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...upon the size of the dose of insulin, but rather on the proper termination at the right time of each shock. ... I should like to add that I used to think that only recent cases would show a satisfactory response to treatment. But later I realized that in some chronic cases-not in all-more or less improvement was possible, and it was well worth trying...
...Rothschild castle in Austria, the Duke of Windsor cheerily engaged a staff of body servants from local applicants. Strangest post-Abdication event was when the Duke, hitherto notorious as Edward of Wales and as King Edward for his chronic absence from church, suddenly drove in on Sunday to the English Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern...
...ethical, proprietary or quack liniments also sold in drugstores to arthritics "is of no greater therapeutic value than would be a hot, wet towel to the afflicted joint." In contrast, conscientious doctors have some three dozen different drugs, four liniments to treat one of the three most stubborn, chronic U. S. diseases...
Although the British Cabinet yield to none in their alarm at the now chronic reluctance of young men to enlist in the British Army (TIME, Nov. 30 et ante), the alleged advice of Herr von Ribbentrop to Herr Hitler was really too much for them to stomach. In London last week being feted was Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland, and his English hosts had to do or say something. Up at an International Chamber of Commerce luncheon for Premier van Zeeland got handsome and willowy young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to utter words braver and bolder than...
...Julius Arky Haiman, told the Yorkville Medical Society, of which he is president, a simple system by which physicians and even patients can correctly diagnose an operable sinusitis. Said Dr. Haiman: "If the membranes and sinuses of the nose are thickened and reddened, this is a true sinusitis or chronic infection, and may require drainage. If, however, the membranes and sinuses are blanched they are simply water-logged as a result of vasomotor disturbances." Such disturbances, said Dr. Haiman, may usually be cleared up by changing the diet, taking certain drugs, avoiding emotional disturbances...