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From: macrakis@harvard.UUCP (Stavros Macrakis)
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Subject: Re: Biorhythms
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Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 11:51:43 EDT
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I believe it was Wilhelm Fliess, Freud's friend with the nasal theory
of disease, who introduced the 23 and 28 day cycles.  Martin Gardner
had a `Mathematical Games' column about this about ten years ago.
Perhaps the Scientific American cumulative index could help.

I know of no evidence of any sort of validity for this sort of theory,
but then I haven't been looking.  It seems to be yet another a priori
theory, like homeopathy, etc.

-- 
	-s


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