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...American minister who claimed that he had healed himself through prayer. "We believe in faith healing," says Parker. "The preacher felt that he was healed and Wesley felt that he was healed." So sure were the Parkers that the cure had worked that they threw out Wesley's insulin...
Within two days, Wesley was lapsing into periods of unconsciousness. The Rev. Gary Nash, the Parkers' pastor, came to pray, but Wesley spoke only a few words. When Alice Parker decided to buy some fresh insulin, her husband prevented her. Wesley died, and was buried last week with only an undertaker and a gravedigger looking on. His family, believing that he will be resurrected from the grave, stayed home. "I think God is letting it go this far so he can receive the most glory from this when Wesley comes back," Lawrence Parker explained. Pastor Nash, however, was shaken...
...coffee-all the Levantine habits went public. He became to mental illness what Segovia is to the guitar. In clinical detail, Oscar replayed his repertoire of classical and flamenco hypochondria, apostrophized his nervous collapses ("chaos in search of frenzy") and multiple devotions to paraldehyde, Dexedrine, Thorazine, Demerol, Benadryl and insulin. Before he disappeared into a series of sanatoriums, he turned out a catalogue of malice...
...film, which attracted a crowd of 200, presented a case for laetrile as a revolutionary drug: "Laetrile will be to cancer what insulin is to diabetes...
...monogenic changes in humansprove feasible, certain hereditary diseases may be cured if they result from a single defective gene. Such a defect may mean the cell falls to produce a certain essential protein such as insulin...