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...capillary walls. Hemorrhage is due to wholesale escape of blood through the walls of those capillaries. According to one of the articles which Dr. Fishbein published last week, one treatment for thrombocytopenic purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly do not understand the why or wherefore of their treatment. They do know that "it apparently has been of value...
First doctor to soothe the pains of child-birth was Dr. James Young Simpson (1811-70) of Edinburgh. In 1847 he used chloroform. Doctors and ministers denounced him for interfering with God's will. Dr. Simpson persisted and died rich, knighted and famed. In 1913 Drs. Bernard Kronig & Carl J. Gauss of Freiburg, Germany, invented twilight sleep, which they induced by injecting a combination of morphine and scopolamine into a woman who was about to have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature...
...they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often be kept in children's institutions with immunity but if allowed in the community will apparently seek an adult partner on the street." -Drs. Lauretta Bender & Abraham Blau, Manhattan...
...Drs. William Russell Levis & Edward Lewis Axelman of Philadelphia call theirs a "Modern Method for Prevention of Postoperative Distention." They depend upon a newly synthesized drug to keep the bowels moving and expelling any gas which may form. The drug: dimethyl-carbamic ester of 3-hydroxyphenyl-trimethyl ammonium methyl-sulphate, a chemical compound which has been telescoped to prostigmin. Drs. Levis & Axelman inject small amounts of prostigmin "at the time of operation or shortly thereafter and continue injections for 24 to 48 hours at four to six hour intervals, or until such time that we feel the condition...
...among males than among females. The former, however, appear to survive more frequently the acute attack and also to live longer thereafter. In our experience prolonged nervous tension directly related to professional or business responsibility appears to be the most important single contributing factor. ' Added Manhattan's Drs. Master, Jaffe & Dack: "The ages of the patients studied ranged between 27 and 87 years. The average was 54 years, both for men and women. The average age of those who died was 57 years...