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...Army's 147th General Hospital, Franklin Roosevelt made a tour of five wards, talking to the wounded, telling them they would soon be home. He stopped beside the bed of a young soldier suffering from a gangrenous lung condition. A tube was carrying penicillin and a potassium permanganate solution to the soldier's veins. "I hope you'll be feeling better soon," the President said. "Then you'll have a chance to come home. We're waiting for you." But the young soldier was so sick he just lay there staring at the ceiling with...
Care and Cure. On the highly controversial subject of treatment with drugs and surgery, Dr. Page has liberal views. He believes that it often helps to give potassium thiocyanate (which reduces blood pressure and stops hypertensive headaches), remove a diseased kidney (but be sure it is the right one) or cut the nerves that connect the abdominal blood vessels with the nervous system. Dr. Page modestly dismisses as still an unproved experiment his own discovery-a kidney extract injected to counteract angiotonin (TIME, March 3, 1941)-although it has effected some remarkable cures...
...feeders, but so are their headaches: high prices, labor problems, food shortages and equipment and maintenance shortages. These make caterers' chief peacetime problems-practical jokers and snitchers-seem almost academic. But at least one big factory feeder still remembers with horror the day when a workman slipped some potassium cyanide he had pinched from the production line into some of its sandwiches. Before the "joke" was discovered, one man had died and another had had a close call...
...less of a menace to the Japanese army than Polish and Russian typhus is to the Germans. Reasons: 1) unlike typhus, cholera can be controlled by vaccination-repeated twice a year-in which the Japanese were pioneers; 2) while there is no specific treatment besides potassium permanganate pills, the spread of the disease can be checked by sterilizing drinking water, cooking all food. Typhus can be controlled only by exterminating lice...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...