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4 unusual facts about Josef Issels


Cancer bacteria

Other researchers and clinicians who worked with the theory that bacteria could cause cancer, especially from the 1930s to the 1960s, included Eleanor Alexander-Jackson, William Coley, William Crofton, Gunther Enderlein, Franz Gerlach, Josef Issels, Elise L'Esperance, Milbank Johnson, Arthur Kendall, Royal Rife, Florence Seibert, Wilhelm von Brehmer, and Ernest Villequez.

Josef Issels

His petition was granted, but he was immediately drafted and sent to the Eastern Front as a Wehrmacht combat medic.

Among his illustrious patients were Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley and British Olympic medallist Lillian Board, who both entered his Rottach-Egern clinic for treatment, who both died in spite of being treated by Issels.

A review of Issels' claims by the American Cancer Society concluded that there was no evidence that treatment with Issels Combination Therapy or any related treatments were effective against cancer.



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