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...effectiveness was unchallengeable: in the jumbo-sized (264 pages) October issue, 334 advertisers spent $2,146,746 to plug their products-an alltime dollar-volume record for a single issue of a magazine. (Last June the Journal jacked its price from 15? to 25? without checking its circulation fever, now boasts a new high of 4,600,000 readers...
Infectious hepatitis, which attacks the liver, is rarely fatal, but invariably puts its victims in bed for two to three months. It may be much more widespread than formerly supposed. Reason: most of the symptoms (headache, fever, vomiting) are those of influenza or any respiratory disorder, and some patients never develop jaundice (yellowing of the skin...
...drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...streptomycin also had some failures. Against typhoid fever, undulant fever and Salmonella (certain kinds of food poisoning), streptomycin showed "no dramatic results." The drug is also mildly toxic in doses above one gram a day: 20% of the patients treated had headaches, fever, skin rashes or dizziness...
...fight was won. Since 1933, the original Seven had grown to a Group of 28, all of whom caught the fever. But Canada had yet to produce a painter less clumsy, fresher, or more unaffectedly Canadian than Charter Members MacDonald and Harris...