Medicine: From His Own Backyard

There is no evidence that typical human cancers have anything to do with a virus. And if there were, treatment with antibiotics would do no good because none has been found to have any effect on true viruses. These stubborn facts have not deterred Dr. John E. Gregory of Pasadena, Calif. To "prove" his thesis that human cancer is caused by a virus, he has put out a book with photographs purporting to show the virus particles under the electron microscope. He grosses $400,000 a year by treating up to 300 patients a day with "Gregomycin," which he calls an antibiotic...

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