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...electrical outlets; invisible radio beams ran all appliances. At night, the walls and ceilings glowed softly with glass-encased "light sandwiches," which changed color at the twirl of a dial. And throughout the house, tiny, unblinking bulbs of a strange reddish hue sterilized the air and removed all bacteria...
...voice dialing. Raytheon is already producing electronic range units for near-instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market an electronic air purifier that removes 90% of all bacteria and pollen from room air. And Sylvania, one of the fastest-moving companies of all, is perfecting the electronic "light sandwiches" for the home of tomorrow. Two new advances: Bendix last week unveiled an automated machine tool with an electronic brain that "reads" coded information on punched tape, automatically guides...
...Walter: "Because of your negligence, 90% of the nation's hospitals are a menace to health. You should clean up the operating rooms . . . Lax operation of a hospital assures maximal multiplication of pathogenic monsters [i.e., germs]. The result is a carefully managed system that inoculates patients with virulent bacteria along with enough foreign bodies to guarantee disaster...
...familiar plaint from Dr. Walter, 51, who was trained at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under the late, famed Surgeon Elliott Cutler. Says Walter: there are plenty of effective ways to sterilize surgeons' hands, their gloves, instruments and other equipment; the trouble is that bacteria are wafted around a patient's wound from faulty air conditioning, doctors' and nurses' noses and throats, or from a floor recently swabbed with a filthy mop ("The mop gets in the wound more than the hemostat"). Other Walter points: ¶Hospitals pay their workers so little that they...
Arthritis Due to Infections. Once a major cause of arthritis, infections by common bacteria (notably gonorrhea and tuberculosis) no longer give the rheumatologists much concern. The joint symptoms, like the underlying disease, can be treated swiftly and effectively with such drugs as the sulfas, antibiotics and isoniazid. Can now be cured in nearly every case...