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Prescription. In St. Paul, state officials warned local citizens against the "tree surgeon" who charged fat fees for treating "sick"' trees with a mixture of aspirin and petroleum jelly...
Before such potent hormones as cortisone and ACTH were discovered, doctors could offer little to victims of rheumatoid arthritis except aspirin-simply, they thought, to ease the pain. But just when cortisone became generally available, researchers made a surprising discovery: far from being a mere painkiller, aspirin has the biological power (like ACTH, but to a lesser degree) of stimulating the adrenal glands to produce their cortisone-like hormones. Still, U.S. doctors took it for granted that cortisone itself must be better, went on prescribing it lavishly (daily cost to U.S. patient...
Last week a joint committee of Britain's Medical Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation reported that in cases of early rheumatoid arthritis, the lowly and inexpensive aspirin (a couple of cents a day) can hold its own. In the British Medical Journal they described the treatment of 30 patients with cortisone for a year, matched against 31 on aspirin. Stage by stage, the two groups stayed even Stephen. At year's end, three-fourths in each group were virtually free of pain and disability, and almost half were able to go back to work. The tests have...
...loose ends but at a meaningless dead end. An egocentric tycoon named Lord Mervil seems to offer a way out when he asks Ravenstreet to join him in the mass production of a pill rather like the soma of Huxley's Brave New World. No larger than an aspirin, it banishes all anxiety and induces a state of euphoric serenity. Bui before Ravenstreet says yes, his life takes a strange new turn...
...left to the care of a squad of nurses who follow the doctor's instructions to the letter, but do no more. Regardless of how efficient this system may be, it has several disadvantages. A student who develops a sudden ache usually finds it impossible to get an unprescribed aspirin or other treatment. Since the doctor will not return until the following day, there is the added danger that a turn for the worse detectable only by a physician could go unnoticed...