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...late Drs. William and Charles Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., who hated publicity so much that they once wanted to sue for "libel" a newspaper which praised them, this week are the subject of an authorized biography. Five years ago, three years before they died, the Mayo brothers gave the University of Minnesota permission to publish a biography of themselves and their pioneer father, Dr. William Worrall Mayo, who died in 1911, at 91. The Doctors Mayo, published this week by the University of Minnesota Press ($3.75), is authored by a onetime Minnesota librarian, Helen Berniece Clapesattle. Written with Victorian reverence...
...addition, gold trophies were presented to Coaches Harlow, Al McCoy, Earl Brown, Lyal Clark, Henry Lamar, Floyd Stahl, Frank Swirles, Morris Behm, Drs. Thorndike and Quigley, and Trainer Jimmy...
Trouble with gramicidin is that it also destroys red blood cells, once it circulates in an animal's system. Last week Drs. Charles Henry Rammelkamp Jr. and Chester Scott Keefer of the Boston University School of Medicine reported a hopeful experiment with gramicidin. Instead of injecting it into the blood stream they trickled a few drops of gramicidin right on the wounds of several patients with ulcers and skin diseases. One patient who had a leg ulcer for 15 years was cured in three weeks. The others recovered even more rapidly. But the doctors made it clear that...
...vitamin C is given to patients after operation and during convalescence, said Dr. Marshall K. Bartlett of Harvard, wound healing is several times faster, the tensile strength of new skin much greater. According to Drs. John Berry Hartzell and William E. Stone of Detroit's Wayne University, the vitamin draws calcium to injured tissues, helps weave cells tightly together...
...broke up the blood clot with a special probe, then sucked out the pieces with a long, slender tube. As soon as his blood vessels were stitched up, the patient was given transfusions and large injections of heparin, a liver extract which prevents clotting. Immediately after the operation, said Drs. Ravdin and Wood, "the color and temperature of the right leg returned to normal." His left leg recovered more slowly. For almost two weeks after the operation, heparin was constantly dripped into his veins...