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PASCHAL Carmody told the trial he successfully treated his dying broth- er at his east Clare clinic.
He said that he elongated his broth- er Peter’s life, with his cancer return- ing only after he discontinued the treatment.
Carmody, of Ballycuggaran, Kil- laloe, was accused of 25 separate charges of obtaining ©80,172 from six terminally ill cancer patients and their families by deception between September 2001 and October 2002.
Judge Rory McCabe told the jury on Wednesday that he would be di- recting them to find the accused not guilty on all charges relating to three patients and one charge relating to John Sheridan, due to insufficient evidence.
Mr Carmody told the court that he first became involved in compli- mentary medicine when he saw the benefits of bone setting to one of his patients.
He then went to England to study muscle and joint pain. In the 1980s he went to Germany and “was shocked” by the approach to medicine where the whole body was treated rather Wet 0 MN LORSI MW OComr-BUCorel (10 Mr: B uct
At this time he also worked on the principal of immunise enhancement therapy. He said the first cancer pa- tient he treated was a friend of his brother-in-law who was given one month to live.
“After much argument I agreed I would endeavour to get him one month extra. I put together what I could from the limited information | had at the time,” he said.
He put together a programme of
bio-oxidated treatments, photother- apy, hypertherapy and intravenous immunotherapy.
‘He survived two years. He went from six stone weight up to his own weight of 13.5 stone,” he said.
Mr Carmody said he had reserva- tions about treating Mark Hadden who was in his 20s and told his fa- ther that it was beyond his abilities. He suggested treatment in Germany.
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Mr Carmody said he then went to Germany and purchased the equip- ment needed to treat Mark and began treating the young man “for almost no cost”’.
He said that while Mark never “looked the healthiest”, his quality of life improved greatly.
The court heard last week that Mr Hadden who was given three months to live in 1996 died just weeks before Welom BME Dm olorer- 00
In 1998 he treated Maggie Porter for breast cancer.
A year later her husband Dr Wil- liam Porter came with Maggie to see Dr Carmody.
Paschal Carmody said they were interested in the work he was doing. He offered them a room in his own clinic, which they renovated them- TO AVone
Mr Carmody said that as Dr Porter had experience with lasers, “it made more sense for him to become in- volved with patients”.
“T would assess them and with him doing laser I could take on more pa- tients. My purpose was to assess pa- tients. If they were suitable I would prescribe a photosensitiser.”