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...Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. John Scudder has tried an extract of the adrenal cortex (eschatin) to save patients already in shock after operations and severe burns. In a newly published text (Shock-Lippincott-$5.50) he reported that cortical extract snatched 14 persons from death after transfusions and oxygen had failed...
Wrinkled, doggy, 74-year-old Townsend Scudder, retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, won a Connecticut State Supreme Court injunction allowing him to maintain 27 cocker spaniels on his Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn, estate. Thus ended a litigious two years in which neighbors, annoyed by barking, had sought to hold Judge Scudder down to a measly ten spaniels...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE-Townsend Scudder-Macmillan...
Even misogynists have not claimed that Thomas Carlyle got the worst of it when he married gypsy-eyed, brilliant Jane Welsh. A wifely heroine to her contemporaries, Jane Carlyle is even more of a heroine to Biographer Scudder. Such admiration is partly understandable, however, for no modern wife would tolerate so much in a husband...
With nice Victorian scruples, Biographer Scudder likewise calls it a happy marriage. Modern readers will likely be more interested in his unstressed evidence of Jane Carlyle's frustrations: her nervous headaches and insomnia, her refusal to write (although her good friend Dickens said she could outdo George Eliot), her declaration that "One writer is quite enough in a house." Nor can the reader so lightly dismiss as a weak-moment confession her confidential opinion that marriage is "extremely disagreeable...