for many of my readers, Sodom and Gomorrah, not Balm and Spiritual Healing, are the words most associated with 'impure' Manhattan

If my readers are poor, rural and church-going, or if they are the 'old families' living among the best addresses of the Upper East Side, that is most definitely the case.

But they are wrong - or at the very least, not always right - and my blog and book intends to convince them of that fact.

The unexpected medical balm of 'natural penicillin for all', and far more importantly, the unexpected spiritual balm that it represented, came along just when misguided humanity needed it most - in the dying days of WWII.

And it didn't just come out of 'impure' diverse perverse Manhattan by some sheer bad luck --- it could only have come from there.

The story of Dr Martin Henry Dawson, the individual behind that balm, is a story of tough times, fierce battles, persistence, tenacity, perseverance, courage - a story not without pain and tears, but ultimately life-changing, a story both uplifting and empowering. ....