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...doctors report, has its most Striking effect in reducing fever, spitting, and the poisoning of the body by tubercle bacilli. It also gives the patient a sense of wellbeing. A gain in weight often results from the treatment: one tuberculosis patient, who had been in & out of hospitals for 20 years, put on 26 Ibs. in four months. Used with streptomycin, PAS is invaluable in keeping down the development of strains of germs which have learned to resist streptomycin. The drug, conclude the doctors, is so promising that it should be tested more widely...
When counties were compared by population, some unexplained differences showed up. In both north & south, only the least populous counties reported no cases. But in the north, when epidemics struck, they appeared to hit thinly populated rural areas or small cities more often than jampacked big cities. In the south, the bigger the city the more polio...
Caesar and Cleopatra (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) remains after half a century one of Shaw's, and hence the modern theater's, most vigorous plays. Shaw has often been more amusing, and sometimes more electrifying or profound. But in Caesar, using comedy with little flippancy, he achieved sharp comment; and with history for a pedestal, he set something Roman and solid upon...
...Comet, said De Havilland, has a gross weight of 105,000 lbs., a cruising speed of 490 m.p.h., and a practical commercial range of 2,645 miles, with a payload of 12,000 lbs., including 36 passengers and their baggage. A 50-mile headwind, which is often met on east-west transatlantic hops, would cut the range to 2,140 miles...
Three Words. Like Douglas Southall Freeman's more floridly written Lee's Lieutenants, Lincoln Finds a General is essentially a study in command. It recapitulates old battles not to recapture the horror and flavor of battle but to evaluate the leadership which was often more important than numbers and weapons. Crisper, more critical, less reverent of big names than Freeman, Williams shows Lee and Jackson as the great leaders they were, but quite capable of errors in command (e.g., Lee's slips at Gettysburg, Jackson's boner at Port Republic) which most of their admirers have...