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...capsule was perfected at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where the researchers were themselves surprised by their success. Of 126 men who took the capsules, not one came down with "cat fever" (short for catarrhal fever), as the Navy calls the disease; of 132 who got dummy capsules, 32 became ill enough to go to the hospital, and several developed pneumonia...
...polio vaccine, the disease has been all but wiped out in the U.S. Reported cases of paralytic polio have dramatically declined, from 18,000 cases in 1954 to a mere 94 last year; the chance of getting polio today is less than the risk of diphtheria, malaria or typhoid fever. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the approval of the Salk vaccine for general use, congressional leaders presented Dr. Salk with a joint resolution of the Senate and House expressing the nation's gratitude. The U.S. Public Health Service's Surgeon General, Dr. Luther Terry, called...
Kisses & Gamesmanship. In the finals, Balsis' opponent was none other than Wimpy Lassiter. A master gamesman in the tradition of Robert Cannafax, who used to pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg while his opponent was shooting, Lassiter complained of a fever, sinusitis and ulcers. "Pool players all die of malnutrition at 50," he moaned. "I've got four years to live...
What the patients appreciated first of all was relative freedom from pain and fever. Then they were relieved to find that they did not need to make that dreaded trip to the operating room for skin grafting. What little grafting they needed was done at the bedside and was virtually painless, even without anesthesia. Finally, doctors and patients alike could watch the wounds heal with a minimum of scarring (except where the burn had penetrated deep into the flesh) or deformities...
...began five weeks ago. Ninety-one Negroes were permitted to apply-by far the biggest single-day total in Selma's history. The drive was going well in nearby Marion too, and King was obviously elated. He cried to his followers there: "You all really have the freedom fever here...