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in a pharmaceutical house near Lund Sweden and that Dr. Jonsson had used it our hopelras prostate patient and it had had a fairly large rial, and in about 65 percent of the cases, they were getting from one to two to three year remissions, reduction of pain, reduction of -- even a reduction of the tumor.

I finally persuaded the Veterans Administration to ask Professor Jonsson to come to the United States to consult with them as they're especially interested in cancer of the prostate and they did this and I got Dr. Jonsson to see Al Fordyce.

He sent this material to the United States and it was used for Al, and Al's pain, which he had a great deal of and was in, great distress -- in the meantime we were having him treated with acupuncture, which gave him relief for from sometimes two to four hours, which seems very little but if you're in constant pain and have to take drugs every day, against -- any relief of pain that doesn't involve drugs is an advantage. But once he was on this drug, (I must think of the name, I'll look it up, when I correct the paper) -- his pain was reduced to practically nothing. He was essentially out of pain. Whereas he had been completely out of touch with reality, he came back and was more in touch with people and with life. He had been in a kind of a daze of some kind. People thought that it was almost like a senile dementia. Actually it w asn't, because he came out of it once he stopped being given drugs. We had several expert neerologists to see him including George Cotziae and Dr. Fred Plum, who thought he really had a senile dementia. But actually it was the effect of the pain-killer drugs on him, because when they





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