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Only last year Dr. Kligman, a full professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, published what was then hailed as "the most thorough study yet made" of DMSO, the controversial drug solvent that has been billed as a remedy for everything from arthritis to athlete's foot (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). It developed that Dr. Kligman and his labs were investigating new drugs for no fewer than 33 manufacturers, and the FDA's Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, of thalidomide fame, began to wonder how thoroughly and carefully Kligman & Co. could do all that work. A check...
...porcidermis was inevitable. It had been ever since 1964, when the struggling, six-year-old A.F.L. suddenly became solvent, thanks to a $36 million TV contract with NBC. The A.F.L. promptly plunged into a dollar war with the older (by 40 years) N.F.L. over the services of graduating college stars. The fight, as they say in the Pentagon, "escalated...
...between the Governor and those business interests opposed to the Fair Employment Practice Commission, also on the boards that year. The Governor got his Commission, but the Department of Commerce was pushed aside and it was only with some difficulty that a much less solvent and effective Port of Boston Authority was squeezed through...
...virtually untested drug has ever been greeted with such optimistic fanfare as dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, a colorless liquid extracted from paper-pulp wastes and commonly used as an industrial solvent. It has been widely hailed, both in the press and by some doctors, as a painkiller, a germ killer, diuretic, tranquilizer, a reliever of burns and sprains - besides being a wondrous solvent that enables other drugs to penetrate the skin and alleviate conditions as varied as crippling arthritis and athlete's foot. The surgeon who discovered DMSO's medicinal properties in 1963, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob...
...most severe cases, this still is not enough. In St. Louis, Dr. Herman W. Reas and Dr. Paul R. Hackett put such patients under a general anesthetic, then inserted a bronchoscope through the mouth and windpipe into the bronchial branches and poured the solvent chemical directly into the clogged areas. They removed the loosened mucus by suction. "Within 48 hours these children are eat ing like horses and running around," says Dr. Hackett. Hormone & Growth. Other doctors who have tried the technique are not nearly so enthusiastic. At Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Harry Schwachman has done...