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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lung Operations. Most dramatic is the removal of whole lungs (pneumonectomy) or parts of lungs (lobectomy)-a drastic operation which sometimes completely extirpates the disease. This operation was once so hazardous (about 35% mortality) that it was used only in otherwise hopeless cases. But Drs. Richard Overholt and Norman Wilson of Boston told the American Trudeau Society that the technique has now reached a point where the operation "should be considered" early in tuberculosis and not used as a last resort...
Chemotherapy. Doctors used to think that the tough-skinned tubercle bacillus would never succumb to a drug. But promin, diasone, promizole and the brand-new diaminodiphenylsulfone (all sulfa drugs) have showed good results against tuberculosis in guinea pigs, fair promise to human patients (TIME, Dec. 6). Drs. Horton Corwin Hinshaw and William H. Feldman, of the Mayo Clinic, told the Society that tuberculosis will probably succumb to a drug some day but that it is too early to evaluate any drug tried so far. For the sake of Europe, which is suffering a wartime tuberculosis increase, they urged that search...
...Conference on Tuberculosis. These films, in use about two years and used on recruits by the Army, cut the cost of X rays1? to 6? apiece (price of regular 14-by-17 film: 65?), and "make possible mobile X-ray units which can examine 50,000 people a year. Drs. G. A. Hedberg and E. J. Terrill of Duluth told of one unit which had surveyed an already carefully examined county and found active tuberculosis in one out of every 200 people Xrayed...
...tick) have got nothing out of it but praise-doctors generally do not patent drugs. Penicillin will save more lives than war spends, but there has been no military citation. Most tangible recognition so far was the Award of Merit of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association given to Drs. Fleming & Florey last December. Several months ago, a proposal to give Dr. Fleming a grant from the public funds was brought up in Parliament, but nothing came...
Lest his report make cancer sufferers prematurely hopeful, Drs. Margaret Reed Lewis and Warren Harmon Lewis (husband & wife), who used to supervise Corporal Cornman's experiments at the Institute, said last week that much work must still be done before anyone can be sure whether or not penicillin can fight cancers growing in animals or people. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, retired head of the cancer research at Columbia University, added the warning that Cornman's experiment applies only to a special type of mouse tumor, may not apply to any other...