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They had found that the most effective way was a combination of penicillin shots and artificial fever treatment. Patients were put in a conventional "hotbox," their temperatures raised to 106°F. for three three-hour periods; they were given a total of 1,200,000 units of sodium penicillin during 7½ days. The treatment worked in 82.1% of the cases. When patients were given the same amount of penicillin in the same period, without fever treatment, results were only 70.4% effective. But the fever did not speed up the treatment. When patients were given the same amount...
...aside and sympathetically permits a Portuguese captain to communicate with "the enemy" (the captain's beloved daughter, who lives in Germany). But it is Scobie's own wife, Louise, who gnaws the hole that is destined to grow into "an enormous breach [in] ... his integrity." Fever-racked, miserable Louise knows too well that though her husband may once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved," Scobie one day sets his integrity aside, surreptitiously borrows money from an unscrupulous Syrian...
Rats & Shaving Brushes. The P.H.S. was established in John Adams' administration, on July 16, 1798, to care for ailing seamen. Its job still begins at the water's edge. Quarantine Servicemen inspect arriving ships (and planes) for victims of smallpox, plague, cholera, typhus, yellow fever (the five diseases defined as "quarantinable" by international agreement). Those with other communicable diseases are passed on to local health authorities to deal with. On all ships the P.H.S. looks for evidence of rats,* which might carry plague. They check imported shaving brushes for signs of anthrax...
Syphilis & the Common Cold. In research, P.H.S. has chalked up a notable list of firsts. Among them: discovery (1914) of the cause, cure and prevention of pellagra; identification (1925) of brucellosis (undulant fever); first use (1942) of continuous caudal anesthesia in childbirth; proof (1943) of the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis; demonstration (1941) that fluorides reduce tooth decay; isolation (1947) of one of the agents causing the common cold...
...Congressional Joint Committee on the Economic Report thought it had some fever-hot news: U.S. employment, production, income, prices and profits were all close to record highs in June. Yet by the time the committee reported its figures last week, they were already out of date. Everything had gone higher-and was still rising...