Dissolving Illusions | Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History

Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History

By: Suzanne Humphries MD , Roman Bystrianyk

Dissolving Illusions details facts and figures from long-overlooked medical journals, books, newspapers, and other sources. Using myth-shattering graphs, this book shows that vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical interventions are not responsible for the increase in lifespan and the decline in mortality from infectious diseases. If the medical profession could systematically misinterpret and ignore key historical information, the question must be asked, “What else is ignored and misinterpreted today?”

Overview

It wasn’t long ago when infections plagued the Western world. Smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, typhoid, diphtheria, whooping cough, and other diseases were once considered a tragic part of life. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in the deaths from all these infectious diseases, decreasing by the mid-1900s to very low levels. The elimination of these diseases is one of the most amazing, yet unsung, public health revolutions in history. That journey from disease cesspool to our modern world is a tale of plagues and famine, crushing poverty and filth, lost cures, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests, and much more. 

Dissolving Illusions paints a historic portrait with quotes from the pages of long overlooked medical journals, books, newspapers, and other sources to reveal a startling history that has been disregarded. With this historic information and originally researched data in the form of myth-shattering graphs, Dissolving Illusions shines new light onto issues that are assumed to be clear-cut and settled long ago.

Authors

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Suzanne Humphries MD

Dr. Suzanne Humphries is a medical doctor, Internist and Board Certified Nephrologist. She is currently in private practice and continues to dispel the mythology surrounding vaccination. Be sure to check out her autobiography, Rising From The Dead as well as her Odysee channel

Roman Bystrianyk

Roman Bystrianyk has been researching the history of diseases and vaccines since 1998. He has an extensive background in health and nutrition as well as a B.S. in engineering and M.S. in computer science. Roman Bystrianyk has published his new book Moving Back from Midnight with co-author Kate Schmutter, available now on Amazon.

Dissolving Illusions:
Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
10th Anniversary Edition

Dissolving Illusions is a groundbreaking exploration of Western health history, challenging the belief that medical interventions alone eradicated infectious diseases. Drawing from historical records and data, it highlights how improved living conditions played the primary role in reducing mortality.

  • First Edition (2013) – Examines the true forces behind public health transformations. (504 pages)

  • 10th Anniversary Edition (Purple Cover) – Expanded with 200+ extra pages, 350+ new references, and more charts. New content is clearly marked. (745 pages)

  • 10th Anniversary Limited Edition (Black Cover) – Includes all content from the Anniversary Edition, with full-color images and personal photographs. Available exclusively through our website. (769 pages)

  • Companion & Reference Edition (Sandstone Cover) – A standalone resource featuring key quotes, facts, and historical accounts for quick reference or deeper study. (570 pages)

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7 Languages
4.9 stars on Amazon
#4 in Viral Diseases (Books)
#7 in Communicable Diseases (Books)
#14 in History of Medicine (Books)

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Reviews

Firstly establishing the historical record of abysmal sanitation and living conditions at the turn of the century, and secondly reviewing the mortality data from infectious disease in the public record, Dr Suzanne Humphries makes a compelling argument that infectious disease was conquered by improved sanitation and nutrition, and not by vaccination programs which were either ineffective or actually increased the mortality.

Jeffrey Dach MD Bio-Identical Hormones and Natural Thyroid

In three detailed chapters, we find out how even Edward Jenner’s famous cow-pox virus vaccine in 1798 was never compared by any large intervention trials, and the sources of its principal viral components were almost completely uncontrolled from batch to batch. Instead of protecting the public by imposing standards on vaccine manufacture, the British government imposed increasingly stringent penalties on parents for failure to vaccinate their children, imprisoning parents who refused to pay large fines for noncompliance.

Martin Michener, PhD PhD in biology from Harvard University and a BS in biology from Cornell University.
He is president of MIST Software Associates and science coordinator for the Carbon Farming Research Project.

If you have any interest in the vaccination debate – whether pro- or anti- – we strongly recommend that you invest in it immediately. The reason for our enthusiasm is likewise straightforward. Through painstaking research, the authors have unearthed vital, often long-forgotten data that offers vital answers as to whether vaccines are, or have ever been, “One of the greatest achievements of biomedical science and public health”.

Adam Smith Science & communications officer, ANH-Intl

The thoroughness of Humphries’s historical research is unlike anything I’ve seen before, a rare book that provides in-depth investigations documenting the medical history related to mass vaccination programs and infectious diseases.

Jeffrey Roberts Writer, Health Advocate, Collective Evolution

Even if you believe vaccines are safe, Dissolving Illusions should make it crystal clear that they are not necessary. If they are not necessary, why do our children receive more than four dozen by the time they go to school?

Jennifer Hutchinson Writer, Editor, VacTruth.com