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Alcoholism was only recently recognized by the American Medical association as a disease. It has no known cure. Once an alcoholic goes dry, he can never have another drink in his life, or he'll be back on the bandwagon again. So it is understandable that Alcoholics Anonymous has chosen God to help its incurables against this mysterious disease. Berryman, baptized Catholic, became a non-believer at age 12 when his rather committed suicide. But he returned to the flock recently. In an interview shortly before his death, he said...
...behaves like a Civil War surgeon," says Mrs. Carson. "It tries to cure every ailment by amputation." If the new ruling is upheld in higher courts, the ICC may well have to try other remedies-ranging from huge federal subsidies to outright nationalization -to cure the nation's ailing railroads...
...Leone's creation of a "Medal of the Mosquito" [May 21] because the pest kept the white man from permanently settling in his country prompts me to remind him that the mosquito quite happily infected white and black. It was the hated white man, however, who brought the cure for malaria to Sierra Leone and indeed to all of Africa. This cure was enjoyed by blacks as well...
...Decubitus ulcers, or bedsores, have for centuries plagued patients and stubbornly resisted the efforts of doctors to cure them. But it appears that the sores, which result from the continuous pressure of the body against the bed, are succumbing to new versions of an almost forgotten medical approach...
...special airtight bandage, clears them up. Dr. Robert Blomfield of Chelsea, England, reports similar results when he uses honey. Neither doctor is sure why his treatment works, though Barnes believes that sugar may boost the inflammatory reaction essential to the healing process. Barnes found that sugar produced a 78% cure rate when applied to the bedsores of 180 patients treated during a five-year period. Blomfield says that it works better than any other medication he has used...