In Memorium – Harris Coulter, Homeopathic Historian & more

[Guest guest]

wondering why we are finding out about this so

late.........................haven't seen it in the homeopathy email

lists/community either...............

One of my favorite authors for homeopathy history and vaccine

dangers

I was able to meet him in 2000 after his tragic stroke and able to thank

him for all that he had done - I'm so sorry that stroke happened to him

so young............he contributed so much. Brilliant.

this great book: Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality: The

Medical Assault on the American Brain

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1556430841/wellwithinA/

and this one

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=089529463X/wellwithinA/

A Shot in the Dark

also here is an interview with him in 1995

 

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/coulterint.html

1997 talk -

 

http://homeopathy.inbaltimore.org/coulter1.html

 

http://www.whale.to/v/coulter1.html SIDS and Seizures

 

http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/coulter/vacc-deb.html

Vaccination Debate: Do

Vaccines Cause Cot Deaths?

 

http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=Article & ID=610

Critique of Govt Funded Epidemiology-Harris Coulter

and his excellent history of homeopathy and more 4 volume

series:

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0938190571/wellwithinA/103-2422523-6162229

Volume 3 - Divided Legacy, Volume III: The Conflict Between

Homeopathy and the American Medical Association (v. 3) (Hardcover)

the main one about homeopathy

and this one to follow

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1556431708/wellwithinA/103-2422523-6162229

Volume 4 - Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical

Thought; Vol IV, Twentieth-Century Medicine, The Bacteriological Era.

(Hardcover)

Volumes 1 is available at minimum.com

Volume 2 is hard to find................

 

If you haven't had a chance yet or didn't know about it - at least read

Volume 3

Sheri

************

 

http://hpathy.com/homeopathic-biographies/in-memorium-harris-coulter/

In Memorium – Harris Coulter

January 20, 2010 by

Alan V.

Schmukler

Oct 8, 1932 – October 28, 2009

 

 

 

Harris Coulter passed away on October 28, 2009. He was considered the

leading homeopathic historian of the 20th century. His four volume series

“Divided Legacy” on medical history included homeopathy’s rise, its

amazing successes and how it succumbed to the politics of medicine in the

U.S. His meticulous research on homeopathy’s success in epidemics has

often been quoted to defend homeopathy’s effectiveness. His research was

no doubt assisted by the fact that he was fluent in German, French,

Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian. He also wrote

about the dangers of vaccinations. His PhD thesis from Columbia

University, NY was Political and Social Aspects of Nineteenth-Century

Medicine in the United States: The Formation of the American Medical

Association and its Struggle with the Homeopathic and Eclectic

Physicians. Harris Coulter also served as director of publications

for the American Foundation for Homeopathy, and for six years was on the

editorial board of the Journal of the American Institute of

Homeopathy. He was an advisory board member of the Campaign Against

Fraudulent Medical Research.

This quote from his Divided Legacy Vol 3, will give you a sense of how he

viewed the medical monopoly:

“Society today is paying a heavy price in disease and death for the

monopoly granted the medical profession in the 1920’s. In fact, the

situation peculiarly resembles that of the 1830s when physicians relied

on bloodletting, mercurial medicines, and quinine, even though knowing

them to be intrinsically harmful And precisely the same arguments were

made in defense of these medicines as are employed today, namely, that

the benefits outweigh the risks. In truth, the benefits accrue to the

physician, while the patient runs the risks.”

Harris Coulter was a champion of homeopathy and of the truth. We will all

miss him.

**************

Harris Coulter Was a Brave Visionary

Posted: 3/29/2010

 

http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/March-2010/Harris-Coulter-Was-a-Brave-Visionary.aspx

 

 

by Barbara Loe Fisher

Sometimes, when you least expect it,

you get news that makes you stop and think about someone you care about,

who taught you something important.

Recently I learned of the death of my co-author of the ground breaking

book he and I wrote together and published in 1985: DPT: A Shot in the

Dark.

Harris was only 77 years

old when he died on October 28, 2009. He had struggled for 12 years with

the debilitating effects of a brain hemorrhage he suffered at age 65

while he was in Paris. It was a paralyzing stroke that would end

his remarkable career.

When I last spoke with Harris two

months before his death, I had called him to check out a rumor that he

had passed away. With characteristic wit and clarity, he laughed and

quoted Mark Twain, saying “The rumors of my death are greatly

exaggerated.”

