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Hitching Rides. Up to now, the claims for DMSO had not been proved by careful investigation. But in this week's A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a University of Pennsylvania professor of dermatology, supplies many of the overdue answers...
After the most thorough study yet made of the drug, with state prison inmates who volunteered for tedious and sometimes painful tests, Dr. Kligman offers some negative findings. DMSO, he says, provides practically no relief for itching or superficial pain. As a germ killer, it is weak "and far inferior to alcohol." It does nothing to promote the healing of clean, simple burns, and it worsened one of ten ultraviolet burns. DMSO also failed to tranquilize any of 20 men in a six-month test. Nevertheless, it has some remarkably beneficial properties...