In a message dated 12/31/98 7:53:26 AM Central Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << I wouldn't call chelation therapy quackery - a man who worked for me was discovered wih Wilson's disease and chelation therapy was the treatment and it worked. >> Bob, For Wilson's (a copper storage disease) chelation is the treatment of choice. It rids the body of at least some of the ingested copper. Interestingly, the symptoms of Wilson's can mimic PD and is something for which a thorough workup for PD should check. However, used for PD, it is indeed quackery. Regards, WHH 55/38/37