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Several hundred experimental transfusions have been made with enlisted men volunteering to test it, pumping blood out of one arm and sending it back into the other. Majors Emerson and Ebert themselves submitted to the most crucial tests and in no case did a fever reaction occur. The new apparatus should be extremely valuable in saving the lives of wounded soldiers on the field...
...diet is very useful in treating typhoid fever. Doctors know that typhoid patients thrive on a hearty diet, but most typhoid patients do not feel like eating. Administered by tube, the synthetic diet also works better than ordinary food because it leaves almost no residue to irritate inflamed intestines. Result: some patients, even those with high fevers, actually gain weight while they are sick...
Winthrop Chemical Co. of Rensselaer, N.Y. was in trouble again last week.* The Pure Food and Drug Administration claimed that the company had distributed some 22,000 packages of improperly distilled water and 73,000 ampoules of dextrose solution (which is made with distilled water) containing pyrogens (fever-producing substances), "undissolved particles" and mold. Patients showed "unusual symptoms" when a Boston hospital used some of the dextrose in spinal anesthesia. According to an Assistant U.S. Attorney one patient died, but the doctors think he would have died anyway. Winthrop called in all the offending packages long...
When Government lawyers told the story to the press last week, company officials cried Unfair! Hundreds of such cases, they claimed, come up every year without getting into print. It would take several quarts of the improperly distilled water to give a man a fever; the "undissolved particles" were material which had come off the ampoule glass; the mold was probably Penicillium notatum. (Winthrop makes penicillin.) Unfortunately for the company, distilled water is not supposed to contain anything but water, not even gratuitous penicillin...
...respect Hitler was and is exceptional. There was a jabbering fever swirling in his brain, and by phases known to every alienist he passed from loquacious vanity, boasting and shouting, to uncontrolled lunacy. ... I do not know when he became certifiable. . . . Our real enemies, the supporters of the long tradition of Vansittart's unanswerable Black Record, are at one with the viler elements of our own Anglo-Saxon ruling classes, in wanting him to come to an end, before the liberating resentment and enlightenment, that follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will...