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...patient is violent, or his illness stubbornly persistent, is he sent away to a hospital. His stay there is almost certain to be less than three months. In the hospital, he gets much the same treatment he would get in the West: drugs, psychotherapy (but non-Freudian), insulin coma and, more rarely, electric shock. The Russians have virtually abandoned their prolonged (ten-day) drug-induced sleep treatment because too many patients developed fevers or anemia. As soon as possible, the patient is discharged to his family, which is paid by the government to care for him if he is unable...
...piece for some memorable performers. Making his first dramatic appearance, Comedian Mike Nichols was highly plausible as a wearingly tense young actor whom the stage has struck too hard. And Janice Rule, as an attractive young schizophrenic of deep education and intelligence, gave a performance that would shock insulin: giggling behind a waterfall of hair, pacing the room on invisible paths of tension, she movingly evoked the torment of madness with subtle and abandoned gestures, darted back and forth across the borders of sanity from the vague lostness of Ophelia to the purring, look-how-balanced-I-am attitude...
Much of this evidently irritates Jack Paar, and the two men have had several brushes on the air. (Paar: "I never embarrass people, do I, Hugh?" Downs, softly: "Yes, Jack, you do.") Since Paar, in the words of a onetime buddy, "needs obeisance the way a diabetic needs insulin," Hugh Downs may not be able to go on serving the master indefinitely. But new horizons are beckoning. This week, turning to acting, Hugh Downs is in Hollywood taping an episode in NBC's Riverboat series. Title of the show: The Night of the Faceless...
...famed Physiologist Jacques Loeb, discoverer of artificial parthenogenesis, Robert Loeb left the University of Chicago after his sophomore year in 1915 to enter Harvard Medical School, graduated magna cum laude. After residency at Johns Hopkins, Loeb switched to Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in 1921, helped administer the first insulin treatment for diabetes, pioneered in electrolyte physiology, discovered the first effective treatment for Addison's Disease. In 1947 he became Presbyterian's medical service director, in the same year Columbia's chief medical professor. No narrow specialist (he belongs to the American Philosophical Society), Loeb...
...biguanides, the Joslin Clinic's Dr. Leo P. Krall conceded (after trial in 244 patients) that they "are capricious unless the physician uses them with special understanding." But he insisted that DBI, given along with reduced doses of insulin, has helped some unstable diabetics to lead a more normal life than they could when they took insulin several times a day. Main trouble: there is a narrow margin of safety between the DBI dose needed to control the blood sugar level and the dose that may produce side effects, so treatment in severe cases should begin in a hospital...