A Bruce W. Halstead 90th Birthday Bash on Twitter

From my FaceBook Page on March 28, 2010

Happy 90th Birthday Dad!

[RIP March 28, 1920 to December 5, 2002]

As a tribute to you I posted a series of tweets about you on twitter. My birthday gift to you was your own hash tag: #BruceWHalstead. You like it? My tweets to you can be found by searching your new tag or at @larrydhalstead on twitter. I'm thinking of posting them on a blog post. I'll let you know! Love you dad!


Posted on March 28, 2010
From Twitter.com/larrydhalstead
Hash Tag: #BruceWHalstead 

 
Here is those tweets:



I'm a bit introspective today. Not because of Palm Sunday but because its my father's birthday. He would have been 90 today #BruceWHalstead


Please don't feel the need to RT any of this on my father #BruceWHalstead I'm just sharing with my friends here a bit of my influence


My father was an internationally reknown research scientist, MD, medical pioneer and more. He was my role model as a warrior #BruceWHalstead a


was to the FDA and AMA what I am to the Teabaggers today; They hated him because he spoke out against them, exposed them




#BruceWHalstead was the leading authority in various fields who traveled to every country of the world as part of his research & lecturing




#BruceWHalstead has over 200 publications to his name including the largest work ever on Poisonous & Venoumous Marine Animals





Poisonous & Venoumous Marine Animals is the definitive work on the subject. Took 22 years in making is 3 lrg Volumes #BruceWHalstead





Poisonous & Venoumous Marine Animals was the largest work ever undertaken by the Gov Printing Office at that time #BruceWHalstead





#BruceWHalstead was the first person to introduce Siberian Ginseng into the U.S back in the '50s





#BruceWHalstead was the father of Bio-toxicology dedicated his life to research on cures for Cancer and Aids through natural compounds





Vladivostok is the scientific research community in Russia (USSR) #BruceWHalstead 1st American allowed in. It was after Nixon was refused


#BruceWHalstead spent time in USSR Gulag for suspician of being a spy but always maintain high level scientific & gov friends there


Russian Scientist Dr. Breckman discovered Siberian Ginseng. He worked with #BruceWHalstead on research & to introduce it to the world


#BruceWHalstead worked with Jacques Cousteau long before there were Dive Tables or before the world had ever heard of either one of them


'Preventive Medicine' used to mean Mosquito repellent but in early '50s #BruceWHalstead helped transform the term into what we know it today


Newton Mellars was one of 3 scientist who disovered Laetrile. He was father of #BruceWHalstead who later did research, wrote on it


#BruceWHalstead MD was a pioneer in medical modalities such as Chelation, HyperBaric Oxygen, Herbal Medicine, Immune enhancement, much more


#BruceWHalstead researched herbal medicine, developed herbal formulas, brought scientific validity to Traditional Chineese Herbal Medicine


There is a "Bruce W. Halstead Memorial Herb Garden" dedicated to #BruceWHalstead which he visited in the year before his death


#BruceWHalstead founded the World Life Research Institute in '58 which has served as an official reference center to the UN and the WHO


#BruceWHalstead was the most controversial person that I have ever known and my model for being a 'warrior for the cause'


#BruceWHalstead spoke out against the 'cut, burn, and radiate' practices of the AMA, FDA. They hated him for it, conspired to 'get him'


#BruceWHalstead served in the Army, Navy, and the Air Force. Much of his research was funded by the U.S Gov He was #TruePatriot not a Poser


#BruceWHalstead spent time in USSR Gulag for suspician of being a spy but always maintain high level scientific & gov friends there


Russian Scientist Dr. Breckman discovered Siberian Ginseng. He worked with #BruceWHalstead on research & to introduce it to the world


#BruceWHalstead worked with Jacques Cousteau long before there were Dive Tables or before the world had ever heard of either one of them


'Preventive Medicine' used to mean Mosquito repelant but in early '50s #BruceWHalstead helped transform the term into what we know it today


Newton Mellars was one of 3 scientist who disovered Laetrile. He was father of #BruceWHalstead who later did research, wrote on it

