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...obscure little Maribor, on the Jugoslav frontier lives Schoolteacher Polsjchak. Word went round that he knew strange things; that he had studied tuberculosis and cancer; that he had even cured neighbor Kretschnik's wife who was about to die of cancer, and that other one, old man Melchnikoff, who had a burning in his side like fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abjinin | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Curious doctors at the General Hospital heard the rumor, saw patients who had been given up as hopeless comfortably chatting in the streets. They came to see this Polsjchak, who told them of his remedy. For 20 years he had been studying tuberculosis and cancer, just as the neighbors said. Now he had invented a medicine which he called "abjinin," a mixture of vegetable juices and etheric oils which would cure internal cancer in three to six months; cutaneous cancer in a matter of weeks. The doctors were impressed. They invited Polsjchak to work at the hospital. So satisfactory were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abjinin | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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