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Lederle Laboratories developed aureomycin, an antibiotic, to treat such human ills as whooping cough, typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This week Drs. E.L.R. Stokstad and T.H. Jukes of Lederle told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society that aureomycin has an unexpected non-medical talent: it makes domestic animals grow faster...
...temporary effects are noteworthy. Examples: ¶ In delirium tremens, ACTH begins to show results in three to ten hours. It is "easily the most effective treatment we have used," reported Dr. James J. Smith of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. ¶ Allergic conditions are often "materially relieved," said Drs. Theron G. Randolph and John P. Rollins of Northwestern University. In asthma, the relief is short-lived, but some hay fever (ragweed) victims were sneeze-free for the season after a few shots of ACTH. ¶ The "collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever...
...Well, bully for Drs. [Duncan] Reid and [Mandel] Cohen for injecting a little common sense into all this "natural childbirth" farrago [TIME, March 13]. Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read and his cohorts have got women feeling that they're hopeless neurotics if they don't have their baby between the bean-rows and get back to the harvest in 15 minutes...
After tests on 231 people, two ophthalmologists at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Drs. John W. Henderson and Wendell A. Prough, proved what everybody knew (or thought he knew) all along: once they start to cry, young women can weep more tears than young...
...State's rebuttal came soon after, with the reappearance of Drs. Milton Helpern and Ralph Miller, who were also Helpern and Ralph Miller, who were also present at the autopsy that Ford conducted...