"The best-selling author of Your Body's Many Cries for Water explains how symptoms of chronic dehydration have been labeled as various diseases and treated with dangerous chemicals, creating profits for the drug industry from lack of understanding about the importance of water. Dr. Batmanghelidj only discovered it himself while in prison after the Iranian revolution of 1979, where he had no other medicines to treat his fellow prisoners. The book contains 186 pages of reports of water curing ""incurable"" diseases."