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...August night in 1956, with two girls in his car, Pollock drove into a tree. Only 44, he was killed instantly. So was one of the girls. The other, Ruth Kligman, has written a pathetic, petty account of the tragedy in a recent issue of New York magazine...
Only last year Dr. Kligman, a full professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, published what was then hailed as "the most thorough study yet made" of DMSO, the controversial drug solvent that has been billed as a remedy for everything from arthritis to athlete's foot (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). It developed that Dr. Kligman and his labs were investigating new drugs for no fewer than 33 manufacturers, and the FDA's Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, of thalidomide fame, began to wonder how thoroughly and carefully Kligman & Co. could do all that work. A check...
...only the second time in its history, the Food and Drug Administration last week struck a physician's name from its approved list of researchers who are entitled to test new, investigational drugs on human subjects. The target of the FDA's action was Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a Philadelphia dermatologist, along with "all investigators associated with" three incorporated laboratories of which he is president and director...
...charges that one prisoner had a severe reaction to DMSO, but that this was not acknowledged in the Kligman report, that Dr. Kligman al lowed his comparison subjects to take other investigational drugs, instead of a dummy (placebo), thus rendering his conclusions meaningless, and that he reported blood tests on patients who were not even in the hospital at the time he claimed. Dr. Kligman has the right to ask the FDA to review its action...
...fungal infections such as ringworm and athlete's foot, DMSO transports the basic antifungal drug and helps to speed clearing of the infection. Dr. Kligman finds that DMSO itself has moderate antifungal powers...