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...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...nationwide rationing, to them a wholly unnecessary act. Michigan's Representative Frank Hook got cheers for suggesting a clipping of Leon Henderson's authority, but the hefty OPA head stood his ground. Oil had to be sent to North Africa, said he, even if it meant epidemic pneumonia in the East. (North Atlantic ports are 1,400-odd miles nearer Casablanca than the oil ports of the Gulf of Mexico...
Extremely difficult to detect, pneumonitis is easily confused with the common cold with very similar symptoms in its early stages. In later stages it is accompanied by a fever and the characteristic lung condition of all pneumonia types...
...powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor-propylene glycol-to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal...
...melodramatic Escape arrived in France (1939), a kindly English lady carried it up the stairs of a hotel in her knitting bag, laid it before her ailing fellow-traveler-auburn-haired, blue-eyed Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Bitter Tea of General Yen). Mrs. Stone was convalescing after pneumonia, and the lady thought it would be nice to read Escape aloud to the invalid. "You can't possibly have read it," said the lady to protesting Patient Stone, "it's only just come into the lending library." Says Novelist Stone: "I couldn't tell...