Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.

Bruce W. Halstead and World Life Research Institute - Official Site

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Welcome to the Only Official Site

for

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
And
World Life Research Institute

About this Site

This site has been established as the Official location for information on Bruce W. Halstead and the World Life Research Institute (WLRI). This site is still under construction and is meant to be the repository of information that will document his life and times.

It is our goal to allow people interested in Dr. Halstead to learn about his research work the many publications he authored. For his friends, supporters, and colleges, this site is meant allow you the appropriate contact information for you to support his legacy and the future of World Life in what ever manner you are able to contribute. That list would include photos, stories, documents, memories, testimonials, any corrections, input, or criticism's, and even any funding, is all solicited and appreciated.

For a List of Projects and How YOU can help - Click Here

World Life Research Institute - Current Status

Currently, there is no funding available to support this project or the World Life Research Institute which is the embodiment of his life long work. The physical facilities for World Life is still located in Grand Terrace, California where he relocated it in 1961 after it was initially established in nearby Reche Canyon, a rural part of Colton, CA.

The Institute looks much like it did when Doctor Halstead passed away in 2002. It is suffering from neglect due to lack of funding for much needed repairs and improvements. The Institute does not own the property it sits on and the future of WLRI is uncertain at this time.

The Board of Directors is exploring all possibilities including purchasing the property and moving forward with a preservation and expansion effort at that historical location. However, the board is remaining open to all possibilities which would include relocating WLRI to a site closer to the ocean. Ideally, it would be great to retain the historical and museum value of the 45 year location AND locate a new headquarters for WLRI next to the ocean and include a marine station. But no decision can be made until funding for this vital effort can be obtained.

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Bruce W. Halstead - Early Research Years

Botanical Research
The first half of his career was primarily focused on his search for new drugs from the sea and from the jungles of the Amazon. As a Bio-toxicologist, Ethno Botanist, Herbologist, and Botanical Medicine Researcher, Dr. Halstead led expeditions into the jungles of the Amazon and other regions throughout South America. He would make contact with witch doctors, sorcerers, and other indigenous tribal 'medicine men' and learn the secrets of how they used natural products to treat and cure a wide range of illness, infections, and diseases.

He would then collect samples for further research at World Life and often in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute. The movie "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery was loosely based on this aspect of his life. His early research on Siberian Ginseng gave way to a close research relationship with Russian Scientist, Professor Brekham, considered the father of the highly acclaimed herbal product. Dr. Halstead was the first person to introduce Siberian Ginseng to the United States and later wrote a book on the subject.
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Ocean Research - Drugs from the Sea
As a Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Ichthyologist, and avid scuba diver, Dr. Halstead led countless expeditions into the South Pacific and other oceans of the world to collect marine specimens. Samples of poisonous and venomous marine animals were collected for the purpose of conducting research into possible use as medicines primarily focused on potential cancer cures. It was during this earlier portion of his life that he spent 22 years writing his monumental three volume work entitled: Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals. This definitive work on the subject was the largest publication ever undertaken by the US Government Printing Office and established him as the world's leading authority on the subject. Later in his life he utilized this background and experience toward his research into AIDS and Imune Enhancement.
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Bruce W. Halstead - The Later Research

During the latter portion of his life, Dr. Halstead became focused as a leading pioneer and authority on Alternative Medicine. He used to say that Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, Natural Medicine, Wholistic (holistic) Medicine, and Alternative Medicine were all different labels for the same thing. In the early 70's he was introduced to Chelation Therapy and submerged himself into study and research on the subject. In 1979, his book entitled, The Scientific Basis of EDTA Chelation Therapy, was published by Golden Quill Publishers and established him as the world's expert on the subject. It also launched his reputation as a pioneer in alternative health modalities including: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, DMSO, Gerovital, Laetrile, Siberian Ginseng, Coral Calcium, Immune Enhancement, Metabolic Cancer Therapy, Chinese Herbal Medicine, and AIDS Support Therapy.
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World Life Research Institute
a 501c3 nonprofit organization

While he got his start in these areas of research as the Co-founder and Research Director of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University, it was his own World Life Research Institute that became the embodiment of his life long work. The vast holdings of WLRI include all of his research, the myriads of artifacts collected around the world, and a unique one of a kind reference center. The extensive reference holdings include rare books, documents, research studies, photos, slides, and film that are as diverse in the subject matter as was his numerous fields of studies and expertise.
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Bruce W. Halstead - Research and Writings

All of Doctor Halstead's research and writings are contained at World Life Research Institute, including some yet unpublished work. Many of his books are in need of updating in order to remain relative in the future of health modality development. His massive comprehensive work on Chinese Herbal Medicine has yet to be published because of lack of funding. Some of his work was funded through outside companies and organizations and need to be revised and published under the umbrella of World LIfe Research Institute. The technical resources are available on these projects but funding is needed to keep these publications alive and current.

For a Complete List of Halstead's Publications - CLICK HERE
Learn About Golden Quill Publishers - CLICK HERE

Purpose and Goals

The purpose of this site, the desire of Dr. Halstead's family, and the goal of the Board of Directors for WLRI to are focused on both the preservation and continuation of the life work of Bruce W. Halstead. The Purpose and Goals of this site is a three fold approach and is identified as follows:

1. Preserve the legacy of Bruce W. Halstead by documenting his life and times and establishing a museum dedicated to his life long work in pioneering health modalities and research into cancer and AIDS.

2. Continue his work and goals through the World LIfe Research Institute by obtaining funding for the Institute for that vital work he established and promoted in his non-profit organization.

3. Expand and refocus his work on the environment through addressing the issues of global warming, ocean pollution, and alternative energy sources like solar and wind power.

For a List of Projects and How YOU can help - Click Here

For more information on how you can help preserve Dr. Halstead's legacy, support World Life Research Institute, and/or make a tax deductible contribution, please contact:

WorldLifeResearch@gmail.com

or

Larry D. Halstead
larrydhalstead@gmail.com
(760) 443-7849

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How You Can Help Bruce and World Life Research Institute

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How YOU Can Help

Dear Friends, Fans, Supporters, Colleagues, Associates, Students, and Apprentices, of Bruce W. Halstead, M.D. and World Life Research Institute:

This site is meant to allow you the appropriate contact information for you to support his legacy and the future of World Life in what ever form or manner you are able to contribute.

Since his passing on December 5, 2002, many people have been wondering about his work and the future of World Life Research Institute. There is much that can be done and much that needs to be done. Plans have been drawn up on how we can continue his work, build on his legacy, preserve the priceless holdings of WLRI, and/or expand the goals of World Life.

Right now the future of World Life is uncertain. Almost everything that needs to be done, requires some kind of funding that as of yet is unavailable. This post is designed to outline the various needs and projects as they are identified. If you can help, or know someone who can, please contact us and we will be anxious for that assistance.

Meanwhile, thank you for your interest in Doctor Halstead and the World Life Research Institute. The list of projects posted below are in somewhat random order. This post will be updated as more information becomes available or more projects are identified.

Thank You!

In Loving Memory

Bruce Walter Halstead
(Newton Bruce Mellars)

World Life Research Institute
Current Status Update

Currently, there is no funding available to support this project or the World Life Research Institute which is the embodiment of his life long work. The physical facilities for World Life is still located in Grand Terrace, California where it was relocated to in 1961.

The Institute looks much like it did when he passed away in 2002 but it is suffering from neglect due to lack of funding for much needed repairs and improvements. The Institute does not own the property and the future of WLRI at that location, is uncertain at this time.

The Board of Directors is exploring all possibilities including purchasing the property and moving forward with a preservation and expansion effort at that historical location. However, the board is also remaining open to the possibility of relocating WLRI to a site closer to the ocean.

But no decision can be made until funding for this vital effort can be obtained. All contributions to WLRI are fully tax deductible as a 501c3 tax deductible organization. We are currently working on establishing a PayPal account to handle contributions online. In the meantime you can make checks payable to World Life Research Institute and we will issue you a tax deductible receipt.

Funding Goals

1. Preserve the legacy of Bruce W. Halstead by documenting his life and times and establishing a museum dedicated to his life long work in pioneering health modalities and research into cancer and AIDS.

2. Continue his work and goals through the World LIfe Research Institute by obtaining funding for the Institute for that vital work he established and promoted in his non-profit organization.

3. Expand and refocus his work on the environment through addressing the issues of global warming, ocean pollution, and alternative energy sources like solar and wind power.

For more information on how you can help preserve Dr. Halstead's legacy, support World Life Research Institute, and/or make a tax deductible contribution, please contact:

WorldLifeResearch@gmail.com

Larry D. Halstead
larrydhalstead@gmail.com
(760) 443-7849

Projects Needing Funding

1. THIS PROJECT HERE - GETTING STARTED
This Project, now underway, is about reaching out on the internet to make the legacy of Doctor Halstead and World Life Research Institute to those anxious to learn more. It is also meant to attract those individuals who would like to contribute to World Life and support the various projects involved in moving forward.

The idea is to keep expanding this project with more information, short videos and an expanded format. But so far, this project is being done on a zero budget, an old inadequate computer, and without the benefit of a good video camera to help document the past, present, and future efforts, by conducting interviews and other archival videos for use in future documentary film projects.
Approximate budget needed: $5,000.
Learn More - Click Here

2. Send in YOUR Stories and Testimonials
As part of documenting the legacy of Doctor Halstead, we need your story of how you know about him. Were you his friend? Associate? Admirer? Patient? Student? Classmate? Family? However you knew him, whether it was first hand knowledge or otherwise, we really want to hear from you!

Please write down your stories, opinions, testimonials, or any kind of experiences you can share and send them to us. We will (with your permission) publish your comments here on this site for others to read under a new section entitled: Friends of Bruce W. Halstead. This site in new and already we are getting traffic from people around the world and we would all love for you to share your knowledge about Doctor Halstead, his life and times. Please be a part of the process. Email all info to:

WorldLifeResearch@gmail.com

3. PHYSICAL FACILITIES

Plan A. Purchase and Preserve Current Facilities
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And/Or

Plan B. Relocate WLRI
Plan A above or this Plan B are either a choice of one, or the other, or both, depending on the funding that becomes available.
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4. WLRI PHOTOS, SLIDES, and FILM PRESERVATION
Countless photos, slides, and video footage are stored at WLRI and are in desperate need of preservation and conversion to digital format. Other lost or stolen films are in need of replacement while the possibility still exist.
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5. BRUCE W. HALSTEAD PUBLICATIONS and BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Many of Doctor Halstead's books need to be update and reprinted. Some of his manuscripts still need to be published. His last book is on Chinese Adaptogenic Herbal Medicine is still unpublished and yet it has already been hailed as quite possibly his most profound and outstanding work ever. There are other books that are being planned that are based on his work or about his work.

This site is an initial effort to document Doctor Halstead's life for a biography now underway. Funding is need now, to get this important work into production. There is at least two other books about his life in the planning.

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Below This Point is Still Under Construction

6. BWH/WLRI VIDEO AND FILM PRODUCTION

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7. WLRI MARINE STATION - SEA OF CORTEZ

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8. BWH HERBAL FORMULAS

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9. BWH HERBAL GARDEN IN CHINA - A DOCUMENTARY

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10. THE FUTURE OF WLRI
-GLOBAL WARMING AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

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11. THE FUTURE OF WLRI
-ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

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World Life Research Institute Overview

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In 1958, Doctor Halstead left Loma Linda University and the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine(STPM) that he founded, in order to start his own research facility, World Life Research Institute (WLRI), a nonprofit 501c3 organization. WLRI was his own personal research facility where he could unleash his passion without the restrictions of the bureaucracy and other limitations that frustrated him at Loma Linda.

But the nature of his work and travels meant that WLRI quickly developed into a phenomenal museum, as well as a world class documentation and reference center. WLRI has countless, books and other documentation on as many subjects as Dr. Halstead was an expert on, and had conducted research into, over the course of his lifetime. Due to this unique documentation and reference qualities of WLRI, it served as an international reference center for the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
Founder and Director of World Life Research Institute
Pictured with beloved dog Toto in front of WLRI

Halstead’s scientific investigations took him around the world in search of the world of natural-based medicine, including the fields of Marine Bio-Toxicology, Toxic Plants and animals of the world, tropical medicine, global pollution, Chelation Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, DMSO, Laetrile, Coral Calcium, Medicinal Plants, Radiation sickness, AIDS, cancer, Adaptogenic Immune Enhancement, Nutrition, and Molecular Bio-Chemistry.

The physical facilities for WLRI have been located in Grand Terrace for over 45 years now. It was there that Doctor Halstead conducted his research and wrote the vast bulk of his writings. During periods when the Institute enjoyed stable funding, there were twelve or more employees working there including several other research scientists. During the leanest of times, it would be the lone Research Scientist working on his various projects, sometimes with the help of a volunteer assistant.

But the discipline and dedication to his work meant that Doctor Halstead was always making progress with the enthusiasm of someone on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough. Continuous progress into his research was always a constant. So too was progress on his writing and turning out new publications. He lived each day with a schedule that reflected military precision. Every moment of every day was a part of his routine that rarely varied. His days would start early and would continue well into the evening. During the normal working hours of 8 to 5, he would be mixing business, meetings, and research, with time spent writing. But come evening time, his attention would be dedicated purely to his writing.

Often his research projects and writings would be in unrelated fields at the same time and yet his focus to each was intensely comprehensive. Had he lived a thousand years, his work would have never been complete. And so it was no surprise that when he made his transition in 2002, he left a multitude of projects and publications yet to be finished.

A Now Empty Chair sits at the Desk
of the Founder and Director of WLRI

The Roll-Top Desk where Doctor Halstead
Researched and Wrote most of his publications

The Manual Royal Typewritter used by Doctor Halstead
to write most of his manuscripts until he finally
converted to a computer in the early 90's

Research and Writing Station where Doctor Halstead
spent the bulk of his time and wrote most of his publications

WLRI as Library

WLRI was not only the venue for all of Doctor Halstead's research and writing efforts. But in the course of the sixty years that followed its incorporation, WLRI developed into a one of a kind unique library covering the same fields of study reflected in his research: bio-toxicology, ichthyology, marine biology, oceanography, environmental sciences, zoology, botany, ethno botany, herbal medicine, Chinese traditional medicine, alternative medicine, wholistic (holistic) medicine, anthropology, bio-chemistry, and even a small library of law books as related to freedom of health care by physicians.

Part of the Library holdings at WLRI
Book Shelves above file cabinets filled with documentation

Ancient hand-bound Chinese Herbal books

The Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu
Great Ancient Chinese Herbal Encyclopedia

Ancient Chinese Herbal book
Each page featuring a hand painted drawing

The 16th Century Honzo Pen Ts'ao on rice paper

WLRI as Museum

Halstead’s scientific investigations took him around the world in search of natural-based medicine. From working with the Jivaro 'head-shrinking' Indians of Ecuador; to working with Russian Professor Brekhman, the father of Siberian Ginseng; working with Jacques Cousteau and the Cousteau; studying Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, in China; to leading expeditions to the South Pacific, Doctor Halstead would always return from his travels with relevant artifacts from around the world.

Many of these relics and artifacts are now priceless and irreplaceable. The totality of all of his collections are too extensive for more than a small percentage to be on display at WLRI. Many of the items are in storage and everything is in need of professional museum preservation efforts.

Hand Carved Wooden Story Boards from Palau

Artifacts, Photos, and other Museum Pieces at WLRI

Some of the Many Artifacts that are on Display at WLRI

WLRI Collections

WLRI is also home to a multitude of natural collections including: marine specimens, sea shells, shark jaws, herbal samples collected through out the Amazon, botanical specimen collections, botanical artwork (including a large collection of Japanese water-color illustrations of medicinal plants), scientific illustrations commissioned by BWH, and a wide range of scientific documentation of botanical and marine-derived medicines.

Siberian Ginseng illustration
hand painted by Japanese artist

Botanical Illustration part of WLRI collection

WLRI Original Animal Illustration
by Robert H. Knabenbauer

WLRI Marine Specimens Collected by Doctor Halstead

The History of
World Life Research Institute

WLRI First Established at Reche Canyon

Doctor Halstead founded the nonprofit World Life Research Institute in 1958. A close friend of his, Frank Cox had invested in a large portion of a rural unincorporated area of San Bernardino County known as Reche Canyon. With the exception of a few sprawling ranches, the region was mostly wilderness area and lack of demand had kept real estate prices cheap. Cox gave his friend an entire bluff located half way up Reche Canyon that amounted to over 645 acres on which to build his new facility. There was no access roads, utilities, or running water available.

But Halstead was full of determination, will power, and a drive to make his newly founded facility survive. Before long he had cut a road into the hillside (now Center Street) and had broken ground on a new administrative building along with a research wing with a dozen lab rooms that were built in a Japanese architecture. Using his military connections, he obtained an old army barracks and had the building relocated to Reche Canyon thus completing his new facility.

