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...Mishra claimed that an application of Raja Yoga can cure all forms of physical illnesses, both psychosomatic and organic. "Since the body is nothing but a manifestation of the mind, all physical diseases must have their origins in the mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Doctor Describes Different Kinds of Yoga | 11/21/1962 | See Source »

What Griffin did was really quite simple. He persuaded a dermatologist in New Orleans to treat him with a medicine used to cure vitiligo: a skin disease which causes white blotches to appear on a Negro's face and body. Where the medicine worked imperfectly, Griffin applied black stain; then he shaved his hair, and within a few days was transformed into a Negro...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Black Like Me | 11/14/1962 | See Source »

...Watson has already received a letter of advice on how to cure his cold ("by putting pressure on key zones of the feet") and a request for a recipe for cupcakes made from algae. In addition, he has gotten the following masterworks...

Author: By Dean Neigh, | Title: Fama Semper Vivat | 11/10/1962 | See Source »

Proposed a century ago as a remedy for mental disturbances, writes Dr. Mead in the A.M.A. Journal, the rest cure in such cases was "surely the least effective of all the ineffective treatments before or since." When Dr. Mead was a medical student in 1938, the average length of confinement after delivery was 18 days. "As a result, it occasionally occurred that an otherwise healthy young woman dropped dead of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting into a taxi with her baby to leave the lying-in hospital." Confinement after delivery is now little more than three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Vogue of Rest | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Tooth decay and the common cold are among the most prevalent diseases of civilized man. They are also alike in other respects: each can be caused by a variety of microbes, each has defied medical science's search for a cure, and each disease finds some people naturally immune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Some People Just Don't Have Cavities | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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