Cod Liver Oil Abuse

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

In one of my twelve Yellow Fat Disease e-books, I included medically documented cases of Yellow Fat Disease (Waxy Liver Disease) being caused by COD LIVER OIL (Friedrich Theodor Frerichs, M.D., A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, Vol. 2, 1879).

Dr. Frerichs (1819-1885) was a German pathologist especially known for his research of liver and kidney diseases.

His warnings about the ongoing use of COD LIVER OIL were well known at the time.

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Charles Murchison, M.D. (Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Liver, Jaundice and Abdominal Dropsy, 1868) wrote …

“Cod-liver oil is of questionable utility; Frerichs states that he has known cases where waxy liver was developed under its continuous use.”

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Drs. Murchison (1830-1879) and Frerichs knew more about “the waxy, lardaceous, or amyloid liver” than today’s production-line almost-human graduates of corporate medical schools.

They — as well as many of their contemporary physicians — understood the significant difference between cirrhosis of the liver and yellow fat disease.

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A waxy degenerated liver eventually assumes a “peculiar pink color,” similar to smoked ham or salmon, but the tissue is ANEMIC.

It stains YELLOW, but a fresh sample is PINK.

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Sir German Sims Woodhead (Practical Pathology: A Manual for Students and Practitioners, 1883) wrote …

“This rose pink is highly characteristic of the waxy degeneration, and picks out most accurately and minutely the diseased tissues.”

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