Although the stroke had left him

paralyzed, it did not rob him of his personality or ability to recall

details from the past. And every single time we had spoken in the

decade following his stroke, Harris wanted to talk about the journey of

discovery we took together when we wrote what would become the first

major, well documented book examining the scientific and clinical

evidence that vaccination can and does cause brain inflammation,

permanent brain damage and death for some. Among his many

accomplishments, Harris considered our collaboration on that book - which

was published exactly a quarter century ago - to be his greatest

one.

I remember the first time I spoke

with Harris. It was the fall of 1982. I had been researching the side

effects of DPT vaccine and interviewing parents of vaccine injured

children for eight months following the broadcast of the emmy award

winning television documentary DPT: Vaccine Roulette earlier that

year. Along with other parents in the Washington, D.C. area, whose

children had been brain injured or died after DPT shots, I helped

establish the non-profit educational organization known today as the

National Vaccine Information Center.

Back then, I was a young mother in

my early 30’s with a four year old DPT vaccine injured son and I was

pregnant with my second child. Working as a freelance writer out of my

home, I was gathering information for a book I wanted to write for

parents about preventing DPT vaccine injury and death.

Back then, nobody had personal

computers or cell phones, and the internet was just a dream. If you

wanted to write a book, especially on a medical topic, you did your

research the old fashioned way – by going to the Library of Medicine or

corresponding with authors of studies. So, when Harris called me up

looking for information for an article he was writing on vaccination, it

didn’t take me long to realize that this was a really smart man who knew

his way around a medical library.

But I didn’t know he was a visionary

medical historian, who had chronicled the history of homeopathy and the

epic philosophical battles waged during the history of medicine from

ancient times to the present in what would become his formidable four

volume series of books called “Divided Legacy.” When I talked with him on

the telephone that day in 1982, I didn’t know that Harris had graduated

from Yale in Russian studies; that he was fluent in Russian, Hungarian,

French, German, Spanish and Latin and was a well known oral and written

translater for the State Department and at the United Nations; or that he

earned a masters degree in political science and a PhD in philosophy from

Columbia University.

I just knew, after talking with him for

about 30 minutes, that he was an independent thinker and fearless about

critiquing bad science and flawed assumptions made by the medical

profession. Fearless was something I already figured out was a

pre-requisite for writing a book that would challenge long standing

assumptions parents and doctors have had about the safety of mass

vaccination policies.

So I asked him if he wanted to

co-author a book with me. He said “yes” and arrived on my doorstep

a few days later to outline our game plan. And from that day on, Harris

Coulter and I embarked on a truth seeking journey about vaccine safety

that would take us into a labyrinth, where the history of science,

medicine, politics, economics, law, and ethics intersected.

During this unlikely collaboration between a

mother and writer, who loves Shakespeare, and a father and medical

historian, who loved nothing better than to expose the arrogance and

ignorance of medical orthodoxy, he and I managed to write a book that

would be the first to inform the public about the link between

vaccination and brain inflammation that can lead to chronic illness,

including learning disabilities; attention deficit and ADHD; medication

resistant seizure disorders; autism, asthma, severe allergies, mental

retardation and other manifestations of brain and immune dysfunction

given convenient labels by the medical profession.

As I interviewed hundreds of parents of

DPT vaccine injured children and Harris set up camp at the Library of

Medicine, my mantra became “brain damage by any other name is still brain

damage” and his mantra was “when in doubt, don’t leave it out,” of our

historic challenge to industry, government and organized medicine for

refusing to acknowledge vaccine risks and failing to improve the crude

and toxic whole cell DPT vaccine.

When he and I came under attack by medical

writers at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal

after our book was first published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in

1985, Harris told me “don’t listen to them, Barbara. They know we are

right and that is why they are attacking us.”

At an NIH meeting in 1988, when an

auditorium full of scientists and health officials informed American

parents that they were not going to license the safer and more

effective DTaP vaccine that Japan had been using since 1981 until

after they conducted eight more years of studies, Harris

called out from the back of the auditorium “I’ve got cases of DPT: A

Shot in the Dark back here for anyone who wants a copy.” Within an

hour, every last book had been sold.

Harris never let his critics get him down. In

fact, he celebrated the negative attention. He took a stalwart “Damn the

torpedoes, full steam ahead!” attitude that echoed the advice my Dad gave

me when I was young, which was: “If everybody likes you, then you

probably aren’t doing anything important.”

