A 67-year-old Chinese man sought medical help in a Taipei hospital because of progressive muscular weakness. Aside from somewhat elevated blood pressure he had been in good health. Doctors could...
Professor Aldini began by swabbing the ears with salt water.聽 Then he attached a metal wire to each ear and proceeded to connect them to a battery.聽 Almost immediately the subject鈥檚 face contorted...
Miracles are pretty rare events. Except on television鈥檚 鈥淒r. Oz Show,鈥� where they appear with astonishing frequency. Oz of course doesn鈥檛 claim to raise the dead or part the Red Sea, but he does...
The gentleman in the front row was waving his hand energetically.聽 He obviously had something to contribute to the discussion.聽 I had just finished a public lecture on dietary supplements and threw...
The city of Belem in northern Brazil has a population of about 2,000,000.聽 It would be very interesting to find out if its inhabitants have an unusually low incidence of illnesses such as cancer,...
To put it bluntly, Louis XVIII stank. It wasn鈥檛 from improper hygiene, although French kings weren鈥檛 particularly noted for their love of baths. The culprit was the gangrene oozing from his legs....
