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Arteriosclerosis (Hardening of the Arteries)

Arteriosclerosis (Hardening of the Arteries) From our book Bypassing Bypass, published in 2002 Editors note: we (like many others) have used the terms atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis interchangeably however, arteriosclerosis is the actual hardening of the arteries by calcium deposits, and…

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The History Of Quackery

Mercury, the element, not the planet, was nicknamed “quicksilver” because it is silver in color and a liquid at room temperature. In German, the word is “quacksalber.” Mercury is a toxic heavy metal. In the fifteen hundreds, physicians were a…

Marie Curie

A brilliant woman (the first two receive 2 Nobel Prizes) who gave us radium and and came to the conclusion it could cure cancer, though it ended up being the bane of many who wound up in an early grave.