The controversy still goes on between orthodox dietitians who regard ascorbic acid merely as a vitamin which in small doses will prevent scurvy, and the orthomolecular scientists and nutritionists who believe that to maintain health and resist disease every tissue in the body needs to be saturated with ascorbic acid — sufficient for the blood [...] rx-med.net

This Brisbane doctor has now, treated over 100 cancer cases referred to her in the last 11 months with Vitamin C injections followed by sodium ascorbate by mouth. Not all have carried out the full 10 injections. Some were terminals. Many had recurrent growth and all had run the gamut of orthodox treatment which had [...]

Shakespeare speaks of the seven ages of man, but from the medical point of view man has been considered in three periods: childhood, when we practice pediatrics on him; the grown-up stage, when we have no special term for our procedures; and old age, when we now say that he is a candidate for geriatrics. [...]

Through his research, Dr. Jerome Kagan, a psychologist at Harvard University, found two types of children: One, by the middle of the second year, is timid and shy, fearful and wary. The other is outgoing, sociable, and not easily frightened. Both types can come from similar families. By school age, half the fearful children Dr. [...]

When to see your doctor • if you suspect that this is the first episode of eczema in your child; • if the rash is weeping or bleeding; • there is no significant improvement after a few days, despite the measures you usually take for your child’s eczema; • if your child is having trouble [...]

WATER SAFETY Drowning is almost always preventable. Always supervise your toddler or young child around water. There is no such thing as ‘drownproofing’ a young child. By all means, take your child swimming with you to get him used to water — most children can begin swimming lessons at preschool or early school age — [...]

SHORTENING OF REFRACTORY PERIOD: I think I could go again and again. We don’t, but I can have sex and then go into the bathroom and masturbate and then come back and have sex. I just stop because we stop. I can get ready in a matter of a few minutes, no, seconds. I could [...]

We just don’t connect. When I say up, she says down. If I’m horny, she’s not, and if she is, I’m not. She says it’s because of my “period.” She says I have worse periods than she does. DISCONNECTION: SENSE OF HUMOR, TRAGEDY, VALUES IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT HUSBAND CONNECTION: SENSE OF HUMOR, TRAGEDY, FAIRNESS, VALUES [...]

It is hereditary and tends to run in families. It may be brought on, or made worse, by emotional factors, by injury or by infection. It may be mild or severe, be localised to one or two areas or generalised and affect the whole body. It may be stable and chronic or it may be [...]

Many people suffer in bed at night from painful cramps, usually involving the calf muscles or the small muscles in the sole of the foot. These cramps are not usually related to any underlying problem but are thought to be due to mechanical factors. With normal muscle tone, each group of muscles has an antagonistic [...]