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...However, phenylbutazone's effects (like cortisone's) do not last long after the drug is withdrawn. The dosage, usually three or four tablets daily, at a cost of 50^? to 75?, must be continuous for long-lasting benefit. And phenylbutazone also has some annoying side effects: one patient out of four has suffered nausea, hives or water retention. As a result, one out of twelve has had to discontinue the drug; the rest have been able to go on with it, taking antihistamine or alkalis to control the side effects. In any case, say the doctors, phenylbutazone must...
...sandbags have been used. Now, thanks to cooperation between cancer experts and a geologist, Manhattan's Francis Delafield Hospital has a better method. A rubber bag is half-filled with small plastic "pebbles" and molded around the part of the body to be immobilized. Then the air is withdrawn from the bag. The vacuum "freezes" the plastic pebbles into a solid mass which holds the patient like big, strong hands. After the treatment, air is let into the bag and the cast becomes flabby again. It can be used over & over...
Passed over as Army chief of staff in favor of a junior corps commander, Joe Collins. Considered retiring, entering politics. Last year Harry Truman picked him-an Episcopalian-as the nation's first Ambassador to the Vatican, but in the resulting furor Clark asked to have his name withdrawn...
...soon as he got to Portland, Stevenson began urging the citizenry not to vote for him. He was not, he said, "participating" in the Oregon primary and would have long since withdrawn from the ballot if the law had allowed him to do so. "At the time you invited me, you may have thought you were getting a candidate for President. Instead all you got was a candidate for governor of Illinois. I hope you don't feel . . . deceived and defrauded." Almost 600 delighted Democrats, who had paid $10 apiece to attend the dinner, cheered him lustily and decided...
...British Museum persuaded the Duke of Gloucester to part with a rare first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for $3,696. The Duke's volume is one of the few remaining of the 2,000 original copies withdrawn after printing in 1865 because Lewis Carroll objected to the reproduction quality of the Tenniel illustrations...