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Toxicity. "Untoward reactions, even death, may result from the administration of sulfanilamide. . . . The toxic effects are more commonly the results of its indiscriminate use, but may occur from an idiosyncrasy. . . . Fifteen per cent of patients cannot take large doses, and 10% are unable to tolerate it at all. Patients in bed tolerate larger doses than do those who are ambulatory. Patients exposed to sunlight are more apt than are others to develop a skin rash." The rash may resemble measles, scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting...
Therefore, of the $9,849,697 which Mr. Fosdick last year distributed for the Rockefeller Foundation, no Italian, Japanese or Russian institution received a cent. In Germany the only beneficiary was the University of Freiburg, which received $19,600. But English institutions received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm...
Twenty-three per cent of U. S. citizens have poor eyesight before they reach 20, 48% before 40. Today more than 63,000 are blind and 100 times as many becoming blind. Heaviest strain on most people's eyes occurs during their school days. Last week the American Standards Association issued a new code calling for considerably more light in U. S. classrooms to save children's eyesight...
...theory is as simple as his conclusions are fantastic. He defines economics as a promise economy depending for its smooth running on mutual honesty. His startling discovery is that the scheme does work, that men are honest. Thus the employer keeps his promise, within a "thousandth of a per cent" to pay his employes. Employers, manufacturers, retailers, tenants, banks, even "soulless" corporations and installment buyers-all these, says Author Scherman, pay their financial promises within one and one-half per cent of perfect...