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...phenolphthalein would, of course, penetrate any lesion in the mucosa. To test for intestinal lesion a patient who had a carcinoma of the mouth, Dr. Woldman piped the drug by that lesion through a straw...
...douches cannot reach. In spite of treatment the disease may last as long as five years. The cure for vaginitis is only four years old. In January 1934, at Yale. Dr. Robert Lewis took a hint from Dr. Edgar Allen, who found that female sex hormones toughened the vaginal mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin...
Treatment is now standardized to include theelin hypodermically and amniotin in vaginal suppositories. The most resistant cases clear up in at the most six months. The treatment, said Dr. Snow, "produces a temporary maturity of the vaginal mucosa. and occasionally a trifling enlargement of the breasts. But these phenomena subside immediately after the vaginitis is cured and treatment ended. No child has ever suffered harm...
...tissues of certain organs-namely, liver, pancreas, and intestinal mucosa- when added to the food of mice [whose skin had been irritated by applications of tar], promote cancer growth...
...Certain other organs-brain, thymus, bone marrow, dried gastric mucosa. dried lymph nodes-exert an inhibiting action on tar cancer development...