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Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics: The Safe Remedies That Work With Your Body to Fight Illness
Stapled Softbound
47 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1995
About the author
Ray C. Wunderlich Jr.
12 booksDr. Ray Wunderlich Jr. was one of the earliest medical doctors to advocate holistic treatments — which he defined as good nutrition, exercise, spirituality and the elimination of toxins.
Dr. Wunderlich started his career as a pediatrician and later expanded his practice. He was known as an excellent diagnostician and a "doctor of last resort," his family said, if not always what patients expected. In the 1970s, recommending acupuncture, massage or "chelation" therapy (designed to rid the body of metals) — were far out of the mainstream.
As a young man, he had dated poet Sylvia Plath, who referred to Dr. Wunderlich as "a brilliant, ebullient medical student." He would later sprinkle his medical articles with references to the likes of Shelley and Keats, part of a Renaissance mission to improve the patient — that is, the entire person — on every level. Dr. Wunderlich never strayed far from literature, even as he wrote papers about hyperactivity and books about pediatric allergies and carpal tunnel syndrome. In the 1990s, while caring for his wife Elinor's Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Wunderlich studied English literature at the University of South Florida. Two years after his wife's death, he earned a Ph.D, at age 72.
He was acutely interested in abnormal psychology as well, a development that led him to initiate a long correspondence with convicted Nazi architect Albert Speer, who designed Hitler's gas chambers.
Over the years, Dr. Wunderlich ran 10 marathons and hundreds of shorter road races, filling up a room with ribbons and trophies for his age group. He continued with the onset of Alzheimer's, but at age 80 switched to walks of up to 15 miles. The running, like his wide-ranging intellectual pursuits, covered great distances and meant something. He told his patients, "When you stop moving, you die."
- Edited/Adapted from Tampa Bay Times (Obituary)
Dr. Wunderlich started his career as a pediatrician and later expanded his practice. He was known as an excellent diagnostician and a "doctor of last resort," his family said, if not always what patients expected. In the 1970s, recommending acupuncture, massage or "chelation" therapy (designed to rid the body of metals) — were far out of the mainstream.
As a young man, he had dated poet Sylvia Plath, who referred to Dr. Wunderlich as "a brilliant, ebullient medical student." He would later sprinkle his medical articles with references to the likes of Shelley and Keats, part of a Renaissance mission to improve the patient — that is, the entire person — on every level. Dr. Wunderlich never strayed far from literature, even as he wrote papers about hyperactivity and books about pediatric allergies and carpal tunnel syndrome. In the 1990s, while caring for his wife Elinor's Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Wunderlich studied English literature at the University of South Florida. Two years after his wife's death, he earned a Ph.D, at age 72.
He was acutely interested in abnormal psychology as well, a development that led him to initiate a long correspondence with convicted Nazi architect Albert Speer, who designed Hitler's gas chambers.
Over the years, Dr. Wunderlich ran 10 marathons and hundreds of shorter road races, filling up a room with ribbons and trophies for his age group. He continued with the onset of Alzheimer's, but at age 80 switched to walks of up to 15 miles. The running, like his wide-ranging intellectual pursuits, covered great distances and meant something. He told his patients, "When you stop moving, you die."
- Edited/Adapted from Tampa Bay Times (Obituary)
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