The Social Order
From the time of the Roman Empire until well after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882, many of the best medical minds believed that miasmas invisible vapors emitted from the earth caused killer infections such as typhus, diphtheria, and malaria. Though the bacteriological revolution of the late nineteenth century routed that theory, a new miasma theory has lately sprung up in schools of public health, holding that racism and sexism, though as unmeasurable as the ancient miasmas, cause AIDS, cancer, drug addiction, and heart disease. Indeed, according to public health professors, living in America is acutely hazardous to women and minorities, so shot through is the United States with sickness-producing even fatal injustice and bigotry.
The Milford Daily News
FRANKLIN – For many of Crystal Meyers’ clients, their drive to her acupuncture clinic is the last of several made to doctors, chiropractors and physical therapists who couldn’t help them with their ailments.
That’s how Meyers also ended up there.
No matter how many pints of blood doctors drained from her, doctors and specialists couldn’t figure out why Meyers, then a high school senior, was unable to stay awake, keep her hair from falling out or from her body temperature drastically dropping in her sleep.
She said many people didn t believe her.
Until her mother came across a woman in a magazine who had Meyers’ symptoms, and felt better with the help of a naturopathic doctor. Meyers said she had nothing left to lose, and she scheduled a consultation and hair analysis.