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...issue of GP, a magazine for family physicians, published by the American Academy of General Practice. In it, Dr. Alfred S. Evans of the University of Wisconsin cites his clinical experience with a group of amorous Wisconsin students, and compares his findings with the West Point study of Colonel Hoagland. He notes thus, slyly: "I'm embarrassed to say that the Wisconsin student is engaged in this type of osculatory activity almost as often as the West Point cadet...
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Referring to an article in Time Magazine last week, Dr. Dalrymple called the "kissing disease" theory "naive." The theory is based on the discovery of Dr. Robert J. Hoagland, a West Point physician, who found that among 73 cadet mono patients, 71 had been involved in "deepkissing" within the past six weeks...
...taken lightly: it almost invariably results in inflammation of the liver-though a less dangerous form of hepatitis than the widespread infectious hepatitis or serum hepatitis (TIME, Nov. 14), which are caused by different viruses. And mono must be carefully doctored and nursed, says Colonel Hoagland, because in a few neglected cases it has caused rupture of the spleen, meningitis or heart block-and death...
...Willard Dalrymple, chairman of the American College Health Association's committee on mono, who has observed 600 cases at Harvard and M.I.T., scoffs at the kissing theory. But Colonel Hoagland, who knows his West Point cadets, has pinned it down. Among 73 mono patients at West Point, no fewer than 71 had been dating six weeks earlier and had got as far as "deep kissing." A quick buss on the lips is probably not enough to transmit the virus...