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With this in mind, let us hope that Congress rejects Mr. Nixon's "pound of cure" for the much more economical and reasonable "ounce of prevention...
...Norman Zinberg came back from Vietnam last year after looking over the problem. He, may he be blessed for his bravery, actually tried heroin while he was there. "I was surprised," he remarked "at how fast four hours went by." A great boredome cure, for sure...
...Medicine has known for years that a virus of the papova group causes warts, horny skin growths that can develop-and disappear-rapidly. Yet doctors cannot agree upon the proper cure. Some recommend surgery, cautery with an electric needle, localized freezing, or acid to burn away the tissue; a few even fall back on folk remedies like touching warts with a copper penny or with a slice of raw potato. Now a group of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians has reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry that warts can also be removed by hypnosis. The researchers reached this conclusion after...
Torn between Freud and Marx, Fanon flung himself into the opening phase of the Algerian revolution and became one of the FLN's chief pamphleteers and theorists. He fell sick, journeyed to Moscow for a cure, but was eventually told by Soviet specialists that the only hope for his leukemia lay in Washington, D.C. In the National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md., weeks before he died in 1961 at age 36, he received the first copies of his last and most revolutionary book, The Wretched of the Earth. The FLN had his body flown to Tunis...
...cure society by scrapping symbols; you do not have the opportunity to choose symbols in the first place. A social cure, unlike a psychological therapy, involves creating a system of symbolic analysis through a set of restructured social relations and productive activities, that expresses human needs and facilitates their fulfillment...