Medicine: Revival in Tombstone

The old ghost town of Tombstone, Ariz, was having a minor boom. The boom was due to arthritis, asthma and sinus trouble, all of which are still medical mysteries.

The boom began last August, when Dr. Peter Paul Zinn, 52, a onetime doctor for copper-mining Phelps Dodge Corp., came over from Bisbee and started a medical center featuring inhalations of chlorine gas.

Man in the Mountain. Dr. Zinn got the idea from Father Roger Aull, 61-year-old retired Passionist priest who lives in the mountains near Silver City. Father Aull once had an abscessed lung which...

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