The archive
51 cases. 5 centuries. The same pattern.
Life-extension interventions sold to the wealthy, 1558 to the present: the same
charismatic practitioner, exclusive access, vague mechanism, financial conflict, and eventual collapse, century after century.
Cases
La vita sobria (Cornaro's sober diet)
Luigi Cornaro
Animal magnetism (mesmerism)
Franz Anton Mesmer
Egyptian physical regeneration and the Wine of Egypt
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo)
Celestial Bed and Temple of Health
James Graham
Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism)
Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur
Brodum's Restorative Nervous Cordial and Botanical Syrup
William Brodum
Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine)
Samuel Hahnemann
Perkins Metallic Tractors
Elisha Perkins
Cordial Balm of Gilead
Samuel Solomon
Macrobiotics (Hufeland's art of prolonging life)
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine (Hygeian pills)
James Morison
The cold-water cure (Gräfenberg hydropathy)
Vincenz Priessnitz
St John Long's Corrosive Liniment and Inhalation
John St John Long
Grahamism (the Graham system of diet and hygiene)
Sylvester Graham
Liebig's Extractum Carnis (LEMCO)
Justus von Liebig (Baron Liebig)
Biologic living (the Battle Creek Idea)
John Harvey Kellogg
Arsenic slimming and complexion nostrums
The arsenic complexion-and-figure nostrum trade
The Kuhne friction sitz bath and 'New Science of Healing'
Louis Kuhne
Kneipp Cure (hydrotherapy, herbalism, and the 'five pillars')
Sebastian Kneipp
Wm. Radam's Microbe Killer
William Radam
Lahmann's Physiatric Regimen (dietetic blood-dyscrasia cure)
Heinrich Lahmann
Brown-Séquard testicular extract (organotherapy)
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Spermin-Poehl (Sperminum-Poehl) organotherapy
Alexander von Poehl
J.B.L. ('Joy, Beauty, Life') Cascade internal bath
Charles Alfred Tyrrell
Marine plasma (Sérum de Quinton)
René Quinton
Fletcherism (thorough mastication)
Horace Fletcher
Physical Culture (Macfadden's drugless system)
Bernarr Macfadden
Order-energy raw-food regimen (Bircher-Benner's 'Lebendige Kraft' nutrition)
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner
Bennett's rejuvenation system (muscular contractions and self-massage)
Sanford Bennett
Soured-milk ('Bulgarian bacillus') longevity therapy
Élie Metchnikoff
The Hazzard Fasting Cure
Linda Burfield Hazzard
Immortal Cell Culture (Carrel's Chick-Heart Experiment)
Alexis Carrel
Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA)
Albert Abrams
Brinkley goat-gland transplantation (goat-to-human gonad implant)
John R. Brinkley
The Hay System (food combining / 'food separation')
William Howard Hay
Steinach Vasoligation (Steinach Operation)
Eugen Steinach
Voronoff testicular xenograft (chimpanzee-to-human)
Serge Voronoff
Overbeck's Rejuvenator
Otto Overbeck
I-ON-A-CO
Gaylord Wilshire
Radithor
William J. A. Bailey
Hauser's "Wonder Foods" diet (Look Younger, Live Longer)
Gayelord Hauser
Cellular therapy (Frischzellentherapie)
Paul Niehans
Antireticular cytotoxic serum (ACS / ATsS)
Aleksandr Bogomolets
Orgone Energy Accumulator
Wilhelm Reich
Krebiozen Cancer Treatment
Andrew C. Ivy
Gerovital H3 (procaine anti-aging therapy)
Ana Aslan
Megadose vitamin C ('orthomolecular' ascorbate therapy)
Linus Pauling
Sirtuin-activating compounds (resveratrol, then NMN)
David A. Sinclair
Kevin Trudeau Natural Cures infomercial program (2002-2014)
Kevin Trudeau
Blueprint (Project Blueprint)
Bryan Johnson
Therapeutic plasma exchange with intravenous immunoglobulin (TPE-IVIG)
Buck Institute for Research on Aging / Circulate Health