A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked

by Dreyfus, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781930051140
• ISBN10: 193005114X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Lantern Books

Summary

Jack Dreyfus, founder of the hugely successful Dreyfus Fund, discovered that a medicine (phenytoin) was very successful in treating his severe depression. This book is a story of Dreyfus's extraordinary life, his discovery of phenytoin (PHT), and a testament to his ceaseless effort to make the truth known to people in this country and around the world.

Table of Contents

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JACK DREYFUS
Pre-Preface	xiii
Preface	xv
Reporting Angle	1	(8)
Earliest Recollection	9	(2)
At the Beginning	11	(8)
Grammar School	19	(8)
High School	27	(2)
Golf---A Pleasure	29	(8)
Tennis	37	(3)
My Parents	40	(4)
Family Life	44	(9)
Card Playing	53	(8)
Lehigh University	61	(7)
Getting a Job	68	(8)
The U.S. Coast Guard	76	(5)
Horse Racing	81	(10)
Experiences and Thoughts	91	(8)
Wall Street	99	(24)
A REMARKABLE MEDICINE HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED
To the Reader	123	(2)
Letter to the President	125	(6)
From Inside a Depression	131	(8)
An Incredible Piece of Luck	139	(6)
New Evidence and a Broadening Perspective	145	(8)
The Subject of Probabilities	153	(9)
Body Electricity	162	(5)
A Soft Voice in a Deaf Ear	167	(8)
Establishing a Medical Foundation---and the Story of My Life (the Best Parts Left Out)	175	(12)
Eleven Angry Men	187	(13)
Travels with the Government	200	(24)
Travels Abroad (England---Italy---Russia)	224	(6)
A Flaw in the System	230	(15)
Evidence	245	(9)
Observations on PHT	254	(6)
The One-Hour Test	260	(15)
Conclusion and Personal Note	275	(2)
Sixteen Years Latter	277	(16)
The Broad Range of Clinical Use of Phenytoin Clinical Section and Summary of the Basic Mechanisms of Action	293	(130)
Appendix	423