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...that even his brain needs little oxygen. French surgeons using the Laborit technique have performed hundreds of operations (for everything from heart disease and advanced cancer to a ruptured appendix) on patients rated as poor risks for ordinary anesthesia. Laborit reports no cases of surgical shock, and a good cure rate...
...doctors have not even a clue to a possible cure. A new and versatile drug, chlorpromazine, helps to control the attacks of vomiting that might otherwise last for several days each week. Beyond that, the best that the doctors can do is help the parents to establish a rigid routine in which the unhappy children can feel secure, with a minimum of occasions for emotional outbursts. Parents of dysautonomia victims have banded together to exchange notes on their children's progress and hints on how to handle them. They have raised $5,000 for research...
...Koch had isolated the bacillus, little was known about how it infected mankind, or why the disease pursued such various courses. There was no vaccination against it and no drug treatment; X rays for diagnosis were still primitive, and medical thinking was full of superstitions about "hereditary taint." The cure consisted of raw eggs, milk and dry mountain...
...rate has dropped to 16 per 100,000. There is a vaccine, BCG (Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), which is fairly effective under some conditions. There are at least three wonder drugs-isoniazid, streptomycin & PAS-which can arrest a majority of TB infections, if not cure them. And with the aid of these drugs, daring surgery can save many patients...
...nation's schools. Odachi-former Home Minister and boss of Japan's infamous wartime police, who was barred from public office during the U.S. occupation-happily obliged, but the remedy he produced looked to many almost as bad as the disease it was designed to cure. As passed by the Lower House of the Diet, Odachi's bill would have made it a criminal offense for any teacher to espouse the cause of any political party or doctrine, directly or indirectly, in or out of the classroom. Offenders would be liable to fines ranging...