Hello MATT.
07 Jun 96 04:12, MATT MCINTOSH wrote to JOHN MEROTH:
 ->> i.e. thanks to modern medicine illnesses such as heart attacks &
 ->> diabides are nearly as fatal as they were 50 years ago.
 MM> How very true!  Which is one of the major arguments in favor of
 MM> alternatives to modern medicine that are environmentally safer and
 MM> many of which provide the same types of treatments to many ailments.
I thought i said NOT NEARLY as fatal.
A diabetic 100 years ago had no survivability.
A Heart attack was also nearly always fatal. Nostradamos died in his 50s from 
congestive heart failure.
He would have lived for many more years had he had access to today's 
dicine.
John
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