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...report for the New England Journal of Medicine Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas list the treatments they have tried: aspirin, sulfas, three antibiotics, cortisone, hydrocortisone, testosterone, phenobarbital, antihistamines, anti-epilepsy drugs, vitamin B, folic acid, liver extract and even a war-gas antidote, British Anti-Lewisite-all to no avail...
...recently instituted a series of cartoon ads featuring Harry and Bert, which attempted a "soft sell." These proved popular enough to inspire imitators, but there was a limit to the trend. It was easy enough to be amusing about beer, but hard to "soft sell" a product such as aspirin or laxatives. The public must be shown what misery results when these aids are not employed, and consequently, schematic diagrams of digestive systems are exhibited with appropriate sound effects...
Freud hated to take drugs, and had rarely used them throughout his years of pain. Now he consented to take aspirin occasionally. On Sept. 21 he asked his physician, Max Schur, for a sedative: "It is only torture now and it has no longer any sense." Two days later, aged 83, he was dead...
...Penicillin and aspirin, the two drugs used for the greatest number of patients, are also, the two that cause the greatest number of harmful reactions. Commonest aspirin reactions are allergic, especially in asthmatics; massive overdosing (usually seen in small children) may cause coma and death...
...bills, but many also complain that patients who receive insurance checks direct spend them for other things, leaving the doctor to wait for his fee. All doctors agree that the most urgently indicated treatment is fewer and simpler forms. Says one: "It would be the greatest headache remedy since aspirin...