It's Only Natural

Introduction

In August 1969 an event occurred that was to change the face of healing and medicine forever. This event was the opening of the Clymer Health Clinic on the out skirts of the pre revelational village of Quakertown Pennsylvania. While the opening itself was without much fanfare, the results of this event have been far reaching and permanent. While there had been various non-allopathic centers over the years, this was the first valid attempt to offer to ailing humanity a center where they could be assured of receiving the best of all the known methods of healing under one roof. From its inception the Clymer Health Clinic was devoted to the interests of the patient first and the ego of the doctors last. As to the methods used to heal there was but one criteria: is it the best known way (irrespective of where it came from) to help the patient overcome his condition. If it was then it was used, if it would not, no matter how advantageous its use might be to the Clinic, it was discarded.

All the medical pundits assured us that a Clinic built on such Golden Rule principles could not succeed. They all had to eat their words quickly as the Clymer Health Clinic succeeded far beyond our wildest early dreams. For all to many years the medical establishment (of all the different disciplines) has tended to operate for the benefit of the physician first and the patient second. Once patients found a clinic that put them first they supported it with vigor and the Clymer Health Clinic grew like Topsy. By the mid 1970's the Clymer Health Clinic has internationally famous and was selected by one of the most respected health authorities as one of the two best natural healing centers in the world.

In 1983 Emerson Clymer, the man responsible for the establishment of the Clymer Health Clinic, passed on and the Director of the Clinic was selected to replace him as the head of the parent organization of the Clinic, the Beverly Hall Corporation. This meant that the Director had to give up his position to assume his new more comprehensive duties. It was his belief that by this time the success of the Clymer Health Clinic was such that its future could safely be turned over to those who had worked closely with him to create this boon to mankind. Unfortunately, his assumption was not correct. Without his steadying hand those left in charge began to quarrel and finally they departed one by one to enter more lucrative private practice. In 1989 the Clymer Health Clinic entered bankruptcy. and the original site of this center was eventually sold by the wife Emerson Clymer.

This is not the end of our story, however. One portion of the original effort survived. This was the center established by Harold Buttram, MD in the building just adjacent to the original Clymer Health Clinic. Once the main clinic closed its doors, the Director knew that he could not allow this marvelous and needed concept to die so he once again went back into practice with Dr. Buttram and together they kept the flame and spirit of the Clymer Health Clinic alive during several very difficult years. At what is know known as Woodlands Medical Center, they practiced in the same spirit as the old Clymer Health Clinic and also kept alive the many treatments that were unique to this Clinic. Meanwhile, new young doctors, who had been inspired by the Clymer Health Clinic, were preparing themselves to come and help resurrect this much missed Health Center.

In the summer of 1995 the first representative of this "new blood" began his service at Woodlands. Shortly afterward the Director decided that it was time to bring to the public the services that had once been such a desirable part of the Clymer Health Clinic and so on July 1, 1995 the rebirth of the Clymer Health Clinic began with the formation of the Healing Research Center. This new Center was only a couple of blocks from the old Clymer Health Clinic and was enthusiastically welcomed by those who remembered the Clymer Health Clinic and by new patients as well.

This new Healing Research Center not only brings back the tried and true methods of the Clymer Health Clinic but, like its forerunner, also has facilities for patients who come from long distances to be housed and cared for while being healed. From our long experience at the Clymer Health Clinic we learned not only what to do to make a successful Healing Center but also what not to do. With this experience we expect to be able to make the new Healing Center even more effective in helping humanity than its predecessor.

As this introduction is written we are in the planning stages of an even more advanced Healing addition to be added to Woodlands and the Healing Research Center. In recent years the most rapidly growing conditions in America are those related to Environmental Disease. This is especially true if we include (as I do) the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in this category. To begin their healing process all these patients need to isolated from the toxic and stressful world and accommodated in a Center where every factor that enters their life is designed to aid and not hinder their recovery. They need such a Center so that they can get back on their feet with sufficient vitality to face the rigors of modern life without succumbing to its challenges.

We have long realized that such a Healing Sanctuary is not only needed by some patients to get well but an absolute requirement by many if they are ever to feel the joy of real life surging in their veins once again. We trust that by the time many of you will be reading these words that this Center will not only be built and operational but will have a long list of grateful alumni to its credit.

It is said that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door. The Clymer Health Clinic was a better mousetrap and the world did beat such a path. Our new Healing Research Centers are an even better mousetrap and we expect another path to be built. You have an opportunity to follow that path. Come with us, our path leads to health, contentment and happiness.

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