#BruceWHalstead MD was a pioneer in medical modalities such as Chelation, HyperBaric Oxygen, Herbal Medicine, Immune enhancement, much more


#BruceWHalstead researched herbal medicine, developed herbal formulas, brought scientific validity to Traditional Chineese Herbal Medicine


There is a "Bruce W. Halstead Memorial Herb Garden" dedicated to #BruceWHalstead which he visited in the year before his death


#BruceWHalstead founded the World Life Research Institute in '58 which has served as an official reference center to the UN and the WHO


#BruceWHalstead served in the Army, Navy, and the Air Force. Much of his research was funded by the U.S Gov He was #TruePatriot not a Poser


#BruceWHalstead was the most controversial person that I have ever known and my model for being a 'warrior for the cause'


BruceWHalstead spoke out against the 'cut, burn, and radiate' practices of the AMA, FDA. They hated him for it, conspired to 'get him'


The SB Co Med Assn, the CA Med Assn, FDA, AMA, all conspired to bring 22 felony charges against #BruceWHalstead for using herbal medicine


The trial was held in LA and lasted for over a year costing more than 1 Million. #BruceWHalstead fired his attorneys to represent himself


It was a landmark casehe fought w/science but lost due to the imoral CA statues that protect a monopoly by conventional MDs #BruceWHalstead


The case of People v #BruceWHalstead was appealed all the way to SCOTUS which refused to hear such a controvesial matter. (Chicken shits)


#BruceWHalstead case Appeals took over 10 yrs. was lost in system for awhile until the asshole prosecuter Seilgman looked into the matter


Asshole prosecuter Seilgman personally strapped on a gun, drove 80 miles to arrest #BruceWHalstead then late 70s take him to L.A. Central


By this time #BruceWHalstead had senile diabetes, almost died in jail bc they put him in general population refused him needed medical care


At the time #BruceWHalstead was working on urgent project for Army on developing a data base on poisons for use on the battlefield


The Army dispatched a top general to intervene in the case, seek release of #BruceWHalstead to continue the top level life saving project


The Army General appeared in court told judge to release #BruceWHalstead as the Army needed him more than the judge wanted him locked up

 
The judge told the Army General 2 find another authority 2 finish the high priority project that he wasn't going to release #BruceWHalstead

The Army General told judge: "We already looked, all over the world; there absolutely is no other person more qualified than #BruceWHalstead


When the judge continued to refuse, Army General put judge On Notice that he was bordering on treason for not releasing #BruceWHalstead


The Army General further told the judge that if he did not release #BruceWHalstead immediately the judge would be unemployed the next day


He also put judge on notice that failure to release #BruceWHalstead would result in charges of treason against the judge


Upon demand of the Army General #BruceWHalstead was released the same day after serving a few months of a six year sentence


#BruceWHalstead had 5 children with Joy Arloa Mallory B4 adopting the 6th from Seoul Korea. I am number 4 and the second of two sons


#BruceWHalstead passed away in my arms on December 5, 2002 at Redlands Community Hospital in CA. He would have been 90 today


#BruceWHalstead "Never EVER give up; Or THEY win" (still assessing who "THEY" are)


It is because of the Fighter and Warior that was #BruceWHalstead that I have the inspiration of courage to continue fight for social justice


For #BruceWHalstead "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." as long as I breathe


I did not inherit the love of research from #BruceWHalstead but I did inherit his fighting spirit. The only one of his children to do so!


In memory of #BruceWHalstead and so "The work goes on, the cause endures," I created this site http://brucehalstead.blogspot.com/


For futher info on #BruceWHalstead and the World Life Research Institute please see http://brucehalstead.blogspot.com/


The complete Cirriculum Vitae on #BruceWHalstead along with the extensive list of his publications are on http://brucehalstead.blogspot.com/


Happy 90th Bithday #BruceWHalstead I love you dad and miss you terribly. Thanks for ALL you taught me; Courage to fight most of all!!!


