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...Spiegelman of Columbia University has synthesized an artificial virus that is indistinguishable from its natural model and has used it to infect bacteria and produce new viruses. He and his colleagues have little doubt that they will also eventually create "friendly" viruses and use them to cure disease rather than cause it?by using the viruses to stimulate the production of the chemical products upon which health and life itself depend...
...Apricots. Laetrile is a drug made from apricot pits and contains cyanide, among other things. It is one of the most long-lived, though probably not the last, of a long series of questionable cancer "cures," all of which are susceptible to exploitation. Since conventional medicine concedes that it has no sure cure for many types of cancer, those condemned to die from the disease are understandably willing to try anything. Laetrile was developed in 1950 by Ernst T. Krebs Jr., a biochemist who studied at but did not graduate from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. Krebs claimed that Laetrile...
...debilitating diarrhea and deprives the body of essential fluids. A century ago, doctors tried unsuccessfully to treat cholera by fumigating victims in a large wooden box. But in East Pakistan, where cholera is a major killer, a team of U.S. Public Health Service doctors has developed a simple cure that may save thousands of lives because it is far cheaper than preventive measures...
Working at the SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory in Dacca, the doctors vastly improved the usual treatment. This involves massive intravenous infusions of water and salts to replace the victim's body fluids and prevent dehydration. Unlike this procedure, the new cure requires little supervision or equipment. It relies on large oral doses of a solution whose ingredients-salts, baking soda and glucose-can be purchased cheaply in any village market. Patients in reasonably good condition simply consume about 21 qt. of the mixture; those who have reached the stage of intestinal collapse are first built up with a brief...
...effective as intravenous treatment in curbing cholera mortality. Equally important in a country where the average per capita income is only $50 a year, it has sharply reduced the price of treatment. The cost of intravenous treatmen for cholera is about 200 rupees, or $42 Enough oral solution to cure the average victim costs only three rupees...