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Helpful Patients. Once the Navajos are won over, Dr. Salsbury says, they make wonderful patients. They rarely show irritation and are stoical about pain. They also seem to be impervious to many of the white man's diseases: Dr. Salsbury has never found a case of scarlet fever among the Navajos. Also rare: diabetes, breast cancer, baldness...
...best horses in the East were running at fashionable, old-fashioned Saratoga and at streamlined Garden State, but turfmen's thoughts strayed elsewhere. At Rockingham Park at Salem, N.H., under two circus tents, 43 emaciated thoroughbreds stood listlessly cooling their fevered noses in buckets of water. Their hind legs twitched; some fell. By last weekend, seven of them had died, or been destroyed, because of a swamp fever epizootic (animal equivalent of epidemic). The New Hampshire veterinary ordered every one of the 930 horses at Rockingham quarantined there indefinitely...
...Swamp fever (or equine infectious anemia) was almost unknown in New England until last spring. It may have been brought in by an infected horse shipped from Florida. The infection had been spread presumably by blood-sucking insects. Cases began to pop up at various New England tracks, chiefly at Rockingham...
...hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey to another ailment. He began running a fever and developed a blood clot in the lungs. Doctors at New Orleans' Foundation Hospital discovered that he was partially paralyzed...
...ingenious new use of an old drug for an old disease was announced by Dr. I. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College. Dr. Huddleson, one of the world's leading authorities on undulant fever (TIME, Nov. 18), had tried sulfadiazine against the disease. The drug killed undulant fever bacteria in a test-tube but did not work in most patients. The doctor decided that inactive antibodies in the patients' blood somehow neutralized the drug. To make the drug work, perhaps the patient needed a supply of active antibodies. Dr. Huddleson gave his patients transfusions of whole blood containing...