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...Gift of Time (by Garson Kanin) is the sad, clinically harrowing story of a man who is dying of cancer of the lower bowel, and how he faces it during the last three months of his life in Southern France. The Broadway play is based on Death of a Man, Lael Tucker Wertenbaker's account of her husband's suicide. Charles Christian Wertenbaker was an able journalist (for FORTUNE, LIFE, and TIME from 1931 to 1948) turned novelist. Gift is strangely unmoving and dramatically slack, partly because the audience knows in advance that the hero will die, partly...
...cancer of the large bowel, 5-fluorouracil, the drug used on Speaker Sam Rayburn, offers "some control against malignancy" (TIME...
Temporary relief can be stretched a long way. Dr. Karnofsky cited the case of a patient with cancer of the large bowel. A colostomy relieved an intestinal obstruction. A recurrence of cancer nearby was relieved by X-ray treatment. When the abdominal cavity began to fill with fluid, radioactive phosphorus checked the process. Bronchopneumonia was cured by an antibiotic. Cancer spread to the liver, and again X-rays were used. As liver function progressively declined, many medical measures supported the patient. If some of these treatments had been withheld, said Dr. Karnofsky, the patient would have died within weeks...
Death in 48 Hours. Using germfree animals to study human ills at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a research team headed by Dr. Walter L. Newton has found that the organisms that cause amoebic dysentery cannot survive in the bowel unless bacteria are present. The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has found that if germfree guinea pigs are taken out of their sterile environment and put in an ordinary animal room, all die of overwhelming infection within 48 hours. But, mysteriously, only 50% of mice die, and rats or chickens can be brought into the open...
Prodigious Detour. Koestler dwells lovingly on some of the more incongruous (to Westerners) aspects of Yoga, including the "painful [Hindu] obsession with the bowel functions, which permeates religious observances and social custom." Like many a Westerner before him, he was impressed with such yogi feats as reversing peristalsis to take in fluids through the anus and urethra, but was depressed by the far-out theories that went with them-such as that the sperm (bindu) is stored in the head and should be prevented from leaving the body at all costs. The result, says Koestler, is that a large number...