medical case reports & scientific papers

Klenner described giving up to 300 grams (300,000 mg) per day of neutral pH sodium ascorbate. Klenner published 27 medical papers, most about vitamin C applications for over 30 diseases, two about treatment of severe neuropathies including multiple sclerosis using aggressive supplementation.[8] He wrote a 28th paper ca 1980, an unpublished update about multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment. It was posthumously summarized by Lendon Smith in the Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C.

His maxim: the patient should "get large doses of vitamin C in all pathological conditions while the physician ponders the diagnosis."

He inspired Linus Pauling and Irwin Stone to expand the research on the wider benefits of Vitamin C. In the foreword of the Clinical Guide, Linus Pauling wrote: "The early papers by Dr. Fred R. Klenner provide much information about the use of large doses of Vitamin C in preventing and treating many diseases. These papers are still important."[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Robert Landwehr. The Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C, J Orthomolecular Med, 2002. Vol 6, No 2, pp 99-103
  2. ↑ Saul AW. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Pioneering Work of Frederick Robert Klenner, M.D. J Orthomolecular Med, 2007. Vol 22, No 1, pp 31-38.
  3. ↑ lib.unc.edu Archived September 22, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Fultz Quadruplets". Webcache.news-record.com. 1946-05-23. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  5. ↑ Breastfeeding News and Views from a Mom of Color, Oct. 2010. "Little Known Black History Fact: The Fultz Quads" Check |url= value (help).
  6. ↑ "Klenner, Frederick Robert, MD. "The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C" ''Southern Medicine & Surgery,'' v. 111, no. 7 (July, 1949) pp. 209-214". Seanet.com. 2003-02-22. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  7. ↑ Galloway, T. and Seifert, M. (1949) Bulbar Polyiomyelitis:favorable results in its treatment as a problem of respiratory obstruction. Journal of the American Medical Association, 141 (1):1-8
  8. ↑ Klenner F. (1973) Response of peripheral and central nerve pathology to mega-doses of the vitamin B complex and other metabolites. Journal of Applied Nutrition pp16-40.
  9. ↑ "Lendon H. Smith, M.D., ''Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C - The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. (1988) ISBN 0-943685-13-3". Seanet.com. Retrieved 2012-01-27.

Further reading

Own publications

A posthumous summary of Klenner's 28 papers.

External links

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