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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patients were given adreno-corticotropic hormone-ACTH and injections of epinephrine. In those with a normally functioning pituitary and adrenal cortex, one subcutaneous injection of epinephrine (0.3mg) was followed by a 50 percent fall in the level of circulating eosinophils it was reported...
...benzedrine). The institute's doctors, reporting their discovery in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, said they started their patients on a reducing diet of 900 to 1,300 calories, administered the drug only when hunger got the better of the patients. Backsliders then got about 5 mg. of dextroamphetamine an hour before each meal. (When necessary patients also got thyroid extract or a diuretic to help them get rid of liquids...
...patient," said the chemists confidently, "(after consulting the family physician, as was done in our own recorded experiments) would do well to begin with a daily 250-mg. dose and, if no decided improvement results after one week, to try 500 mg. daily until satisfactory progress is observed. After that he might get along comfortably on 250 mg. or less during the season." The chemists believe the vitamin works as follows: During allergic attacks, such as hay fever, the vitamin-C level in the body goes down; at the same time, histamine in the blood goes up. Histamine...
...treatment was tried by 25 patients. After a week on 100-mg. doses of vitamin C a day, eight out of 24 thought they felt a little better, one got a rash and quit. When the dose was upped to 200 mg. a day, one patient reported "no hay fever at all after years of suffering." Those who felt a little better before began feeling a lot better, and some who had not benefited from 100-mg. doses began to perk...
Then began dosages of 500 mg. a day for eleven patients still sneezing in Oberlin's lushly pollenized air (count: 80 - sneezing begins at 15). After a few days all except two felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...