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...owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
Sulfathiazole is "the most important sulfonamide drug in use at present." It is a powerful weapon against pneumonia, staphylococcic infections and a great range of streptococcic infections. Resultant anemia and cyanosis are "less marked" than with the use of sulfanilamide. But sulfathiazole has other drawbacks: 1) it causes fever, skin rash, inflammation of the eyes more severely than other sulfa drugs; 2) it must be used for a relatively longer period of time, thus increasing danger of complications...
...George Gallup's scientifically conducted Institute of Public Opinion, in a special New York State survey (monthly-for-23-months), could find only 21% who wanted to go to war, 8.5% less than Publisher Patterson's poll. Obvious conclusion: instead of chortling at the lack of war fever, Publisher Patterson should be brooding over its high reading on his own thermometer...
Reprints of medical articles announcing great modern discoveries are as rare and valuable as 15th-Century incunabula. One of the rarest items Mr. Schuman ever handled was a reprint of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's brief essay proving that childbed fever may be caused by filthy obstetricians and hospital wards. Several years ago, Mr. Schuman visited the late Sir Frederick Banting in Toronto, asked him to sell a reprint of his first article on the discovery of insulin. Replied Sir Frederick ruefully: "I have only one copy left on file...
...Elsbach's treatment short-cuts all this. He uses a specially prepared salt solution of organic substances produced by the ordinary Bacillus coli, found in human intestines. No scratch tests are necessary, for the Coli Metabolin acts on all forms of hay fever. Somehow the compound has a tonic effect on the irritated sympathetic nervous system. Treatment consists of eight to twelve injections; the first five injections are given daily, the rest every other day. Said Dr. Elsbach: "Treatment before the onset of hay fever is not necessary but should be started when the first symptoms appear. A marked...