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Late last century, Dr William Coley had a patient who had bone cancer and developed a severe syphilis or skin infection. As the skin infection grew, it munched on the bone cancer and the bone cancer disappeared. Dr Coley went on to develop what he called "Coley's toxins" and used them for many years as a therapy that got quite good results. The trouble here is that Dr Coley succumbed to what I call "macho medicine". The infection he isolated from the patient, and which cured the patient, had remarkable successes in subse- quent patients treated with the same infection, but he wasn't happy with that. Coley wanted something that would do better, so he found a more toxic infection. Instead of using the specific Streptococcus strain which he'd isolated from the patient, he found a Streptococcus that kills people, reasoning that it's more toxic, therefore it will kill more cancer, and therefore the chances of cure are better. It's been long known that in areas where malaria exists, there's no cancer; and when you get rid of malaria, drain the swamps, kill the mosquitoes, the cancer rate rises. People who have cancer and who catch malaria have a chance of going into remission. Just recently, Dr Henry Heimlich [who developed the Heimlich manoeuvre for preventing choking] injected a few AIDS patients with malaria and managed to get them into some form of remis- sion where they improved and stayed stable at the improved level. Let's be blunt about something. Alternative therapy is great, and we can probably extend and improve the quality of life of eople who are ill, and, heaven knows, we can prevent a lot of diseases from happening; but when you cut down to the chase, conventional therapy and alternative therapy are joined by one thing. Over the past hundred years in the war against cancer, we've ‘ailed abysmally. Let's be frank here: if a hundred people were to do the most arduous alternative therapy available, we would not cure a hundred cancer patients; we would not cure a hundred AIDS patients. There are only three reasons why we're failing in our war. One ossibility is that the weaponry isn't powerful enough. Now, in chemotherapy and radiotherapy we have weaponry that can cre- mate a person! So, it can't be that one; rule that one out. The sec- ond possibility is that the target is invisible. Now we know that to e true; we know that cancer cells are immunologically invisible. The third possibility is that there's another target. The one thing I found depressing about alternative and conven- tional therapy is that they both totally ignored the phenomenon of "spontaneous remission" which is perhaps the most natural phe- nomenon which tepeatedly tells us how to cure terminal disease. "Spontaneous remission" is a term given to miraculous healings, where people on their death bed ‘rise from the dead’ within two to three days without a trace of their disease. It's a phenomenon that's been reported in the literature but hardly ever investigated. The data on spontaneous remission strongly suggest that just before a person with cancer, heart disease, arthritis or any of the other terminal diseases has a spontaneous remission or a cure of their disease, they suffer what seems to be a viral or bacterial or some form of severe infection. This was noticed by a Dr Didot, in France, who noted that the existence of syphilis precluded the appearance of cancer. If pros- titutes had syphilis, they were very unlikely to develop cancer. This doctor actually treated 20 cancer patients with syphilis and, of those 20, 14 went into total remission. As the syphilis grew, it munched up the cancer; the cancer went away. Another three patients did pretty well, and a couple of them died of the syphilis. But this was a few hundred years ago, and given the choice between "the Big C" and "the Big S"—well, today we can cure syphilis with a couple of shots of penicillin, or so I've been told! call "nemesis theory", which states that for every disease there's an antidisease organism which will specifically attack and destroy it. This then led to the development of "nemesis therapy", where I make extracts of these "nemesis organisms" with which to treat specific diseases. And how do you find nemesis organisms? Well, you look around. Where there's a disease and there's less of another dis- ease, the chances are that they're antagonistic to each other. Or, you work on basic levels, as I like to do, and do test after test after test to check. What I did in the laboratory was get thousands of bottles and place leukaemia lymph node tumour biopsies in them. Each bot- tle had a particular organism growing inside it. The one with affinity for the cancer actually grabbed hold of the cancer and ate A Il these observations led me to come up with something I Fig. 2b: Resolution of lymphoma after two weeks of treatment. JUNE - JULY 1998 NEXUS - 37