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Thanks and congratulations for that terrifically inspiring, interesting and extremely well-written story of Drs. Fleming, Florey and Chain. It restores my hope in humanity to know that in these times when the world's mass-mind is bent on hate and slaughter there can emerge this man-made miracle which will alleviate human suffering...
...women suffered from severe acne associated with menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...
...wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
...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...
...would provide itself with enough such units (cost: about $15,000 apiece), all U.S. citizens could be X-rayed every year or so.* Said Drs. Hilleboe & Gould of the Public Health Service: "The final eradication of tuberculosis from the U.S. is well within our grasp...