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...penicillin a drug or an argument? Doctors have been awed and appalled by a gusher of argumentative books and reports claiming that 1) penicillin will cure almost anything; 2) its victories have been only temporary because the bugs are fighting back. Out this week came still another. This one was authoritative: it was written by penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and a group of British colleagues (Penicillin: Its Practical Application; the Blakiston Co.; $7). The book wraps up in one well-documented package just about everything worth knowing about the wonder drug...
Toxicologists were amazed at the quantities of the drug he had absorbed and survived. Psychiatrists were sympathetic. Criminal charges were deferred while he took the cure. But François soon broke off his treatment and sought help from a doctor friend...
...last week Dr. Dragstedt's operation, now tested by many another surgeon, had stirred plenty of interest among ulcer specialists. Because peptic ulcers may recur in five-year cycles, Dr. Dragstedt and other investigators were not yet ready to pronounce the three-year-old operation a permanent cure. But so far, there had been no relapse after a vagus operation...
...heart specialists have found an answer: bigger doses of penicillin than previously tried. In a bulletin of the American Heart Association, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital announced that with massive penicillin doses (up to 20,000,000 units a day) it is possible to cure the subacute form of the disease "in almost every patient...
Tracking a Cure. Medical scientists think they have turned up some promising leads for polio cure. One of them: a vaccine made of polio virus inactivated by ultraviolet rays; it has been successful in immunizing laboratory mice, but is still to be tested on monkeys and human beings...