Simple experiments ... serendipitous results ... profound points.

Prof. Jaleel Miyan, U. Manchester in England ... severing the nerve into the bone marrow of an animal resulted in the animal's going into Leukemia.

Australian clinicians ... damaging the nerves supplying a kidney ... a 10 to 35 mm HG reduction in blood pressure in chronic hypertensive patients.

A Canadian group ... implanted devices stimulating the vagus nerve in the neck were used to correct chronic inflammatory bowel conditions.

Prof. Jaleel Miyan ... a particular type of nerve fibre is involved in the expulsion of parasites from the gut; severing that nerve caused chronic infection of the gut.

Prof. Jaleel Miyan ... found that switching off nerve signals to a patch of skin removed that area's allergic reaction to a hapten allergen.

"Insanely great" - Steve Jobs 1977 " ... "deja vu all over again" - Yogi Berra, early '60's