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Every year 20,000 or more Americans over the age of 50 die of pneumococcal pneumonia. Yet medical men have known for more than a decade that there is a safe and effective one-shot vaccine to fight the disease. Why don't doctors use the vaccine? Why don't they urge their older patients to get a preventive shot? Philadelphia's Dr. Robert Austrian asked the Association of American Physicians those questions last week, and the University of Pennsylvania professor promptly answered his own questions. Doctors, he said, have been so dazzled by penicillin that they...
Until the late 1930s, the only protection against pneumococcal pneumonia was serum prepared in animals. It was neither reliable nor safe. Then came the sulfas, and an intensified search for better medications for both prevention and treatment. Toward war's end, the armed forces developed a vaccine from a fraction of the pneumococcus microbe itself. But six different types were needed. And by then, penicillin was becoming available. It was a great pneumococcus killer. Doctors ignored the vaccines...
Died. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, 71, U.S. Methodism's champion of liberalism; of bronchial pneumonia; in White Plains, N.Y. (see RELIGION...
...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...
...career in 1917 to join Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, endure 4½ years of British imprisonment, and ever after led a rigidly Spartan life of vegetarianism, 3 a.m. yoga exercises, and daily sessions spinning cotton, the symbolic task that characterizes a Gandhian follower; of pneumonia; in Patna, India...