Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lederle Laboratories developed aureomycin, an antibiotic, to treat such human ills as whooping cough, typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This week Drs. E.L.R. Stokstad and T.H. Jukes of Lederle told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society that aureomycin has an unexpected non-medical talent: it makes domestic animals grow faster...
...easily the most effective treatment we have used," reported Dr. James J. Smith of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. ¶ Allergic conditions are often "materially relieved," said Drs. Theron G. Randolph and John P. Rollins of Northwestern University. In asthma, the relief is short-lived, but some hay fever (ragweed) victims were sneeze-free for the season after a few shots of ACTH. ¶ The "collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, which first put ACTH in the headlines (TIME, May 2), are placed in this group by many authorities. Several others follow...
...three leading sellers of anti-histaminics for false and misleading advertising. The complaints were issued against the Anahist Co. of Yonkers, N.Y. (Anahist) and the Bristol-Myers Co. (Resistab), both of which, under their own trade names, market thonzylamine hydrochloride (also known as Neo-hetramine when prescribed for hay fever). The third complaint was against the Whitehall Pharmacal Co., which sells pyranisamine maleate (Neo-antergan) under the name of Kriptin...
Bring Out Your Dead, by J. H. Powell. Horror and heroism in Philadelphia's yellow-fever plague of 1793 (TIME...
...Grove of Fever Trees" is a badly constructed book. Much of the action is melodramatic and contrived. But the setting is strange and interesting enough, and the writing of high enough calibre to make the novel absorbing reading. Maxwell E. Foster...