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From: cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Scum)
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Subject: Re: About AIDS cures
Summary: a few more details
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Date: 6 Jun 90 06:03:22 GMT
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About heating the blood:

	I recall that the proceedure used of heating the blood has been done
previously to treat some sort of cancer. In fact, the doctor who performed the
proceedure was, I think, the one who developed the technique in the first place
(or else pioneered it, or something like that). I though the temperature was
108 degrees, though. Anyway, I think the blood circulated through the patient's
body while it was being heated, and (obviously) he had a temperature. The
patient was unconscious for the duration of the proceedure. What I recall
(I hope I am remembering the correctly) was that this was done originally to
get rid of the KS (because the guy was in really bad condition with the KS)
and that the disappearance of HIV infection of an unexpected (but happy)
side-effect. More work, of course, needs to go into this, and I hope they
start asap.

	I believe the hospital was in Texas, not Georgia.

	As far as a 105 degree temperature goes, my friend had temperatures
that high, but I guess they just weren't high enough. We also tried to keep
them down. I wonder what would have happened if we let them get as high as
they could've... I suppose this all has to be very controlled, though, since
high temperatures can course brain damage, too (or so I've been told).

	Anyway, I just wanted to add some more details that I could remember.
I hope this is it.

					-- Chris.
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                                       -- Chris. (cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu)
"People make me pro-nuclear." -- Margarette Smith