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...team of Chicago doctors criticized the aerosol bronchial sprays that asthma sufferers, among others, increasingly use to help open constricted bronchial passages. After a detailed study, Drs. George Taylor and Willard Harris reported that some sprays produced abnormal heart rhythms in mice, rats and dogs. They also warned that Freon-the heavier-than-air gas used as a propellant in many of the bronchial nebulizers-is absorbed into the blood through the lungs and affects the heart. This may be responsible for the rising death rate among spray users during the past ten years. Published reports show more than...
Survival of Religion. Such experiences are not exclusively "religious," say Drs. Masters and Houston, because they are also akin to artistic creativity and to the process by which the deep psyche creates symbols and myths. But it is precisely man's collective mythmaking that has supplied the symbols embodied in religious rituals. Religious institutions are now disintegrating, the two researchers believe, because religion has cut itself off from its "principal sources of nourishment-the soul, the symbolic and mythogenic process, the psychic energy resources." It is an irony of the past decade, they point out, that mystical experience...
...psychedelic movement is discredited because of drug abuse, but the renewed interest in intensely personal religious experience accelerated by the drug culture is undiminished. Many churches are deeply and understandably suspicious of mystical experience, partly because they associate it with magic and witchcraft. But Drs. Masters and Houston believe that this attitude seriously impairs the survival of institutional religion: "The clergyman who dismisses all of this as primitive and regressive is seriously lacking in vision. He has not understood that profound mystical experience can open up energy sources to sustain a contemporary religion, and that the clergyman himself should...
...hundred Bradley Hospital graduates have been studied intensively by Drs. Leon Eisenberg and C. Keith Conners of Massachusetts General Hospital. "There is not a single case of a child becoming a drug addict of any kind," says Eisenberg. The stimulants that produce a high in an adult do not have this effect in a child, Eisenberg says. It may be that the child's body metabolizes the drug differently from an adult...
...hearing grows worse and worse," Beethoven wrote in 1801. "A medical ass prescribed tea for my ear." Ever since his death in 1827, scholars have speculated that poor circulation, syphilis or typhoid fever might have been the cause. Not so, say Drs. Kenneth M. Stevens and William G. Hemenway of the University of Colorado Medical Center in the A.M.A. Journal. Beethoven's deafness was probably caused by cochlear otosclerosis, which today might be corrected by surgery. In this disorder, bony overgrowths within the inner ear cavity interfere with the transformation of vibrations into nerve impulses, and thus prevent their...