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Last week, two Johns Hopkins physicians, Drs. Leslie N. Gay and Paul Carliner, announced a new remedy which seemed to work. It was a drug called Dramamine (full name: beta-dimethyla-minoethyl benzohydryl ether 8-chlorothe-ophyllinate...
...surgeons at the University of California Medical School; they had a patient whose swallowing mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about their problem...
Antrycide was developed by two young chemists, Drs. D. Garnet Davey, 36, and 39-year-old Francis Henry Swinden Curd (who was killed in a railway accident last November). In 1944 they were working on Paludrine, a drug for malaria. One of the compounds they tested proved slightly effective against trypanosomiasis. Three more years of work produced a related drug that did the job, with complete success on mice...
Just a year ago, two doctors announced that they had isolated a virus which causes one type of common cold (TIME, Jan. 5). It was a good start, but there was a lot of slow work ahead. Drs. Norman H. Topping and Leon T. Atlas, at the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., had to keep testing their virus, called MR-I,* on human volunteers. They put the virus, kept alive in fertilized chicken eggs, into the noses of inmates of District...
After trying "more things than you can shake a stick at," Drs. Atlas and Hottle found that tryptophane (an amino acid) and perchloric acid changed the color of a solution if the virus was present. The color deepened from pinkish brown to dark brown according to the quantity of virus present; if there was no virus, the solution stayed clear. The exact strength of the virus can be fixed by using a spectrophotometer, which measures color by comparing it with a standard. The researchers have been able to make as many as 112 tests a day; normally they...