These temples do not regularly cure cancer in the last, hopeless stage, nor tuberculosis of lung and bone.
He was aware that the difficulty in curing pulmonary tuberculosis was due to the lungs being in a constant state of expansion and reduction.
Nostrums were openly sold that claimed to cure or prevent venereal diseases, tuberculosis, and cancer.
Some were completely worthless; for example, Cayce once recommended breathing the fumes of apple brandy from a charred keg to cure tuberculosis.
It was built as a means to cure tuberculosis, which was widespread in the late 19th century.
On one occasion, for example, he established a sanitorium at Pozzuoli, claiming that the sulphurous gases would cure tuberculosis.
While he claimed to cure stomachaches, venereal disease and tuberculosis, he confessed that other sicknesses baffled him.
He regularly pressed the flesh with the masses, who believed that the laying on of his hands would cure tuberculosis.
Waksman, along with graduate student Albert Schatz (1920-2005), discovered streptomycin-a versatile antibiotic that was to be the first applied to cure tuberculosis.
In World War II, penicillin and other antibiotics cured systemic infections and tuberculosis.