Doctor Halstead conducting field research

Utilizing his grant getting talents from Loma Linda, he soon had a full administrative staff and a dozen or more scientist working on as many projects. Much of this early research was funded by government grants, primarily through the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The research was focused on the search for new medicines from natural sources. The source for these natural compound was focused on two categories: drugs from the sea and drugs from the jungles of the Amazon.

Drugs from the sea was a natural outgrowth of Doctor Halstead's life long love of the ocean and his twenty-two year academic work that resulted in his monumental three volume work: Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals. This phenomenal publication was not only the largest publication effort ever undertaken by the Government Printing Office, it stands as THE definitive work on the subject. Experts in the various fields of oceanography concur that this outstanding work will never be out done.

Doctor Halstead on an expedition to the South Pacific

Drugs from the jungles of the Amazon was an outgrowth of Doctor Halstead's interest in herbal medicine. His approach was to work closely with the tribal witchdoctors, sorcerers, and other 'medicine men' of the jungles. The basic premises of his investigations was to examine the botanical compounds being used by the indigenous natives for the range of diseases and ailments for which they were being used for thousands of years. He would then apply modern scientific methodology to sort out the effectiveness of those compounds from those that were surrounded with mythology but had no efficacy or basis in science. The movie 'Medicine Man' with Sean Connery (1992) was loosely based on Doctor Halstead's work.

Dr. Wiburn H Ferguson holding a shrunken head
standing next to an Jivaro Indian and his son

Doctor Halstead's research into drugs from the jungles of the Amazon started when he was still at the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine (STPM), Loma Linda University in the early 50's. He made contact with Dr. Wilburn H. Ferguson who spent twenty years working with the Jivaro Indians of Ecquador and the botanical compounds they used for shrinking heads, including the human heads of their enemies. Halstead spent time with Ferguson and the Jivaro Indians collecting samples that he studied for their potential cancer fighting and tumor shrinking qualities, while still at STPM. Halstead also had several of the shrunken human heads and a couple of shrunken monkey heads on display at STPM before they were stolen.

Shrunken Human Head from the Jivaro Indians

The Zoo Days of Early WLRI

It was about this time that he was contacted by the owner of a small zoo who was being evicted from his previous location. Being the zoologist and animal lover that he was, Halstead offered his land and before long he a small collection of tigers, lions, and bears, Oh MY! The mini zoo didn't last long with complaints from neighbors and local government officials and the zoo was forced to close. Still it offered a colorful chapter in what would become a relatively short lived dream for World Life at the Reche Canyon location.

The End of the Reche Canyon Era

Halstead was much too trusting and way to focused on his research to ever pay the proper attention to day to day business operations. There came a time when the entire operation hinged on a single critical grant that was well into fruition. Confident that all was well, Halstead left for a conference in Hawaii. In his absence, one of his trusted research scientist turned out to be unscrupulous in his dealings and convinced the grant giver that he could do the work for less. He told the other employees that Halstead had left town for good and that they should grab what they could as Halstead would never be back to pay them their due.

Dr. Halstead returned from the conference to find his facility in shambles. Research and office equipment was gone and research experiments were destroyed midstream. The employees were gone as was the con artist that caused the disaster. He had taken the grant money and left the country. The combination of this disaster and the overwhelming challenge of pioneering his research institute in a remote wilderness area cause him to realize that he had to down size and relocate to his own back yard.

WLRI Moves to Grand Terrace

In 1958, Bruce and Joy discovered a wonderful 10 acres parcel in the then unincorporated community of Grand Terrace. The property was covered with citrus groves, and there was an old dilapidated barn they tore down to build their new home. They subdivided the property and sold off the extra lots in order to pay off the three acres that they retained. When the challenges and difficulties of Reche Canyon proved to formidable for progress on his research, he moved the Institute into a small building in the backyard of that property.

The initial building consisted of three small rooms, an outer reception office, his main library and personal office room, and a small lab room in the rear of the building. This building was done under an emergency basis as he desperately needed shelf space for his books that he was able to salvage from the Reche Canyon location and work space to continue his research. Lack of funding kept the project small and much of the labor was performed by Dr. Halstead and donated by friends.

He was hanging metal lathe for the interior plastering while working on this building that his hammer chipped off a small piece of metal that flew into his eye. It was late on a Friday and he felt that he had gotten the foreign item out of his eye and so chose to ignore the problem. But by Monday, the eye had become infected and by the time he had proper treatment and eye surgery, he had permanently lost over ninety percent of the vision in that eye. However, he learned methods to compensate for the disability and many people close to Dr. Halstead never knew the problem ever existed.

Some of the little design and planning that went into the creation of this 'mini-institute' was to accommodate what had become a trademark of his office at the Reche Canyon facility. This was a large world map that covered the entire wall behind his desk. With the map measurements in mind, the building had to be tall enough for it and the wall had to be wide enough to include the full width of the map and a door way into the next room. This one important design element was something that Doctor Halstead was quite proud of and would mention on almost every tour he gave of the facility.

World Map covering the entire wall behind his desk at WLRI (West Wall)

With the exception of the 'Map Wall', the remaining walls of the larger main room were built with shelf space covering them to accommodate the thousands of books that he had already acquired at the time the building was finished. Doctor Halstead's love of books is legendary and rivaled his love for science, research, writing, travel, and animals.

During the good years when funding was flowing, he had a full time bibliographer, Pat Lehner, who would travel the world in search of old rare books on subjects relative to his work. But even during the lean years, when phones and utilities were subject to being turned off, the mail order books would continue to arrive in the mail. It was indicators like this that revealed his priorities. Whether writing or collecting them, books were at the top of his priority list. His family understood that it was always difficult to find a good present to give him unless it was in the form of a book. Whether it was his birthday or Christmas, you could always score a winner with a good coffee table book on any aspect of the natural world.

Reference Books in the Main Room at WLRI (South Side)

Reference Books in the Main Room at WLRI (North Side)

Reference Books in the Main Room at WLRI (North Side)

Book shelves and Artifacts sit above a row
of filing cabinets in Main Room (East end)

With the Advent of the Vietnam War and the Nixon Administration, the federal government started curtailing the funding of grants not directly benefiting the war effort. New grant funding became more and more difficult to obtain and Doctor Halstead was growing weary of the tenuous process that was constantly becoming more bureaucratic. Part of that bureaucracy was to have a committee composed of your 'peers' come to your facility and review your research.

Doctor Halstead came to feel that those so called 'peers' were clueless about his field of study and he grew tired of trying to educated them about the science that he felt they had no ability to comprehend. He soon developed a high level of contempt for both the peer review process and the entire bureaucratic grant getting process in general. Meanwhile he was being approached by various business interest that wanted to fund his research for their own commercial benefit.

Unfortunately for Doctor Halstead and WLRI, this left him vulnerable to a lot of unscrupulous con artist that were set on exploiting his work and coning him out of his resources. The combined problems with funding continued on a downward spiral leading into the early 70's. At that point, WLRI was without any funding, employees, phones, and other utilities. This was not only a dark point for WLRI but it soon proved to be a turning point and a new beginning for the distinguished career of Doctor Halstead.

It was then that one of his medical school classmates stepped in to remind him that he was still a Medical Doctor and that most doctors were doing quite well in the traditional practice of medicine. His doctor friend was the head of the Emergency Room for Loma Linda Community Hospital. He offered his classmate an opportunity that he could not refuse. He told him that he could work the graveyard shift in ER. He told him that he would be sleeping most of the time and therefore he could continue running WLRI during the day.

Doctor Halstead practicing ER medicine
at Loma Linda Community Hospital

After an almost 25 year absence from the daily practice of medicine, it was an enormous challenge to 'bone' up on current techniques and submerge himself back into the practice of medicine. But he met the challenge with open arms and rose to the moment. Soon he was back in the circle of the current practices of modern emergency medicine and before long the hospital extended 'hospital privileges' to him. This meant that he could start seeing non-emergency patients and could admit them if necessary to be hospitalized.

Soon the rapport he developed with his ER patients transfered over to seeing those patients for non-emergency conditions. Before long he had a patient complaining of painful arthritis and so he checked with some of his colleagues at the hospital to see what the current treatment entailed. When those doctors told him what they were prescribing for arthritis he immediately turned to the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) on drugs to see what was in them. Then relying on his background as a bio-toxicologist, he soon discovered that these meds were often toxic and in some cases were known carcinogens. This left him in a moral dilemma of how to treat those patients.

It was then that he was introduced to the new emerging therapy known as Chelation Therapy. At that time there was only a small handful of doctors practicing this innovative therapy which utilizes EDTA, a synthetic amino acid, to bond with heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and calcium and remove them from the body through the urine. Halstead's initial investigations into this therapy showed promised for treating a range of problems including arthritis, hardening of the arteries, stroke, heart attacks, and diabetes. Within a year, Halstead started a health clinic practicing Chelation and other alternative health modalities.

He also submerged himself into research on Chelation Therapy and soon became the world's leading expert on the subject with the publication of his definitive text; The Scientific Basis of EDTA Chelation Therapy (1979). That research and that book, became a turning point for the focus of Doctor Halstead's work at WLRI for the remainder of his life.

What followed in the next twenty-five years was the establishment of Doctor Halstead as a leading expert in alternative medicine and a pioneer of numerous health modalities. He was soon in constant demand as an expert witness in legal cases surrounding this emerging field of medicine. He was also in constant demand as the key note speaker for conventions for professional academies and the lay public alike.

At WLRI, Halstead's research was focused on these new therapies and integrating his earlier background of research on bio-toxicology, drugs from the sea, and from botanical compounds. More and more, that research started focusing on the issue of immune enhancement. In part the explanation for this was the obsession that conventional medicine was having with drugs, radiation, and chemotherapy, in the treatment of cancer. All three of these approaches constitutes a direct assault on the human immune system and Halstead's focus on immune enhancement held promise as either an alternative treatment or as compensation for a patient who had already had their immune system compromised by conventional therapy.

With the discovery of the first AIDS case, Doctor Halstead became obsessed with unlocking the secrets of the human immune system. His strongest belief was that a cure for AIDS could be discovered through the modulation and enhancement of the immune system.

The last two decades of his work were focused on integrating various natural compounds from his life-long work with drugs from the oceans, jungles, and herbal medicine into the quest for a cure for chronic and degenerative diseases, primarily cancer and AIDS. Few that knew Doctor Halstead well, would ever doubt that given a few more years, he would have accomplished his goals.

When Doctor Bruce W. Halstead passed away on December 5, 2002, he left behind a mountain of incredible legacy, an ocean of research and publications, and his first love which incorporates both his legacy and his work: the World Life Research Institute. The future of World Life and it's extensive holdings is uncertain at this time.

It is the goal of this site to bring together those that consider themselves supporters of this maverick doctor and the vast body of work he contributed. His work needs to be continued! The holdings of World Life Research Institute need to be preserved. And the issues relating to the environment and health need to be expanded and moved into the next evolution.

Those of us who are left behind to look after WLRI and Doctor Halstead's legacy are going to need a lot of help, both professionally and financially. If you are inclined to help, please read the post on "How you can help Bruce and World Life Research Institute" or CLICK HERE.

For more information, to find out how you can help with Doctor Halstead's vital life work, continue his legacy, or support the preservation of WLRI, please contact:

WorldLifeResearch@gmail.com

or Contact

Larry D. Halstead
(760) 255-2012

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Life and Times of BWH - His Research

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Life and Times of Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
Research Scientist

The Research Scientist

BWH - The Research Scientist at STPM

Outline for this Post

Introduction to Doctor Halstead’s Research

Overview and Summary of Research
-Bio-toxicology
-Botanical Research
-Ocean Research
-Pioneering New Health Breakthroughs

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Introduction to Doctor Halstead’s Research

When you consider the early influences on his life growing up in San Francisco, it is fair to say that he was always a research scientist and the first fifteen years were all just the earlier training for that profession. In 1935, at age fifteen, he began his formal training as a research scientist when he met his mentor and the greatest influence on his professional life, Howard Clark, Curator of Fishes, Department of Ichthyology at the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Clark introduced him to the study and research on fish (Ichthyology) for which he became the world’s most authoritative expert on. Clark also taught him about research technique, specimen collection and preservation, species identification, scientific names, and research ethics. And he showed him how to apply those skills in all of the natural sciences as they studied: birds, fish, mammals, insects, marine invertebrates, and microbiology. Most importantly, Clark filled him with the inspiration and motivation that drove him into a life-long obsession of research and discovery.

Halstead’s informal training and formal education was concluded with his graduation from medical school in 1948. That was also the year that he became the Co-founder and Director of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine (STPM). Thus began a stellar career as a world class distinguished research scientist.

The idea for the STPM was at best a vague notion (if that) when in his junior year, Halstead was being offered a position on the teaching staff. He replied that he would enjoy a teaching position but that he would greatly prefer to start up a school of tropical medicine. At that point, he learned that Dr. Harold N. Mozar, another graduate of Loma Linda, had also expressed interest in the idea. The two were introduced and the STPM was approved and initiated in 1948.

To say that the STPM was started on a shoestring budget is an enormous exaggeration. Bruce’s salary was established at $52. Per week and their was no money for any research equipment, research assistants, or expeditions. The division of labor between Drs Mozar and Halstead was such that Mozar was totally focused on the administration and teaching, whereas Halstead was totally focused (some would say obsessed) on research.

Up until then, Loma Linda had never conducted any research nor had they ever had a single grant in their history. Worse yet, they had never cultivated any contacts with the military of any other branch of the government in Washington D.C., from which grants could be secured. It was up to Doctor Halstead to start from scratch and learn the grant process from the ground up. This was something that his involvement with the military would pay big dividends.

There were many lessons for Halstead to learn in the process of getting his grants funded. The first lesson was something for which he was totally naïve and what he later referred to as “biopolitics”, which meant that just having a great idea did not grant money create. The next lesson was one of mixing creativity and persistence to find money in both the government and private sectors. Finally, the lesson that led to his fateful independence was that being the maverick that pioneered both research and grant acquisition in a small institution strictly devoted to physical healing, spiritual healing, and teaching, which was run by small minded bureaucrats lacking in vision, was a recipe for disaster that could only end in his resignation.

However, in the decade that he took learning all of these priceless lessons, Halstead developed all of the skills that he would use in starting his own research organization from the ground up into an internationally recognized research facility and reference center. In addition, as soon as the starting line was crossed, he instantly set sail on the course of direction that would define his research and evolve into his life’s work.

At STPM his initial search for grant funding took him to Washington D.C. with his first application for a grant, which was fittingly enough, dedicated to the “Investigation of Poisonous and Venomous Fishes of the Central and Central and South Pacific Oceans,” and submitted to the National Institute of Health. While his grant application was rejected, his fate was seal and his direction set for everything that was to follow.

That rejection was also the beginning of the 22 year effort that would culminate in the definitive work that would establish him as a world wide authority and his work as the most extensive and comprehensive publication of its kind. That work was his enormous three volume work entitled: Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals. Each of the three volumes measures X and combined they weigh ___ and consume a total of _____ inches of shelf space. At the time that they were published, they were the largest and most challenging publication ever undertaken by the Government Printing Office.

In 1958, Doctor Halstead left Loma Linda University and the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine that he founded, in order to start his own research facility, World Life Research Institute (WLRI), a nonprofit 501c3 organization. WLRI was his own personal research facility where he could unleash his passion without the restrictions of the bureaucracy and other limitations that frustrated him at Loma Linda.

Halstead’s scientific investigations took him around the world in search of the world of natural-based medicine, including the fields of Marine Bio-Toxicology, Toxic Plants and animals of the world, tropical medicine, global pollution, Chelation Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, DMSO, Laetrile, Coral Calcium, Medicinal Plants, Radiation sickness, AIDS, cancer, Adaptogenic Immune Enhancement, Nutrition, and Molecular Bio-Chemistry.

The physical facilities for WLRI have been located in Grand Terrace for over 45 years now. It was there that Doctor Halstead conducted his research and wrote the vast bulk of his writings. During periods when the Institute enjoyed stable funding, there were twelve or more employees working there including several other research scientists. During the leanest of times, it would be the lone Research Scientist working on his various projects, sometimes with the help of a volunteer assistant.

But the discipline and dedication to his work meant that Doctor Halstead was always making progress with the enthusiasm of someone on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough. Continuous progress into his research was always a constant. So too was progress on his writing and turning out new publications. He lived each day with a schedule that reflected military precision. Every moment of every day was a part of his routine that rarely varied. His days would start early and would continue well into the evening. During the normal working hours of 8 to 5, he would be mixing business, meetings, and research, with time spent writing. But come evening time, his attention would be dedicated purely to his writing.

Often his research projects and writings would be in unrelated fields at the same time and yet his focus to each was intensely comprehensive. Had he lived a thousand years, his work would have never been complete. And so it was no surprise that when he made his transition in 2002, he left a multitude of projects and publications yet to be finished.

