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diarrhoea and vomiting. They were willing to try anything, and Guyana. We discussed it and decided to see if we could sell the they said so. stabilised oxygen in Guyana. We put an ad in the local paper, I gave them both a healthy dose of the stabilised oxygen in stating that our solution cured malaria. That was a mistake. some water and they drank it straight down. I thought, "That's all Immediately the local television station sent reporters over to our I can do for now; we'll just have to wait for the runners to return." place and we were on TV talking about our solution. Then the One hour later, their shivering had stopped. That didn't mean radio and newspaper reporters arrived. We were famous for about much, as the shivering comes and goes, but they looked a little three days. Then the government dropped a bomb on us. The better. Four hours later, they were sitting up kidding about how Minister of Health called us in for an interview. She told us that if bad they had been feeling. They got up out of their bunks and sat we sold our solution to one more person we would be put into down at the table to eat dinner that evening. By the next morning, their prison, and that we wouldn't like their prison. I had seen the two more men had come down with malaria. They took the same prison and I knew that she was right. doses of stabilised oxygen and they were feeling okay by noon. I talked to my friend, the First Minister Moses Nagamotoo, one We all were amazed. (This is not the whole story, and stabilised evening and he explained to me that two drug companies had called oxygen does not work all the time.) the Minister of Health and threatened to quit shipping drugs to the I continued with the gold prospecting. I had developed a local hospital if she didn't do something about the person claiming method of assaying for gold (that is, determining the amount of to be able to cure malaria. He explained that there was nothing his gold that is present) which is quite simple. I government could do at this time to help me, was able to conduct assays myself instead of but he mentioned that he'd suggested to the having to send my ays off to a lab Minister of Health that she give me some somewhere and wait a couple of weeks for latitude. the answer. Soon I had located some gold At that point I made an even bigger deposits and we began planning to put up a i mistake. Although we removed our ad from gold mill in the jungle. he explained the newspa er continued to sell the While doing this and further gold to me that two drug solution to more people who needed it. My prospecting, Lalso did quite a bit of travelling companies had called partner, Bob Tate, had already gone home in the jungle. Wherever I went, I treated on but I was still planning to do gold mining in people for malaria (and sometimes typhoid the Minister for Health the jungle. We were just about ready with fever). Although the stabilised oxygen worked H our mining supplies when I got word that only about 70 per cent of the time, it was and threatened to quit they were going to charge me with a crime enough to make me quite famous in the jungle. shipping drugs to the and that it would be better if I were gone or On the way back to town during that . . were somewhere else. I found that first trip into the jungle, we reached a local hospital if she people in Georgetown are more afraid mining operation that had been shut didn't do something of the jungle than are people from Las down for vacation. There were a Vegas. They seldom chase people in number of men there who were merely about the person the jungle. I immediately made the trip claiming to be able to cure malaria. waiting for the mill to start up again. up the river, and the supplies followed One of the men was sitting at a table, me a few days later. looking very sick. I asked him what was This is the basic story of the wrong and he said that he was waiting discovery that stabilised oxygen for a boat to pick him up. He said he sometimes cures malaria. However, it's had typhoid fever and malaria at the only the beginning of my story. I did same time. I mentioned my stabilised not consider stabilised oxygen a oxygen, which I called merely a "health miracle supplement, yet. drink", and he said he would try it. On my return from town, he came running Inadvertent Research and Testing out to meet me. He grabbed my hand and pumped it up and down. I stayed upriver for slightly over six months, working on the He told me that he had got better within hours after I left andthathe gold recovery mill. That part of the operation I financed myself didn't have to go into town after all. I left him with a small bottle of | because Joel Kane was very slow in arriving and never provided drops, as I had done in other places in the jungle. additional money. When he finally arrived, after he saw some of There are numerous good stories like that one, but unfortunately the gold that my mill was recovering he wanted complete at that time there were a lot of people whom the stabilised oxygen ownership and offered me three per cent instead of the 20 per cent did not help. Still, it was a treatment that got much better results in the contract. When I did not agree, he had Mike, the owner of than the malaria medicines used there. People in malaria areas the land, and the droggers whom Mike had hired, tear down my cannot afford to take malaria preventive medicines, as side effects working mill and carry it off into the jungle. According to the always develop after a time. Thus, the locals never take these contract, if he did not use my technology he did not need to give medicines. They have to depend upon being cured by the standard — me 20 per cent. The problem for him was that the new technology malaria medicines after they contract malaria, and unfortunately that Mike, the landowner, implemented didn't work. Thus, not the malaria parasite has developed a resistance to those medicines. only did I lose my investment but he lost his as well. He was a Visitors can only afford to take malaria preventives for a short millionaire and really didn't care, but it was a little tougher on me. period. As it turned out, several of my associates were When I came back to town after those six months, all the Health hospitalised as a result of taking the preventive medicines. Ministry problems had blown over and I left for the USA. I lost Back in Georgetown I telephoned a friend, Bob Tate, about the my investment money, but I had the knowledge of what the stabilised oxygen curing malaria. He immediately flew to stabilised oxygen could do—and it was very exciting. I no longer .-he explained to me that two drug companies had called the Minister for Health and threatened to quit shipping drugs to the local hospital if she didn't do something about the person — claiming to be able [Neato Paves = NEXUS = 21 to cure malaria. FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com