Publisher's Synopsis
Bulkley (1845-1928) was an American dermatologist and alternative cancer treatment advocate. In 1869 he obtained his MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, then became house physician at New York Hospital before travelling to Europe to study dermatology in London, Paris and Vienna. He edited the Archives of Dermatology (1874-82), the only journal in English during this period devoted to the subject, and in 1883 he founded the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. He was Chairman of Dermatology and Syphiology of the American Medical Association, and was President of both the New York Dermatological Society and the New York Academy of Medicine. He wrote on a variety of subjects including acne, eczema and the relationship of diet to skin disease and cancer, his 1885 book on acne being the first textbook to cover the condition. He believed that the fundamental cause of cancer was faulty metabolism, largely influenced by an unhealthy diet and recommended patients adopt a vegetarian diet, avoiding not just meat, but also alcohol, tea and coffee. He noted that the disease was less prevalent in poorer nations consuming a largely rice-based diet with little meat and believed it could be cured by dietary, hygienic and medical measures without surgery, to which he was firmly opposed as a treatment. This two-volume collection of his essays on cancer, first published in 1915, was widely reviewed in medical journals. Volume 1 of 2.