This concludes my tweet rememberances of my father #BruceWHalstead Thank you everyone for indulging me on his 90th birthday. I appreciate it


If you missed any of those tweets, just pull up the #BruceWHalstead hashtag and/or visit http://brucehalstead.blogspot.com/ for more info


Excuse me, I need a break now! That got me more emotional than I ever expected it would. I'll be back. #BruceWHalstead

Time Magazine - February 11, 1952, on BWH

Time Magazine Cover
Monday, Feb. 11, 1952

Ichthyotoxism

When the naval officer blew on his ice cream to cool it, the medics raised their eyebrows but did not laugh. Nor did they think he was wacky; he was just getting over a kind of fish poisoning which the medical profession calls ichthyotoxism. It is the only disorder doctors know of in which temperature reactions are reversed, e.g., a victim complains that his hot soup is cold, or that his ice water is scalding his tongue.

Why this is, nobody knows. Nor does anybody know why a victim thinks his teeth are loose when they are not. In fact, there are plenty of mysteries about ichthyotoxism, and the chief of them is that doctors do not really know what causes ichthyotoxism. It is not to be confused with poisoning caused by the bite of a venomous fish, however, or by eating stale fish in which bacteria have been at work. It comes from eating fresh, healthy fish, of species that have been used as food for generations, e.g., the amberjack that poisoned the naval officer.

In the Tropics. One notable case occurred on Saipan in 1949, when 55 Filipinos sat down to a feast of eel. Before the night was out, two were dead, one had to have his larynx slit to save him from choking to death, and the rest had suffered from a variety of symptoms ranging from vomiting, diarrhea and cramps to the staggers, paralysis and convulsions. Last February in Hawaii, there were 24 similar cases, all traced to fish imported from Palmyra Island. So far, there have been few clear-cut cases reported from the temperate zone; nearly all have been from the tropics.

Last week a research physician named Bruce W. Halstead was hard at work at the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda, Calif, sorting out a mass of puzzling data and trying to find answers. In his laboratory, four assistants were slicing little samples from the flesh, liver, intestines and gonads of a batch of frozen fish from Johnston Island. After grinding and centrifuging, a cubic centimeter of fluid from each sample was injected into the belly of a mouse. If the sample was weakly poisonous, the mouse got sick but lived; a moderately poisonous sample should kill it within 36 hours, and a strongly poisonous sample within an hour.

Across the Reef. Dr. Halstead has learned to take nothing for granted. Once he was testing two puffers, identical except that one came from Hawaii and the other from the Phoenix Islands. The Hawaiian fish was harmless. It seemed pointless to test the other, but he did so anyway: the mouse died in convulsions in 4½ minutes. In this case the fish came from waters 2,000 miles apart, but Halstead has found that fish taken on one side of a reef may be safe, while those on the other side, a mile away, are deadly.

Some fish live by eating marine plants and others live by eating other fish. Both kinds can cause the mysterious poisoning. Dr. Halstead's hypothesis: the poison comes from plants, with the fish-eating fish picking it up from the plant eaters. The poison itself is probably an alkaloid, but Dr. Halstead has not been able to identify it. Next month, Dr. Halstead will head for Okinawa and Japan to get fresh material for his study: the western Pacific is full of it.

The Herb Hunters - 1958 Time Magazine on BWH

Lewis Strauss
Time Magazine Cover
June 15, 1959

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892679,00.html

The Herb Hunters

The Herb Hunters Around the world, from alpine heights to sluggish deltas, and even down into the coralline depths of the Pacific, legmen for U.S. medicine were busy last week in a single-minded search.

The objective: folk remedies, plants, lichens or marine slimes that might, through modern chemical analysis, yield useful drugs for treating man's ills, from toothache to cancer.

In some regions, notably South America and Africa, the herb hunters were all over. Led by Dr. John Wurdack, the New York Botanical Garden's Expedition No. 21 was at the headwaters of the Orinoco. Seeking new or rare plants, its professional botanists were especially alert for any with medicinal promise.

