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Max Gerson

1881 - 1959

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Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson therapy, a dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases. Gerson therapy involves a plant-based diet with coffee enemas, ozone enemas, dietary supplements and raw calf liver extract, the latter was discontinued in the 1980s after patients were hospitalized for bacterial infections. Gerson described his approach in the book A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases (1958). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Gerson has received more than 702,789 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Max Gerson is the 481st most popular physician (down from 480th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from Poland (up from 808th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Physician.

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  • 50.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Max Gerson ranks 481 out of 726. Before him are Richard Bright, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Antonio Scarpa, Anna Kuliscioff, Wilhelm Kühne, and Ruth Pfau. After him are Nicolás Monardes, Rutherford Alcock, Wim Eijk, Karin Büttner-Janz, Carl Lange, and Kyusaku Ogino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Max Gerson ranks 137. Before him are Henry Maitland Wilson, Ludwig Kaas, August Hlond, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Alexander Kanoldt, and Ernst Fast. After him are Henri Dentz, Yosef Haim Brenner, Smedley Butler, Sergey Merkurov, Edgar Leonard, and Zoltán Halmay. Among people deceased in 1959, Max Gerson ranks 105. Before him are Edmund Gwenn, Erhard Schmidt, Galaktion Tabidze, Alfonso Reyes, Ernst Fast, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda. After him are Carl Enckell, William D. Leahy, Lipót Fejér, Kathryn Adams, William J. Donovan, and Albert Namatjira.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Max Gerson ranks 806 out of 1,694. Before him are Johann Dzierzon (1811), Ida Siekmann (1902), Joanna Pacuła (1957), Marek Belka (1952), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), and Boris Kaufman (1906). After him are Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Nikifor (1895), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Adolf Brudes (1899).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Max Gerson ranks 18. Before him are Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Hilary Koprowski (1916), Robert Remak (1815), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), and Kazimierz Bein (1872). After him are Zofia Zamenhof (1889), Eugene Lazowski (1913), Adam Zamenhof (1888), Joseph Schröter (1837), Ludwig Traube (1818), and Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858).

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