 What does it mean to be Cured?
Do you know that what we are doing is really the most primitive medicine in the world? We are treating the symptoms and not the disease. One cannibal walking another with sleeping sickness doesn't cure anything. If anybody does see that button in a patient's ear, it looks like a hearing aid. With that image over everything he sees and with that insidious voice drumming in his head night and day, do you mean to say that man's senses will only be impaired 23 per cent? Why, he'll turn violently schizophrenic sooner or later—and you know it. The only cure we have for that is still a strait jacket, a padded cell or one of those inhuman lobotomies." Many "Cures" were not readily apparent.
 Cured humans have received an intervention for their phobia
 Cured humans are genetically superior to Normal humans  Cured humans have received an intervention for their phobia  Cured humans are allowed to reproduce while Normals aren't  Cured humans are fearless while Normals live their lives in fear