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...discussed measures, reports circulated that Britain's reserves in July alone had fallen by perhaps $1 billion, reducing reserves near a dangerously low $2 billion. Thus, it was in an atmosphere of extreme urgency that he went before a crowded House of Commons with his suggestions for a cure...
Rink, who got married two years ago and whose wife expects a baby in September, looked forward jubilantly to getting an artificial leg and a steady job. Osteopath Houghton was more guarded: "We cannot say he is cured-we have to wait five or ten years before we can speak of a cure. But if the disease had progressed normally, this patient would have been dead by now." The Roswell Park doctors, determined not to kindle premature hopes in other cancer victims, said nothing...
...good deal of truth in this. As Ambassador he made extensive tours of all but seven of Japan's 46 provinces--he would have made it to all of them except that in April of 1964 he was stabbed by a fanatic protesting the lack of government funds to cure myopia in Japan. In addition to his speaking tours, Reischauer was widely published, and appeared on Japanese television a number of times...
...first theories about LSD was that it was a psychotomimetic-a mimicker of psychoses. The idea offered hope of finding a chemical cure for schizophrenia, as well as of increasing the psychiatrist's empathy with a schizophrenic by giving himself "madness in miniature" and thereby knowing what his patient was going through. Some of the LSD-induced symptoms are indeed similar to psychoses-the feeling of being outside one's body, for instance, or of coming apart. But the all-important difference is that the LSD taker almost always knows that the hallucination he is experiencing is caused...
...virulent form of cancer. Specialists said that removal of her left eye and all surrounding tissue was the only way to save her life. After her frightened parents heard that news in Los Angeles in 1961, they were understandably interested, they said, when Chiropractor Marvin Phillips declared: "I can cure your child without surgery, absolutely...