In 1957 a cancer patient, hereafter known as "Mr. Wright," was hospitalized in Long Beach, California. The man was riddled with tumors the "size of oranges" and on his death bed.
Mr. Wright was made aware of a new wonder drug, Krebiozen (a serum derived from horses, pictured above in tablet form. Formal name: 1-methyl-2-amino-imidazol-4-one. Chemical structured provided below), which was marketed as being a possible cure for all types of cancer.
His physician, Dr. Phillip West, eventually relented to his continued requests to receive the drug as the patient literally had "nothing to lose." Having been injected on a Friday morning, Dr. West would return to check up on his patient the following Monday only to be astonished by what he saw.
His patient, the one on his "death bed," was up and about joking with hospital staff as if there was nothing wrong. His orange-sized tumors apparently had melted away.
A few months later, Mr. Wright would go onto to read a report in his local newspaper that Krebiozen was in fact an ineffective remedy. The patient would go onto to suffer an almost immediate relapse of previous symptoms.
Upon seeing his patient again, Dr. West convinced Mr. Wright he had access to a "super-refined double strength" version of Krebiozen. Within a few days, Dr. West's patient made a full recovery and would go on to be the picture of good health until a fateful morning when Mr. Wright read a definitive report showing that Krebiozen had no effect on cancer whatsoever.
He died two days later.
As for the "super-refined double strength" version of the drug? Dr. West would later go onto reveal that it had been nothing of the sort - only sterile water.
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