On five continents, 750 physicians and other medical people at 170 Seventh-day Adventist hospitals and clinics run by California's College of Medical Evangelists were collecting plants, getting patients to bring in samples of folk remedies, sometimes peering over the shoulders of witch doctors to see what went into their brews. Lion Fat.

Like many similar efforts, the College of Medical Evangelists' search was bankrolled by business. In the hope that it would turn up marketable items, New York's Sterling Drug Inc. had just underwritten the four-year program for $240,000. Virtually all major U.S. drug companies had herb hunters afield, either directly employed or under contract.

All their people have been enlisted as part-time hunters: when Francis C. Brown, president of New Jersey's Schering Corp., was in Port-au-Prince for the recent opening of the Haiti Psychiatric Institute, he heard of a red nut used by voodoo practitioners to calm disturbed patients, brought back samples that are now under laboratory test.

Schering chemists are also analyzing a concoction which an African vendor labeled Mafuta Bhubesi—lion fat. The costly and intensive search for what the oldtime druggist called botanicals is based on solid historical fact. Checking an old wives' brew used in Shropshire to bolster failing hearts, William Withering found in 1775 that the active ingredient came from the common foxglove, thus stumbled upon digitalis—still a sovereign remedy.

Only 28 years ago, Western-trained physicians in India concluded that there was more magic than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine—now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item.

Ephedrine, which was isolated only in 1885, and is valuable in treating asthma, was the active ingredient in Ma Huang, a herbal drug the Chinese had been using for 5,000 years.

Leafy Poultice. There is good reason to believe that there are many more potentially valuable drugs where these came from. Says Dr. Alfred Taylor of the University of Texas' Austin campus: "In plants we have more compounds than the chemists could synthesize in 1,000 years. And as a rule, the naturally occurring compounds are less likely to be poisonous than the synthetic, because they've developed in association with life."

Cancer Researcher Taylor's team is testing plant extracts against cancer in mice, reports "more hopeful results with the natural compounds than with synthetics."

Hope of finding a treatment for human cancer is stimulated by incidents such as the one related by Dr. Bruce W. Halstead (until recently with the C.M.E.).

An Indian walked into a mission hospital in Nicaragua with a huge growth on his cheek. The mission doctor took a specimen, diagnosed it as skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma), told the patient he must have surgery and X-ray treatment at once. The man refused and vanished into the jungle. A witch doctor treated him with a leafy poultice. Three months later the patient was back, "his face was clear as a baby's bottom.''

In the backwoods of India, several tribes brew a herb tea which lowers the blood sugar—a natural oral treatment for which Western diabetics waited until a mere three years ago.

Dr. Halstead, 39, a restless and imaginative scientist, is launching a World Life Research Institute in Colton, Calif.

Its fact-finding franchise will extend from lion fat to Mexican yams (major source of raw material for the cortisone family of steroid hormones) to submarine slime.

Already noted as an authority on poisonous fish (TIME, Feb. 11, 1952), Dr. Halstead is also a skindiver. Groping near the 100-ft. sounding in the Galápagos Islands he has scraped off marine growths from which antibiotic substances (still in the lab-testing stage) have been isolated.

The stakes in the herb hunt are high: for the scientist, the possibility of such fame as came to Penicillin Discoverer Fleming; for the company that gets a year's jump on its competitors with a widely useful product, $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 in profit—a hundred times more for a breakthrough against major forms of cancer; for mankind in general, cheaper and more effective drugs for many ills, and always the hope of victory over a still-defiant killer or crippler.

STPM Participants - Raymond Ryckman, Phd

STPM Participants
Raymond Ryckman, PhD

Raymond E. Ryckman, PhD (left),

Raymond E. Ryckman, PhD, became the foremost authority on Triatoma. This work is still highly important to public health in Central and South America.

In the Memoirs of Doctor Bruce W. Halstead, he talks about the establishment and development of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine for Loma Linda University from 1948 to 1958. In reference to his close friend and his involvement with the STPM, Doctor Halstead writes:

"We were able to obtain a small amount of money with which we hired a medical entomologist by the name of Dr. Raymond Ryckman, a vey bright, dedicated and energetic medical entomologist who had just received his Ph.D degree from University of California At Berkeley (UCB).

