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...Parkland Hospital morosely refused to eat or to exercise, cried out for narcotics, and suffered from skin grafts that would not heal. For lack of nutrition, the men's wounds were getting worse instead of better. Then a five-man team * from the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical School decided to try age-old, much-debated therapeutic gimmick-hypnosis...
...suffered 45% body-surface burns in a boiler explosion. His dressings could only be changed under anesthesia; he feared moving his painfully burned hands and fingers. The Southwestern team started daily hypnosis; shunning narcotics, the patient obediently began to exercise his hands as instructed every 30 minutes, even in his sleep, until the doctors stopped him with a posthypnotic order...
Last week, coached by Psychologist Harold Crasilneck, the Southwestern team was using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
...Atomic Energy Commission is taking no chances this time with the sonic aftereffects of its Nevada bomb tests. A team of experts led by Dr. Alvin Graves, scientific advisor for bomb-testing, has just returned from a mission of reassurance through eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. When the next series of devices begin exploding this month, Dr. Graves hopes that the neighbors will take it calmly...
...short life, the Prince has already chalked up a notable record in the prize ring. Proud possessor of 13 ribbons, he has won championships in six states (latest title: Southwestern Grand Champion). To Danciger, who sold his oil company for $42 million in 1951, the Prince seemed a prize investment. Working at capacity (which he won't) he can service as many as 5,000 cows a year by artificial insemination. Danciger plans to use the Prince to sire 100 calves this year, and since the Prince's offspring command a $1,000 premium over...