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...failure. Last week, concluding a series of three articles in the A.M.A. Journal, a group of Navy doctors reported on an antibiotic that works well against what seems to be a form of virus disease. The antibiotic is Declomycin, a close relative to aureomycin. The disease is viral pneumonia...
...disease, Dr. White said that 15 were "effectively relieved of their pain and the suffering that so often develops in the terminal stages of cancer." Five others had incomplete but "worthwhile" relief; one failed to obtain significant benefit. Another's pain was effectively relieved but the patient succumbed to pneumonia spreading from infected cancerous tissue in throat...
...Ralph Tompsett. spokesman for Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, said that Mister Sam tolerated the first big doses well, and had no nausea. A midweek bout of pneumonia interrupted the treatment, but Rayburn rallied quickly. After that he was given FUDR (5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), which is a close chemical kin of 5-fluorouracil and works the same...
...inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid...
...these and other horrible examples of the small-town attitude toward sex and life, the hero and heroine stop petting and finally even stop seeing each other. Now according to Freud, the repression of sex can cause all sorts of unpleasant symptoms. So the hero promptly comes down with pneumonia, while the heroine gets the screaming meemies and tries to drown herself. In the end, though, her balance is restored by a nice friendly old Freudian psychiatrist...