Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cbdkc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!tjs From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: dried fruit (really fun with enemas) Message-ID: <1113@cbdkc1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:19:34 EDT Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1113 Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:19:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 11:48:20 EDT References: <236@drutx.UUCP> Reply-To: tjs@dkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 39 >Tom Stanions' latest article is the funniest yet. It seems that >individual cases can be used as evidence for his methods, but they >can also be explained away--as in the case of the terrible looking >fellow selling enemas. Where did I say this? I have always warned against sharlatins. My point was that the person who discribed this incident did not elaborate about how he got that way or his motives. When children see a fat person they make fun of them, as we grow older most of us learn to first ask "Does this person have a problem beyond their ability to control?" Only after we first ask these important questions can we judge another person. Before you can comment on that last sentence let me say that with most doctors I am sure that their motives are good, however, they are to narrow-minded and near-sighted to see the truth that lies before them. >Then he follows with a truly disgusting description of some of the >most bizarre practices. This is from someone supposedly into "natural" >methods. I'm sure our ancesters evolved to need pressure enemas. :-) Is this hard for you to accept? Physical therapy is one of the things that could always be performed with or without a doctor. I read of one case where a person who was dying of accute constipation was saved by a "backwoods" doctor who cut a reed like a straw and gave the person a pressure enema by taking the solution into his mouth and, using the reed, put it where it did the most good. I hope I didn't just discust you, visit the cancer section of your local hospital some day and maybe this won't sound so bad. >I really didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or get sick. Boy, I >could hardly wait to train as an operator/observer for this! Sounds >like you have a lot of fun, Tom. (99 * :-)). It is in fact a pleasure to do something good for yourself every now and then, think of the pleasure I receive from doing good things all the time. > Sue Brezden {allegra|ihnp4}!cbdkc1!tjs