My Experience

My Experience with Smallpox

My Experience Learning About Autism

I remember the first time I heard the word "autistic." I was 10 years old, and my mom mentioned that someone had a child who was autistic. I was confused because I mistook her description as "artistic." In April 2001, our first child, Isaiah, was born. My wife, Lanier, was concerned that he had autism at about 11 months of age, but I did not recognize his obvious problems, even though he was no...

Mini-Fast with Exercise – My Personal Experience

Back in 1984, I visited China and Japan in the course of attending an international scientific congress on dietary selenium. After I had been walking around in Tokyo for a couple of days, a thought suddenly struck me: “Where are the fat people?” I literally recall seeing only one Japanese I considered fat during my several days in Japan – and that was a fellow dressed in a business suit in the ...

My experience with cubital tunnel syndrome

Cubital tunnel syndrome can be defined as a compressive neuropathy of the ulnar nerve around the elbow from the arcade of Struthers to the flexor-pronator aponeurosis. However, this complex neuropathy is related not only with compressive force but also with tensile force caused by elongation of the ulnar nerve while flexing the elbow joint and with friction force caused by excursion of the nerv...

My early experience with bishydroxycoumarin (dicumarol).

IN THE LAST of March 1941, my associate at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. R. Butt, gave a lecture at the weekly meeting of the staff of the 1\layo Clinic on the use of vitamin K to correct deficiency of prothrombin associated with jaundice and disease of the liver. In the course of that lecture he mentioned a comI)ound that had been prepared which was capable of producing a deficiency of prothrombin i...