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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest medical news for many a day was the report last week of one-day cures for both gonorrhea and syphilis. In the case of syphilis, doctors are still doubtful. The gonorrhea cure was much more certain...
Syphilis. The one-day syphilis cure-again for new infections only-combines: 1) single massive doses of mapharsen (an organic arsenic compound); 2) a ten-hour fever (106° F.) artificially induced by hot humid air while the patient lies in a coffinlike cabinet developed in part by General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering. By increasing the body's tolerance for arsenic, the fever enables doctors to compress the recently developed five-to ten-day treatment (without fever) into...
...current Reader's Digest Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) presents the one-day syphilis cure as an accomplished fact, writes glibly of "immediate expansion of this chemothermic treatment." But the American Medical Association last week warned doctors and the public that the new technique was not yet beyond the experimental stage...
...germicides and patent remedies on themselves, on their families and on all objects and utensils. . . . Once they are convinced that they are not 'unclean,' not a menace to themselves and to others, patients with superficial ringworm [athlete's foot] infections experience great psychic relief." A real cure of athlete's foot, the doctors add, often depends on eliminating the use of skin-damaging chemicals...
What's Wrong with Demos? Diagnosis is often half the cure, and some of Editor Carr's most brilliant chapters are strictly diagnostic. He believes that erstwhile "liberal democracy" (the kind in which most U.S. and British citizens imagine they still live) is being replaced by "mass democracy." Mass democracy is distinguished by overwhelming popularity and prestige of the chief executive (Roosevelt, Churchill); by the growing weakness of Congress or Parliament; by a tendency of the executive and the masses to interact directly via radio and straw polls over the heads of electoral bodies...