Dr. Halstead authored more than 17 books and more than 300 scientific publications. His many scientific expeditions took him to more than 150 countries

Overview and Summary of Research

Bio-toxicology
The subject of bio-toxicology is the foundation for understanding medicine. It is the key that opens the secrets of poisons and venoms. For better or worse, it is also the foundation for the development of bio warfare and the war on terrorism. It is also the thread that starts with the earliest of Doctor Halstead’s research and travels through his work on poisonous and venomous marine animals, medicinal botanicals, traditional Chinese herbs, and into the essence of the various health modalities he helped to pioneer.

During the decade of research at the STPM, he authored ninety articles, abstracts, and reports leading up to his first book in 1958 and entitled: Dangerous Marine Animals. Virtually all of those ninety publications contain either the word poison, venom, toxin, sting, or some version of those root words. And almost all of those publications deal with the ocean and marine life.

Understanding the principals and mechanisms of bio-toxicology was the key to establishing his research efforts and his reputation as a leading world expert in the field. It also allowed him the opportunity to fulfill his childhood fantasy of traveling the world as he became increasingly in demand as the key note speakers for international professional academies, associations, and universities. Being the leading authority on bio-toxicology unlocked opportunities for travel, funding, and joint ventures into research on the subjects for which he loved and was highly respected.

Botanical Research
The first half of his career was primarily focused on his search for new drugs from the sea and from the jungles of the Amazon. As a Bio-toxicologist, Ethno Botanist, Herbologist, and Botanical Medicine Researcher, Dr. Halstead led expeditions into the jungles of the Amazon and other regions throughout South America. He would make contact with witch doctors, sorcerers, and other indigenous tribal 'medicine men' and learn the secrets of how they used natural products to treat and cure a wide range of illness, infections, and diseases.

He would then collect samples for further research at World Life and often in conjunction with the National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute. The movie "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery was loosely based on this aspect of his life. His early research on Siberian Ginseng gave way to a close research relationship with Russian Scientist, Professor Brekhmam, considered the father of the highly acclaimed herbal product. Dr. Halstead was the first person to introduce Siberian Ginseng to the United States and later wrote a book on the subject: Eleutherococcus Senticosus - An Introduction to the Concept of Adaptogenic Medicine.

Drugs from the jungles of the Amazon was an outgrowth of Doctor Halstead's interest in herbal medicine. His approach was to work closely with the tribal witchdoctors, sorcerers, and other 'medicine men' of the jungles. The basic premises of his investigations was to examine the botanical compounds being used by the indigenous natives for the range of diseases and ailments for which they were being used for thousands of years. He would then apply modern scientific methodology to sort out the effectiveness of those compounds from those that were surrounded with mythology but had no efficacy or basis in science. The movie 'Medicine Man' with Sean Connery (1992) was loosely based on Doctor Halstead's work.

Doctor Halstead's research into drugs from the jungles of the Amazon started when he was still at the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine (STPM), Loma Linda University in the early 50's. He made contact with Dr. Wilburn H. Ferguson who spent twenty years working with the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador and the botanical compounds they used for shrinking heads, including the human heads of their enemies. Halstead spent time with Ferguson and the Jivaro Indians collecting samples that he studied for their potential cancer fighting and tumor shrinking qualities, while still at STPM. Halstead also had several of the shrunken human heads and a couple of shrunken monkey heads on display at STPM before they were stolen.

Ocean Research
As a Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Ichthyologist, and avid scuba diver, Dr. Halstead led countless expeditions into the South Pacific and other oceans of the world to collect marine specimens. Samples of poisonous and venomous marine animals were collected for the purpose of conducting research into possible use as medicines primarily focused on potential cancer cures.

It was during this earlier portion of his life that he spent 22 years writing his monumental three volume work entitled: Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals. This definitive work on the subject was the largest publication ever undertaken by the US Government Printing Office and established him as the world's leading authority on the subject. Later in his life he utilized this background and experience toward his research into AIDS and Imune Enhancement.

His earliest professional work gained world recognition as the first to establish the scientific field known as "Marine Bio-Toxicology," due largely to his three-volume opus (with third and fourth editions), Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. The first edition was over 3,000 pages (United States Government Printing Office 1970), which is still the most definitive work on this subject.

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Doctor Halstead started working with Jacques Cousteau back when their were no dive tables and few people knew who either of the two men were. Doctor Halstead appeared in several of the episodes of The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau.

Jacques Cousteau

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He often served as the medical and bio-toxicological adviser on the Cousteau expeditions with Jacques Cousteau and later with his son Jean-Michel Cousteau.

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Jean-Michel Cousteau

Pioneering New Health Breakthroughs
During the latter portion of his life, Dr. Halstead became focused as a leading pioneer and authority on Alternative Medicine. He used to say that Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, Natural Medicine, Wholistic (holistic) Medicine, and Alternative Medicine were all different labels for the same thing. In the early 70's he was introduced to Chelation Therapy and submerged himself into study and research on the subject. In 1979, his book entitled, The Scientific Basis of EDTA Chelation Therapy, was published by Golden Quill Publishers and established him as the world's expert on the subject. It also launched his reputation as a pioneer in alternative health modalities including: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, DMSO, Gerovital, Laetrile, Siberian Ginseng, Coral Calcium, Immune Enhancement, Metabolic Cancer Therapy, Chinese Herbal Medicine, and AIDS Support Therapy.

What followed in the next twenty-five years was the establishment of Doctor Halstead as a leading expert in alternative medicine and a pioneer of numerous health modalities. He was soon in constant demand as an expert witness in legal cases surrounding this emerging field of medicine. He was also in constant demand as the key note speaker for conventions for professional academies and the lay public alike.

At WLRI, Halstead's research was focused on these new therapies and integrating his earlier background of research on bio-toxicology, drugs from the sea, and from botanical compounds. More and more, that research started focusing on the issue of immune enhancement. In part the explanation for this was the obsession that conventional medicine was having with drugs, radiation, and chemotherapy, in the treatment of cancer. All three of these approaches constitutes a direct assault on the human immune system and Halstead's focus on immune enhancement held promise as either an alternative treatment or as compensation for a patient who had already had their immune system compromised by conventional therapy.

With the discovery of the first AIDS case, Doctor Halstead became obsessed with unlocking the secrets of the human immune system. His strongest belief was that a cure for AIDS could be discovered through the modulation and enhancement of the immune system.

The last two decades of his work were focused on integrating various natural compounds from his life-long work with drugs from the oceans, jungles, and herbal medicine into the quest for a cure for chronic and degenerative diseases, primarily cancer and AIDS. Few that knew Doctor Halstead well, would ever doubt that given a few more years, he would have accomplished his goals.

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Life and Times of BWH - Education and Training

2007-09-29T16:49:00.000-07:00

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
3/28/1920 to 12/5/2002

Life and Times of Bruce W. Halstead
In Pictures and Words
Education and Training

Medical Doctor, Research Scientist, Alternative Medical Therapy Pioneer, Bio-toxicologist, Oceanographer, Ichthyologist, Marine Biologist, Botanist, Herbal Medicine Researcher, Expert Witness, Environmental Scientist, Environmental Activist, Scuba Diver, Lecturer, Author

In so many ways, the greatest aspect of Doctor Halstead's education did not come in the form of any of his formal education. He was the very definition and epitome of a self taught man and clearly the value of that education far out weighed his formal education many times over. And that real world education started at the earliest age with the childhood and times that was his own. Born just a decade before the Great Depression, he had a head start on that experience with the dire poverty that he was born into with his family and with the era of his day.

His first fifteen years were rich in his experiences which were all of his own creation. Starting at age five he would explore the wonders of the Golden Gate Park including: the Steinhart Aquarium, the DeYoung Museum, the Golden Gate Academy of Science, and the park itself. Also at that young age he would catch the Cable car down to Fisherman's Warf, the Embarcadero, and the downtown manufacturing districts. All of this early adventure and exploration carried certain themes of self education: self reliance, entrepreneurship, the desire to travel, love of the natural world, and most of all, the love of marine animals, especially fish.

This early fifteen years of self taught education was actually preparation leading up to the most valuable non-formal education of his lifetime. That phenomenal non-formal education came unexpectedly one foggy day on October 16, 1935, a day that would change his life forever and was burned in his psyche with vivid detail. Earlier that year, Bruce had been introduced and converted to the Seventh Day Adventist religion. As a result of that transformation, he left the public school system and entered the eighth grade at an incredibly small Adventist school called San Francisco Junior Academy with all of 30 students. The school was located in a converted store at 1367 10th Avenue just a block from his beloved Golden Gate Park.

On that fateful day in October, Bruce's teacher, Mr. Cyphers, announced that their biology class would be visiting the Department of Ichthyology at the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences. The young Bruce would late admit that it was with great excitement and anticipation that he made his way into the building and was greeted by the person that would become the single most "important and influential" person of his life, Howard Walton Clark, the Curator of Fishes.

Bruce sat mesmerized and enthralled as his future mentor, teacher, and friend told the class of the "excitement and wonders of the aquatic world." He felt that Clark's "fervor was contagious" as he spoke of "distant lands and far away seas as if they were at my feet and within my grasp." At the end of the tour he mentioned how he needed someone to "help me alcohol these fish and help maintain the collection."

After school was out that day, he raced back over to apply for the volunteer position and thus began the "greatest period of his professional career". It was also what he would later describe as "the beginning of a rich and priceless experience between an old man and a young boy", and the "best unpaid job he ever had."

Golden Gate Academy of Science

at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Under the watchful eye and mentoring of Mr. Clark, the future scientist learned much more than just the study of fish. Clark had an intense interest in the natural world at large; he studied and wrote on birds, bees, babbling brooks, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, fishes, and mammals. He was intensely interested in botany and especially horticulture. He was totally fascinated with small ponds and coined the term for the study of them as telmatology.

Bruce's study under Clark was not limited to week days and they would spend weekends and holidays together looking for mushrooms, cataloging wild birds they would encounter, collecting mud samples for microscopic study, and searching through ponds and lakes for fish and other water life. He taught Halstead how to pronounce scientific names and to never be intimidated by them. This served him well through medical school and throughout his professional life as he was known for being able to render up the scientific name of virtually ever creature from the ocean.

Clark taught him how to identify fish despite some of the slightest of differences between various varieties. In the process, he taught him about scientific integrity telling him that; "Bruce, no one is going to look over your shoulder to see if your scale count is accurate. You must satisfy your own conscience. In science you must first be honest to yourself. After that most other things are of secondary importance....You must always do your best. Excellence must come from within." Bruce never forgot that admonition and committed himself to follow that sage advice regardless of the consequences.

In his own words, Bruce wrote about his beloved mentor:

"Mr. Clark always encouraged me to dream my dreams and to shoot for the highest star. He was a stickler for detail. He would open up vast vistas of the natural world to me, but he had the ability to tie everything together. He not only viewed the microcosm, but also the marcrocosm, and the universe was well. It was all a continuum.

He had a deep understanding of human ecology at its best. He was a strong advocate of not losing sight of the forest because of the trees. He was unrelenting in his pursuit of knowledge, and greatly enjoyed hard work. No task was beneath his dignity and no person too low to be dignified. While sloppy in his dress, he was elegant in his thinking. Kindness, generosity, and thoughtfulness to others were an intiricate part of his daily demeanor.

The death of Mr. Clark was unquestionably the darkest day in my life. The world had lost a great student of the natural world and I had lost my best friend, teacher and mentor, for which I have never found an equal. Mr. Clark's imprint is found throughout my writings."

Of his internship under Clark, he never underestimated the whole experience and always gave it the full credit for the educational role that it played in the career. There is no doubt that his education under Clark was something that he valued above his formal education and for which he felt was much more useful throughout his entire professional life. Doctor Halstead would later say that:

"My life in those days was full to overflowing. It was a learning experience that was dished out in such a fashion that I was unaware that I was in the most intense and enjoyable educational experience of my entire career."

Even after Clark's passing on August 10, 1941, Bruce continued to work as a research assistant at the Golden Gate Academy of Science under Clark's replacement, Dr. Wilbert Mc Cloud Chapman. While nobody could replace Clark, it was Chapman who was to teach Bruce everything he was to learn about the politics of science. Chapman was constantly in touch with Congress and the military which produced some great results. As part of the war effort, it was Chapman that decided to go to the Pacific Theater and suggested that the Armed Forces that they ought to supply our troops with fresh fish to eat. This was something that later influenced Bruce to work with the post war Japanese government to advise them on their use of their fisheries industry in the feeding of their post war impoverished nation.

It was also Chapman that encouraged Bruce to join the Army Specialized Training Program while he was still at U C Berkeley, which would make it possible for him to continue his education with the ultimate intent of going into medicine.

His informal education as a research assistant continued at Golden Gate Academy of Sciences until he graduated from U C Berkeley in 1943 and left San Francisco for good when he entered the School of Medicine at Loma Linda.

Formal Education

While still living at home and working as an Assistant Research Scientist at the Department of Ichthyology, Golden Gate Academy of Sciences under his mentor, Howard Clark, Bruce Halstead attended the San Francisco City College for two years. He earned his Associate of Arts Degree in Biology in 1941. The majoring in Biology complemented what he was doing at the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences and set the stage for his Zoology major at U C Berkeley, his medical school and his entire professional career.

San Francisco City College

From 1942 to 1946 Bruce was in the Enlisted Reserve Corps in the Army Specialized Training Program, a military training program instituted by the U.S. Army during World War II. Dr. Chapman, who replace Clark at the Academy of Sciences, was involved in the military and encouraged Bruce to utilize the Army Specialized Training Program which would help make it possible for him to continue his education with the intention of going into medicine. The Army explained to him that his other option was to go into the trenches. He felt it wasn't much of a choice and so he soon became Private Halstead in the U.S. Army.

The military described this program as turning the college campuses into a “production line for a continuous and accelerated flow of technicians and specialist needed by the Army.” Candidates for the program were selected on aptitude, capabilities, and educational attainments and were considered soldiers on active duty, in uniform, under military discipline and receiving regular Army pay. Every twelve weeks they were evaluated for continuation of their academic studies, reassigned to active duty, or recommended for assignment to an officer candidate school.

Upon graduation from San Francisco City College in 1941, he entered the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). It was his mentor Howard Clark that had influenced him to go to UCB where he received his B.A. degree in Zoology in 1943.

At Berkeley, he was having a difficult time with a chemistry class and he went to see his teacher for help. Bruce recalled later that his teacher's attitude was: "brisk, totally disinterested, and annoyed that I would waste his time on such trivia." The teacher told Bruce that: "If you are too stupid to understand chemistry, you don't belong in my class and I should do the world a favor and flunk you out of the class."

Bruce had some similar experiences with some other teachers which left him a bitter taste for the University of California education system. He felt the same though at Loma Linda which makes one conclude that nothing could compare to the compassionate nurturing he had received with his friend and mentor Howard Clark at the Golden Gate Academy of Science.

The University of California at Berkley

While working on his degree at U C Berkeley, he was still working as a research assistant at the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences. By this time he had already met his future wife, Joy Arloa Mallory. She was a nursing student at Pacific Union College, an Adventist college where the love struck Bruce was able to squeeze in time to work as a student instructor in the Department of Biology from 1943-44, along with his other work and a full course load at U C Berkeley.

Bruce and Joy pose for a picture at his
graduation ceremony at U C Berkeley

Loma Linda University

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Upon graduation from UC Berkeley in 1943, he moved to Loma Linda, California to attend the College of Medical Evangelist, later renamed Loma Linda University (LLU). Halstead graduated in 1948 and was the President of his class.

Loma Linda proved to be the perfect choice for several reasons. Besides the fact that he had converted to Adventism at the age of 15, the health message focus of the Adventist church became the foundation for his later focus on preventive medicine. His training at medical school was the conclusion of his life training at that point which paved the way for his role as the Co-founder and Director of Loma Linda's School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine following his graduation.

In addition, the school was associated with an enormous network of mission stations, which amounted to more than 6000 foreign operations, involving 896 languages and dialects in 200 countries, with 370 educational institutions, and 219 medical institutions, scattered in some of the most inaccessible tropical areas of the world. This is a valuable network that he would rely on throughout his travels for the balance of his life.

Old Postcard from Loma Linda (Sanitarium)
Hospital when Bruce was a student there

Medical school back in those days was a far cry from what it is today and for several significant reasons. First and foremost, the study of medicine was a much simpler discipline in the early 40's. When you consider all of the countless developments and medical breakthroughs that have followed in the past six decades, one can really look back on those early days as being primitive in comparison.

Old Postcard from Loma Linda
(Sanitarium)Hospital North Side

Secondly, the medical school at Loma Linda back then was still relatively new and still operating under the name of College of Medical Evangelist. Under the direction and influence of Ellen G. White, the Loma Linda property was purchased and established as a center for physical and spiritual healing in 1905. Richard A. Schaefer documented the fascinating account of how Loma Linda was first acquire in Chapter 17 of his book "LLUMC Legacy: Daring to Care". But even as part of her original vision for the institution, Mrs. White was strong in her desire that Loma Linda should also be an educational training center for nurses and physicians.

