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| [[image:Rathdominikfeld.jpg|Rath with Dominik Feld|thumb]] | | [[image:Rathdominikfeld.jpg|Rath with Dominik Feld|thumb]] |
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− | The case of the young boy Dominik Feld, who fell ill with metastatic bone tumor and died while being treated with ''cellular medicine'' was widely covered by german media. Rath had declared the cancerridden nine-year-old ''healed'' at various events as a marketing medium for the effectiveness of his vitamin pills.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-36625928.html The case Dominik Feld in the german magazine "The Spiegel"]</ref> The parents, who believed in Rath had stopped the chemotherapy treatment of their son in May 2003, because they hoped for better healing chances with Rath's products. They started to treat him with micronutrients, the vitamin products of Dr. Rath. They took him to a clinic for [[alternative medicine]] in Tijuana, Mexico, which treats according to Rath's methods. The nine-year-old boy died on the first of November 2004. | + | The case of the young boy Dominik Feld, who fell ill with metastatic bone tumor and died while being treated with ''cellular medicine'' was widely covered by German media. Rath had declared the cancerridden nine-year-old ''healed'' at various events as a marketing scheme for the effectiveness of his vitamin pills.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-36625928.html The case Dominik Feld in the german magazine "The Spiegel"]</ref> The parents, who believed in Rath had stopped the chemotherapy treatment of their son in May 2003, they had hoped for better healing chances with Rath's products. They started to treat him with micro-nutrients, the vitamin products of Dr. Rath. They took him to a clinic for [[alternative medicine]] in Tijuana, Mexico, which treats according to Rath's methods. The nine-year-old boy died on the first of November 2004. |
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− | Rath started to place commercial ads at once which claimed that the boy did not die from cancer, but from coronary failure and malpractice - Botched by the normal medicine. The autopsy of the boy found a big tumor in the breast, which had pressed on lung and heart.<ref>[http://www.swr.de/report/presse/-/id=1197424/nid=1197424/did=2560136/1tf7kd5/index.html German News on "Der Fall Dominik"]</ref><ref>[http://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Todesermittlungsverfahren:_Dominik_Feld_starb_an_metastasierendem_Knochenkrebs_und_Tumorkachexie Wikinews on Dominik Felds death]</ref><ref>[http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/news/news.asp?id=25742 German Ärzteblatt on Dominik Feld]</ref> | + | Quickly Rath placed several commercial ads which claimed that the boy had not died from cancer, but from coronary failure and malpractice - botched by the normal medicine. Alas, the autopsy of the boy found a big tumor in the breast, which had pressed on lung and heart.<ref>[http://www.swr.de/report/presse/-/id=1197424/nid=1197424/did=2560136/1tf7kd5/index.html German News on "Der Fall Dominik"]</ref><ref>[http://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Todesermittlungsverfahren:_Dominik_Feld_starb_an_metastasierendem_Knochenkrebs_und_Tumorkachexie Wikinews on Dominik Felds death]</ref><ref>[http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/news/news.asp?id=25742 German Ärzteblatt on Dominik Feld]</ref> |
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| Rath wrote about the death of the Dominik Feld:<ref>[http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article710180/Dominik-tot-Ermittlungen-gegen-Krebs-Arzt.html German newspaper on Dominik Feld and the investigation against Rath]</ref> | | Rath wrote about the death of the Dominik Feld:<ref>[http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article710180/Dominik-tot-Ermittlungen-gegen-Krebs-Arzt.html German newspaper on Dominik Feld and the investigation against Rath]</ref> |
| :''"Jetzt bist du endlich frei, Dominik! Hier auf der Erde warst du gefangen, festgehalten auf einer Insel der Krebskranken. Wie Millionen Krebspatienten mit dir warst du angekettet an die Fesseln der Chemo-Medizin."'' | | :''"Jetzt bist du endlich frei, Dominik! Hier auf der Erde warst du gefangen, festgehalten auf einer Insel der Krebskranken. Wie Millionen Krebspatienten mit dir warst du angekettet an die Fesseln der Chemo-Medizin."'' |
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− | :''"Now you are free, Dominik, Here on earth, you were imprisoned, held on an island of the cancerafflicted. Like millions of cancer patients like you, you were chained in the shackles of the chemotherapy"'' | + | :''"Now you are free, Dominik, Here on earth, you were imprisoned, held on an island of the cancerafflicted. Like millions of cancer patients with you, you were chained in the shackles of the chemotherapy"'' |
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| ==Matthias Rath and AIDS== | | ==Matthias Rath and AIDS== |