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Last week, to the few facts known about hepatitis' cause & cure, Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's Children's Hospital and Army Captain John R. Neefe added an important discovery. In the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that blood serum globulin (already used as a measles preventive) can probably stop an infectious hepatitis epidemic...
Many such neurotic women find escape in throwing off marriage ties, becoming floozies or barflies. Many find a complete cure in receiving their husband's first letter, or even his allotment check, either of which can serve to reaffirm the idea of marriage in the sick wife's mind. But under simple psychotherapeutic treatments, says Dr. Kasanin, "most cases get over their depressions very quickly...
Antibiotics, of which penicillin (rhymes with "all God's chillun") is the most famed, are now the objects of the most exciting search in all bacteriology. In dozens of laboratories, experts are looking for antibiotics to fight the many diseases penicillin cannot cure: tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, tularemia, salmonella food poisoning, many virus diseases. Already about 20 substances with such fancy names as clavacin, gliotoxin, patulin have been isolated from bacteria and molds, tested, discarded as either too weak or poisonous...
...Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning of the awful condition set down by our Saviour for those who would...
...psychiatrist who diagnosed Rivera and Sequeiros, in all the polysyllabic gobbledygook of psychiatric lingo, as absolutely nuts. Rivera, he declared, was a paranoiac operating on a 120-150 day cycle between publicity-seeking outbursts. He labeled Sequeiros as a similarly pathological disturber of the peace, and recommended as a cure that both be removed from circulation...