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Most crying need for them is in medicine, not to cure disease (though the isotopes may do this too), but to probe basic biological processes. Radioactive carbon 14, for example, may be fed to human beings or laboratory animals. Though present only in sub-microscopic quantities, it will announce its presence to sensitive instruments. Physiologists can follow it through the body, even into individual cells...
Highly honored in Russia, Bogomolets complained to reporters that he had been misrepresented abroad, had never claimed that ACS would cure such diseases as cancer and chronic arthritis; it only works toward preventing them. Though millions of doses of ACS have been given to Russians since it was first used on humans in 1936, Bogomolets' claims have' not yet been verified outside Russia...
After two months of closed-door hearings, Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle's six-man investigating board delivered its report to the War Department on the cause & cure of the Army's "caste system." Its 53 pages and 10,000 words boiled down to a diagnosis which surprised no one: the roots of the disease were 1) poor leadership; 2) an excessive official and social gap between officers...
Sherlock Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
...Cure. Treatment begins with the immediate withdrawal of alcohol. Then the doctor must get the patient's full story; he is advised that the road to cure is long and hard, requiring patience, determination and absolute honesty. He must report to the psychiatrist's office regularly and be punctual in spite of hell, high water or "previous appointments...