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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year an improved extract was made from the urine of pregnant mares. In capsule form it can be taken orally. In a recent Harper Hospital Bulletin, Dr. Sandweiss reported that he began testing equine anthelone on 50 patients nine months ago. He will not announce findings until he can be sure whether the ulcers will recur. But his ultimate hope is to correct one of nature's ironies-the irony of making men especially subject to ulcers, then providing the possible cure in the glands of women...
...Rome, Italy's senators got similar exercise. Just before the Atlantic pact debate, Interior Minister Mario Scelba discussed Communist charges that he had used his police force illegally during the recent farm strike. Said he: "Idle talk to make us lose our nerve. But the government in general and I in particular have stronger nerves than some quarters." Communist nerves had been edgy all day. When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent...
Roman Catholics "sin grievously, at least," if they read the Daily Worker. Under the Pope's recent order excommunicating Communists, Catholics may not read any Communist publications "for information, professional reasons, or curiosity," declared the Rev. Edwin B. Broderick this week, in a sermon at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. "The toying parlor pink," he said, "must show his true color, red or not red . . . There is no room for pastel shades." Later, Cardinal Spellman, who heard the sermon, modified the interpretation a bit: Catholics who must read the Worker and other Communist literature...
...Through recent articles in several medical journals, and in interviews last week, Dr. Soresi expounded his pet theory: that the nervous system is like an involved electrical circuit, and that pain is felt only when there is a short circuit...
...Nebraska and other regions that produce alfalfa seed, wild bees are getting scarcer. In recent years, the yield of seed per acre has been steadily going down. Dr. Hixson has been crossing alfalfa strains, breeding them for gentleness of pistil. He hopes to develop flowers with so soft a wallop that even the timidest bee will not be afraid to alight on them...