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Kazantzakis knew something of suffering himself. By stifling his own physical desires, he contracted a savage skin disease of the same type that used to rack medieval ascetics. Neither its origin nor its cure is known, and it is commonly called "The Saint's Disease." "My dear sir," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once scolded him, "you are trying to live out of your century. Your body is suffering from remorse of spirit." It was Kazantzakis' belief that only through soul-searing struggle could man approach God. To his eye, the Francis of legend was too mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Claws of God | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...President thinks greater power in negotiating tariffs, and the increased trade he anticipates, will help cure this most dangerous of all social diseases. It is hard...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Labor and the Trade Bill | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...Only One Cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squirrel Attacks Alarm Officials | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...Paul R. Chernoff, visiting lecturer on animal immunology at the Medical School, explained that rabies is a viruscaused disease of the nervous system that can be transmitted among numerous species including humans. The only known cure is the one Pasteur devised: a long series of injections that must be begun immediately following a suspicious bite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squirrel Attacks Alarm Officials | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...impulses from the ground." Some time ago, Bung was told by his dukun (medicine man and soothsayer) that his life would be in no danger so long as he avoided contact with steel. Sukarno thus decided against the kidney surgery advised by his medical specialists, instead relied for a cure on a team of Chinese herbalists and acupuncturists (practition ers who pierce the bodies of their patients with long silver needles, to relieve pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Attempt No. 5 | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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