Harris Coulter was a very special man. He was a

brilliant historian, a remarkable visionary, a brave seeker and defender

of the truth. He left his mark on the history of medicine and he changed

my life. When I think of Harris, I remember a quote from

Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caeser: “A coward dies a thousand

deaths, a hero only once.”

Thank you, Harris, for being a hero for me and many others, who

will always remember and miss you.

To receive a copy of A Shot in the Dark, become a donor

supporter of the National Vaccine Information Center.

 

https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=22354

 

 

 

 

Harris Coulter, PhD

October 8, 1932 - October 28, 2009

 

Harris Livermore Coulter, PhD, born in Baltimore MD on October 8, 1932

died on October 28, 2009 in Washington, D.C. after a long illness

following a stroke in 1997.

The co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark in 1985 and author of

Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: A Medical Assault on the

American Brain in 1990, Dr. Coulter attended Milton Academy and

graduated Yale University with a BA degree in Russian Studies. He earned

a masters degree in political science and a doctorate in philosophy from

Columbia University. He worked for the State Department and United

Nations as an English/Russian interpreter and authored nine books on

medical history.

He is survived by his sons, Andrew and Alex and by his daughters,

Elizabeth and Marian.

Curriculum Vitae for Harris Coulter, PhD

June 1997 - Paris, France - Meetings with Dr. Jacques

Benveniste on writing a history of his discovery of the " memory of

water. " January 1997 - Lectured to homeopathic and other physicians

specializing in alternative medicine in Berlin, Germany, Moscow, Russia

and London, UK. October 1996 - Lectured on cancer immunotherapy at the 51st

Annual Conference of the World Homeopathic League (LIGA) in Capri, Italy

and at the Third Dead Sea Conference on Potentiating Health and the

Crisis of the Immune System in Zichron Yaacov, Israel. Guest Lecturer at

the Convention of the Romanian Homoeopathic Society in Bucharest,

Romania. November 1995 - Lectured on medical and homeopathic history at

Centre de Techniques Homeopathiques, Montreal, Canada (lectures published

by the Centre under the title: Histoire de l'Homeopathie). October 1995 - Lectured at 50th Congress of International

Homeopathic Medical League (Oaxaca, Mexico) on dangers of childhood

vaccinations. September 1995 - Lectured at Conference on Genetic Causes of

Violence (University of Maryland) on childhood vaccinations as a cause of

violent behavior. February 1995 - Spoke at 49th Congress of International

Homeopathic Medical League (New Delhi, India), and to homeopathic

physicians in Calcutta, India, on 'Vitalism and the Future of Medicine.' December 1994 - Published: Divided Legacy. Volume IV.

Twentieth Century Medicine: The Bacteriological Era. April 1994 - Lectured at 150th Anniversary meeting of The

American Institute of Homeopathy on: 'American Medicine, Where We've Been

and Where We're Going.' September-October 1993 - Ad Hoc Advisory Panel of the Office

of Alternative Medicine. Worked with Office of Alternative Medicine

supervising trial of shark cartilage in treatment of cancer. May 1993 - Honorary member of the 'Syndicat Professionel des

Homeopathes du Quebec'. September 1992 - Pharmacological and Biological Treatments

Panel Member on the NIH's Workshop on Alternative Medicine. The report

published was Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons,

also known as the Chantilly Report. September 1992 - Lectured at the Fifth International

Conference on Neuro-Developmental Issues (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) on the

post-encephalitic syndrome. March 1992 - Lectured at Fourth European Conference on

Neuro-Developmental Delay (Chester, England) on the post-encephalitic

syndrome. 1990-96 - Advisory board of the Cancer Chronicles. 1990-91 - Board of Directors, International Foundation for

Homeopathy. 1990 - Published The Controlled Clinical Trial: An

Analysis 1990 – Published Vaccination, Social Violence, and

Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain. May 1990 - Lectured at 45th Congress of International

Homeopathic Medical League, Barcelona, Spain, on dangers of childhood

vaccinations. Awarded the Centenary Gold Medal of the Academica

Medico-Homeopatica de Barcelona. 1990-96 - Lectured in France, Norway, Brazil, and Russia on

homeopathic, vaccination, and medical history issues. 1988 - Testified before House of Representatives, Committee on

Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor: on AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden

Link. 1987 - Published AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden

Link. 1985 - Published with Barbara Loe Fisher: DPT: A Shot in

the Dark. 1985 - Awarded the Hahnemann Prize of the Belgian Faculty of

Homeopathy. 1983-89 - Editorial board of the Journal of the American

Institute of Homeopathy. 1987 - Lectured at 42nd Congress of the International

Homeopathic Medical League, Arlington, Virginia: 'DPT Vaccine. The DPT

Shot and Public Health.' 1983-96 - Honorary member of the American Institute of

Homeopathy. 1981-82 - Vice President of the American Center for Homeopathy

and editor of The American Homeopath; Secretary of the Homeopathic

Pharmacopoeia Convention. Organized homeopathic summer programs in

Melbourne, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona. 1981 - Published Homeopathic Science and Modern

Medicine. 1980 - Lectured to 35th Congress of the International

Homeopathic Medical League, Acapulco, Mexico: 'Hahnemannian Homeopathy

and Revisionism.' 1977 - Published: Divided Legacy. Volume II. The Origins of

Modern Western Medicine: J. B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard. 1975 - Published Divided Legacy. Volume I. The Patterns

Emerge: Hippocrates to Paracelsus. May-June 1974 - 39th Congress of the International

Homoeopathic Medical League, Washington, D.C. George Vithoulkas and

Harris L. Coulter honored as writers on homeopathy. 1973 - Published Divided Legacy. Volume III. The Conflict

Between homeopathy and the American Medical Association, and Homeopathic

Influences in Nineteenth-Century Allopathic Therapeutics. 1972 - Published: Homeopathic Medicine. July 1969 - Awarded degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) by

Columbia University, NY; dissertation title: Political and Social

Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the United States: The

Formation of the American Medical Association and its Struggle with the

Homeopathic and Eclectic Physicians. 1965-75 - Director of Publications, American Foundation for

Homeopathy. 1961 - Awarded M.A. by Columbia University, NY (Political

Science). 1954 - Awarded B.A. by Yale University, CT (Russian Area

Studies).

Languages: German, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian,

Serbo-Croatian.

***************

 

http://homeopathy.wildfalcon.com/archives/2010/03/13/harris-livermore-coulter-1932-2009/

Harris Livermore Coulter 1932 – 2009

Harris Livermore Coulter 1932 – 2009 was an American homeopathic

historian, the leading homeopathic historian of the 20th century, of Publications for the American Foundation for Homeopathy, a

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Institute

of Homeopathy, and Advisory Board Member of the Campaign Against

Fraudulent Medical Research,

 

 

 

Harris Coulter passed away on October 28, 2009. He was considered the

leading homeopathic historian of the 20th century.

His four volume series Divided Legacy on medical history included

homeopathy’s rise, its amazing successes and how it succumbed to the

politics of medicine in the U.S.

His meticulous research on homeopathy’s success in epidemics has

often been quoted to defend homeopathy’s effectiveness. His research was

no doubt assisted by the fact that he was fluent in German, French,

Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian.

He also wrote about the dangers of vaccinations. His PhD thesis from

Columbia University, NY

was

Political

and Social Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the United States:

The Formation of the American Medical Association and its Struggle with

the Homeopathic and Eclectic Physicians.

Harris Coulter also served as director of publications for the

American Foundation for Homeopathy, and for six years was on the

editorial board of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

He was an advisory board member of the Campaign Against Fraudulent

Medical Research.

This quote from his Divided Legacy Vol 3, will give you a sense of

how he viewed the medical monopoly:

“Society today is paying a heavy price in disease and death for the

monopoly granted the medical profession in the 1920’s. In fact, the

situation peculiarly resembles that of the 1830s when physicians relied

on bloodletting, mercurial medicines, and quinine, even though knowing

them to be intrinsically harmful. And precisely the same arguments were

made in defense of these medicines as are employed today, namely, that

the benefits outweigh the risks. In truth, the benefits accrue to the

physician, while the patient runs the risks.”

Harris Coulter was a champion of homeopathy and of the truth. We will

all miss him.

 

 

Dr. Coulter was born on October 8, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland and died

on October 28, 2009, at the age of 77.