Loma Linda Sanitarium as it looked when the Adventist
purchased entire community for $38,000 back in 1905

Ellen G. White at the 1905 dedication of Loma Linda Sanitarium

Ellen White is well known for the health message that is the trademark of the Adventist church today. She in turn was heavily influence about health issues by her close friend and associate, John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., who influenced the worldwide development and philosophy of Seventh-day Adventist medicine more than did anyone except Mrs. White. Kellogg relied on the fundamental principals outlined in White's books and then developed that message into a lifelong study and research into optimum health. Chapter 14 of Schaefer's book is the amazing story of Kellogg, who founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium and invented the Kellogg cereal.

Kellogg was a physician, surgeon, that with nearly 50 books was a prolific writer and delivered over 5,000 lectures. He was a student of Pasteur's work on microbiology and relied on it as the basis to advocate for a vegetarian diet. But his approach to optimum health went way beyond simply avoiding meat. It was a natural healthy lifestyle which he termed "Biologic living" which also required "total abstinence from alcohol, tea, coffee, tobacco, and animal flesh. It included proper diet, adequate rest and exercise, fresh air, healthful dress, and (in case of illness) simple, natural remedies."

This is the essence of the Adventist health message and is what has now become fashionable these days with the popularity of the trendy health spas. Sanitarium is a term that in those days was simply used to define a hospital that embraced those natural health "spa" like principals, including massage, sauna, herbs, and hot tubs. These principals are not only the basis on which the church was founded, it was the message they believed they were to spread to the rest of their world in their "evangelistic" efforts; thus the name "College of Medical Evangelist."

Loma Linda physicians and students out evangelizing in 1913

Finally, the other major factor that contributed the unusual and unique experience for Doctor Halstead in medical school, was that it was the war years and his enlistment as Private First Class Halstead in the Army Specialized Training Program which was helping to pay for his tuition and keep him out of the trenches of the war front. This aspect was unusual in a larger context but at the time he was enrolled in medical school, the majority of his class mates were dressed in either Army or Navy uniforms.

The military aspect of his medical training was all pervasive and dominated every aspect of that part of his education. It was considered that someone enrolled in that program was subjected to the same rules of discipline as any other soldier and wore the uniform while attending classes. There was a mini 'boot camp' training session that Bruce was mandated to go through before he could start at Loma Linda and their were daily marching practice between classes. Furthermore, the fear and threat was always hanging over your head that if your grades or behavior weren't up to Army standards, then you could immediately be removed from medical school and sent off to fight on the real front lines of combat duty.

To read Doctor Halstead's own account of his medical school experience and how his status as an Army Private First Class status effected that experience, you can read about it in his own words, simply CLICK HERE.

Old Postcard from Loma Linda Hospital
featuring a view of the croquet court

The Loma Linda 'Sanitarium' (the term used for a health spa) as it looked in 1905 when it was
first acquired by the Seventh Day Adventist Church under the leadership of Ellen G. White who said she had a vision about the place and it's use for training medical evangelist.

Loma Linda was first established by Ellen White, as a 'sanitarium', or what would now be called a health spa, and soon developed into a full hospital. As a teaching institution, it was designed to train medical professionals as part of the 'missionary' force to spread the Seventh Day Adventist message and started under the name "College of Medical Evangelist"

Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

Upon graduation from medical school, he became the Founder and the Research Director of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine (STPM) at LLU. ,which later was renamed the School of Public Health in 1967. During his tenure there, he was an instructor, research scientist, and led expeditions to discover drugs from the sea and from the jungles of the Amazon. While at the STPM , he was the first grant recipient and was responsible for getting major funding for the institution as the only grant getter at LLU. The work he started at STPM became the foundation for his life work that he would continue throughout his life.

The World Life Research Institute (WLRI) continues serving as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in Grand Terrace, California. Those wishing to help preserve the WRLI and the legacy of Dr. Halstead can make a tax deductible contribution to World Life Research Institute.

To find out how you can help with his vital life work, continue his legacy, or support the preservation of WLRI, please contact:

WorldLifeResearch@gmail.com

or
Larry D. Halstead
(760) 255-2012

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Life and Times of BWH - Growing Up in San Francisco

2007-09-29T16:43:00.000-07:00

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
3/28/1920 to 12/5/2002

Life and Times of Bruce W. Halstead
In Pictures and Words
Growing Up In San Francisco

The legendary story of Bruce Walter Halstead
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begins in
San Francisco
where he was
born as

Newton Bruce Mellars on March 28, 1920.

Picture of Golden Gate Bridge circa 1940
taken by Bruce W. Halstead

A lithograph of early San Francisco

St. Joseph's Hospital in 1906

Birth Place of Newton (Bruce)
St. Josephs Hospital, Buena Vista Avenue in San Francisco

Bruce's maternal grandfather, James Perkins Shanks was also born in San Francisco on April 13, 1857. James father, Hugh Shanks was born in Canada of English decent and was married to Charlotte Perkins who was born in England. Both Hugh and Charlotte came from families who loved to travel and settled in different countries including Melbourne, Australia where they met and married. They soon left for San Francisco for an extended period of time where they started their family. Hugh was a master craftsman carpenter and made his claim to fame by constructing the spars on the Dutch Windmill located at Golden Gate Park in 1902, where his great grandson would later get his start.

While still living in San Francisco, their son James met and married Janet Bruce McLellan, another Canadian whose family had migrated to San Francisco. Oddly enough it would be this maternal grandmother that he would get the only name he would have throughout his life. She was also the only grandparent to live with Bruce and his family and was the family member that he was the closest to in his early years.

Hugh Shanks loved to travel the world and eventually Hugh and son James traveled to South America where they settled in Antofagasta, a port city in Northern Chile. It was there that Bruce's mother, Ethel Muriel Shanks, was born on November 7, 1893. Both Hugh and his son James were colorful characters that shared a love of travel, entrepreneurship, adventure, and being a regular critic of the local government.

Newton Bruce Mellars
with his mother
Ethel Muriel Shanks

His father was
Newton William Mellars,
an ancestor of Sir Isaac Newton,
hence his given name Newton.

Newton Mellars, Sr. was also born in San Francisco. His father, Frederick Mellars was a mechanical engineer and inventor who had come from Auckland, England aboard a ship that almost sank during passage due to the rough seas from a storm. He was commissioned to come over on a contract but refused to ever get on a ship again and thus lived out his days in the United States. The Mellars were French who had escaped to England during the French Revolution.

Newton William Mellars

The elder Mellars was a dentist who had wanted to be a doctor but his parents were unwilling to support that decision. However, he had the same predisposition toward research, science, and discovery as did his son. He was an inventor who held patents for dental tools, improvements in x-ray tubes and other scientific breakthroughs. He was a research scientist who taught medical students at UC San Francisco Medical School, just blocks from where Bruce had lived during his early years.

Much later in Dr. Halstead's life, he was to learn that his biological father, whom he had never known, had also been working at the Golden Gate Academy of Science, where the young Bruce got his start in Icthyology. Throughout his youth, Bruce spent much of his spare time exploring Golden Gate Park and felt that he knew the park better than anyone else at that time.

View of a Pond at Golden Gate Park

Newton Mellars and Ethel Shanks were married on November 20, 1917. He was a dental student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons which later became incorporated at the University of the Pacific at San Francisco. Ethel had supported him through dental school but about the time he graduated in June of 1901, the marriage had fallen on the rocks and they soon separated and were divorced. Bruce was only one year old at the time and comments made by his mother made him resolved to accept life without a relationship with his biological relationship.

With no real means of support, times were tough for Ethel and Bruce. For the next year and a half, they were basically homeless living out of people's garages and living room floors until June of 1922 when Ethel was able to find a small apartment on Castro Street. It was there the she met Walter Halstead who would become his step father.

Walter had come from Nebraska and had a background working with cattle and as a lumberman. Walter and Ethel were married on October of 1922 when Bruce was just two and a half. Bruce's maternal grandmother was living with them and the new family grew again when his half brother was born on July 23, 1923. Roland was later to attend Physicians and Surgeons graduating as a dentist from the same school his father had attended.

It was a common practice at the time for the step father to adopt his step children in order to hide the embarrassing 'scourge of divorce'. So on June 15, 1927, Walter adopted him in the Superior Court of Alameda County and his name was legally changed to Bruce Walter Halstead at the age of seven. The first and last name of Newton Mellars were permanently erased.

Walter Halstead

Bruce never gave it a second thought until forty-five years later when his own son, Larry, informed him of all the amazing traits and similar interest he shared with his biological father. By then he wished he could have changed his name back to Mellars but he had already built an enormous reputation on the name Halstead.

With the exception of a short period in Hayward, Bruce spent most of his childhood growing up in San Francisco. His stepfather Walter was restless and never spent more than two or three years in one place. This gave him a longing to live in one place which explains how he came to settle down at his refuge in Grand Terrace where he lived for the last 42 years of his life.

The Early influences of life in Old San Francisco

But in San Francisco, most of the time he was living in the Richmond district or the Sunset district both of which were within walking distance to the Golden Gate Park. During that period, he felt that nobody knew the Park better than he did. The Park is a man-made park of about 4,000 acres that was originally designed by William Hammond Hall in 1870. Bruce acknowledged the Park as one of his greatest influences saying: "This park, its museums, and the great Steinhart Aquarium were the beginnings and the makings of my professional career." That career began at the Golden Gate Academy of Science located in the park.

William Hammond Hall

Arial View of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

When Bruce was still a young boy growing up in San Francisco, he used to spend much of his time at the Golden Gate Park and later at the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences where he was learning about fish (Ichthyology). The Golden Gate Park is also the home of the great Steinhart Aquarium and the DeYoung Museum, all of which were tremendous influences on his life.

Bruce began his quest for adventure and travel by doing little excursions on his own at the ripe age of five when he was held out of school on the suspicion that he might have whooping cough. He used to routinely spend a great deal of this leisure time by catching a 5 cent Street Car down to Fisherman's Warf, the Embarcadero, and the downtown manufacturing districts which ranged from about 5th and Market down to the waterfront.

BWH and the influence of
Embarcadero, the Manufacturing District

and the Fisherman's Warf of San Francisco

Fisherman's Warf as it looked when Bruce was growing up there

Fisherman's Warf as it looks Today

He used to love spending time along the waterfront visiting the last of the old Sailing Star fleet of schooners- the end of the era of the tall masted ships. Down on the waterfront he would see the merchant ships sailing in and out under the Golden Gate Bridge. Later he wrote in his memoirs that: "When I looked at those great ships, I dreamed of the day when I could visit those far away places."

Matson Steamship heading out
under the Golden Gate Bridge
circa 1906

One of his favorite establishments was the Matson Navigation Company with ist's glorious array of large saltwater tropical fish tanks with a magnificent array of colorful coral fishes, including the beautiful Moorish Idols. The Matson office was plastered with colorful posters of Hawaii and the South Pacific. During his frequent visits to the DeYoung Museum he would love hanging out in their South Pacific room. His head was filled with thoughts of the South Pacific and he used to say that the: "The big question was 'how do I get to these far away places?"

Whether it was the aquariums at the Matson Navigation Company, the Steinhart Aquarium, or the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences, he would stare at the fish by the hours and "determined that someday I would see them in their natural habitat." Between watching the merchant ships cruising in and out under the Golden Gate Bridge and exploring the old Sailing Star fleet of schooners, he said that: "When I looked at those great ships I dreamed of the day when I could visit those far away places."

Bruce became focused on the oceans of the
South Pacific from the DeYoung Museum,
the Matson Navigation Co., along with
the ships and aquariums of San Francisco

The Albatross Boat Club

The dreams of boats, fish, travel and adventure was firmly anchored in Bruce's blood at the earliest of ages. It was no surprise therefore when at age eight, he founded the Albatross Boat Club and consisted of "a motley group of would-be-adventurers, ages 7 to 9 years, consisting of my brother, boy friends, and myself. No girls were tolerated, and this fact was made known to all concerned."

Writting further in his memoirs about the club, he states: "Membership in the Albatross Boat Club was a real bargain with an initial fee of 50 cents and a monthly dues of 2 cents. The club owned two homebuilt canvas covered craft, the Seagull, a 12 foot kayak, and an 8-foot nondescript canvas boat that always gave us a bath whenever it came in contact with the water."

"What the club lacked in finances we made up for in fantasy and imagination. We were ready to sail for the South Seas and recruited a half-dozen dues-paying members who were about to sign up for the trip. We decided that it might be best not to discuss this project withour parents, who might not understand the importance of the proposed expedition."

The Influence of Poverty and the Great Depression

One of the biggest influences on the childhood of Bruce was the poverty he was exposed to and for which he was forced to deal with starting at the earliest years of his life.

The beginning of the Great Depression in the United States is associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. But for young Bruce, he had already been prepared for the hardships of struggle for seven years, his age when the Depression began. The poverty created an enormous sense of being resourceful while conditions at home led him to escape out into the Streets of San Francisco where he learned the art of adventure.
During his day excursions from the house, he would scavenge for food where ever he could find it. He built his own bicycle from old parts he salvaged from the junk yard and garbage dump. He would ride his bike from dumpster to dumpster hunting for old produce that he could salvage to take home for supper.
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In 1930 at age ten, he was later to reflect in his memoirs that: "the Great Depression was beginning to be felt. I took my turn at eating out of garbage cans where they had dumped excess vegetables, lettuce, celery, and over ripe bananas. I even worked at the docks as a stevedor's helper picking up odd jobs."

His Cable car trips to the market area and Fisherman's Warf were not only a source of adventure but also an opportunity to forage for food. One of his favorite establishments to visit in the manufacturing district was the Sunshine Biscuit Company. It was here that he developed a technique that would serve him well throughout his impoverished childhood. He would look around and see what the company was manufacturing and then tell them that his school was studying the manufacturing process of that very product. Once he had won them over, he would inquire; "Perhaps you have some samples that I could have?" This technique was generally fool proof and he would usually leave with a carton or more of what ever the food item was and would show up at the family's dinner table later that night.

By age nine, he started selling Liberty Magazines and found that he did much better in the financial and manufacturing districts then he did in residential areas and soon he was receiving awards as the top seller. He describe that area as a "delightful part of San Francisco in those days and the waterfront was always colorful." Despite the difficult times, the Depression, and family challenges, the young boy Bruce learned to be a survivor and the art of mixing business with pleasure. These skills were to follow him throughout his life

The Greatest Professional Influence

In 1935, at age 15, life for Bruce was about to change with a series of events that started with his transformation into the Seventh Day Adventist church. This was something that was to have a profound influence on his life, starting with his transfer out of public schools and into the church's San Francisco Junior Academy, which was housed in a converted store on 10th Avenue, just a block from Golden Gate Park. The student body that year consisted of about 30 students which were equally divided between grades 7th through 10th. The outdoor area was a small patio and so the school held their physical activities in the park.

On October 16 of that year, events were about to unfold that would cement the future of this world class scientist. That day, his biology instructor announced that they were going to visit the nearby Department of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences. The young Bruce was filled with excitement and anticipation as the class arrived. They were met by Howard Walton Clark, the Curator of Fishes for the Academy. Mr. Clark proceeded to introduce the class to the wonders of the aquatic world. But to Bruce, he had just been introduced to the person who would become "the most important and influential person" in his professional life.

Howard Walton Clark
Mentor, Teacher, Friend

Before that day was over, Bruce had secured a volunteer position working at the Golden Gate Academy under the watchful eye of Mr. Clark. For Bruce; "There has never been a greater moment in my professional career." Later, he wrote that; "This was the beginining of a rich and priceless experience between an old man and a young boy."

Bruce W. Halstead

The Young Apprentice

From that fateful day of their meeting, until the death of Mr. Clark on August 10, 1941, the two men were inseparable. Beyond the best education, understanding, and appreciation for the study of fish, Clark introduce Bruce to scientific research and methodology which extended into the natural sciences of all life forms. They studied birds, mushrooms, microbes, and pond scum. The experiences they shared was a rare combination that few if any other team of teacher and student have ever experienced together. It was a relationship that healed much of what was lacking for Bruce in his relationships with his step father and his biological father he never knew. It was also a relationship that gave him the direction and inspiration to accomplish his life long work that was to follow.

