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...National Multiple Sclerosis Society has now summed up five years of fund-raising and fact-finding on the mysterious crippler. Of $813,000 raised, one-fourth has been used to educate both doctors and laymen in the ways of multiple sclerosis; $388,000 has gone into research. So far, nobody knows what causes the nerve sheaths in the spine and brain to degenerate, so that nerves become useless. But Manhattan's Neurological Institute is working on the possibility of an allergic origin for the disease; Tulane University is checking the viruses as possible culprits...
Last fall doctors were startled to receive in the mail a slick new penny pamphlet called Gonorrhea the Crippler! garnished with diagrams and crammed with terse, practical advice. Other new pamphlets were Syphilis in Our Town, and Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread, Its Cure. Last week Dr. Parran proudly ushered forth the Service's most ambitious popular work: Communicable Diseases...