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Nature Does Its Best. No physician has yet had a good word to say for the headache and muscle pains of grippe or flu, so mild, painkilling drugs win ready approval. Trouble is that the commonest of these are aspirin and related salicylates -and these also drop the body temperature. Therefore even they may do harm as well as good...
...high blood pressure for which no underlying cause (such as kidney disease) can be found. Commonest alternate name: essential hypertension...
...Commonest cause of death in these cases, they found, was blocking of a pulmonary artery by a traveling blood clot that had developed in the leg veins. This often undetectable process killed 40%-50% of patients over 50, who died after fractures of the leg, thigh or pelvis. So Drs. Simon Sevitt and Nrall G. Gallagher took 300 consecutive admissions of patients over 55 with broken thighs, and treated half of them with the anticoagulant phenindione to see whether it would prevent blood clotting and the fatal lung damage...
...paternal interest in some 900 well-paid employees and issues periodic denunciations of other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness in the face of death." To this statement Novelist Waugh somewhat tartly replied that "by far the commonest feature of other graveyards is still the Cross, a symbol in which previous generations have found more Life and Hope than in the most elaborately watered evergreen shrub...
...Adirondack Mountain headquarters for tuberculosis research and treatment. After a Boston stint in pathology, Dr. Rhoads joined Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, studied immunity to poliomyelitis. The institute sent him to the tropics to work on diseases of the blood. There he became interested in leukemia, commonest of "blood cancers...