Hmmm this thread is about bacterial infections not cancer.
An anecdote from someone who developed osteomylitis after a cat bite-
". His hand had swollen to twice its normal size and resembled a rubber glove that someone had blown up. The fingers protruded like useless appendages from a mound of purpled flesh. The skin was stretched so tightly that you could see the outline of your reflection in the back of his hand.
Upon arriving home we drove directly to the emergency hospital. A very efficient staff hovered around Frank?s hand, called in two more doctors, and within two hours of our arrival Frank was wheeled into the emergency operating room for the first of three emergency operations.
The verdict was unanimous-osteomyelitis, infection of the bone - - very serious. The bacteria had eaten away the bone, the joint, and the knuckle, and continued to travel down the hand. The laboratories were unable to identify the bacteria. Grim-faced doctors told me it would most probably cost Frank his hand - - and possibly his life. He was put on intravenous antibiotics around the clock. His hand was slashed open across the palm and down both sides of the finger to the bone and washed every two hours in an attempt to stop the raging infection.
I went before the hospital board to try to get vitamin C administered to him intravenously. I was told that they were sure it was a good treatment, but they knew nothing about it, and they did not allow treatments of which they had no knowledge.
I called in an internationally-known hand specialist, one who has written textbooks on the subject, to consult with the two hospital doctors.
The problem was a difficult one. Circulation to the hand (and, compounding that, to the bone) was very limited. Five weeks of antibiotics had not touched it. It was an ideal spot for the still unidentified bacteria to fester and spread - - which it was doing with alacrity.
The verdict was unanimous ? AMPUTATE
We began to consult with holistic doctors and leading nutritionists to find alternatives to this chilling diagnosis. We talked with Dr. Bob Cathcart. It was then that we garnered the courage to challenge the best of contemporary, orthodox medicine with a simple vitamin.
We became convinced that if we could just get Frank well enough to get him out of the hospital, we could save his hand.
When Frank refused amputation on the first of the month, the doctor warned Frank that he might pay for this delay with his life, as there was nothing to keep the infection from relocating elsewhere in the body.
A friend of ours, a doctor for whom we hold great respect and affection, told me I was naïve, that I didn?t know what I was doing and it would end up costing Frank his right hand - - if not his life.
After five weeks in the hospital on intravenous antibiotics and three operations, Frank insisted on being released. Upon his release, I drove him directly to the Holistic Medical Group in San Jose where Dr. Rettner administered 60 to 75 grams a day of vitamin C intravenously. I gave him 30 grams per day of oral C and liquid garlic.
We packed the hand in a garlic and red clay poultice at night. The pain, which had required two codeine tablets every four hours, stopped with the second treatment. Within nine days, before our believing eyes, the infection stopped, the swelling disappeared, and the deep open gashes left from the surgery healed, leaving only hairline scars.
Frank kept his appointment in surgery for the planned amputation. With a broad smile, he held out a no longer misshapen or discolored right hand to shake the hand of a very shaken surgeon.
They had ?never seen this happen before,? ?One in a million,? they said.
As I watched their shocked faces, a scripture verse came to mind: ?God has chosen the simple things of the world to confound the wise.? "
Note the IV dose that cleared the infection was 60 to 75gm's of C.