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Says Dr. Rammelkamp: "Since rheumatic fever attacks about 3% of strep patients at this same time, we figured that these antibodies were the culprits. So if we could cure the strep infection before the three weeks were up, the patient's body would be relieved of the necessity for producing these antibodies, thus thwarting the development of rheumatic fever...
...Benjamin Rush plowed prayerfully through his medical library hoping to find a way to beat the yellow fever. He was a good and pious, if somewhat crotchety and hypersensitive man, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and generally considered the most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting. When he tried it on a hopeless case...
...would be more than a century before the mosquito Aëdes aegypti was pinned down by Walter Reed as the carrier of yellow fever. But even many of Rush's medical contemporaries knew that his cure was fantastically wrong. Yet diligent Dr. Rush was soon prescribing it for everyone who became ill from whatever cause, soon came to believe that all fevers were one fever and that one yellow fever. There can be no doubt that Rush killed many sufferers with his stupendous purges, and with bloodletting that often took more than half the patient's blood...
Even Communist bigwigs are prey to dangerous indifference. One of Togliatti's own close friends, who felt that the Kremlin was taking itself altogether too seriously, recently remarked: "The best cure for the Russians would be a year in Naples where they could learn to laugh." In Eastern Europe, comrades have been made to laugh out of the other side of their mouths for such pleasantries...
...atomic power has not been used for any constructive purpose. The most important peacetime gifts of the fissioning atoms are radioactive tracers, which have already revolutionized biology and medical research. Biologists hope that such research will produce a cure for cancer. It may postpone senility; many physiologists believe that human beings could live vigorously for 125 years if the chemistry of their bodies were understood. The greatest promise of level four culture is practically costless power. There have been guesses about how it might be used: in air-conditioning cities, freshening seawater for irrigating deserts, blasting away mountain ranges...