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...Treatment of asthma, hay fever and other allergy diseases has become too easy with new and powerful anti-histaminic drugs, warned Dr. Charles P. Huttrer of Manhattan's Warner Institute for Therapeutic Research. The danger is that doctors are inclined to ignore possible secondary effects of the drugs. Such "histaminoid accidents" cause allergic reactions elsewhere in the body, may make the cure worse than the disease...
...increase in production, which tended to satisfy demand, and part to the rise in prices. In a free economy, prices can also be a cure for inflation-if a harsh one. As London's Economist put it: "Rising prices and inflation are . . . associated together, like scarlet fever and rising temperatures. . . . But so far from being the same thing, one is nature's cure for the other. Inflation is an excess of demand over supply and one way in which the two can be brought into balance is by such a rise in prices that the available supply absorbs...
...Fever Chart. The Government, which berated industry for raising prices, did the same thing itself. In the commodity markets, it was Government buying, more than anything else, that boosted grain prices. They helped pull up the wholesale commodity price index (1926 average: 100) from 141.5 to 162 in a year. No one disputed that the Government had to buy grain for relief abroad. But did it have to buy it the way it did? In five months, it gobbled up some 400 million bushels of grain, despite the short corn crop which put pressure under all grain prices...
...because its nature is unknown). Its victims commonly suffer gastrointestinal upsets, occasionally inflammation of the nose and throat, and flu-like general aches & pains. Last week, the Los Angeles area had 200,000 victims of virus X. Doctors said there was no connection between virus X and either Q fever or ordinary flu, advised patients: "Call a doctor...
...still too early to talk about curing or preventing colds-even the type of common cold caused by V14A. Dr. Topping (who developed the first effective serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1940) would say only that a vaccine is "a possibility, not a probability." (It took ten years to develop a flu vaccine after the flu virus was isolated in 1933.) As a final gloomy thought, Dr. Topping feared that even if a vaccine is developed, it will give immunity for only a very short time, and, of course, against only one type of cold...