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Hippocrates Health Institute is a Florida-based massage clinic which gained significant critical attention after two Ontario First Nations children were treated there for leukaemia, instead of being given effective medical treatment. The clinic and its directors have been accused of "preying on the last hopes of terminally ill patients". The clinic claims to have "had more people reverse cancer than any institute in the history of healthcare", claiming to have cured "tens of thousands of people". One of the directors, Brian Clement has been characterised as a "dangerous cancer charlatan" and "seller of snake oil" in the context of a controversial visit to Ireland in June 2015 promoting his claims to cure cancer. Cease-and-desist orders were issued against co-directors Brian and Anna-Maria Clement, both of whom represented themselves as doctors, requiring them to immediately cease the unlicensed practise of medicine. Brian Clement was also fined for the unlicensed practise of medicine.〔 Ex-employees are also suing the spa after being disciplined for speaking out against the Clements' pretended doctoring.〔 The "Hippocrates diet" was originated in the 1960s by a Lithuanian immigrant, Ann Wigmore, who claimed to have healed her own cancer with a raw food diet. She established the clinic in Boston and was successfully sued by the United States Attorney General in 1982 for claiming that her "healing enzyme soup" could eliminate the need for insulin in diabetics, and again in 1988 when she claimed that her "living foods diet" could cure AIDS. Brian Clement moved the clinic to Florida in 1987. One of the two First Nations children whose flight to the clinic began the media scrutiny, died of her leukaemia on 19 January 2015 after being taken out of treatment by her parents. Conflicting accounts emerged over whether the clinic was actually claiming to treat cancer: the clinic denied it but family members and journalists showed clear evidence of claims to treat or cure cancer. A second child, "J. J.", has acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease with a 90% cure rate with chemotherapy. Both children were given exemptions from attempts by child protection agencies to mandate further treatment, on the basis that they were entitled by laws protecting First Nations communities to pursue "traditional medicine", though the treatments offered are not in any way part of First Nations tradition. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hippocrates Health Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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