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Antibiotic treatment usually works fairly well in the early stages, but the suffering of a few patients with advanced Lyme disease does not respond to conventional cures. So a dangerous and unconventional therapy has come into use. Dr. Henry Heimlich of Cincinnati, known for developing the Heimlich maneuver to relieve choking, observed that Lyme disease resembles syphilis in that it is caused by a corkscrew-shaped spirochete. He knew of an outdated treatment for the late stages of syphilis in which patients were deliberately infected with malaria and then cured of it. It was believed once that malarial fevers cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In The Age Of Lyme | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...Nancy Modiano, a 30-year-old Hamilton, N.J., resident, agrees with Heimlich. She thinks she contracted Lyme disease as a teenager. By last year she was helpless, subject to vomiting and seizures, her joints so swollen that she couldn't operate her wheelchair. She flew to Mexico City last November and was injected with malaria. For 35 days her fever would spike to 108 degrees, then drop to 95 degrees. Yet two weeks after the induced malaria was cured, she was learning to walk again. Though she still has some Lyme symptoms, her recovery continues. She sums up the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In The Age Of Lyme | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...will be forgiven." This is the message the fans are sending to the players as they cheer the first pitch today in Oakland and tomorrow in Chicago. All the losses, the errors and the failed attempts at the Heimlich maneuver will be erased from history. For one of the teams...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: This Year, Someone's Gotta Win | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

Needless to say, Larry swished one, and my roommate was choking on his words so badly we had to administer the Heimlich maneuver...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Bird Will Fly Again | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

...only hint of a tradition of fantasy. At one point we awake with the correspondent not knowing whether the terrifying crises of the past hours were real or only a dream. We share an unsettling feeling about the bizarre nature of submarine life: It is both heimlich (homey, cozy, enclosed) and disturbingly unheimlich (uncanny, strange, spooky...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Sub Titles | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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