Daniel Thomas Quigley

Daniel Thomas Quigley (27 June 1876 – 2 October 1968) was an American physician, surgeon and writer.

Biography

Quigley was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. His father was Thomas Barlett Quigley. He studied at Englewood Hospital under surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.

In 1929, Quigley authored The Conquest of Cancer by Radium and Other Methods. It was positively reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association but the reviewer noted that a weakness of the book was that it did not describe the methods of how the radium was used in treatment. Another reviewer noticed this, commenting "in no case is filtration mentioned and even the manner of application and the form in which the radium was used, are often omitted". It was negatively reviewed in the Annals of Internal Medicine which described it as "an extraordinary collection of pathological ignorance and misconceptions".

Nutrition

Quigley was also an advocate of nutritional therapy to treat cancer and recommended that people eat a vitamin-rich diet to prevent disease. In his book Notes and Vitamins and Diet (1933), Quigley reported results from his and others clinical work which concluded that consumption of processed foods like cakes, candy, cookies, sweets, white bread and white flour is responsible for the high incidence of degenerative diseases in the United States.

Selected publications

Radiotherapy in Cancer (1921) Some Observations on Breast Cancer (1925) The Conquest of Cancer by Radium and Other Methods (1929) Notes on Vitamins and Diets (1933) The National Malnutrition (1950)