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TIME's very succinct and clear abstract of my treatment of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) with 2½% ether [TIME, Nov. 17] has produced a panicky deluge of letters from diabetics. For the sake of my peace of mind and the self-assurance and relief of hundreds of diabetics, please note that...
...Orleans' Dr. Robert A. Katz, a diabetic himself, has been working hard for four years on a promising treatment for gangrene due to diabetic hardening of the arteries. He discovered that intravenous ether injections dramatically stopped pain and cleared up the gangrene (TIME, March 10). Ether, the doctor thinks, opens up the tightened blood vessels and thereby improves circulation...
Last week Dr. Katz, who is head of the department of metabolism at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, reported on his work at a Chicago meeting of the American Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis. His hopeful news: in his extensive tests, the ether treatment worked; in 80% of the cases it saved patients' gangrenous legs from amputation. Boasted the doctor: "I've blazed a trail...
...Katz was even confident about his own case. Said he: "Insulin is only good on a diabetic for 25 years, and then comes the danger of gangrene. I have seven years to go." To play safe, Dr. Katz has already started using ether injections himself...
...middle. After that, most, clubs had two defensive halfbacks ready to pick Hutson up, depending on whether he cut right or left. At this point in the conversation, Bob cast his eyes to the floor and revealed that the Bears let him pick up Hutson alone after some ether defender had already guided the end down the middle, and that in this respect he might be considered as having guarded Hutson alone...