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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Gruskin announced some notable results. Chlorophyll treatment had been used in 1,200 cases of infection, ranging from peritonitis to pyorrhea and the common cold. For lung and brain abscesses, abdominal infections like peritonitis, a solution of chlorophyll in salt water was applied directly to the infected surfaces, either in wet dressings or through soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chlorophyll for Colds | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS-Warren Angus Ferris-Rocky Mountain Bookshop, Salt Lake City ($3). At 19, Ferris joined a party of trappers that set out from St. Louis in February, 1830, and went to work north of Great Salt Lake. Ferris stayed alive for five winters. His journal, expanded when he got home to Buffalo and printed (1840-42) in the Western Literary Messenger, is one of the rarest and best documents of its kind; this is its first complete publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...PERRY Salt Lake City, Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Buerger's disease, patients are often attacked by muscular weakness so severe that their legs buckle under them. To tone up the muscles, doctors try to send a large supply of blood to the legs. For this they give drugs to expand the blood vessels, injections of salt solution, or even cut certain tracts in the sympathetic nervous system. As a check on the blood supply they take the temperature of the skin: if the temperature rises, they assume that the leg is getting a large supply of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Fair | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Douglas Reed (Insanity Fair, Disgrace Abounding) is a supercilious, nervous British journalist, erstwhile correspondent of the London Times. His noisome Nemesis? must be taken with a grain of bath salt, but it has intrinsic interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitler's Rival | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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