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Last week gloom enveloped Camp LaGuardia (for homeless men) in Orange County, N. Y. Reason: the 60 pedigreed rabbits, which New York City's Department of Health entrusted to the campers for breeding purposes last fall, had produced only 100 bunnies suitable for the municipal culture of pneumonia serum, thus blighting the department's hopes of shaving its annual $24,000 rabbit bill. Said Chief Rabbit-Keeper William Hodson, commissioner of Public Welfare: "I have been feeding them almost nothing but hormone extracts...
...Trivia, Re-perusals and Re-collections). So did the New York Times in its early editions. Both newspapers later announced that Author Smith was not dead at all. Explanation: from publishers Little, Brown & Co. in Boston had come false reports of the death of Mr. Smith, recovering from pneumonia in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...Beer-drinking, 230-lb. Tony Galento, No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight boxing title: an unscheduled fight against pneumonia, contracted while a teetotaler at training camp five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes...
...less than two years sulfanilamide has cured thousands of streptococcic infections of various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat, peritonitis, puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), etc. Meningitis, gonorrhea and certain types of pneumonia have also been conquered. So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus. ¶ Although there have been only ten fatalities in 4,000 cases,** with "no correlation between these reactions and the dosage," sulfanilamide often produces such unpleasant by-effects as nausea and vomiting, dizziness, rash and fever. These disappear with...
...proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene; $145,000,000 for erecting hospitals with 360,000 extra beds, maintaining free beds, promoting medical research. The delegates heartily approved...