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3 stories matching swollen
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- The Man Who Was Dead: A Seattle Patient’s Miracle Recovery from 'Incurable' Strangulation
Five years ago, a local man was bedridden by stomach and kidney inflammation, his leg swollen to twice its size. After doctors gave up, he turned to Dr. J.T. Jordan’s 'Bistogenetic system'—and claims to be alive today.
- An 1889 Patient Testimonial for Dr. J. Eugene Jordan
A nineteenth-century resident of the Seattle area shares a harrowing, vivid account of surviving chronic illness through a controversial 'histogenetic' medical system.
- The Miracle Doctor of Pine Street: How One Man’s ‘New Science’ Tamed Seattle’s Sickness
In the winter of 1890, Dr. J. Eugene Jordan’s 'Histogenetic' remedies were curing everything from scrofula to neuralgia, drawing testimonies from desperate locals who claimed conventional medicine had failed them.