On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Trish Tipton wrote:

> Surgery is not paleo because they didn't have Dr's then......

Who says you need a doctor to perform surgery?  I have read
accounts of Australian aborigines performing amputations *on
themselves* when, for example, an animal bite became gangrenous.

> we can
> combine the best of medicine and the paleo diet.  as far as cancer, i
> would go to Mexico to be treated for it.  they use Oxygen to treat cancer
> and they have 85% recovery rate.

And it must be true, because they said so.  Forgive my sarcasm
but I have personal knowledge of some horror stories of people
who went to Mexico for alternative cancer treatment, including
this very one.

Todd Moody
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