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...bring on a train of after-effects both irritating and dangerous, including vomiting, violent headaches, acute anemia. Last week Dr. Mark McDonough Bracken of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute reported another "miracle drug" for treatment of pneumonia, cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before...
...back to his typewriter. It was November 1,1925; he was finishing his third book, The Trail of a Tradition. In it he had recorded his belief that, historically and logically, U. S. isolation from foreign affairs is not only an "unbroken highway from yesterday to now" but the "safer, surer...
...Eleanor Roosevelt also lobbied for FTP last week. In My Day, she wrote: "I know that this project is considered as dangerous because it may harbor some Communists, but I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death...
...Take sex out of the dance and its charm has departed . . . The Indian girl in the American forest was safer than the American in the ballroom...
Another important part of Blue Hill's work has been the study of icing conditions, in an effort to make winter flying safer. Routine radio soundings with balloons have made possible startling discoveries about the causes of ice formation on wings and have permitted the construction of ice-proof airplanes...