Hey, Tink:
Perhaps I was not clear:
Ebringer=LSD (London AS Diet; Low Starch Diet)
Sinclair=NSD (No Starch Diet)
Ebringer probably found his LSD before Carol, but Carol discovered her NSD independently and not knowing of Ebringer's work.
Actually, she did not then know she had AS, but thought her IBS was a primary illness. It was our member here George (also an Ebringer patient) who contacted her to tell her to see Ebringer--perhaps eight or nine years ago. Then she found she has the B27 antigen but still cannot get an AS diagnosis because she is not (and will probably never become) fused. Yes, her father had severe AS.
But it was not Ebringer who first found the connection between starch and AS and although I would give first mention to Edgar Cayce (Thomas Sugrue, his biographer, had AS or ReA and was told to avoid starch and eat more vegetables that grow above ground than below), but although
Dr. Giraud Campbell did not call his regimen "no starch," he successfully treated AS patients using diet before 1978.
I'm not that certain about the origins of POM--but from rhyming slang, it does sound better as pomegranate/immigrant like trouble and strife booted me down those apples and pears.
But an Englishman displaced to Australia then that would be a Brit in Australia, so I don't understand the reference that way.
TTFN
John
