44 Diet Wise
For years Randolph had to endure the scorn and reprobation of his
colleagues: a story of courage and determination full of the very essence
of human drama. Yet he persisted and saw his life’s work vindicated. His
book Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment has become
a classic text, and any doctor who has not read it should feel ashamed.
Through his continued writings Randolph was probably our greatest voice;
yet withal he continued to be an active clinician and researcher, well into
his eighth decade. Other key names, all American, are Doris Rapp (already
mentioned), William Rea, Michael Zeller, William Philpott, William Crook
and Marshall Mandell.
Doctor Mac
In my old stomping ground in Britain, Dr. Richard Mackarness
flew the flag for us and became a world-renowned name. He began as a
consultant psychiatrist at the Park-Prewett Hospital in Basingstoke and,
like many of his counterparts from across the Atlantic, took an interest
in clinical ecology because he personally was a sufferer. Excluding certain
foods helped him to a new life, and he realized it could do the same for
others.
Of course he was scorned by his colleagues and probably had a
tougher time than me, in the sense that I had little interest in what the die-
hards at my local hospital believed, one way or the other. But Mackarness had
to work in an intensely hostile environment of toxic psychiatry, supercilious
arrogance and hospital food.
After a long and fruitful career and several international best-sellers,
Mackarness retired to Australia, where he passed away. But his influence will
continue for many years to come and his two main allergy books, Not all in
the Mind and Chemical Victims, continue to command respect.
The Cambridge Group
There have now been stirrings in the scientific literature, it is true.
Reports of two creditable studies have been published in The Lancet, the
highly respected medical scientific journal. (Regrettably, most doctors are
not in the habit of trying things for themselves and won’t believe anything
that hasn’t been “proved” by a study that is published in a leading journal.)
The first of these (November 20, 1982) has become known as “the
Cambridge Study.” Doctors Alan Jones, McLaughlin, Shorthouse, Workman