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...Santiago, the new cases were described by doctors as increasingly serious. Said one: "We have no explanation as yet. but it seems that the virus is now stronger than the previous week." Abandoning their now ineffective treatment of aspirin or linden-flower potion, health officials fought the virus, identified as "Japan 305," with such antibiotics as streptomycin and achromycin...
...Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think of England...
...asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied, "Not bad, son. But you weren't on your toes all the time, and you know it." Jim nodded dully, and the minute his father was not looking he gobbled a fistful of aspirin. Funny how those headaches would come on all of a sudden...
...signed by the Red Sox, farmed out to Scranton. He was tremendous as a rookie, batting third in the league. "Well," said father Piersall, "that isn't first." So next year, stoked with aspirin and desperation, Jim burned up the base lines and copped the batting title. At 21 he was called up to the Red Sox. It was the big test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went...
Today, treatment has settled down to three patterns, the choice depending on local option. In one hospital in any major U.S. city, an acute case will be dosed heavily with aspirin and nothing else at first; in another, he will get aspirin and gold salts, and in a third, one of the hormones. In any good medical center doctors will switch from one regimen to another if they are not satisfied with results...