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...crack rivals. After a day's shooting, -they were tied. Next day Policeman Reeves finished up 14 points ahead of Benner. But on the final day of the match. Reeves was a candidate for a hospital bed. With a fiery strep throat, full of fever (104°) and penicillin, he dragged himself to the range. At noon, he still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between his cot and the range all through the sweltering afternoon, Reeves was a shaky, sweaty wreck. But in each critical...
...Communist supplies to equip two Red divisions. In twelve busy hours, paratroopers burned 20,000 liters of gasoline, set off 5,000 tons of ammunition and explosives. They seized 200 machine guns and automatic rifles, 1,000 light machine guns, six Molotov trucks, engines, machinery and a stock of penicillin. They demolished the Ky Cung River bridges, across which flows the bulk of the 3,000 tons a month of supplies which Red China sends to Ho Chi Minh...
...shin kick had caused a blood clot next to the bone. The clot became infected and inflamed, spreading the bad infection into the bone. There was talk of amputation. Penicillin and diathermy saved the leg, but while such infections can be curbed, they are sometimes impossible to cure. Mickey, who must guard against flare-ups of the infection, has had his share of poison-pen letters demanding to know why he is not fighting in Korea. On medical advice, Mickey's draft board has rejected him three times...
Behind the New York City campaign is a U.S. Public Health Service grant of $50,000 to try to find out how many unreported and probably unsuspected cases of syphilis are walking the streets. Experts believe that even if every new case of syphilis could be cured by penicillin, the disease still would not die out because there is always an infectious reservoir of old and unreported cases. On the sidewalks of Mulberry Street they hope to learn something about the size of that reservoir...
...disease, discovered in an Army dependent by Colonel Ogden C. Bruton, is rare, fortunately, and is probably a byproduct of the antibiotic age. "Before the days of penicillin," said Dr. Janeway, "these patients must have succumbed to the extremely severe infections which either caused the condition or first brought it to light." Nobody knows yet whether agammaglobulinemia is present at birth or is picked up later in life. But its discovery may help to explain why some patients never seem to develop resistance against normally mild infections, and may die as a result...