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...Choice. The problem was to get the virus in its original state from tissues where the modification did not take place. Dr. Schwartz's choice: the human brain. He took fluid from the brains of patients who had died of leukemia, removed the cells, injected what was left into mice. Many, even in strains that seldom get the disease spontaneously, developed leukemia (TIME, July 27). But rabbits seemed to make antibodies to neutralize the virus. Could the human species do as well...
...inmates of Cook County Jail, got 14 volunteers. "Since we are trying to find the answers to human leukemia, we must make tests in man," said Dr. Schwartz. "And we believed there was a minimum of risk to the prisoners." His research teams injected a leukemia victim's fluid into the prisoners' forearm four times, and twice took a pint of their blood...
...people swallow an infinite variety of pills, tablets, capsules and syrups, medical scientists are still far from agreed as to which of them are best -or even whether any treatment for uncomplicated viral infections is desirable. A runny nose is an uncomfortable and socially embarrassing symptom, but the increased fluid secretion by the nasal mucosa is, some experts believe, one of the body's defenses against viral invasion. Drying up the mucosa (usually with anti-histamines), they say, may simply prolong the battle. The fever that results from many virus infections is also widely regarded as a major defense...
...last week is as common as it is mysterious. Every man is born with a prostate gland -it is one of the clear, anatomical distinctions between the sexes. In childhood it serves no known purpose. In life's prime its role is obscure and minor: it secretes a fluid which mixes with the output of the testicles, apparently helps to increase the mobility of spermatozoa. In old age, when again it appears to be useless, the prostate is the site of ailments ranging from the trivial to cancer which may prove fatal...
...first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath, and development of the tiny corneal lens, which covers only...