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...story of reckless love under perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make Ida's death moving without...
...that they have found a sort of untran-quilizer-a drug that shows promise in treating mental patients suffering from depression. It is no new chemical, but iproniazid (trade name: Marsilid), first cousin of isoniazid and a veteran of the 1951 campaign against tuberculosis. When it was given to TB patients at New York City's Sea View Hospital, they became happy, ate ravenously, gained weight and started dancing in the wards (TIME, March 3, 1952). Iproniazid was soon retired from widespread use because it produced undesirable side effects, such as dizziness, constipation, difficulty in urination, and neuritis...
...Scottish Health Bulletin, from an "inordinate need for affection." But this alone is not enough; it requires the triggering action of a "break or serious threat of a break in the love link," using the word love in its spiritual rather than its sexual sense. Two-thirds of the TB victims studied by Dr. Kissen reported having had such a break, or threat of one. Some of the breaks resulted from death in the family and enforced separations; the vast majority occurred in a "romance, engagement or marriage...
Emotional factors were more conspicuous in patients who were over 35 when their TB was first diagnosed than among younger victims. For the latter, loss of a parent's love was a major consideration. To double-check his findings, Dr. Kissen studied patients whose TB, once fully controlled, had flared up again. Among these, he found 60% whose personality and history fitted the pattern. The prevalence of the pattern set Dr. Kissen to wondering: Since removal of patients to a sanatorium for treatment entails breaking love links, especially for children, is it a good idea to move so many...
Next: Laos. Brotherhood doctors performed 5,023 major operations (including countless Caesareans) with a death rate of only 2.4% despite the primitive operating conditions and the shortage of plasma. With the nurses, they gave 721,370 medical treatments. Besides antimalarial and anti-TB drugs, they passed out truckloads of sulfas, and B 1 pills to guard against beriberi. They fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano...