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Franco's doctors, who numbered 26, placed him on a kidney dialysis machine, which removed the toxins. At week's end they rushed him back into the hospital to remove at least 80% of his stomach to halt recurrent hemorrhaging. But beyond that, there was little that the...
Some herbs have undisputed medicinal value. As Dorothy Hall points out in The Book of Herbs (Scribners; $7.95), to be published next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and...
After Bruenn's initial examination, Mclntire did take the precaution of prescribing digitalis for the President's heart. Roosevelt took the drug in normal doses for the rest of his life. In addition, Mclntire ordered F.D.R. to shorten his work schedule to only six hours a day, a...
Braunwald expanded the use of digitalis by showing that the drug could help patients with weak but functioning hearts. Prior to his study, doctors had administered it only during heart failure.
Some opponents of rapid reform make telling points. They warn that the trend toward group medicine will prevent rather than encourage a re-establishment of warm doctor-patient relationships. The growing tendency in some schools to stress the humanistic aspects of medicine at the expense of scientific studies worries many...