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...physicians who have been skeptical about using PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) to treat tuberculosis are being converted. Three doctors on the staff of the Arroyo Del Valle Sanatorium of Alameda County (Calif.) report in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin that 150 patients in the San Francisco Bay area have had PAS treatments with "very promising" results...
McDermott of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Reporting on their findings at a Veterans Administration conference in Atlanta last week, Dr. Hinshaw explained that Tibione belongs to a group of chemicals (the thiosemicarbazones) which are new to medicine. It is unrelated to the antibiotic streptomycin - or to para-amino-salicylic acid (P.A.S.), the only other chemical previously known to be effective against tuberculosis...
...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...
...knocked down for 6,000 pesos ($120 at the free market rate) to the same furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price...
Harvard's Quentin M. Geiman and Ralph W. McKee said that they now know, pretty well, what foods the monkey parasite thrives on-para-aminobenzoic acid (a B complex vitamin), glycerol sodium acetate, certain other vitamins and amino acids. They have also been able to test the effect of antimalarial drugs...