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Issy and the Spider Leg


You requested that I look into Dr. Revicis treatment
of cancer. This I did, and find it far beyond my wildest
expectations. His results are amazing

Louis E. Burns, M.D., 1955


We can cure this disease if we can get
a national effort behind it

Sam Donaldson, ABC News, 1996, in an interview
with Larry King about cancer.










Two weeks before little Issy was taken to see Emanuel Revici, M.D.,
in Manhattan, her doctors at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
(CHOP) had estimated she had two or three weeks left to live.
Five hundred thousand dollars of prior medical treatments had not
cured her because a grapefruit-sized tumor pressed against the four-
year-olds large intestine and liver. Meanwhile, the malignant growth
had sprouted a six-foot predatory spider leg that wrapped itself around
her spine. In addition, one of her chemotherapy sessions at CHOP had
injured her kidneys and bladder, according to her father, Vernon
Morin.

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The Morins were cautioned by Issys doctors that their daughter
would probably die a painful death, although they would prescribe
some narcotics to try to reduce her pain. Vernon said the only good
news they had to offer was that the end would come quickly.
Her parents would not give up, however. Two days after starting Dr.
Revicis treatment, Issys pain disappeared, so she no longer needed any
pain killers. The first office visit cost less than $200. The medicine was
free.
Issy spent that summer playing and swimming in the river behind
her parents home. As her treatment continued, she gained weight,
began to grow, returned to preschool, and started ballet classes. Her
sweet and playful disposition returned as well.
After nine months of Revicis care, Issys grapefruit-sized tumor was
smaller than a golf ball. The dangerous spider leg was dead. Where
tests had previously shown 98% cancer cells in her peripheral blood,
now there were none.
Meanwhilewhen no one else could help Issy Morinthe state of
New York yanked Dr. Revicis medical license.
Nor was Issys battle over. The long-term effects of her kidney dam-
age caused her to go into shock. But the people who said Issy would
only last a few weeks had not referred her to a kidney specialist. Issy
could overcome the cancer, but like Revici, she was no match for the
medical establishment. Five months after her first coma, Issy surren-
dered for the last time.
Was it just luck that caused Issys tumor to shrink so much? Why did
the invasive spider leg shrivel up and go away? Well, consider that the
100-year-old Dr. Revici has had six decades of success with cancer
patients who have benefited from his discoveries. Those patients were
just as lucky and just as spontaneously healed as little Issy, for Dr.
Revici is the doctor who cures cancer.
More than thirty years ago, Dr. John Heller, who was then the med-
ical director of Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, privately
said of Dr. Revici, Ive known him for ten years. I dont know how he
does it, but patients walk in dead and walk out alive. This is the story
of that man and his many lucky patients, and of a medical establish-

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ment that has fought him every step of the way.
Who is Dr. Revici, what has he discovered, and why do his patients
consider him to be a miracle worker? Furthermore, how did the forces
of conventional medicine stop him from helping the vulnerable Issies
of the world?
Perhaps more importantly, what do Revicis discoveries mean for the
future of cancer treatment and other conditions, such as AIDS and drug
addiction, and how can we personally benefit from his work? The an-
swers to those questionsand morestart with an exploding ambulance.



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My Dear, My Dear


Perhaps there is no better way to show the kind of
person Dr. Emanuel Revici is than to let Revici,
his friends and his patients tell it by way of an
oral history. What follows are stories told to
the author by some of the people who know him.























I knew a woman whose husband had left her with two small kids. She
was so strapped, I would bring over food for her and the children. One
of the children had asthma really bad, but her mother couldnt afford
to take her to the doctor.
So I went to Dr. Revici and explained the situation to him. He said
to me, Please, please! Never talk to me about money. Bring me the
child. I beg of you, bring me the child!
Well, the child started to get better, but she needed a certain kind of
atomizer. So, Dr. Revici bought one for her and gave it to her mother.
It wasnt until a few years later that I found out. Her mother men-

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tioned it to me in passing because she thought I knew. Of course, Dr.
Revici had never told me. Ruth Spector, office volunteer

You could call him at home any day, at any time. We called him three
times on Christmas day including at 6:41 in the morning and 9:14 at
night, plus at 6:30 in the evening on Christmas Eve. I kept a tab on all
the calls we made. It totaled 437 calls. Pierce and Allan Hamilton

