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...Bunk!" cried Dr. Gannon. "I use alcohol and tobacco moderately myself, and so do 95% of the people. It not only prolongs life but makes it more enjoyable. There is no method that we doctors have that is better to combat fever than a good application of alcohol...
Syphilis. The one-day syphilis cure-again for new infections only-combines: 1) single massive doses of mapharsen (an organic arsenic compound); 2) a ten-hour fever (106° F.) artificially induced by hot humid air while the patient lies in a coffinlike cabinet developed in part by General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering. By increasing the body's tolerance for arsenic, the fever enables doctors to compress the recently developed five-to ten-day treatment (without fever) into...
...fondling that would paralyze censors less innocent than those in the Hays Office, lures him once more into a psychological betrayal of Brother Kirk. Then the action shifts to Bataan. A swift fadeout, filled with the keening crescendo of an enemy shell, ambiguously ends the lovers' fitful fever as Jonny finishes dictating a bangwhang spate of headline copy to his newspaper...
...promiscuous sexual life of the giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifide)and other species again last week brought tears to the eyes of several million U.S. hay fever sufferers. In the next few weeks a good million tons of ragweed pollen will drift imperceptibly over the U.S. seeking mates...
...could have told New York that it is wasting its time. In 1933 Chicago put 25,000 men to work cleaning up weeds (cost: $165,000). Result: no lessening in pollen concentrations, sneezes & sniffles. Reason: ragweed that grows within city limits is only an infinitesimally small source of hay fever infection. The main source is pollen carried by the wind over some 2,000,000 square miles where ragweed flourishes east of the Rockies...