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...some cases, especially where the trouble was a simpler disturbance in the balance of ordinary colon bacilli, Dr. Weiss found that acidophilus milk did the trick. More often, however, he had to use an ion-exchange resin with silicates (Resion) and eventually had to beef this up with phthalysulfacetamide, an intestinal antiseptic, and-ironically-another antibiotic, Polymixin...
Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...
...plastic boat drawing less than two feet of water when loaded to its five-ton capacity has been built for the Army by the Englander Co. Constructed in bolted sections, the craft can be taken apart for air shipment. The 1½-in.-thick hull of resin-treated cotton duck sandwiched between layers of Fiberglas is five times stronger than steel of equal thickness, only a fourth as heavy...
...Blatz Brewing Co. and Pabst. The Blatz carton, made of cardboard laminated to aluminum foil, carries a dozen cans of beer, has a Pliofilm bag along the bottom for ice, and sells for 15?. The Pabst carton (no extra cost) is a regular 24-can case lined with waterproof, resin-impregnated paper. Crushed ice, scattered among the cans, chills beer in 30 minutes...
Chemical Cushion. A new cushioning material made from a polyester resin (the basis of Dacron) was put on the market by Hudson Foam Plastics Co., Yonkers, N.Y. Mattresses of foam polyester will have to be only about 1½ in. thick, v. 4 in. for foam rubber...