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...came to Harvard in 1943 from Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...
...Weil's story of the bee-sting cure of an arthritic knee reminded me of my grandmother, who used bee-sting therapy to treat her arthritis. Grandmother was born in 1872 on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, and most likely it was there in her early years that she learned some natural cures that have benefited our family ever since. PATRICIA EARL Los Angeles...
...Africa. Approximately 30 percent of the island's citizens have asthma, which they apparently inherited from an original settler. After studying the DNA of 300 inhabitants, the team was able to pinpoint the location of the gene, potentially paving the way for new drugs which can treat or perhaps cure the ailment which has skyrocketed worldwide over the past two decades. Beyond the island's small population, the researchers say, the mutated gene seems to affect asthmatics in the United States, Canada and Australia. But while the discovery may eventually help asthmatics to breathe easier, the epidemic may never...
...about something called the hypnotist's aura. At every show there are a few people in the audience whose expectations are so high that the moment the hypnotist comes out onstage, they fall into a trance. If belief in a hypnotist is enough to do this, belief in a cure is enough to help you get well...
...heart of her novel lies in a funny, extraordinary other world where men, hit by lightning, start to read everything backward and women swallow silver dust to cure themselves of hallucinations (it doesn't work). The everyday magic of this invisible realm is given fiber by the hard facts of natural history she incorporates, and the sheer extravagance of Cuban thinking ("Dreams about carne asada can mean only one thing," a radio hostess opines: "that the caller should devote her life to God"). Writing in a voice not quite like any other, Garcia takes exuberant flight without ever taking leave...