Every second child [Hardcover]

Archie Kalokerinos (Author)

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• Hardcover: 145 pages
• Publisher: Nelson (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 017001987X
• ISBN-13: 978-0170019873
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,306,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Australian MD stumbles across cause of SIDS, April 3, 1999

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A. S. Templeton (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Second Child (Paperback)

Dr. Kalokerinos, a medical GP working in the Australian outback with the Aborigines, discovered that vitamin C prevents sudden infant deaths (SIDS) brought on by malnutrition and by the introduction of immunization shots. Infants near death were revived by vitamin C injections, and the 50% death rate (hence the title) in the region dropped to near zero during his 8-year practice. Deaths rose to former levels after he was drummed out by the Australian health authorities.

Dr. K found his clinical observations and conclusions ridiculed & ignored by the authorities, and still suffers hostility, persecution and shunning by the medical establishment.

His work is deservedly praised by other medical heretics including Pauling, Klenner, Cathcart and others who challenge the myths that shots are health-giving and that vitamin C is good only for preventing scurvy.

A great book by a great doctor, it should be read by every caring current or future parent. Pediatricians and MDs in general too.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I cried for hours, August 31, 2005

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Amanda K. Buxbaum (Bethesda, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Second Child (Paperback)

I knew for some time how close I got to having a vaccine-caused catastrophe with my oldest child. When I read his account, I was even more sure. And I cried for hours as I read his book. A tragedy came close to me and my life. But thousands and thousands of others have already been touched by the tragedy of childhood vaccines and I believe that millions more will need to be sacrificed before the big money making pharmacies are controlled and no longer permitted to continue to kill our children and continue to create a generation of neurologically damaged children. ADD is running at 1 in 5. Autism is running at 1 in 150. Why isn't everyone startled at a striking percentage of an entire generation being neurologically damaged?

My impulse when I don't know what is happening medically is to give vitamin C. This is a legitimate medical response promoted by some wholistically oriented medical doctors. So when my child was reacting SEVERLY right after each vaccine and my physician said that it was NOTHING, I gave vitamin C. And I gave more and more as she went back on a dramatic downward slide with each new vaccine. As I read the book, I saw that the same thing that almost killed my child was the same thing that killed thousands of children referrenced in this book: vaccines. And I saw that the same thing that saved my child is the same thing that saved many children under the care of the author Archie Kalokerinos: vitamin C. I find myself crying even now as I recall my experiences and recall reading this book. It is an eye-opener.

By the way, my daughter is fine now. She had a very rough start to put it mildly. It took years of wholistic remedies to detox her, always including vitamin C. She is towards the top of her class academically, a wonderful piano player and by far the very best athlete in the school, boys included.

This book MUST be made into a movie -- a major movie with big stars which people will pay attention to. Because the vaccination paradigm lies at the very core of allopathic medicine an understanding of its profound weaknesses by enough people could revolutionize modern medicine.

5.0 out of 5 stars important, May 29, 2011

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Victoria L. Giles (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every second child (Hardcover)

Vitamin C and zinc don't seem terribly important until they are lacking. This book, telling the experiences of a doctor who saved lives in Australia, should open the eyes of professionals and lay persons.