Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Jan. 27 article on chiropody-podiatry must have been authored by a 90-year-old hermit. No one would consider calling a chiropodist-podiatrist a "corn cutter" any more than they would consider calling Dr. Jonas Salk a "pill pusher...
Palm Springs' Dr. Herman M. Salk (brother of Vaccinventor Jonas Salk) has pioneered with tranquilizers for dogs; they not only calm the patient, making him easier and safer to handle, but in many cases they are better than standard anesthetics. (Cows get tranquilizers to calm their jitters when coming into milk.) Dr. Salk borrows another technique from psychiatry: empathy. "A vet has to feel what the dog feels," says Salk. "When I get a patient with a tense belly, I find my belly getting tense...
...Straight Line? The University of California's famed Virologist Wendell M. Stanley took sharpest issue with Salk. A Nobel Prizewinner himself for original work in crystallizing viruses. Stanley flatly denied Salk's theory that formaldehyde kills polio virus particles in a neat, straight-line fashion. "I have seen many times where the curve does not follow that theory," he said-and not only in his own laboratory, but also in big vaccine factories. As for the testing methods before the "incident," Dr. Stanley declared: "In the light of subsequent knowledge, they were grossly inadequate." The implication: given...
...jurors took two days to decide, despite their admiration for Dr. Salk took Dr. Stanley's word that the testing methods were more to blame than Cutter. They voted, 10 to 2, that Cutter had not been guilty of negligence "under the conditions prevailing at the time." Even though they protested that the law of warranty as spelled out for them by the judge was "extremely harsh," they voted 11 to 1(a majority of nine would have been enough under California law) to award damages on this score: $131,500 to the Gottsdankers...
...does not always attain its ideal balance, it is because it agrees with the Christian Scientists who comprise 85% of its readership (and 90% of its staff) that disease, death and violence are mortal "errors." Thus the Monitor gives only token coverage to top medical stories such as the Salk vaccine; it sternly downplays disaster and crime. It shuns error-prone society and show-business chitchat and runs the world's tersest obituaries (omitting the cause of death and names of survivors...