Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin J. Cohn, Professor of Biological Chemistry, spoke last night in Malliuck-road MB-23 on "Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Proteins," Movies were shown at the open meeting of the Boylston Chemical Club...
Last week, to the 26 methods of treating D. T.'s developed by U. S., English, French, German and Swiss specialists, the American Medical Association's Journal added another cure, which the sponsors, Drs. Philip Edward Piker of Cincinnati and Jess Victor Cohn of Hollywood, Fla. offered as being simple and certain. Only 5.5% of their delirium tremens patients have died, whereas 10% to 12% is the average, 37% the high...
...Piker & Cohn never put a D. T. patient in a straitjacket. They hog-tie him only when they lack enough robust nurses to gentle the patient...
...depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well...
Average time in the hospital for Piker & Cohn D. T. patients is 4.8 days...