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...Last year the Department sponsored the spectacular five-day intravenous drip treatment for syphilis (TIME, April 22). It is now analyzing 25,000 records of heart-disease cases, keeping close tabs on youngsters with rheumatic heart disease, No. 1 killer of school children. Next big problem, says Dr. Charles Frederick Bolduan, Di rector of Health Education, is control of diabetes. Over 75,000 New Yorkers are diabetics...
...sensational new drip treatment which enables patients to assimilate massive doses of arsenicals a drop at a time through their veins (TIME, April 22) provides a quick cure of early syphilis in some cases. But a patient must cooperate by staying in a hospital five days. Doctors have long wanted a syphilis treatment which could be taken (according to their instructions) by mouth, at home. Now they have...
...whiteness of his knuckles gripping the Speaker's dais, the trembling of his hand as he twice tried unsuccessfully to put on his glasses. Before Mr. Roosevelt's arrival at the Capitol, House attendants worried about a leak in the sky light just over the dais. Rainwater dripped steadily through the pane containing the State Seal of Oklahoma. Towels were placed to catch the drip. But the Roosevelt luck held: just as the President's car reached the Capitol, the rain stopped. - Joined the U. S. with the 20 other American republics in a protest against...
...which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...
...five-day treatment after several months. The entire course costs only $82 a patient, as contrasted with an average of $300 for the standard 18 months of arsphenamine injections. Drawback to mass cures of the 600,000 victims of early syphilis in the U. S. is the fact that drip technique can be used only in hospitals, not in doctors' offices...