In his own words, Bruce wrote about his beloved mentor:

"Mr. Clark always encouraged me to dream my dreams and to shoot for the highest star. He was a stickler for detail. He would open up vast vistas of the natural world to me, but he had the ability to tie everything together. He not only viewed the microcosm, but also the marcrocosm, and the universe was well. It was all a continuum. He had a deep understanding of human ecology at its best. He was a strong advocate of not losing sight of the forest because of the trees. He was unrelenting in his pursuit of knowledge, and greatly enjoyed hard work. No task was beneath his dignity and no person too low to be dignified. While sloppy in his dress, he was elegant in his thinking. Kindness, generosity, and thoughtfulness to others were an intiricate part of his daily demeanor. The death of Mr. Clark was unquestionably the darkest day in my life. The world had lost a great student of the natural world and I had lost my best friend, teacher and mentor, for which I have never found an equal. Mr. Clark's imprint is found throughout my writings."

Golden Gate Academy of Science
where Bruce studied under the watchful
eye and close guidance of Mr. Clark

Mr. Clark had an enormous impact on Bruce's overall education and is therefore discussed more in the post entitled: Life and Times of BWH - Education. Clark's death in 1941 came at the conclusion of his AA Degree at San Francisco City College. He finished his under graduate degree in Zoology at UC Berkeley in 1943.

Bruce and Joy at Bruce's graduation from U C Berkeley in 1943

It was around 1940 that he met Joy Arloa Mallory at the Adventist church in San Francisco. She was attending the Pacific Union College, an Adventist institution North of Napa. He also served as an instructor at Pacific Union College in the Department of Biology from 1943-44, where Joy was enrolled as a nursing student. The relationship blossomed and they married on January 2, 1943.

It is somewhat a poetic statement that his life and influence that was San Francisco, ended with the completion of his degree at Berkeley and the begining of his new life married to Joy.

January 2, 1943
Wedding Picture of Bruce and Joy

To find out how you can help with his vital life work, continue his legacy, or support the preservation of WLRI, please contact:

WorldLifeResearch@gmail.com
or

Larry D. Halstead
(760) 255-2012

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The Scientist as an Activist - Health

2007-09-29T16:39:00.000-07:00

The politics of medicine is something that Doctor Halstead would come to term: BioPolitics. From age 15, (1935) and continuing through his graduation from medical school at Loma Linda in 1948, he was obsessed in the discovery of research and unlocking the secrets of bio-toxicology. This obsession gave him a blindness to even the notion that there was any other possibility but that the world was united into the quest of new cures for disease and other medical breakthroughs. Doctor Halstead once wrote that:

"I would soon be baptized into the intriguing world of biopolitics. I would eventually learn that this world was a quantum leap downward from the pristine science I had learned at the feet of Howard Walton Clark (at the Golden Gate Academy of Sciences) in which we worked for love of the science rather than the quest for money."

His first introduction of this new reality came as soon as he began his professional career as he started advocating for the idea of research at Loma Linda University under the banner of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine that he co-founded.. He was trying desperately to convince the school that it was imperative to conduct research in order to advance the scope of health and develop new cures for disease. The administration made it emphatically clear that their primary mission was to teach and they were more than happy to leave research up to other institutions. For the new doctor who had a background in research that formally began at age 15, this was absurd and he argued for the necessity of research to advance the cause of medicine. In his words:

"I vigorously contended that if they would give research greater priority they would have more money for teaching. I was not particularly diplomatic about this issue and openly stated that they were a collection of medical parasites. My ranting and raving on the campus about our lack of research did not endear me to most of the other faculty members, and particularly the clinicians."

If one wants to know the turning point at which Doctor Halstead became the 'Scientist as a Health Activist', it was as a new doctor, fresh out of medical school who had a vision for starting the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine and the need to conduct research in pursuit of new cures for chronic and degenerous diseases from drugs from the oceans and jungles. He admitted he was naive back then;

"During my early youth I lived under the total misconception that the world was seeking new and innovative ideas to save lives."

With out any support for his research ideas at Loma Linda University, he set out to get his research funded through the government, private foundations and corporations like drug companies. Here too he would find opposition of another sort:

"I was totally unprepared for the calcified intellectual attitude of 'keep the status quo and don't rock the ship.' As time went on and I became better acquainted with the fine art of grantshmanship it became evident that the government research funding system was infested with nepotism. If you didn't have the right political or university connections, you were at the bottom f the financial totem pole. I was at the very bottom of the system, and had just fallen off the turnip truck but I didn't remain there very long - I became a very quick learner! "

The next jolt of reality of reality came in understanding that his projects would not be evaluated for the same merits as it is in the scientific community.

A new scientific project is generally not evaluated on the basis of its scientific merits, but it largely depends upon who is presenting the idea and the degree of popularity of the subject matter a the time. New horizon research is all too often buried because it cuts across popular lines of academic or bureaucratic thinking, or is conceived as an economic threat to large business interests.

The difference between a Nobel prize and a jail sentence may at times be a very thin line. Unfortunately my knowledge of grant-in-aid cannibalism were unknown to me when I made my debut in Washington, D.C. in 1950."

After over coming some of the initial obstacles involved in leaning how to get grants and how it was all about who you know and how you package your grant proposals, Doctor Halstead was able to get some grant funding through the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). But after a couple of years, the NIH became hesitant to keep on funding solely on the basis of screening for marine toxins. Doctor Halstead started searching for alternative grant funding by contacting hundreds of foundations but without success. These organizations were only interested in funding specific projects with immediate payback possibilities for their investment.

Doctor Halstead tried in vain to pitch these organizations on his research by raising vital issues such as: "the possibility of new drugs, cancer cures, the effects of poisonous fishes on our world food supply, antiviral agents, ad infinitum, ad nauseum" but to no success. After some discouragement on funding these noble goals, he finally came to some sad truths about American priorities for getting funded. This led to an epiphany as he eventually made the sad conclusion that:

"Stop thinking about all of the diseases that these marine bioactive substances can cure and talk to the military about all of the people that you can kill with these deadly poisons. And that is exactly what I did. It turned out to be a brilliant idea and the money and logistics support became more plentiful than ever.

I have gradually learned over the years, much to my sorrow. that money for curing people is very difficult to come by, but if you can demonstrate a technique to wipe out millions of people through the military machine there is no limit to the amount of money available. Anyone that doubts that statement has not examined the international financial facts.

The quest for financial support formula was beginning to become clear: The more deadly the substance, the more people you can kill, the more financial support you will get. On the other hand if you become too aggressively involved in curing people, you will get less financial support, and may run the risk of going to jail. This is a fact that I have learned well during my life. This formula is quite simple, straight forward, and well documented.

The pinacle of financial spending in research was achieved in the development of nuclear warfare. Nothing has cost more money, produced more destruction, and is more capable of destroying the human race. Sad to say these are the facts."

So the education into the politics of medicine began with Loma Linda University in 1948 over the value of research. From there he learned new lessons about the priorities for funding of research projects with the whole grant getting process. But he would eventually sour on getting grants from the government and from foundations because of how much you had to compromise yourself. This made him turn to the world of business deals for getting his research financed but this too had it's drawbacks due to all of the scoundrels who tried exploit him and his reputation. This led to hard times for his research and necessitated his return to the practice of medicine.

This in turn positioned him in a way that led to his rise as a pioneer in a host of alternative medicine. With this turn of events, he became in demand for his books, his public speaking, and in court appearances. At every opportunity, Doctor Halstead used his elevated position to speak out against the monopoly of the conventional medical practice of drugs, radiation, and surgery by the AMA and FDA. His message was resonating and his popularity sky rocketing. By now he was becoming an outspoken critic of the status quo and the cancer industry. As such he was quickly becoming an increasing threat establishment which organized an all out effort to silence him.

A plan to shut him up through the abuse of the judicial system was hatch and executed. It is an amazing story that dominated the latter part of his life and cost him his freedom. The story is easily a book into itself and a summary will be posted here as time permits. But there is an excellent report on this legal case that appeared in the September edition of the 1997 issue of Winds Publication. The article puts the case of the People vs Halstead into the proper context of being more like the medical establishment vs alternative medicine. The article spells out what the legal battle was all about, and the larger picture of what was at stake in terms of the motivation for the FDA and the conventional forces that were working to discredit Doctor Halstead and persecuted him for speaking out and standing up for what he believed in.

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The Scientist as an Activist - Environment

2007-09-29T16:05:00.000-07:00

The End of the U.S.Air Force Dumping of Toxic Waste into the Storm Drains of America

By
Larry D. Halstead

The story of how Bruce W. Halstead, M.D. exposed the Air Force practice of dumping toxic waste into the storm drain and into the ocean by being publicly exposed on the Merv Griffin Show with the help of Eddie Albert.

The Merv Griffin Show April 14, 1971

Left to Right -
Henry Gibson, Environmental Poet of the LaughIn Show;
William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA Chair for the Nixon Administration;
Congressman Paul Rogers, D-Florida;
Eddie Albert, Guest Host, Actor, Environmental Activist
Bruce W. Halstead, M.D., Bio-toxicologist, Environmental Activist
Dr. Rimmin Fay (still researching his background)

[Note-So far, there is no knowledge of the existence of the video from this show. Merv Griffin Productions does not have a copy and we would all love to locate one if it still exist.]

This picture is the best symbol of my father’s activism and is something that I am the most proud of him about. That show was a year after my graduation from Loma Linda Academy (high school) and so I was definitely old enough to well remember that event along with the involvement with Eddie Albert that led up to it. His visits out to see my father and the World Life Research Institute were part of the planning leading up to the show.

The full story of this whistle blowing started with Bob Habekost, a lab tech, civilian employee out at Norton AFB in San Bernardino. Bob was a long time friend of my father and had participated on some of his expeditions in the 50s and 60s as they collected specimens ocean diving in the South Pacific.

I knew him from our church and he had also been my Pathfinder leader for many years. Pathfinders is the Seventh Day Adventist version of Boy Scouts. I was on the 50 mile bike trip (the final requirement to get your badge in biking) when Bob had his accident and suffered a major brain concussion that almost killed him and left him deaf in one ear. I was only two bikes behind him when this other guy came flying by me and clipped Bob's bike. I saw every second of the whole scene and it is burned in my brain forever. I remember seeing him laying in a pool of blood with on the side of his face with his hand instinctively feeling the ground for his glasses which had gone flying. Point of reference in time is that not one single person was wearing a helmet and God knows it would have saved Bob from a brain concussion that almost cost him his life.

I saw Bob recently at a memorial service for my friend's mom. He has advanced Alzheimer’s now and I don't think he recognizes me anymore. But I feel bonded with him because Pathfinders, that accident and his involvement with Bruce. He is one of those high integrity people that I have always had deep respect.

Bob was working in the lab out at Norton AFB and became aware of the Base's pattern of loading their toxic waste (mostly a bi-product of the jet servicing etc.) into unmarked tanker trucks. A civilian employee would then drive it over to the then un-incorporated area of Etiwanda, which is now the incorporated city of Rancho Cucamonga. They would remove a storm drain man hole cover and empty the contents of the truck into what was a quick path to the ocean.

When Bob tipped my father Bruce off about this environmental scam they devised a scheme to expose the practice. They hired some young guy to trail the truck on one of it's runs. He photographed the truck leaving the AFB and in route to Etiwanda. He photographed the dumping of the toxic waste and then ran over and collected some samples in a few quart mason jars.

Eddie Albert was a life long environmentalist. Later on he became a champion for alternative health, something that I attribute to his involvement with my father. Back then he was a frequent guest host on the Merv Griffin Show. So he decided to do an entire show on the environment primarily focused on exposing this dumping of toxic waste. His guest as shown from left to right in the photo included: Henry Gibson (famous for his environmental poems on The Laughin Show), William Ruckelshaus (EPA Chair under President Richard Nixon), Congressman Paul Rogers (D-FL and involved in military issues and the National Cancer Institute, NCI), Eddie Albert, Bruce W. Halstead, M.D. and Dr. Rimmin Fay.

The back of the photo has the date the show as April 14, 1971. When Bruce was introduced, they wheeled out a 20 gal aquarium and after telling the story and showing the photos, Bruce dumped the contents of a jar in with the fish and they quickly floated to the surface. The demonstration was so simple it was brilliant. It was so dramatic and effective that there was an immediate Congressional investigation and the toxic dumping was stopped in it's tracks that same day.

Up until this show, Bruce was a frequent speaker out at Norton Air Force Base. He had been in three of the branches of the military and was still in the reserves at that point. I can remember accompaning him on some of those appearances. However, after the show, he was never allowed to speak there again. I don’t think the Air Force ever figured out that it was their own civilian employee, Bob Habekost that was critical in getting the story out.

I don't think I have ever given a tour of WLRI to anyone that did not include a pause for telling the story in front of that picture. I think it had more symbolism and significance for me than it even did for Bruce. I always knew who all but two of the guest were, although I knew one of them was a Congressman. Bruce had scribbled names on the front of the photo but the ink had long faded to unreadable. Recently, I was at World Life and I decided I needed to borrow it to scan it and document the story in words. When I got it home and out of the frame to scan it, I was pleasantly surprised to see the date and names involved printed on the back.

There is an interesting postscript on this story. Later when Norton Air Force Base was decommissioned, there was a substantial delay in turning it over to civilian use caused by the discovery of large holding ponds filled with toxic waste. The cost of clean up on those toxic ponds were amazing and the ground water and soil had also been contaminated. It turned out that after they were ordered to stop dumping into the storm drain, they created some large settling ponds where they stored these waste as the seeped into the ground water. The cost of this toxic clean up was in the millions of dollars and was delayed by more discovery of some of these holding areas for the toxic waste.

There is a little irony in the fact that the transition to civilian authority was facilitated through a special agency created for that purpose. The agency was composed of council members from all of the adjoining cities including Loma Linda where the agency would meet. The Chair of that agency was the Mayor of San Bernardino, since that was the City with the most to gain from decommissioning the Base. The Mayor at that time was Bob Holcomb. The irony is that Holcomb’s daughter was Bruce’s second wife. I attended those meetings and remember Holcomb acting like Nikita Kruzchev, fully expecting him to remove his shoe and start hammering the desk with it.

I would just LOVE to get a copy of the video of that show so I did an internet search on Merv Griffin and got a phone contact for Merv Griffin Entertainment. I talked to Jim Bradley who is their archivist. He said that back in the day employees would sell the old film as stock and much of the older shows were lost forever. They only have two shows from 1971. So this picture that I emailed him is now the only proof that the show ever existed. Kinda wild that I would be providing it to them. Jim told me that if I could locate a copy of the show that they would love to have it. Oh duh!

I next turned toward a search on Eddie Albert. I knew he had passed recently as in 05. I was hoping that he had a foundation or something that I could investigate the exist of a video copy of the show. I found no such thing but I learned some interesting info in the process. I found out that he was 99 when he died. That his only child, Edward Jr. (remember "Butterflies are Free" with he and Goldy Hawn?) died the year he did of a brain tumor. I learned that Eddie Albert was born in Ilinois as Edward Heimberger and that he changed his name cause it sounded too much like hamburger. He was married to his wife for 39 years when she died before him.

Now the most interesting thing I learned about him that has great significance for me is that he is credited with being one of the founders of Earth Day and that the date of April 22 was chosen because it is his birthday. This is symbolic to me in that the first Earth Day was 1970. I was the student organizer for the event at Loma Linda Academy. The faculty organizer was Mrs. Magee who was my favorite instructor and a source of great inspiration on many levels. The next year 1971, I was again the student organizer and the faculty organizer was Pius Horner, the head of Biology Dept. and my favorite instructor and again a great sense of inspiration.

The timing on the first Earth Day means that it was that year before the show aired and would have been happening during that period when Eddie Albert was coming out to visit Bruce at WLRI. Pretty interesting mixing of people and events if you ask me. Anyway, I was blown away by all that stuff but still empty-handed on my search for the lost video footage of the show.

I then turned my attention to Rep. Paul Rogers. I learned that he may still be alive. He was a Democrat who was considered a centrist. He took over his dad's seat when he died. He played a major role in establishing the NCI which was a regular funded many of the grants for World Life Research Institute back in the day. I am going to see if I can make contact with him in the event he may have a copy of the show.

The formerly unknown person on the panel was listed as "Dr. Rimmer Fay". My Google search found nothing when the name is in quotes like that. Somehow, I remember Bruce using the name "Commander Fay". Again, nothing if quotes left on. Removing the quotes and looking through all of the other possibilities, I came across a Francis Fay that was a marine biologist, ecologist, and worked hard to protect some species of sea turtles up in the Alaska area. I want to go through Bruce's name and address list, if I can ever lay my hands on it, to see if his name or any last name Fay is in there. If so, it could really help locate him or any institution that he may have been associated.

But at this time, I have come up empty handed on getting that video. There is an outside chance that Bruce would have ever been given a copy of that video. If so the location of where it would be now is unknown.

