Archie Kalokerinos

Archivides "Archie" Kalokerinos (28 September 1927 – 1 March 2012) was an Australian physician. In 2000 he was awarded the title Greek Australian of the Century by the Melbourne-based Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos. He held controversial opinions on a number of medical issues. He was a supporter of Linus Pauling's controversial theory that many diseases result from overproduction of free radicals and can accordingly be prevented or cured by Vitamin C; this led him to treat many conditions with high intravenous doses of vitamin C. He also believed that vaccination schemes have been used for deliberate genocide (among indigenous Australians, and in spreading HIV in Africa); and that the US government systematically planned to get rid of undesirables such as criminals by encouraging people with known heart problems to be vaccinated.

Life

Archivides Kalokerinos was born in Glen Innes, Australia, on 28 September 1927 (he was named after the Greek hero Alcibiades, but during translation the spelling was mistaken). Kalokerinos took his MB BS degree from Sydney University in 1951 and then spent six years in England. On his return to Australia he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the hospital at Collarenebri, a town 500 miles (800 km) north-west of Sydney. He died in 2012.[1]

Vitamin C work

Kalokerinos became very concerned about the high death rate of Aboriginal children in that part of New South Wales. He came to the conclusion that the infants had symptoms of scurvy, a deficiency of vitamin C, and he treated them accordingly. The double Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling in the foreword to Kalokerinos' book Every Second Child endorsed his views.

Publications by Archie Kalokerinos

Books

  • Vitamin C Nature's Miraculous Healing Missile!, with Ian Dettman and Archie Kalokerinos ISBN 0-646-11985-0
  • Every Second Child Archie Kalokerinos, Keats Publishing (1981) ISBN 0-87983-250-9
  • Medical pioneer of the 20th century: Dr Archie Kalokerinos: an autobiography 2000 ISBN 0-646-40852-6
  • Second Thought About Disease with Glen Dettman 1977
  • Australian Precious Opal 1971
  • In Search of Opal 1967

Journal articles

  • Kalokerinos, Archie (10 September 2005), "Abuse or infection?", New Scientist (2516), retrieved 3 October 2007
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1983) Is calcium ascorbate preferable to sodium ascorbate? Australasian Nurses J 12:9 PMID 6555033
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1982), "How much vitamin C should I take?", Australas Nurses J, 11 (6), pp. 8–9, PMID 6924854
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1982) Ascorbate—the proof of the pudding! A selection of case histories responding to ascorbate Australasian Nurses J 11:18-21 PMID 6920272
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1981) Rubella immunisation, a tangle of absurdities and some comments. Australasian Nurses J 10:3-6 PMID 6917758
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1981) On your metal? Amazing zinc! Australasian Nurses J 10:22 PMID 6915775
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1981) "Mumps" the word but you have yet another vaccine deficiency Australasian Nurses J 10:17-8 PMID 6914174
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1981) Vitamin C: the dangers of calcium and safety of sodium ascorbate Australasian Nurses J 10:22 PMID 6910420
  • Dettman G, Kalokerinos A (1980) Aboriginal health: the gentle art of deception Australasian Nurses J 10:14-5 PMID 6908523
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1980) Viral vaccines vital or vulnerable Australasian Nurses J 9:27-32 PMID 6904225
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1980) Joggers - beware Australasian Nurses J 9:22 PMID 6904216
  • Cilento P, Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1980) Venomous bites and vitamin C status Australasian Nurses J9:19 PMID 6902663
  • Knafelc D, Kalokerinos A, Dettmann G (1980) Disease etiology - a shock therapy Australasian Nurses J 9:18-20 PMID 6770812
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G. (1979) On new ideas and a U.S. experience Australasian Nurses J 9:22-6 PMID 119534
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1979) Year of the child: don't be beguiled Australasian Nurses J 8:22-4 PMID 110305
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1978) Vaccines: "who" benefits? Australasian Nurses J 7:15-6 PMID 100089
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1978) Does rubella vaccine protect? Australasian Nurses J 7:1-4 PMID 96796
  • Kalokerinos A, (1978) "The sudden infant death syndrome. Part 2. Definition. Further clinical observations." Australasian Nurses J. Mar;7(7):6-8 PMID 418773
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1977) Vitamin C and the significance of that "wasted spillover" Australasian Nurses J 7:19 PMID 244300
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1977) The efficiency of immunisations Australasian Nurses J 6:15 PMID 587083
  • Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1976) Sudden death in infancy syndrome in Western Australia Med J Aust 2:31-2 PMID 979792
  • Kalokerinos A. (1976) Letter: Severe measles in Vietnam. Med J Aust. April 17;1(16):593-4 PMID 933962
  • Kalokerinos A. (1974) Poor black health, bad white attitudes. Aust Nurses J. Apr;3(9):29-31 PMID 4499636
  • Kalokerinos A. (1973) Aboriginal infant health and mortality rates. Med J Aust. 3 March 1973;1(9):462-3 PMID 4708934
  • Kalokerinos A. (1971) The Aboriginal infant mortality rate. Med J Aust. August 21;2(8):445-6. PMID 5122440
  • Bryson AM, Kalokerinos A. (1970) Sudden unexpected deaths in infancy. Med J Aust. August 8;2(6):292. PMID 5456573
  • Kalokerinos A. (1969) Some aspects of aboriginal infant mortality. Med J Aust. January 25;1(4):185-7 PMID 5779047

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Greek-Australian Archie Kalokerinos, Doctor to Aboriginal Children in Australia, Passes Away | Greek Reporter Australia | Greek News from Australia". Au.greekreporter.com. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.

References

  • Autobiography at Kythera-Family.net.
  • The Skeptic (PDF), Vol. 19 (No. 4), 1999, archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2013, retrieved 2013-05-21
  • Shaken Baby Syndrome or Adverse Vaccine Reaction? Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 6 (October–November 2000) or November–December 2000 in the USA only. Report on evidence given by Kalokerinos in Regina v Scott Warren Walters, New South Wales Supreme Court,April 1998
  • Vitamin C – Effective Treatment of SARS: Australian Doctors People's Daily, China, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 Accessed October 2007. Reports on article in The Canberra Times on Archie Kalokerinos and high dose Vitamin C administration to neutalise viruses.
  • God Only knows Why, But it Works (1975) film docudrama about Dr Archie Kalokerinos and aboriginal healthcare, directed by Phillip Noyce,[1]
  1. ↑ Contemporary North American film directors: a Wallflower critical guide - Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson - Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
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