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...evil genius could not devise a toxin with more evil properties," Meselson said...
That mechanism was still a mystery in 1891, when Dr. William Coley, an American surgeon, first observed the beneficial effects of certain infections on patients with cancer. Coley began injecting patients with mixed bacterial toxins to induce responses that might alter the course of the malignancy, and without fully understanding what he was doing, succeeded. In 1893, he injected his toxin into a 16-year-old boy with inoperable cancer and was rewarded with a demonstrable success: the tumor shrank and, over a period of a few months, disappeared. He treated some 250 other patients who also improved and survived...
Other doctors, meanwhile, have borrowed a leaf from Coley's book and have been trying, with some success, to awaken sleeping immune systems to combat cancer. The techniques of this approach vary widely. Some doctors still use Coley's bacterial-toxin formula; others inject vaccine made from killed mumps virus and diphtheria bacteria. Many, however, prefer a live-bacteria tuberculosis vaccine called BCG (for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, after the Frenchmen who developed...
...Tokyo newspaper, one news agency and two leading Japanese weeklies for "having created a false and damaging image about myself." For years on end, complained Dewi, "these publications have been brainwashing the Japanese people with all manner of imagined poison about me." The latest toxin: a suggestion that her fiance, a Spanish banker, was connected with the Mafia. "This really is too much," she blazed. "At last I have decided to do something about the bad habit." Dewi didn't know how much damages to ask for the correction of such habits, she told newsmen on her arrival...
...administered only after certain diagnosis since panicky patients who are suffering from other forms of food poisoning can have dangerous or even fatal reactions to it. They add that botulism need not be contracted at all. Because bringing food to a boil destroys the odorless and usually tasteless toxin, health authorities recommend that consumers take this precaution before serving canned foods, and refrain from tasting until they have done...