HOW DOES ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY DIFFER FROM CONVENTIONAL THERAPY?
Antibiotic therapy is based on the theory that inflammatory rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, lupus, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, polymyositis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc. have an infectious cause, namely mycoplasma and other bacterial L forms. Using low dose antibiotics, particularly from the tetracycline family, the disease is attacked at its source. This therapy is equally effective in patients with severe and/or long standing disease as it is in those with mild to moderate disease. Thomas McPherson Brown, M.D. (1906-1989), a renowned rheumatologist who practiced in the Washington, D.C. area, pioneered this treatment over fifty years ago and successfully used it to treat over ten thousand patients. The toxic medications used in conventional therapy are prescribed to try and control or suppress the symptoms. They may or may not work. If they do work, it is only a matter of time before they either lose their effectiveness or the patient develops side eff
