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...usually need sleep more than anything else, hence get little active treatment. But an occasional alcoholic may be so thoroughly saturated that he will sink from deep coma into paralysis and death. Taking an interest in such deplorable guzzlers, last year two internes at Boston's City Hospital, Drs. Leon J. Robinson and Sydney Selesnick, began experimenting on specimens in their hospital's alcoholic ward. Their aim was to develop a gas which would oxidize alcohol in the blood, help throw it off in the breath, restore the patient to a normal state of intoxication...
...exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since it was found with a little heap of broken teeth. In making and fitting false teeth, dentists have found it harder to make lower plates stay put than uppers. Drs. Charles Shepard Tuller and Sydney C. Fournet of New Orleans disclosed a "Revolutionary mechanical principle utilized to produce full lower dentures surpassing in stability the best modern upper dentures." Presidents. Each year A. D. A. elects a president to take office the following year. Retiring president last week was slight...
Last week Drs. Walter Lincoln Palmer, 39, of Chicago, & Paul Silas Woodall, 27, of Montreal, said that cinchophen must go into the medical discard. Their reasons: "Very small doses given for very brief periods of time may prove fatal. Discontinuance of the drug upon the appearance of even the slightest symptoms does not ensure a favorable outcome. The first symptom usually recognized is jaundice, and withdrawal of the drug at this stage even with appropriate therapy does not prevent a fatal termination in approximately half of the cases...
Bulk in the Gut. "This is the first time the true nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk...
...even if their heart arteries are stiff as clay pipes, do not complain of angina pectoris, owing simply to their "inability to correctly interpret and describe the pain sensation rather than to lack of mental stress and strain as suggested frequently in the past." Such was the finding of Drs. Emmet Field Horine, 50, & Morris M. Weiss, 34, of Louisville...