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...wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead on his boy's grave. Voodoo has done its work-or as Diogène's half-Christian uncle sums everything up, "The pencil of God has no eraser...
...well started along the road to military adventure. On Oct. 7, 1571, Private Cervantes was aboard a warship in the Spanish and Venetian fleet that sailed into the Gulf of Lepanto and closed with the Ottoman fleet bent on the destruction of Christian power in the Mediterranean. A high fever pinned the gaunt, red-bearded young man to his bunk, but when he heard the battle raging, he threw himself into the fight anyhow...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...
...past year, there were other evidences of the drug's usefulness in short-term applications. In Savannah ACTH had saved one woman from the bite of a black widow spider and another from the bite of a copperhead snake. Early administration of ACTH in some cases of rheumatic fever had seemed to avert permanent damage to the heart. By & large, however, the Chicago papers proved only that doctors still have much to learn about the new drug. Where long-term administration of ACTH is necessary, as in cases of arthritis, the dangers inherent in the new drug still seem...
Spider & Snake. By stimulating the adrenal glands during a crisis, the hormone injections serve to forestall most of the early complications (shock, pain, fever, infection, impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by sustaining appetite and promoting new skin growth. Since burns heal in a relatively short time, the burn victim need not worry about the bad side effects (excessive hair growth, face swelling, skin streaking, etc.) that often follow long-sustained dosages of the drug...