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They had found that the most effective way was a combination of penicillin shots and artificial fever treatment. Patients were put in a conventional "hotbox," their temperatures raised to 106°F. for three three-hour periods; they were given a total of 1,200,000 units of sodium penicillin during 7½ days. The treatment worked in 82.1% of the cases. When patients were given the same amount of penicillin in the same period, without fever treatment, results were only 70.4% effective. But the fever did not speed up the treatment. When patients were given the same amount...
...atomic-energy by-product (radioactive sodium) is being used to study blood circulation. Drs. Myron Prinzmetal and Eliot Corday of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inject the sodium into a patient's veins, place a Geiger counter over the heart, record the appearance of the tagged blood on a special machine. Their method, they reported, spots enlarged hearts sooner than any other...
...Humphry Davy (1778-1829) named it aluminum. British scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently...
Since 90% of U.S. children have one or more decayed teeth by the time they enter school, the P.H.S. hopes to see a sodium fluoride prevention program started. Congress has been asked for $1,500,000, the money to be administered by state health departments...
...Sodium fluoride is being added to drinking water in long-range dental experiments in at least ten U.S. and Canadian cities: Newburgh, N.Y.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Bradford, Ont.; Sheboygan, Wis.; Midland, Mich.; Marshall, Tex.; Ottawa, Kans.; Evanston, 111.; Crossett, Ark.; Lewiston, Idaho...