During all those hearings when they were trying to take his license
away, they were so mean. Well, I went to all of them [the hearings].
The doctors on the panel never took any notes. When it came time for
Dr. Revici to testify, he was advised not to tell them anything about
what he did.
His only response was, The world must know, the world must
know. When he started to speak, all the doctors on the panel started
to write down everything he said.
I talked to someone who worked in the governors office about all
the scribbling. He said that they knew Revici had the answer, and they
were trying to get it.
Then, during a later break, I was standing in a small hallway with
Dr. Revici. By then I was furious with the whole panel and with what
they were trying to do. I said to him, I hope they all get it [cancer] and
have to come to you. He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. His
lower lip came out. In disbelief, I said, You wouldnt! He answered me
with his soft, gentle voice: Im 87. In all my life Ive never refused to
treat anyone. Would you want me to start now? Ruth Spector

Dr. Revici was the person who treated my first wife when she died of
cancer in 1969.
Ive always been appreciative of what he did for her during the daily
telephone calls to Jamaica, West Indies, where she died. After her
death I again visited his office, this time to offer him a $5,000 check to
cover his phone calls and other expenses, but, again, he was adamant
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Revici told the following story on himself: When I first started prac-
ticing I never charged. But some of the patients told me they couldnt
come to see me because of it. So I had to charge them, so they could
get care. Dr. Emanuel Revici

Dr. Revici was offered an enticing opportunity to practice medicine
in a Middle Eastern country to treat the royal family and other impor-
tant people. Revici told those who invited him that if he were to go
there, he would have to be able to treat all patients, not just selected
people. When that condition wouldnt be met, Dr. Revici turned down
the offer. Marcus Cohen

A child who had been treated by Revici became hospitalized in
Atlanta with a severe case of asthma. For two weeks the little girl failed
to respond to the medical treatment given her by the hospital physi-
cians. The mother decided to call Dr. Revici at home. He had given
the mother his home number as he does with all his patients. It was
midnight.
He answered on the first ring. He suggested a treatment over the
phone and told her to call her back. The mother had already accumu-
lated a number of Revicis different medicines, so she was able to treat
her daughter herself, even though she was in the hospital. She ended
up calling Revici back at two in the morning and at three. He was
awake for all the calls. By morning the womans daughter had recov-
ered and was able to be discharged. Ruth Spector

When Dr. Revici was running Trafalgar Hospital in New York, they
had a problem with getting some of the patients to take their medicine.
The treatments were totally free to the patients with all the expenses
paid for by donations from wealthy benefactors. To get the patients to
use the medicine they had to start charging them five dollars. It
worked. Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.

Even Revici had limits to his patience. A woman came to him who was
close to death. She had cancer throughout her body. Her doctors pre-

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dicted she would die within two or three months. Her recovery under
Revici was swift and dramatic. She never returned to her other doctors.
Three months later one of her original physicians called her home
to see if she was still alive. When she answered the phone, the doctor
asked about his patient. He didnt recognize the perky, energetic voice
on the line. When the doctor had last seen her, the patient barely had
enough energy to speak, breathily uttering one word at a time as if each
word might be her last. When the doctor finally realized he was speak-
ing to his former patient he exclaimed that he must meet Dr. Revici.
But when Revici was informed of the other doctors response,
Revici refused to see him, I will never see this man after what he did
to you! He should have known after the third x-ray. The doctor had
apparently used the patient like a lab animal, x-raying her repeatedly.
He didnt want to teach his method to someone who didnt value
human life and human dignity.
Ten years later the woman was handling multi-million dollar loan
contracts for Fanny Mae. Revici has never seen the doctor.
Ruth Spector

Once when Dr. Revici was in London, there was a machine that could
apparently measure alpha, beta, gamma and delta brain waves. He was
hooked up to the machine. According to the tester, Revicis brain waves
were complete in both hemispheres for all of the different brain waves,
something that had previously only been seen with certain Eastern
mystics. Alice Ladas, Ed.D., author

Dr. Revici heard about a patient who was too sick to come and see
him. He paid the man a house call, walking up five flights of stairs.
Revici was ninety-three. Marcus Cohen

This being New York, we had a kind of boast in the hospital that made
it different from any other hospital: every patient would be spoken to
in his own language, which in New York doesnt happen all the time.
One day a Japanese priest came in, and he didnt speak a word of
English. We knew damn well, although he speaks six languages, Revici

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didnt speak any Japanese. So, that morning everyone went on rounds
to see how he would handle it. The son of a [gun] did the examination
in Latin. It must have been the first time a physical exam was done in
Latin in a thousand years. Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.

