Ernest H. Tipper

Ernest Harry Tipper M.R.C.S was an English physician, surgeon and alternative cancer treatment advocate.

Biography

Tipper served for many years in the West African Medical Service. He authored The Cradle of the World and Cancer, in 1927. The book was based on his twenty years of medical practice in Nigeria. He examined only six cases of cancer out of an estimated 300,000 patients. The Nigerian diet was low in meat and high in fibre which is opposite to the European diet. They live on beans, fruits, seeds, monkey nuts, yams, maize, cayenne peppers, palm oil and occasionally palm wine. They eat eggs and fish, the occasional chicken but rarely any red meat. The drinking of milk is repulsive to the natives. Tipper reported that the men can carry a load of 50 lb on their heads 25 miles a day in tropical heat and their bones and teeth are remarkable.

Selected publications

The Cradle of the World and Cancer: A Disease of Civilisation (1927)