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From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy  FLAME!!
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 17:33:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 17:33:40 1985
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> 
>        You want	FLAME you opened yourself up perfectly.	 Laetrile
>        is the common name for Vitamin B17 no matter what your
>        opinion might be	(just like B15=Pangamic	acid, B13=Orbic
>        acid, B12=Cyanocobalamin, B6=Pyridoxine,	need I go on).
> 
	You just don't know what you are talking about.
	I was about to recommend some books for you to read, but
	I realize now that it is of no use.  You are just too far gone.
	Laetrile is a tradename.  Amygdalin is the common name, and there
	is no such thing as Vitamin B17.

	For anyone else interested in this, I suggest ' The Pharmacological
	Basis of Therapeutics', edited by Goodman and Gilman.  It talks
	about this in greater detail than you care to know and I only
	recommend it as a starting place.  

	You have to understand that people have been concerned with 
	trying to avoid death for a long time, and there is a lot of 
	reading that you will have to do if you want to catch up with 
	what people have been saying for the last 2-3000 years.  The 
	only reason that Hippocrates is a cool dude in medicine, is 
	because he suggested that disease was caused by real things in 
	the world, not divine intervention.  He basically tried to bring 
	the understanding of disease out of the realm of folklore and 
	into the realm of science.  Unfortunately, people still continue 
	to pass on misinformation to society and subsidize the developement 
	of not just folklore but destructive folklore.  You just can't pass on 
	what you have heard on TV, or what you read in The National Enquirer
	and present it as an enlightened view on life, or how to live it.
	Now if what you want to say is that someone told you that Laetrile
	is vitamin B17, or that you firmly believe in your heart that it seems
	logical or possibly just good sense to eat less meat, then say it.
	But don't say it as if it were from the mouth of God himself, because
	the world may not be as logical as you would like it to be.
	
	
>        My mother never told me to eat peach pits, unfortunatly she
>        also didn't tell	me not to use refined sugar and	flour or
>        chocolate or caffine or eat to much meat.  Obviously your
>        mother knew as little about nutrition as	yourself and some
>        of the other people partaking in	this discussion.  The B

	My mother?  I just don't see where you come off thinking that you
	are enough of a fool or even enough of a second grader to make
	any comment on my understanding of nutrition, let alone that of 
	my mother.  

>        almost unknown.	The only person	who can	cure you of a
>        disease is yourself, if you denie your body of the building
>        blocks and tools	then all the drugs cannot help you.

	I am amazed that any education system could produce such an
	attitude.
	The world is in sad shape.
-- 
Carter Bullard
ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
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