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...recent attack on rest by Dr. William Dock, Long Island College of Medicine pathologist (TIME, April 24), started a hot debate among doctors. Last fortnight a full-dress symposium on "the abuse of rest," by a group of eminent specialists, was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The specialists were almost unanimous in feeling that Dr. Dock was right...
...Hirschhorn, plant pathologist, is planning investigations in the biology of the smut fungi, and has alternate research scheduled for Harvard and the University of Minnesota...
...great U.S. wheat belt, farmers listen to "Stake" almost as anxiously as to the weather man. Last week Professor Elvin C. Stakman, famed University of Minnesota plant pathologist, gave them something to be anxious about. "No. 56," the dread wheat rust, is rising to epidemic proportions. Stake and his boys were making some laboratory progress against it; they were sure they would eventually master No. 56, as they had mastered many another disease. But the outbreak once more confirmed a Stakman theory: the news on the fungus front is always...
...week. After 200 to 300 treatments, 56% were improved, none were worse. At the same time 65% of an untreated group got worse. Dr. John William Guy Hannon of Washington, Pa. tried the dust on 176 silicotics in the ceramics, steel and glass industries, improved 168 of them. Famed Pathologist Leroy Gardner of Saranac Lake, N.Y. has also tried out aluminum (and other dusts) on silicotic guinea pigs, watched the successful results by X-ray and microscope...
...Almost as illogical as the bleedings and purgings of previous generations," continued the pathologist, is the custom of making all victims of heart attacks stay in bed for six weeks. Very often a doctor finds a patient with failure of the left side of the heart sitting up in a chair and orders him to bed, "whereupon the patient proceeds to suffocate." Another lethal effect of bed rest : pneumonia caused by collection of fluid in the lungs. This is why sick oldsters should not stay in bed "one hour longer than necessary." They should sit up part of the time...