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DeForest Clinton Jarvis (March 15, 1881 – August 18, 1966) was an American physician from Vermont. He is best known for his writings on the subject of folk medicine. He recommended a mixture of raw apple cider vinegar and honey that has variously been called switchel or honegar, as a health tonic.[1][2] He promoted the use of vinegar to keep the acidity of the body more acidic than alkaline, which he believed treated medical problems like burns and varicose veins.[3]

Biography

Jarvis was born in Plattsburgh, New York, into a fifth-generation Vermont family and grew up in Burlington, Vermont. His parents were George Jarvis and Abbie Vincent. He graduated from the University of Vermont Medical College in 1904, and began practicing medicine in Barre, Vermont, in 1909.

Jarvis married Pearl Macomber, and they had a daughter, Sylvia Jarvis Smith (b. June 29, 1914, d. December 27, 2009),[4] She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1936.[5][6] Jarvis's hobbies included making jewelry and playing the cello, and he managed a children's orchestra for 22 years.[7]

Jarvis's 1958 book Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health[2] was on The New York Times Best Seller list for two years, ultimately selling over one million copies, more than 245,000 copies in a single year, and was still in print as of 2002. Wrote one reviewer, "Pliny, the ancient Roman originator of the doctrine of signatures, used honey and vinegar to cleanse the system and promote good health. D. C. Jarvis, M.D. in Folk Medicine has re-popularized the use of honey and apple cider vinegar in modern times."[8]

He died at the Girouard Nursing Home in South Barre, Vermont, at the age of 85. The cause of death was a chronic kidney infection, coupled with cerebral thrombosis and arteriosclerosis.[9]

After his death in 1966, Jarvis's office was dismantled and shipped to the Shelburne Museum, where it was reconstructed and is still displayed, as an example of a small-town Vermont doctor's office.[citation needed]

Critical reception

In 1960, copies of Jarvis' book Folk Medicine were seized by the Food and Drug Administration in connection with sales of "Honegar".[10][11] Physician Louis Lasagna noted that:

In Albany, New York, FDA agents seized $60,000 worth of "Honegar," a mixture of honey and apple cider vinegar, because its labeling failed to bear adequate directions for treating nearly fifty diseases and conditions for which "Honegar" was intended to be used. Seized with the mixture were reprints and quotations from Jarvis' book. (Jarvis was apparently uninvolved in the commercial manufacture of the product.)[12]

Jarvis promoted the idea that apple cider vinegar and honey could be used to cure arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and many others. Medical authorities dismissed these claims as nonsense and quackery.[13][14][15][16]

Scientific Support

We mustn’t let our emotionally driven prejudices replace our discrimination between what we observe versus our theories of interpretation of what we observe.

"Observations that cannot be separated from theoretical interpretation are said to be theory-laden."[17]

The fact is, there are a few, well-documented benefits to the use of acetic acid in medicine. They are: the arrest of the growth of colon cancer[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] and the self-induced death of in vitro yeast.[23]

It remains to be seen whether in vivo treatment of Candida or Aspergillus induced, septic arthritis[24] [25] [26] with acetic acid, or any of its analogues or derivatives, such as (but not limited to): sodium acetate salt or disodium EDTA (a chelating agent), can bring about a "cure" – much less relief.

Baking Soda and Vinegar

The preexistent use of acetic acid, along with its scientific validation, becomes very obvious if we include the sodium ion in conjunction with the acetate ion.

When baking soda and vinegar are combined, the bicarbonate ion of the baking soda reacts with acetic acid to form carbonic acid, which decomposes into carbon dioxide and water, completing the carbon cycle. Sodium acetate remains in solution with the water contained in the vinegar.[27] -- Vinegar | Reactions, byproducts and contaminants

In the Food Industry

  1. Whenever it is used as a seasoning or as a preservative.
  2. Serving as interdependent ingredients for traditional recipes:
    1. Wacky_cake
    2. Honeycomb_toffee
    3. Yellowman_(candy)
  3. Or, included within the recipe for a baking soda and apple cider vinegar beverage.[28]

Outside the Food Industry

  1. Sodium Acetate Injection, USP (4 mEq per mL) is a sterile, nonpyrogenic, concentrated solution of sodium acetate in water for injection. The solution is administered after dilution by the intravenous route as an electrolyte replenisher.[29]
  2. Hair washing without commercial shampoo
  3. Bubble_(physics) | Common_examples – As given off in chemical reactions, e.g., baking soda + vinegar
Volcano complete
  1. Wiki Science Competition, 2023, Italy -- Students recreate an artificial volcano using baking soda, vinegar and red food coloring.

