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Several other speakers addressed the Committee yesterday on the legalization of acupuncture. William J. Bicknell, state Commissioner of Public Health, several state legislators and a physician from Boston State Hospital who said he had been practicing acupuncture for the past six months also appeared...
Fifth Column. Good's achievements in immunology rest on a broad foundation of work by other scientists dating back to 1796, when the British Physician Edward Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy with fluid from a cowpox pustule in a successful attempt to give him resistance against the more virulent smallpox. Jenner knew nothing about the immune system, but he had recognized that milkmaids who frequently came in contact with cows suffering from cowpox seldom contracted smallpox. Scientists began to suspect that the body had a mechanism for identifying and combatting disease agents only after Louis Pasteur discovered...
...regard immunotherapy as one of the most encouraging developments in decades, and an important tool for the physician. "Immunotherapy used to be a dirty word in cancer," says Klein. "No one thought it worked. Now it has become respectable...
...range of immune response. "What we need," says Good, "is a workable system by which we can determine what is normal immunologically, a yardstick by which we can measure and evaluate immune response." To arrive at that system, Good plans to run tests on every patient, employee and staff physician at S.K.I, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recording the various blood components, allergic reactions and response to common disease agents...
...later and more elaborate plays, is a ritualized orchestration of one man's death. Beranger, the infirm king of a wasted nation, lapses into childhood memories, sensuous daydreams, and anguished tirades while trying to understand his impending doom. One of his wives, the hateful Marguerite, and the attending physician, urge him to "abdicate" his life. His second wife Marie stands opposed--consoling him with love and hope, beckoning him to resist death...