The patient was bedridden with AIDS, and his condition was consid-
ered terminal. A friend called to see how he was. The woman who
answered the phone said, Im sorry, hes gone. The caller asked when
he had died. She answered, Hes not dead. He went shopping. The
patient had begun treatment with Revici one week earlier.
Norman Carmen

We had a conversation with a couple outside the office. They were
both members of Mensa, the club for people with extremely high
I.Q.s. They said Dr. Revici had taken the test, but his score was too
high to be accurately measured. Allan Hamilton

After hearing my mother wasnt doing well, Dr. Revici made a home
visit. He spent two hours. On the second visit he spent the entire night.
About three or four in the morning I saw him up. My mother died
three or four days later. I felt a special closeness with Dr. Revici, but I
believe he treated all his patients that way. I have a special warm feel-
ing even now for Dr. Revici. William Rosenberg

One time I was in the office and was sitting next to a gentleman, a
young fellow. I struck up a conversation with him. To this day I can still
see that guy. He said, You know, no one has ever given me anything in
this life. Nobody has ever done anything for me. What happened to
him is, he had cancer of the lung. He went to see Revici. He was out
of a job. Revici said he would take care of him. He would treat him.
So, I told him I didnt have any money. Revici said, Thats all right,
Ill still take care of you. I can still hear that guy. He was sitting there,
and he was like, Nobody, nobody has ever done anything for me. He
couldnt believe that this man was going to do something for him. It
just tore me up inside listening to his story.

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There were never two minutes when the phone didnt ring right
through dinner. We expected it and understood.
Nita Taskier, Revicis daughter

He always said My dear. My dear. Pierce Hamilton

There was a patient who had a front room in the hospital with a tele-
phone and a window with a view of some trees. After eight months, she
ran out of money to pay the hospital bill. That meant she would have
to go on state assistance and would have to be moved to the ward. She
was upset by the prospect. I went to Dr. Revici and told him of the
patients concern. Revici said he would see what he could do, and sure
enough, she was able to stay in the front room until she died four
months later.
After her death, I quietly looked into it to see what had been done.
Thats when I found out that Dr. Revici had quietly paid the difference
in the womans bill so that she could stay in the front room with her
telephone and her view of the trees. Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.

During the eighties, the office was under a lot of financial pressure
due to a number of law suits and the resulting lawyers fees. We were
in danger of having the electricity and the water cut off. Dr. Revici
hadnt received any salary for years.
It was during this time that he came out to the receptionist, who
also collected payments from patients. He told her, I dont want to
know who pays, and who doesnt. I dont want it to affect my treat-
ment. Ruth Spector

I talked to a doctor who was performing his own research on Revicis
method after hours at Sloan-Kettering. He told me it showed very
promising results. As Revicis lawyer, I told the doctor that we would
need him to testify in Revicis behalf. When he refused, I told him we
would have to subpoena him.
The doctor burst into tears and begged me not to make him do
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the people at Sloan-Kettering found out about it. The doctor was
beside himself. I told him I really needed for him to come forward, not
so much to testify regarding the results but to testify about the puni-
tive climate that existed at the hospital regarding anything to do with
Revici. Although the doctor begged not to be dragged into the case, it
was my duty as Dr. Revicis attorney to let my client know about the
other doctor. The doctors testimony had the potential to show clear-
ly that Dr. Revicis method was not being given fair consideration by
the mainstream medical community.
Dr. Revici decided not to have the doctor subpoenaed. He didnt
want to risk the other mans professional futureeven if it was to his
own benefit. Sam A. Abady, attorney at law

When Dr. Revici would read my charts, he was like a wise old turtle.
He would submerge himself in the chart, sinking bit by bit. After a
long while hed slowly come up from the depths. Meade Andrews

Id written down a phone number on a slip of paper while talking to
someone on the phone. Dr. Revici was in the room at the time of the
conversation. A couple days later I wanted to call the person back, but
I couldnt find the paper Id written the number on. He became aware
of my frustration. He asked me to wait a minute, and then he closed
his eyes and went into what looked like deep thought. After about two
minutes, he recalled the number. He was in his late eighties or early
nineties at the time. A. R. Salman, M.D.

My mother had developed a severe, chronic angina. She had gotten it
when we had to make a terrifying, two-mile run through a wooded no-
mans-land to escape the Nazi soldiers who were patrolling the area.
Her condition became so bad after six months that just raising her arm
would bring on an attack. She was completely bedridden and at risk of
having a heart attack.
My father was very concerned. He said he didnt know what to do,
because he had developed a medicine that might work for her, but due
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it for safety. We told him he didnt have anything to lose, because she
would surely die if something werent done soon.
So, he gave her an injection, and then another. Two days later she
was up and around. Within a week or so, she was able to go out shopping.
[Authors note: She lived another 24 years]

Nita Taskier


He was like the finest European gentleman.

Charlotte Louise
















































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