I was asked for some backstory on cod liver oil by a One Radio Network listener. Here's how Oleum Morrhuae was prepared a century ago. <> Azor Thurston (Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis: A Manual of Standard Methods for the Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes, and Substances in which They Exis... Read More

According to Matthew Joseph Rodermund, M.D. (1854-1919) ... "All chemical experiments show that the affinity of oxygen for carbon is greater than it is for iron, so that when all these are forced together in the small, minute blood vessels the oxygen loves carbon better than iron and leaves the i... Read More

According to Matthew Joseph Rodermund, M.D. (1854-1919) ... "As a student I opened my mouth seemingly too wide in stating that the two main studies necessary to make a thorough physician were not taught in any college in the world, and that these were a study of natural laws and human nature and ... Read More

According to Matthew Joseph Rodermund, M.D. (1854-1919) ... "If I could be instrumental in freeing deceived and suffering humanity from the bondage of fraud, deception, and murder perpetrated upon it by the courteous and gentlemanly medical profession I should feel prouder of it than of any honor... Read More

Matthew Joseph Rodermund, M.D., wasn't the first physician in the 19th Century to figure out that the heart was not a pump, but he seems to be the one who took it most seriously. And he explained the actual physiology simply, without resorting to spiraling forces, rotary blood flow, torsional ven... Read More