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Sulfa drugs, used with streptomycin, a combination discovered within the past few years, protect against the two most common forms of the plague: bubonic, which attacks the lymph glands, and pneumonic, which attacks the lungs. Sulfa drugs alone work too, in most cases after bubonic plague has struck. In one district in rural China, said Dr. Pollitzer, his WHO teams found 44 cases, saved 41. For the pneumonic form, there is rabbit serum, developed two years ago at the Hooper Foundation's animal building, known to laboratory workers and San Francisco newspapers as "Mousetown"; rabbits, like man but unlike...
...perforation near the pylorus (the stomach's opening into the small intestine) showed up in the autopsy on Napoleon; the internal surface of the stomach was "practically covered by a cancerous mass, as were all of the lymph nodes...
...half the human body's ability to absorb carotene, which is converted to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, various skin and internal disorders. What's more alarming, fine droplets of mineral oil can go through the intestinal wall and reach the liver and lymph nodes, where, doctors suspect, they may cause dangerous lesions. Autopsies have revealed such droplets in patients' tissues...
Hodgkin's disease is a cancerlike swelling of the lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue, which exists throughout the body. The victims-often young people-live, on an average, for about 30 months after the disease takes hold. The accepted treatment at present is X rays or nitrogen mustard (TIME, Oct. 21). Both are palliatives, offer no hope of cure...
...children's tonsillitis, many U.S. doctors have been prescribing a new drug called Analbis. The drug, a bismuth compound, has an affinity for lymph and attacks the infection in sore throats. In the last three years doctors have used it for hundreds of thousands of patients...