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He was known not only for his unyielding commitment to chronic Lyme disease patients, but for his meticulous collection of data and his fearless battles with the CDC over the existence of Lyme or Lyme-like disease in Missouri. In her book, "_Cure Unknown_ (http://www.cureunknown.com/) ", Pam Weintraub devoted an entire chapter to Dr. Masters. Here is a small excerpt (pg. _177-178_ (http://books.google.com/books?id=kDDlBMFUC54C&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq="edwin+j.+masters"+lyme&source=bl&ots=wg14el0RWf&sig=ScJZlQE_x3lS7 IY1UAFuaFvw0Rk&hl=en&ei=UuI_SqCjEYzGM6vr0LEO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&r esnum=1) ): "I was living in two worlds," Masters says now, remembering back. "I would go to conferences and present to academic experts, and they would say, 'Hmmm, that's Lyme disease.' Then I would go back home to Missouri and the people from the CDC would tell me I was misdiagnosing all these patients. Diagnosis of Lyme disease based on the erythema migrans rash was controversial only in Missouri, and nowhere else in the world." Through 1991, as his differences with the CDC became increasingly heated, Masters traveled to conferences equipped with a poster of his patients' erythema migrans rashes and a quote from William Harvey, the seventeenth-century physician and father of physiology who had been ostracized for years for daring to suggest that blood circulated. "I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge," William Harvey had said in 1651, just as Ed Masters appealed to his colleagues now. The EM rashes on his poster were powerful visual evidence for some sort of borreliosis, Lyme disease proper or not. And Missouri rashes had been found to contain spirochetes by the pathologists Paul Duray and J. de Koning, who were widely recognized as top experts on such issues. Blood from Masters's patients had by now tested positive for Lyme disease by ELISA at numerous labs, including the University of Connecticut, the University of Minnesota, and the CDC itself. Things came to a head furing one of Masters's presentations, when a CDC representative declared that none of it proved the phenomenon in question was Lyme disease. "Why can't you accept this," Masters countered. "The evidence is overwhelming." "Because you haven't proven it's Borrelia burgdorferi," the CDC official said. "Excuse me!" Masters bellowed in front of a crowd. "You're the CDC, the federally funded, taxpayer-supported research institute that's supposed to check this out, and you are telling me, a solo family physician finding these patients, that I haven't proven it's Borrelia burgdorferi? I think we need a job clarification here. It's not my job to prove or disprove it, it's yours!" Dr. Masters' obituary from the local newspaper is attached below. It includes information on funeral arrangements as well as where donations can be made. The link was provided to me by someone at the _Ferguson Medical Group_ (http://www.fergusonmedical.com/index.htm) , where Dr. Masters had worked, and they also provided me with an address for Dr. Masters' wife, for those who would like to send their condolences. You may also wish or prefer to send cards to Ferguson Medical Group, so I am including their address as well: Mrs. Jackie Masters, 325 Kennedy Dr., Sikeston MO 63801 (note: wife's name obtained from obituary below) Ferguson Medical Group, 1012 N. Main, Sikeston, MO 63801 (_webmaster@fergusonmedical.com_ (mailto:webmaster@fergusonmedical.com) ) RIP, Dr. Masters. You will be sorely missed. ...Steve TOP