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...when Virginia-born Dr. Andrew Taylor Still lost three of his children in a spinal meningitis epidemic in Kansas. Disgusted with medical methods that could not prevent such disaster. Physician Still proclaimed: "I believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . All the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body." To get the human drug factory working at peak efficiency, Still prescribed lavish doses of spinal manipulation to preserve "structural integrity." For generations, osteopaths faithfully followed Still in emphasis on manipulation, de-emphasis on drugs...
...Merck & Co.. Inc. (TIME, Aug. 18. 1952), who gave the committee the results of his company's private survey: "There is real concern that the public is being misled into believing that you can buy discovery with money, that nine times as much money will cure nine times as many diseases or one disease in one-ninth the time. As one of those interviewed put it, 'You can't produce a baby in one month simply by making nine women pregnant...
Jacob Horner goes off to the sunlit campus of Wicomico State Teachers, where he has wangled an instructor's job (English). He tries the World Almanac cure, but boning up on statistics about air line distances between principal cities only demonstrates that facts cannot minister to a diseased mind. He knows his bad days, when there is "no weather," a haunting waking and sleeping dream in which he is deprived of contact with the natural world. When Horner re-establishes contact with people, it is through the "pretty dedicated bunch" at Wicomico. Here he discovers his true calling...
...life, as physics works at solving the mystery of matter. Genetics has already accounted scientifically for blue eyes (even in a strictly dark-eyed family). It is working toward an explanation of how the first life appeared on earth. It is offering knowledge that may lead to the cure of cancer. And it came along just in time to warn against misuse of another young science: nuclear physics. The comparative "cleanness" (low fallout) of the test bombs that the U.S. was exploding in the Pacific last week was in large part a response to the warnings of the geneticists...
Anticancer Orders. Some geneticists think that many if not all kinds of cancer are caused by invading viruses. Others think not. But all agree that the genetics of cancer-causing viruses and cells that are their victims is a promising road toward the cure or prevention of cancer. If cancer cells multiply wildly because the DNA of a virus is giving them orders, it may be possible to countermand those orders with another kind of DNA. Knowledge about DNA may also help prevent some kinds of radiation damage...