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Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swedish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors...
...allergy anecdotes and scores of others, culled from hundreds of medical journals, are on display in Strange Malady, a breezily written book published last week by Dr. Warren Taylor Vaughan of Richmond, Va. (Doubleday; $3). Son of the late Dr. Victor Clarence Vaughan, who was not only a pioneer allergist but also the man who brought the first diphtheria antitoxin from Europe to the U. S., Dr. Warren Vaughan tells in his book about all that a layman needs or wants to know about allergy-how "sensitization" takes place, its bodily results, its myriad agents, its treatment. From kapok...
This week, Allergist Laurence Farmer of Manhattan presented a frank, scientific discussion of allergy in a little book* full of medical anecdotes. Interesting facts...