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...this arrangement, the age-old religious hatred, social injustice and tribal attitudes persist, making future peace a questionable prospect. In 1615 Barnaby Rich wrote in his Anatomy of Ireland: "The diseases of Ireland are many, and the sickness is grown to that of a contagion that is almost past cure." His admonition, sadly, is still relevant...
...diet of tranquilizers? Electrodes in the hotspots of the brain? Genetic engineering? The men in white jackets are waiting with newfangled anger cures. The scientist who invents bombs also invents alternatives. If these cures appear nearly as frightening as the malady they treat, who knows? Perhaps a better kind of cure is simply to get angry, just a little angry, about anger...
Doctors cannot as yet offer a cure, but they can provide some relief from the most severe symptoms. Zinc sulfate capsules diminish the disease's sensory distortion. Why the metallic medicine helps is uncertain, but it can make eating tolerable, if not pleasurable...
...conquered his fear by degrees. Approaching her sexually on successive days, he stopped each time he began to feel uneasy; soon the connection between sex and anxiety was broken, and the link between intercourse and pleasure restored. For Wolpe and his colleagues, sexual problems are generally the easiest to cure, because sexual desire is stronger than fear...
...nuclear fission long before they undertook to build an atomic bomb, and grasped the physical principles of spaceflight before they attempted to send a rocket to the moon. They have no such unified store of fundamental knowledge about cancer. Says Columbia University Researcher Sol Spiegelman: "An effort to cure cancer at this time might be like trying to land a man on the moon without knowing Newton's laws of motion." A better-funded research effort could help science to understand more about the many diseases that are cancer. But until that groundwork is done, any talk of curing...