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...people have probably suffered from it since germs began. It often kills its victims soon after the first appearance of symptoms-rash, fever, lung infection, blindness and, in children, convulsions. But there was good news about toxoplasmosis in last week's Journal of the A.M.A.: Harvard's Drs. David Weinman and Robert Berne have proved that sulfapyridine cures the disease in 95 out of 100 mice even in very late stages of the disease...
...more-certainly, if the weapon exists at all and is effective, it can reach London, 90 miles away. In essence, it would have to be nothing more than an elaboration of rocket weapons already in use by both sides. A published fact: the U.S. has at least two experts (Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina) working on rocket propulsion...
...Treatment. One hopeful alternative to castration is injections of female sex hormones (plus an operation on the prostate, if necessary). Like castration, female hormones seem to slow down the growth of cancer cells. Drs. Charles Cornell Herger and Hans Richard Sauer recently reported in the American Journal of Surgery that 30% of their patients getting stilbestrol (a female sex hormone) "responded with regression or softening of the prostate...
...castration argument is not over. Many doctors are castration zealots. Others, like Dr. Kretschmer, are dead set against it. Drs. Herger and Sauer take the middle ground: they do not invariably castrate all prostatic-cancer patients, but recommend castration 1) for patients who do not respond to female sex hormones, 2) to prolong and ease the lives of men whose cancers have become widespread...
...sweat, the human body is a regular soda fountain-the sweat of the brow is strong in uric acid, the sweat of the hands is strong in chloride (salt), the sweat of the thigh is strong in lactic acid. These pungent facts are disclosed in a report by Drs. Olaf Mickelson and Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota in the Journal of Biological Chemistry...