Larry D. Halstead can be reached at:
larrydhalstead@gmail.com or call (760) 255-2012

BWH - Curriculum Vitae

2007-09-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
Curriculum Vitae

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Birthplace:
San Francisco, California. March 28, 1920

Married:
Joy Arloa Mallory, January 2, 1943

Children:
Linda Glynn, May 30, 1944
Sandra Lee, September 30, 1947
David Bruce, March 16. 1951
Lawrence Douglas, November 2. 1952
Claudia Joy, December 3, 1960
Shari Lyu, April 19, 1962 (adopted)

POSITION: 1958 til death (2002):
Director, International Biotoxicological Center,
World Life Research Institute, Grand Terrace, CA, 92313

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2007-09-29T15:16:00.000-07:00

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Chronological Listing of Halstead Publications

1938

(1) Clark, H.W. and B.W. Halstead

Decapterus scombrinus (Valenciennes) in Monterey Bay. Copeia (4):205.

1949

(2) Halstead, B.W.

Octopus bites in human beings. Leafl. Malac. 1(5):17-22.

(3) Halstead, B.W.

Problems concerning medical ichthyology and future plans of the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology. School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, College of Medical Evangelists, Loma Linda, CA. 16 p. (Limited distribution)

(4) Halstead, B.W. and R. Ryckman

Injurious effects from contacts with millipedes. Med. Arts Sci. 3(1):16-18, 1 fig.

1950

(5) Halstead, B.W.

The capture of a wattled eel-pout, Lycodes palearis, from Fidalgo Island, Washington, and the distributional record of this species. Copeia (4):317.

(6) Halstead, B.W.

The levitical laws and disease transmission by animals. 7 p. (Limited distribution)

(7) Halstead, B.W.

Mosaic law substantiated. Rev. Herald 127(3):13.

(8) Halstead, B.W. and F.R. Modglin

A preliminary report on the venom apparatus of the batray, Holorhinus californicus. Copeia (3):165-175, 6 figs.

1951

(9) Halstead, B.W.

Ichthyotoxism - a neglected medical problem! Med. Arts Sci. 5(4):115-121, 8 figs.

(10) Halstead, B.W.

Injurious effects from the sting of the scorpionfish, Scorpaena guttata. California Med. 74:395-396, 1 pl.

(11) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous fish - a medical-military problem. Office of Naval Research, Research Reservists, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., NAVEXOS P-510:10-16, 8 figs.

(12) Halstead, B.W.

The role of CME in basic medial research. The Journal 22(5):18-19.

1952

(13) Halstead, B.W.

Concerning fish poisoning on Saipan. (Limited distribution)

(14) Halstead, B.W.

Concerning fish poisoning on Midway Islands. (Limited distribution)

(15) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous fish. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 149 (16):1513.

(16) Halstead, B.W. and N.C. Bunker

Poisonous fishes of Saipan. 53p. (Limited distribution)

(17) Halstead, B.W. and N.C. Bunker

Stingray attacks and their treatment. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 2(1):115-128, 12 figs.

(18) Halstead, B.W. and N.C. Bunker

The venom apparatus of the ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei. Copeia (3):128-138, 1 pl., 4 figs.

(19) Ryckman, R.E. and B.W. Halstead

Report of a case of human nasal myiasis by the greenbottle fly, Phaenicia sericata, in San Bernardino County, California. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 1(4):711-712.

1953

(20) Halstead, B.W.

On the results of feeding poisonous puffer fish to nontoxic California marine fishes. (Limited distribution)

(21) Halstead, B.W.

The orthopedic arthrometer for the precise measurement of angles in systematic ichthyology. Copeia (4):241.

(22) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous fishes and fish poisoning. In: Research Reviews. NAVEXOS P-510, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Pp. 23-25.

(23) Halstead, B.W.

Some general considerations of the problem of poisonous fish and ichthyosarcotoxism. Copeia (1):31-33.

(24) Halstead, B.W.

The effect of the commercial canning process upon puffer poison. California Fish Game 39(2):219-228, 1 fig.

(25) Halstead, B.W., Kuninobu, L.S., and H.G. Hebard

Catfish stings and the venom apparatus of the Mexican catfish, Galeichthys felis (Linneaus). Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 72(4):297-314, 6 figs.

(26) Goe, D.R. and B.W. Halstead

A preliminary report of the toxicity of the gulf puffer, Sphoeroides annulatus. California Fish Game 39(2):229-232, 1 fig.

(27) Holloway, J.E., Bunker, N.C., and B.W. Halstead

The venom of Urobatis halleri (Cooper), the round stingray. California Fish Game 39(1):77-82, 1 fig.

(28) Ocampo, R.R., Halstead, B.W., and F.R. Modglin

The microscopic anatomy of the caudal appendage of the spotted eagleray, Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen), with reference to the venom apparatus. Anat. Rec. 115(1):87-99, 3 pls.

1954

(29) Halstead, B.W.

A note regarding the toxicity of the fishes of the skipjack family, Katsuwonidae. California Fish Game 40(1):61-63.

(30) Halstead, B.W.

Regarding clinical characteristics of fish poisoning. (Limited distribution).

(31) Halstead, B.W. and N.C. Bunker

A survey of the poisonous fishes of Johnston Island. Zoologica 39(2):61-77, 1 fig.

(32) Halstead, B.W. and N.C. Bunker

A survey of the poisonous fishes of the Phoenix Islands. Copeia (1):1-11, 5 figs.

(33) Halstead, B.W. and R.C. Habekost

Experiments on the toxicity of Pseudosuberites pseudos Dickinson. l p. (Limited distribution)

(34) Halstead, B.W. and W.M. Lively, Jr.

Poisonous fishes and ichthyosarcotoxism. U.S. Arm. Forces Med. J. 5(2):157-175, 13 figs.

(35) Halstead, B.W. and R.D. Macomber

Moray eel injection records. ll p. (Unpublished)

(36) Halstead, B.W. and R.J. Ralls

Results of dialyzing some fish poisons. Science 119(3083):160-161.

(37) Halstead, B.W. and R.L. Schall

Poisonous fishes of La Plata Island. 7 p. (Unpublished)

(38) Halstead, B.W., and R.L. Smith

Presence of an axillary venom gland in the Oriental catfish, Plotosus lineatus. Copeia (2):153-154.

(39) Berry, S.S. and B.W. Halstead

Octopus bites - a second report. Leafl. Malac. 1(11):59-65, 1 fig.

1955

(40) Halstead, B.W., Chitwood, M.J., and F.R. Modglin

The anatomy of the venom apparatus of the zebrafish, Pterois volitans (Linneaus). Anat. Rec. 122(3):317-333, 3 pls., 16 figs.

(41) Halstead, B.W., Chitwood, M.J., and F.R. Modglin

The venom apparatus of the California scorpionfish, Scorpaena guttata Girard. Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 74(2):145-158, 15 figs.

(42) Halstead, B.W., Ocampo, R.R., and F.R. Modglin

A study on the comparative anatomy of the venom apparatus of certain North American stingrays. J. Morphol. 97(1):1-21, 4 pls., 20 figs.

(43) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

Poisonous fishes of Palau. (Limited distribution)

(44) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

Poisonous fishes of Tahiti. (Limited distribution)

(45) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

Poisonous fishes of the Gulf of California. (Limited distribution)

(46) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

Poisonous fishes of the Marshall Islands. 5 p. (Limited distribution)

(47) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

A report on the poisonous fishes captured during the Woodrow G. Krieger expedition to the Galapagos Islands. In: Essays in the Natural Sciences in Honor of Captain Allan Hancock. University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles. Pp. 147-172, 2 pls.

(48) Dawson, E.Y., Alleem, A.A., and B.W. Halstead

Marine algae from Palmyra Island with special reference to the feeding habits and toxicology of reef fishes. Allan Hancock Found. Publs. (17):1-39, 12 figs.

(49) Goe, D.R. and B.W. Halstead

A case of fish poisoning from Caranx ignobilis Forskal from Palmyra Island, with comments on the sensitivity of the mouse injection technique for the screening of toxic fishes. Copeia (3):238-240.

(50) Habekost, R.C., Fraser, I.M., and B.W. Halstead

Observations on toxic marine algae. J. WA. Acad. Sci. 45(4):101-103.

(51) Ralls, R.J., and B.W. Halstead

Moray eel poisoning and a preliminary report on the action of the toxin. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 4(1):136-140.

(52) Whitley, G.P. and B.W. Halstead

An annotated bibliography of the poisonous and venomous fishes of Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 23(5):211-227.

1956

(53) Halstead, B.W.

Animal phyla known to contain poisonous marine animals. In: E.E. Buckley and N. Porges [Eds.], Venoms. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. pp. 9-27.

(54) Halstead, B.W.

Current status of research on Pacific poisonous fishes and ichthyosarcotoxism. In: E.E. Buckley and N. Porges [Eds.], Venoms. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. pp. 29-32.

(55) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous fishes and their relationship to marine food resources in the Pacific area. Proc. 8^th Pac. Sci. Congr. 3:321-330.

(56) Halstead, B.W.

Toxic marine organisms. In: Handbook of Biological Data. National Research Council, WADC Tech. Rept. 56-273. pp. 424-426. (ASTIA No. AD-110501).

(57) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous mollusks. Rep. Am. Malac. Un. 23:1.

(58) Halstead, B.W., Chitwood, M.J., and F.R. Modglin

Stonefish stings and the venom apparatus of Synanceja horrida (Linnaeus). Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 75(4):381-397, 12 figs.

(59) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

A report on the poisonous fishes captured during the Woodrow G. Krieger expedition to Cocos Island. Pac. Sci. 10(1):103-109, 1 fig.

(60) Halstead, B.W. and C. Teel

Regarding venom apparatus in Muraena helena. (Limited distribution).

1957

(61) Halstead, B.W.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Contributor). 23rd/ ed. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. 1598 p.

(62) Halstead, B.W.

Jellyfish stings and their medical management. U.S. Arm. Forces Med. J. 8(11):1587-1602, 11 figs.

(63) Halstead, B.W.

Mysterious outbreaks of fish poisoning. Experimental Diving Unit, U.S. Naval Medical School, Washington, D.C. 8 p. (Limited distribution).

(64) Halstead, B.W.

Preventative medicine manual on sea snakes. U.S. Naval Medical School Graduate Training Course for Medical Officers, Bethesda, MD. 12 p. (Limited distribution).

(65) Halstead, B.W.

The public health significance of the recent outbreaks of poisoning by marine organisms in Japan. U.S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. 11 p. (Limited distribution).

(66) Halstead, B.W.

Unexploited ocean resources. Med. Arts Sci. 11(2):72-75.

(67) Halstead, B.W.

Wealth of the seas. 5 p. (Limited distribution).

(68) Halstead, B.W.

Weever stings and their medical management. U.S. Arm. Forces Med. J. 8(10):1441-1451, 8 figs.

(69) Halstead, B.W., Kawabata, T., and T.F. Judefind

The public health significance of the recent outbreaks of poisoning by marine organisms in Japan. In: Proceeding of the 9th/ Science Congress. Pacific Association, Bangkok. 11 p. (Limited distribution).

(70) Halstead, B.W. and M.H. McLaughlin

Fish poisoning. Life Health 72(7):10-11, 32.

(71) Halstead, B.W., Modglin, F.R., and G.D. Kuhn

On the morphology of the hairs of the rare deep sea fish, Mirapinna esau. Annl. Mag. Nat. Hist., Series 12, 10:767-768.

(72) Halstead, B.W. and F.E. Russell

Animal toxins, Part 3: Marine organisms. In: W.S. Spector [Ed.], Handbook of Biological Data. W. B. Saunders and Co., Philadelphia. 7 p.

(73) Kawabata, T., Halstead, B.W., and T.F. Judefind

A report of a series of recent outbreaks of unusual cephlopod and fish intoxications in Japan. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 6(5):935-939.

(74) Schantz, E.J., Halstead, B.W., McFarren, E.F., Bond, R.M., and W.B. Page

Conference on shellfish toxicology. U.S. Public Health Service, Special Publications. 126 p., 5 figs. (Limited distribution).

1958

(75) Halstead, B.W.

Beware!! The zebrafish. All Pets (Sept.):27-32, illust.

(76) Halstead, B.W.

Class Diplopoda (millipedes). In: J. DeCoursey, [Ed.], Medical Entomology. U.S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. Pp. 22-23.

(77) Halstead, B.W.

The deadly fugu - mysterious fish of ancient Japanese emperors. 7 p. (Unpublished).

(78) Halstead, B.W.

Global medicine and CME. CME Alumni J. 29(5):10-13.

(79) Halstead, B.W.

Jellyfish stings and their medical management. S. Afr. Practnr. 3(3):43-48, 11 figs.

(80) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and venomous marine organisms. In: D.W. Wright, Medical Zoology. (Unpublished). 106 p.

(81) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous fishes. Pub. Health Rep. 73(4):302-312, 11 figs.

(82) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous fish-like vertebrates. [Appendix B]. U.S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. 39 p.

(83) Halstead, B.W.

The relationship of traumogenous fishes to man. AIBS Symposium. 16 p. (Limited distribution).

(84) Halstead, B.W.

Results of an investigation on a series of outbreaks in Japan caused by the eating of marine organisms. Natl. Inst. Health Consultantship, 1-22 September 1958. 4 p. (Limited distribution).

(85) Halstead, B.W.

Skin disorders most frequently encountered by the fishing industry. 2 p. (Limited distribution).

(86) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous fishes. U.S. Naval Medical School Graduate Training Course for Medical Officers, Bethesda, MD. 39 p. (Limited distribution).

(87) Halstead, B.W. and R.F. Modglin

Weeverfish stings and the venom apparatus of weevers (Trachinus). Z. Tropenmed. Parasit. 9(2):129-146, 12 figs.

(88) Halstead, B.W. and D.W. Schall

A report on the poisonous fishes of the Line Islands. Acta. Trop. 15(3):193-233.

(89) Courville, D.A., Halstead, B.W., and D.W. Hessel

Marine biotoxins: Isolation and properties. Chem Rev. 58(2):235-248.

1959

(90) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous Marine Animals. Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge. 146 p., 88 figs.

(91) Halstead, B.W.

Environmental hazards. In: U.S. Navy Diving Manual, Part 1, NAVSHIPS 250-538. U.S. Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Pp. 158-175.

(92) Halstead, B.W. and W.M. Lively, Jr.

Poisonous fishes and ichthyosarcotoxism. PACAF Command Surgeon's Newsletter 1(1):1-5.

1960

(93) Hessel, D.W., Halstead, B.W., and N.H. Peckham

Marine biotoxins. I. Ciguatera poison: Some biological and chemical aspects. Annl. NY Acad. Sci. 90(3):788-797, 4 figs.

1961

(94) Halstead, B.W.

Candiru - the human parasitic catfish of the Amazon. 9 p. (Unpublished).

(95) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins - a wealth of new drugs for the future. 9 p. (Unpublished).

(96) Halstead, B.W.

Sting rays. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 175(6):541.

(97) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous fishes. In: P. Gray, [Ed.], The Encyclopedia of the biological sciences. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York. pp. 1049-1051.

1962

(98) Halstead, B.W.

Biotoxins, allergies, and other disorders. In: G. Borgstrom, [Ed.], Fish as Food, Vol. 2: Nutrition, Sanitation, and Utilization. Academic Press, New York. pp. 521-540.

1963

(99) Halstead, B.W.

First aid treatment of shark bites - general comments. In: P.W. Gilbert, [Ed.], Sharks and Survival. D.C. Health and Co., Boston. pp. 495-496.

(100) Halstead, B.W.

Quest for new drugs. J. Am. Pharm. Assoc. N53(3):129-130, illust.

(101) Halstead, B.W., Hessel, D.W., and J. Suchy

An investigation of ciguatera poison. Final Report, Army Chemical Corps., Grant No. DA-CML-18-108-61-g-19, June 1961 - Sept. 1962. 9 p. (Limited distribution).

(102) Halstead, B.W. and L.R. Mitchell

A review of the venomous fishes of the Pacific area. In: H.L. Keegan and W.V. MacFarlane, [Ed.], Venomous and Poisonous Animals and Noxious Plants of the Pacific Area. Pergamon Press, New York. pp. 173-202, 16 figs.

1964

(103) Halstead, B.W.

Fish poisoning - their diagnosis, pharmacology, and treatment. Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. 5(5):615-627.

(104) Halstead, B.W.

An R&D program in natural products as they relate to international economic development and our national security. Ocean Engineering. N. Am. Aviat. 8(1):100-114.

(105) Halstead, B.W., Carscallen, L.J., and F.E. Russell

Animal toxins, Part 3: Marine organisms. In: P.L. Altmanard and D.S. Ditter, [Eds.], Biology Data Book. Federal American Society of Experimental Biology, Washington, D.C. pp. 336-344.

(106) O'Neal, P.L., Halstead, B.W., and L.D. Howard, Jr.

Injury to human tissues from sea urchin spines. California Med. 101:199-202.

1965

(107) Halstead, B.W.

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Contributor). 24^th ed. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. 1724 p.

(108) Halstead, B.W.

In memorium - Yevgeniy N. Pavlovskiy (1884-1965). Toxicon 3:169-170.

(109) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Vol I, 994 p., illust.

