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Under Medicine ("Fatal Tonsillectomy") in the Aug. 26 issue of TIME, you reported the death of Walter P. E. Freiwald Jr., "from too much ether in his lungs and brain," after the administration of an anesthesia by Dr. Charles T. Markert, osteopathic physician...
...according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their own secret formula. But the most commonly used "soups" are over-the-counter concoctions of castor oil, menthenol, alcohol, ether, nitrobenzol and other rapid-burning combustibles. Price per gallon: 75? up. The average miniature car runs a mile on two ounces...
...monitor men meet espionage, sabotage and other subversive carryings-on, the only law the monitors can enforce (with the cooperation of local police) is the Communications Act. Incidental findings are turned over to FBI or to the Army or Navy Intelligence. Taciturn about their activities, the ether police talk for publication only about their wild-goose chases, most of which are started by hams, an extremely vigilant and patriotic...
Last week a successful measles vaccine was announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane...
...Pulmotor. In six minutes the police arrived. For two hours they worked over the boy, until the county physician pronounced him dead. The osteopaths insisted on continuing resuscitation until finally, a little after 3 o'clock, they gave up. Walter Freiwald had died from too much ether in his lungs and brain...