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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tibione is more toxic than streptomycin or P.A.S., but most patients suffer only loss of appetite, malaise, and skin eruptions which look like measles. These side effects soon pass, and Tibione (unlike streptomycin) can be given to a patient for months or even years. It is taken in tablet form, usually four times a day. Because the drug was developed during the war, the German patents are no good and any U.S. manufacturer can make it. A few patients in U.S. hospitals have been dosed with Tibione; it will soon be tried on thousands...
There are a few scenes that come close to success--the servants gossipping in the kitchen, town characters at the pub. Among the characters, James Mason is kindly and venerable, Barbara Mullen patient and faithful, and Margaret Lockwood sufficiently distracted for her part. The whole cast acts far above the lines...
Then the doctor dictated to his secretary, "When he first woke up yesterday morning, the patient felt as though he had a fever." He asked me some more questions and looked at me. After a while he said I had pharangitis...
Krieg's research indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...
...Krieg wants to try the same technique with deafness and paralysis. In some kinds of paralysis, he theorizes, the patient could be equipped with an apparatus (as a substitute transmission station for damaged nerves), worn at the hip or knee and turned on or off by the patient. A manually operated switchboard might select such a desired motion as walking...