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Strange objections to the Rockefeller Foundation were reported from the jungles of Colombia last week. Foundation doctors, on the trail of yellow fever, had an inexplicably hard time persuading a chief of the Goajiras Indians to permit blood tests on his tribe. Finally the chief agreed to send two tribesmen for testing. The doctors took blood samples, sent the Indians home again...
...dose and, if no decided improvement results after one week, to try 500 mg. daily until satisfactory progress is observed. After that he might get along comfortably on 250 mg. or less during the season." The chemists believe the vitamin works as follows: During allergic attacks, such as hay fever, the vitamin-C level in the body goes down; at the same time, histamine in the blood goes up. Histamine is the villain of allergy, for it is an irritating substance normally present in small amounts in the body but formed in large quantities whenever tissues are dam aged...
...audience were Dr. Herbert Worley Kendall of the Kettering Institute for Medical Research, and his boss, General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering, who collaborated in developing the fever cabinet used in the so-called "one-day cure" for early syphilis. Dr. Kendall is in charge of fever therapy at the hospital. Also present was Author Paul de Kruif, who presented the cure in the Reader's Digest (TIME, Sept. 14) and helped the new hospital get its funds...
...fever sufferers, most skeptical of patients, were last fortnight again offered a new hope. In Science Chemists Harry N. Holmes and Wyvona Alexander, of Oberlin College, recommended vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for relieving the complaint...
...with each other, releasing ammonia (the amine part of histamine) and eliminating the irritating chemical. As circulating blood contains dissolved oxygen, Dr. Holmes thought it likely that the same reaction goes on in the body, decided to see what huge quantities of vitamin C would do toward taking hay-fever sufferers' extra histamine out of circulation, in order to relieve wheezing and sneezing...