1966

(110) Halstead, B.W.

Aspectos medicos de los animales marinos venenosos. Acad. Nac. Med. Buenos Aires 44(2). 1 p.

(111) Halstead, B.W.

Field report on the epidemiology of biotoxications from eating the livers of polar bears and other arctic mammals. (Limited distribution)

(112) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous marine animals of Brazil. Mem. Inst. Butanan 33(1):1-26.

1967

(113) Halstead, B.W.

Medical ichthyology - the unknown science. Presented to: The Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. 11p. (Limited distribution)

(114) Halstead, B.W.

National goals in biomedical oceanography and recommendations for achieving these goals. Presented to: Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. 11 p. (Limited distribution)

(115) Halstead, B.W.

Need for a national institute of marine medicine and pharmacology. Presented to: Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. 20 p. (Limited distribution)

(116) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Vol. 2, 1070 p., illust.

(117) Halstead, B.W. and A.E. Dalgleish

The venom apparatus of the European stargazer, Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus. In: F.E. Russell and P.R. Saunders, [Eds.], Animal Toxins. Pergamon Press, New York. Pp. 177-186, 10 figs.

(118) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins, new foods, and drugs from the sea. Presented to: Marine Technology Society, University of Rhode Island. 10p. (Limited distribution).

1968

(119) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biological hazards. J. Ocean Technol. 2(3):46-49.

(120) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins and marine food resources. 11 p. (Unpublished)

(121) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins, new foods, and drugs from the sea. In: Drugs From the Sea. Transactions of the Drugs From the Sea Symposium, University of Rhode Island, 27-29 August 1967. Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. pp. 229-239.

(122) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins, world food supply, and the need for an international surveillance program. Presented to: Consultants on the Problems of Toxicants in Marine Food Products, World Health Organization, Geneva, 18-22 Nov. 1968. 6 p. (Limited distribution)

(123) Halstead, B.W.

New drugs from the sea - the state of the art. Presented to: Oceanography as an Investment, 2nd/ Annual Conference, 2-4 December 1968. 12 p.

(124) Halstead, B.W.

Powerful poisons in marine organisms - a factor in using foods from the sea. Maritime 2:5-6,10.

(125) Halstead, B.W.

The significance of marine biotoxins to marine protein concentrates and food from the sea. Presented to: Seminar on Ichthyosarcotoxism, South Pacific Commission, French Polynesia, 16-22 August 1968. 21 p. (Limited distribution)

(126) Der Marderosian, A.H., Youngken, H.W., Jr., and B.W. Halstead

An outline for a new course in marine pharmacognosy. Am. J. Pharm. Educ. 32:219-245, 3 figs.

(127) Rice, R.D. and B.W. Halstead

Report of fatal cone shell sting by Conus geographus Linnaeus. Toxicon 5:223-224.

1969

(128) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous marine animals. Text for proposed book by Doug Falkner. 9 p. (Unpublished).

(129) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous marine animals. Unit 16-B. Supplement to Naval Medical School Kinescope Film No. HA-PMB-722. U.S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. 14 p.

(130) Halstead, B.W.

Hazardous marine life. In: J.J. Meyers, C.H. Holm and R.F. McAllister, [Eds.], Handbook of Ocean and Underwater Engineering. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. Pp. 10/23-10/44.

(131) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biodynamic chemicals - a neglected resource. Congressional Record, 2 October 1969. pp. E8090-E8092.

(132) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins: A new source of medicinals. Lloydia 32(4):484-488.

(133) Halstead, B.W.

Ocean resources and marine biomedicine. Congressional Record, 3 June 1969. 115(91):E4568-E4570.

(134) Halstead, B.W.

The sea—source of life-giving substances. 13 p. (Limited distribution)

(135) Halstead, B.W.

The significance of marine biotoxins to marine protein concentrates and food from the sea. Restricted communication to President’s Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources for preparation of: Our Nation and the Sea. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 21 p.

(136) Halstead, B.W.

Statement regarding the recommendation for the establishment of a National Institute of Marine Medicine and Pharmacology. In: Hearing before the subcommittee on merchant marine fisheries. House of Representatives. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. (No. 91-5). pp. 465-486.

(137) Halstead, B.W.

Toxicology of marine animals. In: F.E. Firth, [Ed.], Encyclopedia of Marine Resources. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. pp. 675-687, 13 figs.

(138) Rathjen, W.E. and B.W. Halstead

Report on two fatalities due to sting-rays. Toxicon 6:301-302.

1970

(139) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous marine animals. [In Russian]; Hydrometerological Publishers, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. 160 p., illust.

(140) Halstead, B.W.

Investigations on fish poisoning. Caribbean Fishery Development Project (Phase 2), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States (FI: SF/CAR. Reg. 189). 16 p.

(141) Halstead, B.W.

Pharmacological testing of blue-green algae for constituents having therapeutic value. In: Water Pollution Control Research Series. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. (No. 5501-0123) 13 p.

(142) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Vol. 3, 1006 p., illust.

(143) Halstead, B.W.

Recommendations to the President’s commission on marine science, engineering, and resources for a national program in marine biomedicine. In: H.W. Youngken, Jr., [Ed.], Food-Drugs From the Sea. Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. pp. 11-21.

(144) Halstead, B.W.

Toxicity of marine organisms caused by pollutants. Presented to: FAO Technical Conference on Marine Pollution and Its Effect on Living Resources and Fishing, 9-18 December 1970. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FIR: MP/70/R-6 (WM/ A8087). 21 p.

(145) Halstead, B.W. and D.D. Danielson

Death from the depths. Oceans 3(6):14-25, illust.

(146) Halstead, B.W.

Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania sp. in the Philippines. Clin. Toxicol. 3(4):609-611.

(147) Bagnis, R., Berglund, F., Elias, P.S., Van Esch, G.J., Halstead, B.W., and K. Kojima.

Problems of toxicants in marine food products. 1. Marine biotoxins. Bull. WHO 42:69-88. (Written by B.W.H.)

(148) Cooke, T.S. and B.W. Halstead

Report of stingings by coelenterate Rhizophysa eysenhardti Gegenbaur in California waters. Clin. Toxicol. 3(4):589-595, 5 figs.

(149) Levy, S., Masry, D., and B.W. Halstead

Report of stingings by the sea anemone Triactis producta Kluzinger from Red Sea. Clin. Toxicol. 3(4):637-643, 4 figs.

(150) Mote, G.E., Halstead, B.W., and Y. Hashimoto

Occurrence of toxic crabs in the Palau Islands. Clin. Toxicol. 3(4):597-607, 3 figs.

1971

(151) Halstead, B.W.

Cancer & other abnormalities in fish. In: Water Pollution, Fish Disease, & Human Health. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries & Wildlife Conservation of the Committee on Merchant Marine Fisheries, House of Representatives, 91st/Congress, Ser. No. 91-42. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. pp. 351-409 (355-363, 404-405).

(152) Halstead, B.W.

Drugs from the sea. This is Japan (18):45-46.

(153) Halstead, B.W.

Marine pollution and human health. California Med. 115(6):61-62.

(154) Halstead, B.W.

Pollution problems relating to oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef. Presented to: The Australian Royal Commission's Hearings on Oil Drilling on the Great Barrier Reef, Brisbane, 21-22 June 1971. (Unpublished, but included in the official proceedings of the hearings)

(155) Halstead, B.W.

The sting of the sea. Emerg. Med. 3(7):64-79.

(156) Halstead, B.W.

Toxicological aspects of marine pollution. Presented to: GESAMP, Report No. 3, Rome, 22-27 February 1971. 15 p.

(157) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous coelenterates: hydroids, jellyfishes, corals,and sea anemones. In: W. Bucherl, E. Buckley, and V. Deulofeu, [Eds.], Venomous Animals and Their Venoms. Academic Press, New York. 3:395-417,10 figs.

(158) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous echinoderms and annelids: Starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and segmented worms. In: W. Bucherl, E. Buckley, and V. Deulofeu, [Eds.], Venomous Animals and Their Venoms. Academic Press, New York. 3:419-441, 10 figs.

(159) Halstead, B.W.

Venomous fishes. In: W. Bucherl, E. Buckley, and V. Deulofeu, [Eds.], Venomous Animals and Their Venoms. Academic Press, New York. 2:587-626, 22 figs.

(160) Halstead, B.W., and L. Halstead Baldwin

Mistress of mankind. Skin Diver 20(3):14-17.

(161) Halstead, B.W., and K.J. Beukema

Proposal for the establishment of a natural products institute for the economic development of underdeveloped countries. Presented to: Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. 21 p. (Limited distribution)

(162) Halstead, B.W., Engen, P.C., and D.D. Danielson

Morphology of the venom organs of the rabbitfishes (family Teuthidae). In: A. de Vies and E. Kochva, [Eds.], Toxins of Animal and Plant Origin. Tel-Avis University. 1:121-157, 29 figs.

(163) Cooke, T.S. and B.W. Halstead

Errata to: Report of stingings by the coelenterate, Rhizophysa eysenhardti Gegenbaur, in California waters (Clin. Toxicol. 3(4):589-595). Clin. Toxicol. 4(2):302.

(164) Hansen, P.A. and B.W. Halstead

The venomous sea anemone Actinodendron plumosum Haddon of South Vietnam. Micronesia 7(1/2):123-136, 5 figs.

1972

(165) Halstead, B.W.

Final report: Monograph on poisonous plants of the world. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Grant No. 5 (RO1-LM-00072-05). 15 p. (Limited distribution)

(166) Halstead, B.W.

A golden guide to environmental organizations. Golden Press, New York. 63 p.

(167) Halstead, B.W.

Pharmaceuticals from the sea. New Scient. 56(823):564-567.

(168) Halstead, B.W.

Toxicity of marine organisms caused by pollutants. In: M. Ruivo, [Ed.], Marine Pollution and Sea Life. Fishing News (Books) Ltd., London. pp. 584-594.

(169) Halstead, B.W.

A working paper on the surveillance of biotoxins in marine food products. Presented to: GESAMP, Geneva. 31 p. (Limited distribution)

(170) Halstead, B.W. and L. Halstead Baldwin

Mares envenendados? [In Spanish]; Salud Mundial (May):16-21.

(171) Halstead, B.W. and L. Halstead Baldwin

O mar - sinais de perigo para o homem. [In Portuguese]; A Saude Do Mundo (May):16-21.

(172) Halstead, B.W., and L. Halstead Baldwin

The sea - danger signals for man. [In Russian]; Zdrovie Mira (May):16-21.

(173) Halstead, B.W., Danielson, D.D., Baldwin, W.J., and P.C. Engen

Morphology of the venom apparatus of the leatherback fish Scomberoides sanctipetri (Cuvier). Toxicon 10:249-258, 5 figs.

(174) Halstead, B.W. and L. Halstead Baldwin

Die meere - Gefahrensignale fur den menschen. [In German]; Weltgesundheit (May):16-21.

(175) Halstead, B.W. and L. Halstead Baldwin

Le danger qui viet de la mer. [In French]; Sante du Monde (May):16-21.

(176) Halstead, B.W. and L. Halstead Baldwin

The sea, danger signals for man. World Health (May):16-21.

(177) Roche, E.T. and B.W. Halstead

The venom apparatus of California rockfishes (family Scorpaenidae). California Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin 156. 49 p., 45 figs.

1973

(178) Halstead, B.W.

Aquatic resources. Diving World 1(4):189-191.

(179) Halstead, B.W.

Concept of toxicity indicator profiles. Presented to: GESAMP as a World Health Organization Consultant. 4 p. (Limited distribution)

(180) Halstead, B.W.

Death from the sea. Life Health 88(5):18-20, 7 figs.

(181) Halstead, B.W.

Marine pollution and the pharmaceutical scientist. Am. J. Pharm. Educ. 37:267-275.

(182) Halstead, B.W.

Portuguese man-of-war stings. In: H.F. Conn, [Ed.], Current Therapy. W. B. Saunders, Co., Philadelphia. pp. 870.

(183) Halstead, B.W.

Sea of death. 30 p. (Limited distribution)

(184) Halstead, B.W., and K.W. Cox

A fatal case of poisoning by the red spotted crab Carpilius maculatus (Linnaeus) in Mauritius. Proc. Roy. Soc. Arts Sci. Mauritius 4(2):27-30, 1 pl.

(185) Halstead, B.W., and K.W. Cox

An investigation on fish poisoning in Mauritius. Proc. Roy. Soc. Arts Sci. Mauritius 4(2)1-26, 4 pls.

1974

(186) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation Therapy. Life and Health Medical Group, Loma Linda, CA. 10 p.

(187) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation Therapy. World Life Research Institute, Colton. 7 p. (Limited distribution)

(188) Halstead, B.W.

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Consultant). 25^th ed. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. 1748 p.

(189) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxicology. In: F. Coulston, [Ed.], Global Aspects of Chemistry, Toxicology and Technology as Applied to the Environment: Environmental Quality and Safety. Academic Press, New York. 3:212-239.

(190) Halstead, B.W.

Marine biotoxins - an important group of environmental poisons. Presented to: First World Congress on Environmental Medicine and Biology, UNESCO, Paris, 1-5 July 1974. 19 p. (Limited distribution)

(191) Halstead, B.W.

Portuguese man-of-war stings. In: H.F. Conn, [Ed.], Current Therapy. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. pp. 867.

1975

(192) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous animals and plants. In: Encyclopedia Britannica, 15^th ed. 14:606-616, 6 pls.

(193) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation Therapy. Life Force, Inc., San Bernardino, CA. 14 p.

(194) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation Therapy. Life and Health Medical Group, Loma Linda, CA. 11 p. (Revised)

(195) Halstead, B.W.

A dying sea. Presented to: California State Legislature - Resources and Land Committee, State Capitol, Sacramento, 10 March 1975. 13 p. (Limited distribution)

(196) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and venomous marine animals. In: The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau. Danbury Press, New York. 20:54-71.

(197) Halstead, B.W., and H.W. Harper

Evaluation of EDTA chelation therapy in coronary occlusive disease - clinical protocol. 14 p. (Unpublished)

(198) Halstead, B.W. and B.L. Landa

Tropical Fish. Golden Press, New York. 160 p., illust.

(199) Halstead, B.W.

Toxic Fish and Mollusks. Information Bulletin No. 12. Air Training Command. Environmental Information Division. Maxwell Air Force, Alabama. (Info. Used in this bulletin is Dr. Halstead’s three-volume work on Poisonous and Venemous Marine Animals of the World).

1976

(200) Halstead, B.W.

Biotoxins: The poisons of life. In: 1977 Yearbook of Science and the Future. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago. pp. 220-233.

(201) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation Therapy. Life and Health Medical Group, Redlands, CA. 14 p.

(202) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous sea creatures (Consultant). In: T.A. Dozier, Wild, Wild World of Animals. Time Life Films, New York. 128 p., illust.

(203) Halstead, B.W.

Hazardous marine life. In: R. Strauss, [Ed.], Diving Medicine. Grune and Stratton, New York. pp. 227-256, 9 figs.

(204) Halstead, B.W.

Health maintenance program - general information circular. Life and Health Medical Group, Redlands, CA. 5 p.

(205) Halstead, B.W.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Life and Health Medical Group, Redlands, CA. 10 p.

(206) Halstead, B.W.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 26 p., 2 figs. (Revised)

(207) Halstead, B.W.

Shellfish emotionalism. Clin. Toxicol. 9(1):1-2.

(208) Halstead, B.W.

Use of chelating agents in heavy metal poisoning. Presented to: Proceeding of the 1^st International Symposium on Industrial Wastes and Environment, Caracas, Venezuela, 14-19 November 1976. 35 p. (Limited distribution)

(209) Scharffenberg, R.S., Scharffenberg, M.D., and B.W. Halstead

EDTA chelation literature. Author index, 81 p. Subject index, 57 p. American Academy of Medical Preventics, North Hollywood, CA.

(210) Halstead, B.W.

Edible and Hazardous Marine Life. Air Training Command. Environmental Information Division. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. (Advice and photos support by B.W. Halstead).

1977

(211) Halstead, B.W.

Amygdalin fact sheet. 11 p. (Unpublished)

(212) Halstead, B.W.

Amygdalin (Laetrile) routine - clinical protocol. 4 p. (Unpublished)

(213) Halstead, B.W.

Amygdalin (Laetrile) Therapy. Choice Publications, Inc., Los Altos. 47 p.

(214) Halstead, B.W.

Biochemical basis of EDTA - chelation therapy. Presented to: Health Care Horizons Seminar, American International Hospital, Zion. 72 p.

(215) Halstead, B.W.

Biotoxins from the oceans of the world as a source of new pharmaceutical agents. Drug Information Bulletin, College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati. (Abstract only)

(216) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation therapy explained by Life-Health group. Redlands Facts, Area News, Peoples Column, January. 1 p.

(217) Halstead, B.W.