Books

  • Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health (1958). New York: Holt. ISBN 978-1447446378
  • Arthritis and Folk Medicine (1960). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

References

  1. ^ D.C. Md Jarvis (May 12, 1985). Folk Medicine: A New England Almanac of Natural Health Care from a Noted Vermont Country Doctor. Fawcett Publications. ISBN 978-0-449-20880-9.
  2. ^ a b "Folk Medicine". Time magazine. December 28, 1959. Archived from the original on December 9, 2008. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
  3. ^ Fry, Ann Lyons (2003). The Vermont Encyclopeida. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. p. 170. ISBN 1-58465-086-9.
  4. ^ "Vermost Quarterly: 1930s 1940s". The University of Vermont. 2003-12-31. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  5. ^ Sylvia Jarvis Smith. "Of Severed Fingers, Silicosis, and Stethoscopes". Jcrows.com. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  6. ^ "The UVM Connection > Distinguished Service Award Winners". The University of Vermont. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  7. ^ "Dr. Jarvis's Great Switchel Revival". Vermont Life. 1960. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  8. ^ The Natural Farmer, Vol. 2, No. 45, p. 14 Summer, 2000
  9. ^ "Dr. D.C. Jarvis, Author of 'Folk Medicine,' Dead; Vermont Physician's '58 Book Sold Over a Million He Stressed Curative Value of Vinegar and Honey". The New York Times. August 19, 1966. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
  10. ^ Kleinfeld, Vincent A; Kaplan, Alan H. (1965). Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Judicial and Administrative Record, 1961-1964. Commerce Clearing House. pp. 88-90
  11. ^ Barrett, Stephen; Herbert, Victor. (1994). The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-87975-909-4 "D. C. Jarvis, M.D. (1881-1966) wrote that body alkalinity was the principle threat to American health and that honey and apple cider were antidotes. False claims in his book were the basis for an FDA seizure of a product called Honegar."
  12. ^ Lasagna, Louis. (1962). The Doctors' Dilemmas. Harper. p. 306
  13. ^ Clar, Mimi. (1961). "Honegar" and Folk Medicine. Western Folklore 20 (3): 203.
  14. ^ Lamont-Havers, R. (1963). Arthritis Quackery. The American Journal of Nursing 63 (3): 92-95.
  15. ^ Sechrist, William. (1970). Dynamics of Wellness. Wadsworth Publishing Company. p. 442
  16. ^ Schaller, Warren Edward; Carroll, Charles Robert. (1976). Health, Quackery & the Consumer. Saunders. p. 133. ISBN 978-0721679495
  17. ^ Bogen, Jim (2013). "Theory and Observation in Science". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  18. ^ Acetate Induces Growth Arrest in Colon Cancer Cells Through Modulation of Mitochondrial Function
  19. ^ Hague A., Elder D. J., Hicks D. J., Paraskeva C. (1995). Apoptosis in colorectal tumour cells: induction by the short chain fatty acids butyrate, propionate and acetate and by the bile salt deoxycholate. Int. J. Cancer 60 400–406.1. 10.1002/ijc.2910600322 PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar
  20. ^ Scheppach W., Bartram H. P., Richter F. (1995). Role of short-chain fatty acids in the prevention of colorectal cancer. Eur. J. Cancer 31A 1077–1080. 10.1016/0959-8049(95)00165-f PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar
  21. ^ Heerdt B. G., Houston M. A., Augenlicht L. H. (1997). Short-chain fatty acid-initiated cell cycle arrest and apoptosis of colonic epithelial cells is linked to mitochondrial function. Cell Growth Differ. 8 523–532. PubMed Google Scholar
  22. ^ Marchetti C., Migliorati G., Moraca R., Riccardi C., Nicoletti I., Fabiani R., et al. (1997). Deoxycholic acid and SCFA-induced apoptosis in the human tumor cell-line HT-29 and possible mechanisms. Cancer Lett. 114 97–99. 10.1016/s0304-3835(97)04634-x PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar
  23. ^ Regulation of Cell Death Induced by Acetic Acid in Yeasts – "High acetic acid levels are commonly associated with arrested fermentations or with utilization as vinegar in the food industry"
  24. ^ Candida Arthritis: Analysis of 112 Pediatric and Adult Cases - PMC (nih.gov)
  25. ^ Hansen BL, Andersen K. Fungal arthritis. A review. Scand J Rheumatol 1995; 24:248–50. PubMed Google Scholar
  26. ^ Bariteau JT, Waryasz GR, McDonnell M et al.. Fungal osteomyelitis and septic arthritis. J Am Acad Orthop Surg 2014; 22:390–401. PubMed Google Scholar
  27. ^ "Kitchen Chemistry: The Chemical Reaction Powered Car". engineering.oregonstate.edu. Archived from the original on 23 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  28. ^ A recipe for making a Baking Soda and Apple Cider Vinegar Beverage
  29. ^ Sodium Acetate Injection, USP -- DailyMed
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