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...Sunday Times, in the U.S. by LIFE, and last week all of Britain was arguing about them. "Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror. The medical journal Lancet noted icily that "the public's trust in the medical profession derives largely from its conviction that what transpires between patient and doctor will not be bandied about," and the British Medical Association rushed out a warning to all doctors not to publish anything about their dead patients without...
Becket is a cerebral film spectacle based on the play by Jean Anouilh, in which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
...international team of researchers has just reported in the London medical journal Lancet that a few doses of a relatively inexpensive drug, easily taken by mouth, protected all but three of 1,101 people in Madras who had slept in the same rooms as recent smallpox cases. Among 1,126 similar contacts who did not get the drug, there were 78 cases of smallpox and twelve deaths. The drug, N-methylisatin beta-thiosemi-carbazone, has no U.S. trade name, though Wellcome Laboratories has labeled it 33T57. It is no cure for smallpox and no substitute for vaccination, but should prove...
...Massachusetts, just before a newborn baby is taken home from the hospital he is given a novel goodby: a doctor takes hold of him and jabs a lancet into his heel. From the resulting tiny puncture, the doctor squeezes three drops of blood, one each into circles printed on a piece of filter paper. With a midget bandage stuck on his heel, the baby is ready to leave. There is still one more formality: the mother gets a leaflet explaining the purpose of the jab in the heel and why she should have it repeated when the baby...
...compound will undergo extensive WHO tests, and if the new chemical is indeed everything that is claimed, snail eradication can begin in earnest. And none too soon. "Today," warns the British medical journal Lancet, "schistosomiasis threatens to replace malaria as a major scourge of mankind...