Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuberculosis of the intestines is one of the most feared complications of TB of the lungs. The newest hope is eight-year-old PAS (for para-amino-salicylic acid). A highly optimistic report of its use by two Swedish doctors appeared in the Swedish medical journal Laekartidningen. Drs. Bo Carstensen and Stig Sjoelin reported trying PAS on 22 men & women whose chances were "hopeless or dubious" by ordinary methods of treatment. After two to four weeks' treatment (five to 14 grams of PAS a day) all 22 were "completely or almost completely" cured of abdominal symptoms. Pain disappeared completely...
...week's end, the Journal-American persuaded itself that the story was "already the most sensational cause célèbre since the days of the Dreyfus case in France." The Communist Daily Worker announced darkly that it "was timed with the negotiations for a peace settlement in Germany-and timed to prevent such a peace settlement...
Since 1943, when penicillin was first proved effective against syphilis, doctors have been trying to decide on the best way to use it. Last week Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Chicago board of health, and four associates reported some new findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Howard Hall is the most closely guarded building in St. Elizabeth's (mental) Hospital, Washington. All its 175 patients are criminally insane. Many are paranoid: hostile, suspicious, frightened, withdrawn into their own delusions. Last spring one inmate suggested starting a newspaper. The doctors approved, and the Howard Hall Journal was launched. Last week, as the fifth issue of the Mimeographed monthly (grown from ten pages to 20) went to press, St. Elizabeth's called it therapeutic journalism...
...Journal's staff members is a former linotype operator who always wanted to be a reporter. He saw in the Journal a chance to achieve his frustrated desire, turned in enough material (mostly gripes about the hospital) to fill three issues. The editorial board of fellow patients suggested that he try gathering some hospital news. He became the paper's religious reporter. To the satisfaction of the doctors, he has begun talking constructively about his own problems-the first step toward possible recovery...