Portuguese man-of-war (jellyfish) stings. In: H.F. Conn,[Ed.], Current Therapy. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. pp. 925.

1978

(218) Halstead, B.W.

Amygdalin (Laetrile) Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 47 p. (Revised)

(219) Halstead, B.W.

Bioecological aspects: Ecological biogenesis of paralytic shellfish poisoning, Preliminary Report. Presented to: World Health Organization Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Conference, West Berlin, 5-8 December 1978. 5 p. (Limited distribution)

(220) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous marine animals. In: Handbook of Zoo and Aquarium Keepers - The Prevention of Keeper’s Accidents by Animals. [In Japanese]; Japan Zoo Aquarium Association. pp. 67-84.

(221) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous Marine Animals. Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville. 208 p., 16 pls., 110 figs. (Revised)

(222) Halstead, B.W.

Gerovital (Procaine) Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 9 p.

(223) Halstead, B.W.

Gerovital (Procaine) Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton. 19 p. (Revised)

(224) Halstead, B.W.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. J. No. W. Acad. Prev. Med. 2(1):10-13.

(225) Halstead, B.W.

Life-giving substances from the sea - an untapped biomedical resource. In: Proposal to the People’s Republic of China for a joint Chinese-American Helicopter Conquest of Oomolangma Feng (Mt. Everest). William Hall Group, March 1978. 20 p. (Limited distribution)

(226) Halstead, B.W.

Metabolic Cancer Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 19 p.

(227) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. The Darwin Press, Inc., Princeton. Rev. ed., 1043 p., illust.

(228) Halstead, B.W.

Portuguese man-of-war (jellyfish) stings. In: H.F. Conn, [Ed.], Current Therapy. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. pp. 881.

(229) Halstead, B.W.

Procurement of crude pharmaceutical products. Presented to: Undersea Medical Society Symposium on New Drugs From the Sea. 11 p. (Limited distribution)

(230) Halstead, B.W.

Toxicological aspects and detection of the toxin(s). Presented to: World Health Organization Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Conference, West Berlin, 5-8 December 1978. 1 p. (Limited distribution)

(231) Halstead, B.W.

Toxicological aspects of marine pollution. Eff. Water. Treatment J. 11(12):671-673.

(232) Halstead, B.W.

World Life Research Institute Brochure. World Life Research Institute, Colton. 12 p.

(233) Halstead, B.W., Engen, P.C., and A.T. Tu

The venom and venom apparatus of the sea snake Lapemis hardwicki Gray. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 63(4):371-396, 17 figs.

(234) McCabe, M.J., Hammon, W.M., Halstead, B.W., and T.H. Newton

A fatal brain injury caused by a needlefish. Neuroradiology 15:137-139, 3 figs.

1979

(235) Halstead, B.W.

America’s health fraud. The Mature Am.:10-11.

(236) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation therapy. Rev. ed. Golden Quill Pub., Colton, CA. 22 p.

(237) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation therapy notebook. Public Scrutiny (7):7,9.

(238) Halstead, B.W.

Contributor - Report of the World Health Organization expert consultation on paralytic shellfish poisoning, 5-8 December 1978, West Berlin, Germany. WHO, Final Report. 15 p.

(239) Halstead, B.W.

Contributor - Report of the World Health Organization expert consultation on paralytic shellfish poisoning, 5-8 December 1978, West Berlin, Germany. WHO, Preliminary Report. 15 p. [In Japanese].

(240) Halstead, B.W.

Contributor - Report of the World Health Organization expert consultation on paralytic shellfish poisoning, 5-8 December 1978, West Berlin, Germany. WHO, Final Report. 15 p. [In Japanese].

(241) Halstead, B.W.

Podiatrists alerted to beach stings. Podiatry News 17(2):1,4.

(242) Halstead, B.W.

The Scientific Basis of EDTA Chelation Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 113 p., 15 figs.

(243) Halstead, B.W.

The toxicology of amygdalin (Laetrile). In: R. W. Bradford and M. L. Culbert, [Eds.], The Metabolic Management of Cancer. Robert W. Bradford Foundation, Los Altos, CA. pp. 63-68.

(244) Halstead, B.W.

The use of cyanogenic glycoside amygdalin in the treatment of cancer. Presented to: The 14^th Pacific Science Congress, Khabarovsk, U.S.S.R., 20 August – 5 Sept. 1979. 17 p. (Limited distribution).

1980

(245) Halstead, B.W.

The cancer “cure”. 16 p. (Limited distribution)

(246) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous Marine Animals. 2^nd ed. Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville, MD. 208 p., 16 pls., 110 figs.

(247) Halstead, B.W.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 26 p., 2 figs. (Revised)

(248) Halstead, B.W.

Metabolic Cancer Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 28 p. (Revised)

(249) Halstead, B.W.

Two routes of medicine. Chem. Sci. 8:35-36. [In Russian].

(250) Halstead, B.W., and L.L. Hood

Need for the translation of the Pen Ts’ao Kang Mu, the great herbal of China. Bull. Orient. Heal. Arts Inst. 5(7):19-43.

(251) Halstead, B.W.

Eleutherococcus has a tremendous future! Chemistry & Life:40.

1981

(252) Halstead, B.W.

Chelation Therapy. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 29 p. (Revised)

(253) Halstead, B.W.

Current status of marine biotoxicology - an overview. Clin. Toxicol. 18(1)1-24.

(254) Halstead, B.W.

Portuguese man-of-war (jellyfish) stings. In: H.F. Conn,[Ed.], Current Therapy. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. pp. 991-992.

(255) Halstead, B.W.

Preface. In: J.M. Hoffman, The Missing Link. Professional Press Publishing Co., Valley Center. 424 p.

(256) Halstead, B.W., and S.A. Youngberg

The DMSO Handbook. Golden Quill Publishers, Inc., Colton, CA. 130 p.

1982

(257) Halstead, B.W.

Immune augmentation therapy. Anabolism 1(3):7-8.

(258) Halstead, B.W.

Now you can use DMSO for a healthier life. Mod. Health Rep. 14:1-8.

(259) Halstead, B.W.

Stings of the sea. Emerg. Med. 14(13):183-210.

(260) Auerbach, P.S. and B.W. Halstead

Marine hazards: Attacks and envenomations. J. Emerg. Nursing 8(3):115-122.

(261) Williams, D.R., and B.W. Halstead

Medical progress review: Chelating agents in medicine. J. Clin. Toxicol. 19(10):1081-1115.

1983

(262) Auerbach, P.S. and B.W. Halstead

Hazardous marine life. In: Auerbach, P. S. and E. C. Geeher, [Eds.], Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies. Macmillan Publ. Co., New York. pp. 213-259.

(263) Halstead, B.W. and L.L. Hood

Amazon house call. Dolphin Log (December):12-13.

(264) Halstead, B.W. and L.L. Hood

Siberian ginseng: New hope for the hopelessly tired. Let’s Live 51(12):68-71.

(265) Halstead, B.W., and L.L. Hood

Marine drugs: New hope from the sea. Aquasphere 17(2):2-7.

1984

(266) Halstead, B.W. and E.J. Schantz

Intoxicacion paralitica por mariscos. [In Spanish]; World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Offset Publication No. 79. 60 p.

(267) Halstead, B.W. and E.J. Schantz

L’ intoxication paralytique par fruits de mer. [In French]; World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Offset Publication No. 79. 60 p.

(268) Halstead, B.W. and E.J. Schantz

Paralytic shellfish poisoning. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Offset Publication No. 79. 60 p.

(269) Halstead, B.W. and J.G. Defares

Kleine gids voor de chelatietherapie. [In Dutch]; Centre Orthomoleculaire, Boerhaavelaan 8, Leiden, Holland. 64 p.

(270) Halstead, B.W. and L.L. Hood

Natural methods to enhance immunity. Bull. Orient. Heal. Arts Inst. 9(8):371-421.

(271) Halstead, B.W., and L.L. Hood

Eleutherococcus senticosus Siberian ginseng: An introduction to the concept of adaptogenic medicine. Oriental Healing Arts Institute, Long Beach, CA. 94 p.

(272) Halstead, B.W.

Miscellaneous seafood toxicants. In: E.P. Ragelis [Ed.], Seafood Toxins, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. pp. 37-51.

1985

(273) Halstead, B.W.

Coelenterate stings: Hydroids, jellyfishes, sea anemones, coral cuts, and their treatment. In: Edlich, R. F. and D. A. Spyker, [Eds.], Current Emergency Therapy, Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville. Pp. 827-834.

(274) Halstead, B.W.

Immune augmentation therapy. J. Int. Acad. Prev. Med. 9(1):5-19.

1986

(275) Halstead, B.W.

AIDS genetically engineered? Freedom Fighter (January):1-12.

(276) Halstead, B.W.

Our pollution is destroying us. Voice of the People, The San Bernardino Sun (Sunday, August 31):I4.

(277) Halstead, B.W.

The present status of traditional oriental medicine in the U.S.A. In: Proceedings of 4th International Congress of Oriental Medicine, 19-21 October 1986, Kyoto, Japan. Pp. 56-61.

1987

(278) Halstead, B.W.

Tire-burning plant. Voice of the People, San Bernardino Sun (Sunday, January 18):D3.

(279) Halstead, B.W.

Coelenterate (Cnidarian) stings and wounds. In: R. M. Mandojana, [Ed.], Clinics in Dermatology. 5(3):8-13.

(280) Halstead, B.W., and J.M. Vinci

Venomous fish stings (Ichthyoacanthotoxicoses). In: R. M. Mandojana, [Ed.], Clinics in Dermatology. 5(3):29-35.

(281) Halstead, B.W.

AIDS, cancer, radiation will wreck ‘orthodox’ medicine in U.S., lead to needed health reform. The Choice 13(2):14-15.

1988

(282) Halstead, B.W. and J.M. Vinci

Biology of poisonous and venomous marine animals. In: A. T. Tu [Ed.], Marine Toxins and Venoms: Handbook of Natural Toxins. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 3:1-30.

(283) Halstead, B.W.

Radiation sickness, AIDS, and cancer. Quantum Med. 1(1,2):120-127.

(284) Halstead, B.W.

Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. 2^nd rev. ed. Darwin Press, Inc., Princeton. 1168 p., illust.

1989

(285) Halstead, B.W.

Secondary immune deficiency disorders and the use of Chinese traditional herbs in AIDS. In: B.C. Enger and E.R. Long, [Eds.], AIDS Immunity and Chinese Medicine. Oriental Healing Arts Institute, Long Beach, CA. pp. 28-34.

(286) Auerbach, P.S. and B.W. Halstead

Hazardous aquatic life. In: Auerbach, P. S. and E. C. Geehr, [Eds.], Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies. 2^nd ed. C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis. pp. 933-1028.

(287) Halstead, B.W.

Introduction. In: M.L. Culbert, Aids, Hope, Hoax, and Hoopla. The Bradford Foundation, Chula Vista, CA. 9 p.

1990

(288) Halstead, B.W., Auerbach, P., and D. Campbell

Colour Atlas of Dangerous Marine Animals. Wolfe Medical Publishing, Ltd., London, England. 192 p.

(289) Halstead, B.W., and C.L. Foster

Drugs from the sea. Chinese J. Mar. Drugs. 9(1):1-32.

(290) Halstead, B.W.

Introduction. In: M.L. Culbert, AIDS, Hope, Hoax, and Hoopla, 1990’s Updated ed. The Bradford Foundation, Chula Vista. 8 p.

1991

(291) Halstead, B.W.

State wastes water. Voice of the People, The San Bernardino Sun (Sunday, April 9).

(292) Halstead, B.W.

Free radical pathology and its immunological consequences: Free radical pathology. J. Adv. Med. 4(2):93-105.

(293) Halstead, B.W.

Free radical pathology and its immunological consequences: Adaptogenic nutrition. J. Adv. Med. 4(3):167-184.

1992

(294) Halstead, B.W. and R.L. Haddock

A fatal outbreak of poisoning from the ingestion of red seaweed Gracilaria tsuda in Guam - Review of the oral marine biotoxicity problem. J. Nat. Tox. 1(1): 87-115

(295) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous Aquatic Animals of the World: A Color Atlas. Darwin Press. Princeton, NJ. 284 p.

(296) Halstead, B.W., Foster, C.L., et al

Cuban marine algae as sources of potent antiherpetic and anticholinesterase metabolites. J. Nat. Tox. 1(2): 39-45.

1993

(297) Halstead, B.W. and L.L. Hood

Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals and Plants of Southern Asia. In: Toxin-Related Diseases. Poisons Originating From Plants, Animals, and Spoilage. [Ed.] Anthony T. Tu. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. pp. 137-236.

1994

(298) Halstead, B.W.

Fish Toxins. In: Foodborne Disease Handbook, Diseases Caused By Hazardous Substances. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York. pp 463-496.

(299) Halstead, B.W.

Other Poisonous Marine Animals. In: Foodborne Disease Handbook, Diseases Caused By Hazardous Substances. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. pp 497-528.

1995

(300) Halstead, B.W. and P.S. Auerbach

Injuries from non-venomous aquatic animals. In: Wilderness Medicine, Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies, 3^rd ed. Mosby-Year Book, Inc., St. Louis, MO. pp 1303-1326.

(301) Halstead, B.W., Auerbach, P.S. and D. Campbell

Colour Atlas of Dangeous Marine Animals. (In Japanese) Wolf Medical Publishing, Ltd., London, England. 192 pgs.

(302) Halstead, B.W.

Dangerous Marine Animals. 3^rd Edition. Cornell Maritime Press. Centerville, MD. 275 pgs.

1996

(303) Halstead, B.W.

Marine Animal Injuries. In: Conn’s Current Therapy. [Ed.] R. E. Rakel. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia. pp. 1147-1149.

1997

(304) Halstead, B. W. and T. C. Rozema

The Scientific Basis of EDTA Chelation Therapy. Second Edition. TRC Publishing, Landum, SC. 267 p.

1999

Halstead, B. W.

Fossil Stony Coral Minerals and Their Nutritional Application. Health Digest Publishing Co. Cannon Beach, OR. 141 pgs.

2000

(306) Halstead, B.W.

Fish Toxins. In: Foodborne Disease Handbook: Volume 4: Seafood and Environmental Toxins. [Eds.] Hui, Kitts, Stanfield. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York. pp 23-50.

(307) Halstead, B.W.

Other Poisonous Marine Animals. In: Foodborne Disease Handbook: Volume 4: Seafood and Environmental Toxins. [Eds.] Hui, Kitts, Stanfield. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. pp 51-76.

(308) Halstead, B. W.

Marine Animal Injuries. In: Conn’s Current Therapy. [Ed.] R. E. Rakel. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia. pp. 1141-1144.

(309) Halstead, B. W.

Marine Animal Injuries. In: Advances in Medicine. [Ed.] R. F. Edlich. ABI Professional Publications. pp. 703-715.

2001

Halstead, B.W.

The Microbial Biogenesis of Aquatic Biotoxins. Toxicological Methods. In Press.

Works In Progress

(311) Halstead, B.W.

Chinese Adaptogenic Nutritional Therapy for AIDS, Cancer, and Radiation Sickness. Approx. 900 pgs.

(312) Halstead, B.W.

Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Amazonia and Adjacent Regions.

(312) Halstead, B. W. and L. C. Medrano

United States Military Survival Manual – Dangerous Animals of the Middle East Region. Darwin Press. Princeton, NJ. Approx. 250 pgs.

(314) Halstead, B.W.

Laetrile and Cancer Politics – The Cancer Holocaust.

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BWH - Academic Record

2007-09-29T14:58:00.000-07:00

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
ACADEMIC RECORD

A.A. -Biology
1941
San Francisco City College
San Francisco, CA

B.A. - Zoology
1943
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

M.D. - Medicine
1948
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Loma Linda, CA

B.S. - Naturopathy & Traditional Medicine
1983
Academy of Natural Therapies
Gold Coast, North Queensland, Australia

BWH - Military Record

2007-09-29T14:38:00.000-07:00

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
MILITARY RECORD

U.S. Army (PFC)
Enlisted Reserve Corps, Army Specialized Training Program
August 4, 1942 to August 18, 1946.

U.S. Public Health Service
Assistant Surgeon
July 21, 1947 to July 20, 1952.

U.S. Navy
Commander
Medical Corps, USNR
January 1, 1957 to July 11, 1971.

U.S. Marine Corps
Medical Officer
4th Force Reconnaissance Co.,
Force Troops, FMF,
U.S. Marine Corps, San Bernardino, CA
September 14, 1959 to July 11, 1971.

U.S. Navy
Commander
USNR
Retired July 12, 1971.

U.S. Navy Medical School
Consultant in Global Medicine
National Naval Medical Center
Department of the Navy
1968

U.S. Air Force
School of Aerospace Medicine,
Lecturer
Marine Biotoxicology and Soviet Medicine
Brooks Air Force Base, Texas
1967 to 1972

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