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...free world is now in the desperate position of a man who has gangrene in both legs-in Western Europe and in Asia. As a doctor, our Government is telling the world we have a very good cure for gangrene but we will apply it to one leg only while the gangrene in the other leg destroys the patient...
Expansion. The new restrictions were only temporary cures for the unhealthy gap between Canadian imports from the U.S. ($1½ billion in 1947's first nine months) and Canadian exports to the U.S. ($733 million in the same period). What about a permanent cure? Finance Minister Abbott had the beginnings of one. Under a new order-in-council, which will be shored up and clarified at the coming session of Canada's Parliament, the government is going to try to make a dream come true. The dream: a more highly industrialized Dominion that will make many...
Malaria plagues nearly half the world's population. Since the war, researchers have been inching closer to a definitive cure for the disease. Last week it looked as if they just about had it-a new drug which, used with quinine, permanently cures 95% of all relapsing malaria cases. Still unnamed, it is identified as SN 13,274. The drug was developed at Columbia University, with U.S. Public Health Service aid, by a group of chemists headed by Dr. Robert C. Elderfield...
...Vaccines are no use . . . they are not worth the trouble. . . . Vitamins don't prevent colds or cure them. There's a bit of a racket there. ... If you take no drugs, your cold lasts 14 days; if you take drugs, it lasts a fortnight...
...Indian Summer, comes The Times of Melville and Whitman, a rich portrait of U.S. literary life shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South, where Constance Fenimore Woolson's "imagination lingered...