April 01, 2006
The face of decline
"As Alzheimer's stole his mind, painter William Utermohlen documented the change with self-portraits, helping neurologists to understand the disease."
Susan Boni in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
For a year, William Utermohlen hid his fears and tried to follow his normal routine, teaching art and painting in his London studio.
But when his art historian wife, Patricia, finally got inside to see a canvas, she had an unpleasant revelation:
It was blank.
William Utermohlen had not produced a thing in all those trips to the studio. He was soon found to be suffering with the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
After his diagnosis in 1996 at the age of 61, Utermohlen, a South Philadelphia native who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, started to paint with purpose once again.
This time, the superb draftsman, who had always been able to capture the tiniest detail in his commissioned portraits, decided to paint himself.
His compelling series of 14 self-portraits, completed over a five-year period, documents a notable artist's journey into dementia.
His art was the focus of a 2001 study in the Lancet, an international medical journal, that analyzed the changes in Utermohlen's artistic ability.
Now, the portraits are on display at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and will be the topic of a free presentation tomorrow, "Alzheimer's Disease: Neurology and the Visual Artist."
More here.
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Artists could do much to expose the massive fraud perpetuated on unwitting cancer patients with similar activities directed to institutions like the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health. Evidently, these institutions also can contract an institutional form of dementia or "institutional Alzheimer's" disease, since they are so adept at forgetting, ignoring, obstructing and misrepresenting earlier scientific discoveries, especially those which contradict their nonsensical theories they use to harm and fool the public. For example, for some 50 years, the medical orthodoxy of the United States has been permitting and encouraging medical doctors to receive money for patently fraudulent cancer "treatments", which not only have virtually no scientific basis in fact, but have been falsely protrayed by misuse of statistics as being valid, when they not only are not valid, but possibly even cause harm and death of patients, unbeknownst to the unwittng patients and their loved ones.
There is always a certain probability of "success" no matter what you do. For example, many years ago when I took Chemistry, we had multiple choice tests with about 4 possible answers to each question. There was therefore a 25% chance of getting the "right" answer at random, without knowing anything. The teacher, with a Ph.D. in chemistry from UC Berkeley, always corrected for this possibility by subtracting one fourth of the wrong answers from the number of "right" answers to obtain the "score" on the examination. Students obviously did not like this procedure. But this illustrates exactly what is happening in cancer "treatment" in the United States and the world today. The cancer generals obviously do not know what they are doing. The doctors carrying out the orders of the cancer generals obviously do not know what they are doing either. All are fooling the public with nonsense whose success rates are fluctuating around zero. If they knew what they were doing they would have success rates around 95% or more.
The cancer orthodoxy has a good way of "forgetting" about the seminal discoveries of the "greatest biochemist of the twentieth century", Otto H. Warburg, M.D., Ph.D., who, in Germany, discovered the prime cause of cancer decades ago: Oxygen deficiency to living cells, not complicated and untelligible "genetics causes". A beautiful new book "The Hidden Story of Cancer" by Brian Peskin E.E. and Amid Habib, M.D., Pinnacle Press, Houston, Texas, 483 pages, hardbound has just been published on the subject this last February, 2006. It is available for about $40 plus shipping. If you want to read a most remarkable book, making cancer intellible for a change, not based on prejudice and pet theories, but hard science, demonstrated by seminal discoveries of Otto Warburg in the laboratory and updated with new information to apply them to prevent cancer, this is the book to read. It also shows how institutions also get "Alzheimer's" dementia too.
Here is the list of Contents:
"About Author Brian Peskin.
About Co-Author Amid Habib, M.D.
What Makes This Book Unique?
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Preventive or Cure?
Important Note.
Section One: Many Mistakes and a Genius to the Rescue.
1. Wake-Up Call: We Are Losing the 'War on Cancer'.
2. Medicine's long History of Mistakes and Wrong REcommendations.
3. Cancer Is Not Genetically Caused.
4. Otto Warburg's Discovery: The Prime Cause of Cancer.
5. Otto Warburg: A Lifetime of Important Discoveries and Advances.
Section Two: The Anticancer Answer.
6. The Missing Link: EFA 'Oxygen Magnets'.
7. What You Should Eat.
8. Wht You Should Not Eat: Cancer-Causing Transfats (EFA Imposters).
9. Breast, Skin, Smoking and Radiation Cancers: The EFA Connection.
10. The Program: Five Simple Anticancer Steps.
Section Three: The Scientific Basis of the Hidden Story of Cancer Program
11. The Published Medical Studies Make it Crystal Clear: EFA's Destroy Cancer.
12. In His Own Words: Otto Warburg's Cancer Discoveries.
13. Selections from Otto Warburg's Papers with Technical Commentary.
Appendices
Appendix I: Important Questions Answered: FAQs about the author and 'The Hidden Story of Cancer' program
Appendix II: Case Closed: More Documentation That Cancer Isn't Genetic.
Appendix III: Misinterpretations of Dr. Warburg's Correct Conclusions and Responses to Criticisms.
Appendix IV: How to Get the Scientific Calculation of the Optimum Omega 6/3 Ratio Report."
It was recently reported that a few hundred cases of Mumps in Iowa caused the Centers for Desease Control to claim an "epidemic". Yet about one person every minute dies either from cancer, "treatment" or a combination thereof in the United States. This amounts to over one million persons every two years! Yet the Centers for Disease Control remains deafeningly silent about the cancer "epidemic" while foolishly worrying about a few cases of Mumps in Iowa. And you will find none of this quackery on the website of Stephen Barrewt, M.D., the medical doctor who participates in the fraudulent quackery of the medical orthodoxy of the U.S. by totally failing to mention any of it on his website.
Have any of the medical "doctors" who have "treated" cancer patients who subsequently died either from "treatment" or the disease, ever offered to refund the money to the patients or their insurance company? Why the lowly fools of the public would demand no less for a dollar fraud at Wal Mart; yet multi billions are extracted from patients, their families, estates and loved ones, not to mention insurance companies, for totally fraudulent quackery in cancer mistreatment each and every day!
Posted by: Winfield J. Abbe | Apr 2, 2006 10:07:29 AM
First: re the cancer diatribe:
blah, blah, blah.
Second:
It's interesting how the paintings recapitualte the history of sketching.
Posted by: Thomas | Apr 3, 2006 8:50:14 PM
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