I have, for you, a theory, <br />at least a partial answer. <br />to devastating misery, <br />the ravages of cancer. <br /> <br />The year was seventeen-fifty-three <br />James Lind watched seamen die <br />of a disease in agony <br />and no one figured why. <br /> <br />This SCURVY eats the body's flesh <br />and breaks down walls of cells <br />where collagen serves to enmesh <br />a trillion different shells. <br /> <br />HYALURONIDASE is made <br />by most malignant tumours, <br />it works relentless in the shade <br />and laughs at all the rumours <br /> <br />spread by the quacks of little brains <br />who recommend it often. <br />But, in the end, the only gain <br />is body cells that soften. <br /> <br />So what, you ask, will strengthen it, <br />prevent scorbutic change, <br />when uncontrolled and bit by bit <br />the healthy tissue range <br /> <br />just crumbles into useless swill, <br />it is quite unexpected, <br />the patient is extremely ill, <br />that's what James Lind detected. <br /> <br />Two hundred years, and to the day <br />a Scotsman and a Yank <br />they theorized ascorbate may <br />be money in the bank. <br /> <br />The battlefield of scurvy's void, <br />so similar to cancers, <br />it looks as if it's been destroyed <br />by drunken Cossack dancers. <br /> <br />And soon they found, ascorbate would <br />inhibit cancer spread. <br />Now Cameron and Pauling could <br />perhaps not raise the dead, <br /> <br />but stop the greatest single scourge <br />of practising its chilling <br />and uncontrolled satanic urge <br />to decimate by killing <br /> <br />the people, often in their prime, <br />with cruelty and greed. <br />Could one plain substance stop this crime <br />and turn this desperate need? <br /> <br />Now almost forty years have passed <br />and many millions died. <br />Yet I can feel the icy blast, <br />they will not save your hide.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/not-looking-for-a-cure/
