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Cindy is a junior at Medford High School who recently gained widespread popularity with her recordings of "Wishin" and "Here In My Heart...
...hours of the day, seven days a week, the two-story colonial house on High Street in West Medford, six miles north of Boston, is full of bustle. Patients with almost every disease in the book, from sinus trouble to tuberculosis and cancer, crowd the wooden benches in the waiting room. Every now & then, one goes through a side door to see Dr. Robert Edward Lincoln, 52, who asks about their complaints. Dr. Lincoln is most interested in whether they have had grippe or flu during certain epidemic seasons. Whatever ails them, he is pretty sure that...
Alpha to Beta. Dr. Lincoln, a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine in 1926, had an ordinary general practice in Medford until 1946, when he cultured some staphylococcus germs from a patient's nose. He noticed that the culture was being eaten away, so he sent it to a friend at Boston University, who told him that he had a bacteriophage in the test tube. Soon, the friend began growing the germs and their sidekicks, the phages, in murky bottles. Dr. Lincoln used the extracted phage material to drip into the noses of patients with minor ailments, generally...
Impatient Patients. By that time, Dr. Lincoln claimed to have an "entirely new system of medicine," and his fame was spreading far beyond the elm-lined streets of Medford. In Arkansas, Dr. Jacob S. Schirmer, graduate of a shut-down diploma mill and one-time follower of Cancer Quack William Koch, got the local franchise for the Lincoln treatment. Other "fellows" of the Lincoln Foundation set up shop in 22 states...
...Medford went many patients who could not be helped by standard medical practice or were impatient with their slow progress. Many felt better at first. This is natural, says the Massachusetts Medical Society, because a lot of patients will respond hopefully to any change in treatment. But of nine TB cases on which the medical society's committee reported, two were maintaining improvement begun under other treatment, five were worse and two were dead. Several cancer patients had died shortly after Dr. Lincoln reported them "much improved...