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...have still another. Ethacrynic acid, a synthetic compound discovered in 1960, has a dramatic diuretic effect even in patients who do not respond to other drugs, says a research team at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. It can be taken by mouth or, if necessary, injected. Its effects complement or enhance those of other diuretics, so that in critical cases doctors can give two medicines together for double the effect or more. Ethacrynic acid also seems to work in patients suffering from some degree of kidney failure. When the Food and Drug Administration approves the drug for general prescription...
...will shortly leave the Army; in the meantime, his brief military career is interesting, mainly as an illustration of the versatility, the pushing energy, and--its complement--the precocious worldly wisdom of the man. In less than four years he has seen something of three campaigns--not an ungenerous allowance for a field officer of longer service than Mr. Churchill counts years of life...
...Hispanic world--its peoples speak Portuguese or Spanish, call themselves Roman Catholics and bear the imprint of various aspects of Hispanic culture. This is a reality with which we must live, and Freyre's explanation of it on the basis of a "Messianic invitation to expand and complement their civilizations" does indeed point out the nature of Hispanic expansion. But to promote this kind of crusading in the twentieth century reeks of neocolonialism, and shows Freyre's basic misunderstanding of and lack of respect for the indigenous cultures of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Some such cultures still exist, notably...
...Threepenny Opera, which will open April 22, was also selected to complement the Adams House March production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, on which it was based...
Deliberately or not, the militant Buddhists and the Communists complement each other in South Viet Nam. Caught by both forces are the country's 1.6 million Roman Catholics, who until the overthrow of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem were generally considered to be enjoying a favored position. They are favored no longer...