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--' Medicine Men Are
Being Consulted
Medical researchers are slogging through jungles, paddling 'up the backwaters of the Amazon, and flying into the far reaches of Australia to confer with their respected colleagues—the medicine men of the world’s most backward people. The witch doctors of the savage tribes have known a thing or two for several centuries. For instance, primitive people in many countries have always had high faith in the curative qualities of the mandrake root. It was held in awe, and would scream, they thought, if taken out by human hands. Dogs were specially trained to dig it up. Science has regarded this myth with amused tolerance. At this late date, however, evidence was found of an extract of the root killing cancer cells in mice. The National Cancer Institute is experimenting with it now.
Penicillin, the^wonder drug of modern times, has been used for centuries in its rough form. Balkan peasants have always known of the effectiveness of earth mold in treatment of serious wounds. Today we make the mold in pharmateutical laboratories.
Quinine came to us from the Indians of Peru, and was soon recognized as the specific for malaria. Grandma will admit that she prescribed quinine for all sorts of ills. Scientists of today are wondering if the old lady wasn’t ahead of her times. It was reported recently in the American Heart Journal that quinine relieves muscle cramps by stimulating the heart to carry away the waste products in the blood which cause the cramps.—A.W.B. - «
When a venture turns out successfully, we say we planned it that way. .
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