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...Jewett of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the Army & Navy, is composed of 40 scientists, half civilians, half Army & Navy men. Its head: Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. Other members of the executive committee: Chemist Roger Adams, of the University of Illinois; Alphonse R. Dochez, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Brigadier General William A. Borden, director of the Army's New Developments Division; Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer, the Navy's coordinator of research...
Following their announcement came another of possibly greater future importance to the treatment of all virus diseases - the common cold, measles, smallpox, infantile paralysis, influenza, distemper. The Columbia University bacteriologist who proved that colds and influenza are due to viruses, ruddy, reticent Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochez, reported in Science that, with the help of Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, he has prevented and cured distemper in dogs, cats and ferrets by injections of a new drug-sodium sulfanilyl sulfanilate. This drug, a sulfur derivative like sulfanilamide which cures certain bacterial diseases (due to streptococcus, etc.), appears, according to Drs. Dochez & Slanetz...
Progress on Common Cold. Professor Alphonse Raymond Dochez of Columbia University considers the common cold perhaps the most important medical problem of the temperate zone. Regarded as trivial in itself, it may lead to sinus disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, heart or kidney disease. Dr. Dochez has been one of the front rank investigators of the common ailment. Last week he reported small progress. Vaccines in general have been disappointing, as have been extra vitamins and exposure to ultraviolet light. Careful analysis of hygienic habits, clothing, and exercise has failed to show that these are important factors in immunity to colds...
Alphonse Raymond Dochez, bacteriologist (scarlet fever serum...
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