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Progress on Common Cold. Professor Alphonse Raymond Dochez of Columbia University considers the common cold perhaps the most important medical problem of the temperate zone. Regarded as trivial in itself, it may lead to sinus disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, heart or kidney disease. Dr. Dochez has been one of the front rank investigators of the common ailment. Last week he reported small progress. Vaccines in general have been disappointing, as have been extra vitamins and exposure to ultraviolet light. Careful analysis of hygienic habits, clothing, and exercise has failed to show that these are important factors in immunity to colds...
...Cutler & Zollinger used the caustic solution on several other cervical fistulae. They also found the caustic useful in the cure of pilonidal sinus (cavity under the skin wherein grows hair). They open the sinus with a scalpel, then douse the hole with the solution. Thereafter it is easy to ream out the destroyed tissue. The patient need not be bedridden...
...doctor advises me, because of my sinus condition, that it would be inadvisable to attempt any road trips with the club this season, so I suggested to Mr. Stoneham [Giant owner] that another manager be appointed. . . . We therefore agreed on Bill Terry [Giant first baseman, whom Owner Stoneham last spring threatened to 'drive out of baseball' when he refused the $15,000 salary offered him]. . . . I want it fully understood that Terry will have full and complete charge of the team and will have to assume entire responsibility therefor...
Jawbones. Within each half of the upper jawbone (maxilla) is a sinus. Here occur one out of every 100 cancers. Dr. William Thomas Peyton of the University of Minnesota discourages mere surgery for the treatment of this cancer because "surgery alone, total excision of the maxilla, carries a high mortality (15% to 40%), and results in very few, if any, permanent cures. With proper combination of surgery and radium five-year cures may be obtained in 10% of all cancers of the antrum coming for treatment...
Yale is favored by the presence of its expert net-guardian, Curtiss, whose non-chalent impenetrability last Saturday night almost completely check-mated Harvard's most desperate cannonades. A vital factor in the Eli campaign is the availability of Iglehart, brilliant defenseman and goal-getter. Sinus trouble prevented his taking part in the second game and it is extremely dubious whether recovery will be prompt enough to insure a reappearance. Coach Stubbs of Harvard, on the other hand, has his team at full strength...