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Like so many research triumphs, this one had been almost an accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...
...Evan Shute did not forget it. Last summer, when a colleague asked him to suggest a research project for a bright young medical student, Floyd Skelton, Shute suggested tests for the effectiveness of vitamin E against hemorrhage. At the University of Western Ontario Skelton set to work on his class-free Saturday afternoons, with a modest grant of $150 and laboratory privileges from his alma mater. He soon discovered that dogs given stiff jolts of vitamin E would not have hemorrhages...
Impressed, Dr. Shute decided to try the experiment on humans, using Skelton's principle of large, concentrated doses of the vitamin. A friend, Dr. Arthur Berge Francis Vogelsang, had just the man: a 68-year-old pensioner who was dying of hypertensive heart disease and hemorrhages, was due to have his spleen removed the next day. The attending surgeon was willing to try the vitamin, since he was afraid the patient would die on the operating table. Within a week after treatment the old man was out of bed, bustling around the hospital ward and helping nurses with...
Muscle Repair. Last week, in two papers read in St. Thomas, Ont. before the St. Thomas and East Elgin Medical Society, Dr. Vogelsang made the first public announcement of the new treatment. With his coauthors, Drs. Evan and Wilfred Shute, he gave full credit to Floyd Skelton for "crowning the research with final success...
MOST SECRET - Nevil Shute - Morrow ($2.50). This slickly competent wartime adventure story is put together on such sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...