Maurice Beddow Bayly
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Maurice Beddow Bayly, MRCS
Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons
MRCS is a professional qualification for surgeons in the UK and IrelandIt means Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. In the United Kingdom, doctors who gain this qualification traditionally no longer use the title 'Dr' but start to use the title 'Mr', 'Mrs', 'Miss' or 'Ms'.There are 4 surgical...

, LRCP England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 (died 1962) was a member of the National Anti-Vaccination League
National Anti-Vaccination League
The National Anti-Vaccination League was founded in 1896 in Britain, growing from earlier smaller organisations in London, originally under the title Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League. The organisation opposed compulsory vaccination, particularly against smallpox...

 and the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society.

In his book Schick Inoculation Against Diphtheria, he argued against diphtheria
Diphtheria
Diphtheria is an upper respiratory tract illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium. It is characterized by sore throat, low fever, and an adherent membrane on the tonsils, pharynx, and/or nasal cavity...

 vaccination on the basis of its dangers and the incorrect belief that diphtheria was not caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a pathogenic bacterium that causes diphtheria. It is also known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus, because it was discovered in 1884 by German bacteriologists Edwin Klebs and Friedrich Löffler .-Classification:Four subspecies are recognized: C. diphtheriae mitis, C....

. Reciting the details required to understand the cure for pernicious anemia
Pernicious anemia
Pernicious anemia is one of many types of the larger family of megaloblastic anemias...

 he presented them in his Anaemia and Pernicious Anaemia, as an attack on scientific research, dwelling upon the nastiness of eating raw liver (now known to provide the poorly absorbed vitamin B12
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12, vitamin B12 or vitamin B-12, also called cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin with a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system, and for the formation of blood. It is one of the eight B vitamins...

 in high concentrations) and claiming that illumination with ultra-violet light cleaned the blood of the root cause of the disease. Other people's work continued with the elucidation of the demonstration of the intrinsic factor
Intrinsic factor
Intrinsic factor also known as gastric intrinsic factor is a glycoprotein produced by the parietal cells of the stomach. It is necessary for the absorption of vitamin B12 later on in the small intestine...

 necessary for the vitamin's absorption) in gastric
Stomach
The stomach is a muscular, hollow, dilated part of the alimentary canal which functions as an important organ of the digestive tract in some animals, including vertebrates, echinoderms, insects , and molluscs. It is involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication .The stomach is...

 juice, simple and effective treatment with B12 and a Nobel prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

.

He was a Theosophist
Theosophy
Theosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th century. Its major themes were originally described mainly by Helena Blavatsky , co-founder of the Theosophical Society...

, obituarised http://books.google.co.uk/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0766152251&id=vO9dBwXuzJ4C&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=%22Maurice+Beddow+Bayly%22&prev=http://books.google.co.uk/books%3Fq=%22Maurice+Beddow+Bayly%22&lr=&sig=-RXsk-QFjNVcIURq4NsUJKnV2gU in the Theosophist Magazine as "a much-respected member of the English section, active both in the Society and in work for the protection of animals".

Publications

  • 1952. B.C.G. Vaccination
  • Clinical Medical Discoveries
  • The Story of the Salk Anti-Poliomyelitis Vaccine
  • The Schick Inoculation Against Diphtheria
  • The Case AGAINST Vaccination
  • Spotlights on Vivisection
  • Cancer the Failure of Modern Research A Survey
  • More Spotlights on Vivisection
  • Diet in Relation to Health and Disease
  • The Futility of Experiments on Living Animals
  • Diet in Relation to Health and Disease
  • The taxpayer and experiments on living animals: With special reference to the work of the Medical Research Council

Quote

  • In a universe which embraces all types of life and consciousness and all material forms through which these manifest, nothing which is ethically wrong can ever be scientifically right; ...in an integrated cosmos of spirit and matter one law must pervade all levels and all planes. This is the basic principle upon which the whole case against vivisection rests. Cicero
    Cicero
    Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...

     summed it up in the four words: "No cruelty is useful". M. Beddow Bayly

External links

  • HomeoInt.org - 'Anaemia and Pernicious Anaemia', M. Beddow Bayly, Medical World (December 15, 1933)
  • HomeoInt.org - 'Some Little-Understood Effects of Serum
    Blood plasma
    Blood plasma is the straw-colored liquid component of blood in which the blood cells in whole blood are normally suspended. It makes up about 55% of the total blood volume. It is the intravascular fluid part of extracellular fluid...

    Therapy', M. Beddow Bayly, Medical World (April 6th, 1934)
  • WebInquirer.plus.com - 'The Story of the Salk Anti-Poliomyelitis Vaccine', M. Beddow Bayly (1956)
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