In his significant career he has made contributions in many areas,

including cancer, vaccinations, and shedding light on the conflict

between the AMA and Homeopthy. His fluency in many languages (German,

French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian) has

helped him to communicate to a wide audience.

January 1997

Lectured to homeopathic and other physicians specializing in

alternative medicine in Berlin, Germany, Moscow, Russia and London,

UK.

October 1996

Lectured on cancer immunotherapy at the 51st Annual Conference of the

World Homeopathic League (LIGA) in Capri, Italy and at the Third Dead Sea

Conference on Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System in

Zichron Yaacov, Israel. Guest Lecturer at the Convention of the Romanian

Homeopathic Society in Bucharest, Romania.

March 1996

Editorial board of the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research.

Appeared as expert witness on risks and benefits of childhood

vaccinations (lawsuit by parents refusing to vaccinate their

children).

February 1996

Introduced VG-1000, a unique vaccine treatment for cancer, to the IAT

Clinic, Freeport, Bahamas. Advisory Board Member of the Campaign Against

Fraudulent Medical Research.

November 1995

Lectured on medical and homeopathic history at Centre de Techniques

Homeopathiques, Montreal, Canada (lectures published by the Centre under

the title: Histoire de l’Homeopathie).

October 1995

Lectured at 50th Congress of International Homeopathic Medical League

(Oaxaca, Mexico) on the dangers of childhood vaccinations.

September 1995

Lectured at Conference on Genetic Causes of Violence (University of

Maryland) on childhood vaccinations as a cause of violent behavior.

February 1995

Spoke at 49th Congress of International Homeopathic Medical League

(New Delhi, India), and to homeopathic physicians in Calcutta, India, on

‘Vitalism and the Future of Medicine.’

December 1994

Published:

 

Divided Legacy. Volume IV. Twentieth Century Medicine: The

Bacteriological Era.

April 1994

Lectured at 150th Anniversary meeting of The American Institute of

Homeopathy on: ‘American Medicine, Where We’ve Been and Where We’re

Going.’

September-October 1993

Ad Hoc Advisory Panel of the Office of Alternative Medicine. Worked

with Office of Alternative Medicine supervising trial of shark cartilage

in treatment of cancer.

September 1992

Pharmacological and Biological Treatments Panel Member on the NIH’s

Workshop on Alternative Medicine. The report published was

 

Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons, also known as the

Chantilly

Report.

September 1992

Lectured at the Fifth International Conference on Neuro-Developmental

Issues (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) on the post-encephalitic syndrome.

1990-96

Advisory board of the Cancer Chronicles.

1990-91

Board of Directors, International Foundation for Homeopathy.

1990

Published:

 

The Controlled Clinical Trial: an Analysis, and Vaccination, Social

Violence, and Criminality.

1988

Testified before House of Representatives, Committee on

Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor: on

 

AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden Link.

1987

Published:

 

AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden Link.

1986

Published (with Barbara Loe Fisher):

 

DPT: A Shot in the Dark.

1985

Awarded the Hahnemann Prize of the Belgian Faculty of

Homeopathy.

1983-89

Editorial board of the Journal of the American Institute of

Homeopathy.

1981-82

Vice President of the American Center for Homeopathy and editor of

The American Homeopath; Secretary of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia

Convention.

1981

Published:

 

Homeopathic Science and Modern Medicine.

1977

Published:

 

Divided Legacy. Volume II. The Origins of Modern Western Medicine: J. B.

Van Helmont to Claude Bernard.

1975

Published:

 

Divided Legacy. Volume I. The Patterns Emerge: Hippocrates to

Paracelsus.

1974 May-June

39th Congress of the International Homoeopathic Medical League,

Washington, D.C. George

Vithoulkas and Harris L Coulter honored as writers on

homeopathy.

1973

Published:

Divided Legacy.

Volume III. The Conflict Between homeopathy and the American Medical

Association, and Homeopathic Influences in Nineteenth-Century Allopathic

Therapeutics.

1972

Published:

Homeopathic

Medicine.

July 1969

Awarded Ph.D. by Columbia University, NY; dissertation title:

 

Political and Social Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the United

States: The Formation of the American Medical Association and its

Struggle with the Homeopathic and Eclectic Physicians.

1965-75 – Director of Publications, American Foundation for

Homeopathy.

Of interest:

Harris Livermore Coulter was married and then divorced from Catherine R

Coulter, who is a practicing homeopath,

 

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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