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...Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital last week, a crowd of doctors from all over the eastern U. S. stared fixedly at a glass jar suspended above a patient's bed. The patient had syphilis. From the bottom of the jar, a yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...
...ordinary fluid, but a sugary solution of mapharsen, one of the earlier of the 950-odd arsenic compounds invented by Paul Ehrlich. While the drug gently seeped into the patient's veins (two drops every three seconds), young Dr. William Leifer explained to the visitors one of the most remarkable advances in the treatment of syphilis since Chemist Ehrlich discovered arsphenamine...
General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey jointly control Ethyl Gasoline Corp. Ethyl Gas owns patents on a fluid-chief components are tetraethyl lead and ethylene dibromide-which reduces knocking in automobiles...
Among the mechanisms that maintain the body's fluid balance are the small adrenal glands, capping the kidneys. These glands secrete several substances; one of them raises blood pressure, regulates circulation. In 1937 the adrenal hormone, known as cortin, was produced synthetically, given the bristling title desoxycorticosterone acetate. Young Pathologist David Perla of Manhattan's Montefiore Hospital decided to try it as a shock preventive. Last week, in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Dr. Perla reported "excellent results...
...repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...