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...Markup. So many ailing people in & around Chicago flocked to buy that in 1944 the Vrilium Products Co. was formed to manufacture and sell more Magic Spikes. Former Mayor Ed Kelly wore one to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, and credited the healing of a bone abscess to its power. Other wearers included Municipal Court Bailiff Al Horan and Illinois State Senator William J. Connors. Exact sales figures on the Magic Spike are unknown. Osteopath Raymond Kistler of Wyandotte, Mich, admitted that he bought 150 at around $150 apiece, resold them...
...were obvious. Unlike routine chest X rays, the serum test will disclose tuberculosis in other parts of the body besides the lungs. An X ray shows lung spots, but the serum test helps to determine whether the spots are healed tuberculosis scars or other lung diseases such as cancer, abscess, pneumonia or silicosis...
...movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...
...Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Librarian Frances Tomlinson Gardner, of the University of California Medical School, says it is doubtful that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...