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...physicians who have been skeptical about using PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) to treat tuberculosis are being converted. Three doctors on the staff of the Arroyo Del Valle Sanatorium of Alameda County (Calif.) report in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin that 150 patients in the San Francisco Bay area have had PAS treatments with "very promising" results...
While the current administration was jacking up the efficiency of the municipal government machine, it was also modernizing and adding to the machine's parts. The fire department received new equipment; parking mercers were installed on Cambridge streets; the capacities of the City Hospital, Infirmary and Sanatorium were increased; and two public swimming pools were built...
Late in July, ailing Sir Stafford Cripps went to Switzerland for medical treatment. In a hilltop sanatorium near Zurich he embarked on the "ordered life" prescribed by his physician: that meant no dispatches from London...
...already reported that television 1) has a calming effect on its mental-case prisoners, and 2) results in a saving on sedatives. Last week, in rural Amityville, N.Y., Dr. George E. Carlin installed five television sets for his mental patients at Louden-Knickerbocker Hall, a 63-year-old private sanatorium. Said Owner John F. Louden: "We're using TV as a form of occupational therapy, to take the patients' minds off themselves and to let them live nearer to a normal life...
...Uncle John," as the comrades call him, started out as a barber's apprentice in Volos, Thessaly, rose rapidly in the Red hierarchy, and by 1928 was important enough to go to Russia for indoctrination and treatment in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Exile, jail, conspiracy and murder have long since become his familiars. Recently a rebel deserter was asked if Uncle John had any hobby. The ex-rebel drew a forefinger across his throat and answered: "Counting heads...