Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!ems From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (E. Michael Smith) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy Message-ID: <1128@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:52:33 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.1128 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:52:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:12:09 EST References: <532@tesla.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 30 > ... > 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 Comedo ergo sum The opinions expressed by me are not representative of those of any other person - natural, unnatural, or fictional - and only marginally reflect my opinions as strained by the language.