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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Medicine Show (by Oscar Saul & H. R. Hays; produced by Carly Wharton & Martin Gabel) is a Living Newspaper-type play about U. S. health. Though less vividly dramatized than . . . one third of a nation or Power, it trenchantly exposes the medical plight of the U. S. poor. Its relentless statistician raps out some pretty disquieting facts: that of 1,400,000 annual deaths, 250,000 are preventable; that Chicago has just one free hospital; that 1 ,600 U. S. counties lack hospital facilities; that at Manhattan's Harlem Hospital four ambulances annually served 250,000 patients...
Thus aired again was an ancient medical controversy which had resulted in starvation for one scientist, insanity for a second, suicide for a third...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...
Rumored Expecting. Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, who, since her marriage in 1937, has presented her husband, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, with two chubby daughters: a third child; in August or September...
Married. Major George F. M. Cornwallis-West, 64; and Georgette Hirsch, 58; he for the third time (first wife: the former Jennie Jerome of New York, widow of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill; second wife: Mrs. Patrick Campbell-see p. 77); in London...