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Effects. Sulfanilamide inhibits the growth of certain germs, perhaps injuring them "in such a way as to permit them to be [destroyed] by the white blood cells." It also seems to strengthen the resistance of the body toward germs and to inhibit the production of toxins by germs...
Some sulfur compounds cause body cells to grow extraordinarily fast, and are used regularly in medicine to hasten the healing of sores and wounds. Such substances may in some way be connected with the unknown physiological accidents which give rise to cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none...
Experiments showed Dr. Kracke that the pain-killers which he suspected inhibit the production of germ-killing white blood cells in the marrow. A sore throat or a cut finger uses up white cells. No others come from the marrow to replace them. Eventually the body has too few white cells available to fight off the invasion of germs. Along comes a cold, and the granulopenic (poor in white cells) person dies with shocking suddenness...
...with their doctors for a completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might be preserved for a couple of generations to describe...