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Whenever there was one person in my life who presssed me to go on with my cellular investigations, it was definitively Peter Safar.
After my dismission from the University of Groningen I started a general praxis as being a general surgeon in Wischoten, the Netherlands.
There I was able to continue my experimental research on patients after a
spended recommandation of Peter Safar.
E.g.
By using high dosages of hyaluronidase - intra-arterially injected - I was able to counteract serious arteriosclerosis permanently.
I was able to prevent dystrophy after trauma and many other vascular disorders.
It was the beginning of a long search in the labyrinth of our being, that should last more than 30 years of investigations.
In memoriam Peter Safar, Dear colleagues,
With a feeling of sadness I found the message of Peter Safar's death, but my
memories are still filled with admiration and thankfulness.
It was 1978 that I was send to him by a personal friend of his - W. Erdmann.
I was send to him with a special reason.
It was a request of Erdmann
to value a huge theory about cellular energy regulation, cellular mitosis and the onset on multiple organ failure.
I was a young Dutch surgeon only and my fundamental research on this field didn't found response.
It didn't found response, however - using this hypothesis - I was able to treat absurd seemingly untreatable diseases.
I was invited for one week.
At the moment that I arrived in Peter's office, he told me :
"I am so sorry, but my time is extremely limited. I decided to bring you for a court of specialists during each lunchtime. Every other day I will invite other colleagues to try to kill your hypothesis and at the
end of the week I will give my comments on your theory about cellular life."
At the end of this huge confrontation his definitive conclusion was… "Congratulations. Nobody was able to find holes in your
thesis. The theory is valuable and has to be published. Unfortunately my journal Anesthesia is too small for such huge view. My advise is : Send the hypothesis to my friend Horrobin - editor of Medical Hypotheses - and
when he don't accept it I will publish it myself."
After a memorable dinner in his house, I left Pittsburgh.
Afterwards I had a few contacts with him and slowly it gets weaker.
Unfortunately my own
search into the labyrinth of mankind's suffering obsessed me too much.
With thankfulness I look back to this week in Pittsburgh. His enthusiasm was my trigger to go on. It lasted more than two decades to find the
origin of our suffering.
Reviewing my path through life, I wanted to contact Peter again and wanted to tell him about my definitive conclusions.
I wanted to tell him about, but unfortunately he was no more.
He was one of the most modest and "nobel" man I ever met.
He gave his life for searching the Truth!
Siegfried Willem Bok.
Some references:
-The fundamental role of hyaluronidase in tissue.
Med. Hypotheses 1979; 5 : 1183-1200.
-A new concept of glucocorticosteroidaction : Effects on hyaluronidase
Med. Hypotheses 1983; 10 : 321-327.
-The influences of hyaluronidase on traumatic cerebral edema.
Anaesthesist 1980; 29, 245-248.
-Hyaluronidase and collateral vessel growth.
Proc.7 Int. Symp Angiology 1981.
-Hyaluronidase, the fundamental cause of foetal growth.
Med. Hypotheses. 1980; 1087-96.
-De fundamentele rol van de placenta postpartum.
Ned. Tijdschr. Integrale Gen. 1988; 5 : 99-102.
-Hyaluronidase, from wound healing to cancer.
Med. Hypotheses. 1981; 7 : 1147-56.
-Hyaluronidase, from wound healing to cancer 2.
Med-Hypotheses, 1982; 8 : 445-448.
-Dem Leben mehr Jahre, oder den Jahren mehr Leben?
Cythobiol. Revue, 1983; 3 : 101-116. Posted by
Siegfried Willem Bok
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