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http://www.amazon.com/Persecuted-Drug-Story-DMSO/dp/0441151019/Another rare book.The inside story of what some call tomorrow’s aspirin… A miraculous drug…4.0 out of 5 stars detailed history of DMSO April 2, 2013By John B. CampiseInteresting history of DMSO, a paper manufacturing by-product that has unusual properties making it a useful and seemingly safe agent for aiding animal (including human) tissue health.A patient of mine told me about it and how it has miraculously healed his cuts and bruises over the years. I asked colleagues of mine about it but they thought it was dangerous, so I bought this book to find out more, and it has eased my fears of its use. And I have had some good success using it for certain conditions!The book begins when a paper industry salesman postulated its possible use in medicine as a safe and effective carrier of active medical agents into the blood stream through the skin, and began showing it to various MDs with no luck. Then a surgeon listened to him and was intrigued by it’s near instant entry into the blood stream through the skin (as proved by sticking his finger in a jar of liquid DMSO and almost instantly being able to taste the DMSO in his mouth!). The surgeon took samples of it and began playing with it in the lab when he discovered that it also had a pain relieving effect! He began giving samples to patients who also had pain relief with it, among many other chronic conditions healing up.Apparently one of DMSO’s properties is that when mixed with water, it acts as an antifreeze, and because it is readily absorbed by animal tissues, it was initially of interest by the surgeon because he had been searching for a chemical to allow below freezing storage of organs waiting for transplant while preventing the damage that normally occurs when tissue freezes (the cells burst open, destroying them). DMSO is apparently nearly perfect for this. Although, since this book was published in 1980, I don’t know if it was ever or is still used for that purpose today.The book goes on to describe how the relatively young FDA felt overwhelmed by the multitude of ailments DMSO seemed to help clinically. They decided it would be too much work for them (in fact a nightmare) to study and approve each of these uses, and so began looking for reasons to declare DMSO as unsafe for human use so as to not have to deal with it further. Of course they found some unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that it was dangerous and began a media campaign to get it banned without too much opposition from a public that had already begun to hear of its miraculous uses from the surgeon and his followers. The bulk of the book talks about the multi-year struggle between the surgeon and the FDA before the FDA finally banned DMSO for all uses except interstitial cystitis of the bladder.It was a little more than I wanted to know about its history, but now I know why there is still so much misunderstanding and fear around it. There is a nice 30 page appendix at then end of the book that lists all of the known possible medical uses of DMSO at the time (1980) with references.Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.