Ray had his Department of Medical Entomology office on the second floor adjacent to my department. Ray later cleaned out tons of debris from the third floor which he convcerted into his medical entomology laboratory.

Shortly after his arrival Dr. Ryckman obtained a research contract with the Army on insect vectors of military importance and rapidly expanded his research operations working with insect pesticides, his beloved Triatoma Kisssing bug vectors of Chagas disease, and fleas capable of spreading bubonic plague. Much of his research time was conducted in the field collecting insects and testing some of the Army's newer insecticides."

[From LLU website - http://llumc.com/news/today/today_story.php?id=478 ]

The emergence of research: Historical insights from the emergence of research at Loma Linda University
By Barry L. Taylor, PhD

The STPM hired well and built a strong research team. Dr. Ryckman, a medical entomologist trained at University of California, Berkeley, joined the team and obtained contracts with the Army to study various vectors. He became the foremost authority on Triatoma, the “kissing bug” that is the vector for Chagas disease.

This work is still highly important to public health in Central and South America, and as a result, the Communicable Dise ase Center of the United States Public Health Service republished Dr.Ryckman’s dissertation and an annotated bibliography of 23,000 references in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English only a few years ago. This research was supported in part by funding from the World Health Organization.

Raymond E. Ryckman, PhD (left), became the foremost authority on Triatoma. This work is still highly important to public health in Central and South America.

Loma Linda University Pays Tribute

Ray Ryckman
and
School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine

Ray Ryckman got some long over due recognition from an institution that he has served most all of his professional life. He is the only person left that was deeply involved with the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. As such he is the one person who still knows most of the history and politics involved with STPM, Bruce W. Halstead, and Loma Linda University back when it was still called the College of Medical Evangelist.

STPM was founded by Dr.s Mozar and Halstead back in 1948. Dr. Halstead left in 1958 and started the World Life Research Institute. Halstead and Ryckman have long been friends. Ray was in Bruce and Joy's wedding. It was Bruce that advised Ray to go get an undergraduate degree from U. C. Berkeley in zoology, just like he had done.

When the original STPM building was torn down, Ryckman was able to salvage some of the windows and the original sign. He used the windows to build a greenhouse and he put the sign over his front porch. For Ray Ryckman, being part of the STPM and the history involved, is something that he feels proud to be a part of as he was. Under STPM, Doctor Halstead was singlehandedly the first person to ever conduct research at Loma Linda and in doing so he got the first grants and pioneered the grant funding of research at Loma Linda as well.





School of Public Health honors students at awards banquet



The School of Public Health gave out its diplomas on June 10, but the evening before, the School also gave out multiple awards to students, faculty, alumni, and staff at the annual awards banquet.

David Dyjack, DrPH, CIH (right), honors
Raymond Ryckman, PhD, and Carolyn Stuyvesant, MS.

The School paid tribute to the past, as well. An old sign reading “School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine” was put on display. This organization at LLU was a forerunner to the current School of Public Health, which was established in 1967 and is celebrating 40 years of existence this year. The sign was borrowed from Raymond Ryckman, PhD, emeritus professor of microbiology, School of Medicine, who was also involved in the early days of public health at LLU.

Dr. Ryckman and Carolyn Stuyvesant, MS, an early public health student, were recognized by David Dyjack, DrPH, CIH, School of Public Health dean.

Dr. Dyjack also gave special recognition to Susanne Montgomery, PhD, MPH, and Christine Neish, PhD, for their hard work and dedicated service to the School. Dr. Montgomery has worked at the School for about 12 years, and she served for the past two years as the School’s associate dean for academic affairs. She recently stepped down from this administrative post in order to focus on research, and she is now director of the School’s Center for Health Research.

Dr. Neish has worked in the School of Public Health since 1973. While she still holds a secondary appointment in the SPH, as of summer 2006 her primary appointment is now in the LLU School of Nursing.

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Bruce and Joy Halstead Wedding Picture
Raymond Ryckman is in uniform