Susan Rich is a Seattle poet and author of three collections of poetry from White Pine Press: The Alchemist's Kitchen (2010), which was a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award; Cures Include Travel (2006); and The Cartographer's Tongue/Poems of the World (2000), which won the PEN Award for Poetry.
Other possible cures include gene therapies (Tebas et al., 2014), stem cell transplantation (Hutter et al., 2009; Henrich et al., 2014) and drugs that make the patients cells less hospitable for the virus (Barouch and Deeks, 2014).
Soldiers would be severely overcome with nostalgia when drinking rustic soups and hearing Alpine folk melodies; the prescribed cures included leeches, opium and a return to the Alps.
The remaining 450 pages deal with other treatments including fresh air and exercise". Adding to the confusion were rival cures, including the malt and "Sour Kroutt" favoured by Captain Cook.
Other crazy cures included powdered human skull, bone-marrow mixed with sweat, a stone that has killed a she-bear and fresh cream mixed with the blood of a black cat's tail.
His home cures included hanging three spiders around his neck which "drove my Ague away".
In fact, in 2005 the British Medical Journal published a systematic review of randomised control trials examining whether many potential hangover cures (including propanalol, tropisetron, tolfenamic acid, fructose, glucose, borage, artichoke, prickly pear, and yeast based preparations) had any benefit.
The advantages of autoclave curing include that compressive strength equivalent to that of 28 days of normal curing can be achieved within 24 h under autoclave curing, less drying shrinkage, elimination of efflorescence, and better resistance to sulfate attacks (Kołakowski et al. 1994; Menzel 1934; Mindess et al. 1981; Neville 1973).
Foods that can be cured include onions, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, cassava, pumpkin, yams and taro.
New approaches to eradicate HIV infection, or at least to achieve a "functional cure", include the depletion of persistent infection, improvement of the immune response and the disruption of latent infection (Chun et al., 2015).
Outcome measures were identified from the clinical impressions reflected in the patient records and were aggregated into three categories--cured, death, or not cured (included treatment failure and default).
