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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (E. Michael Smith)
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Subject: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:52:33 EST
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> ...
> The Gerson therapy is a nutritional therapy in which the patient drinks
> pressed vegetable and liver juices on an hourly schedule, and can eat
> only cooked vegetables, baked potatoes, fruit, salads, etc.  All salt
> and fats are forbidden, and five daily coffee enemas are also taken.
> The Gerson doctors claim a cure rate of over 60% - for people who are
> in advanced stages of cancer, having been through the rounds of conventional
> doctors.
> 
> ...           Also amazingly enough, the AMA is so strongly against the
> Gerson therapy (and others like it) that they are currently sponsoring
> legislation to make it illegal to promulgate or engage in such therapies.
> As of now, it is illegal for the Gerson Center to mail Dr. Gerson's 
> (Yes, he was a *real* M.D.) book in the United States, even though
> it does not advertise the treatment.
> 

Isn't their an amendment to the constitution that allows freedom
of the press? Or of 'speach'?  How is this circumvented?  If it is,
this is most serious...



E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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