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...their colleagues tried the combination on human patients, and ran into a snag of which animal tests had given no warning. Six patients out of 60 suffered liver damage, in some cases severe, and one died. At a Veterans Administration TB conference in St. Louis, the researchers sadly reported: this prescription is great for mice...
...Wheel of Fortune. The young man who has undertaken this formidable task was born at Yorba Linda, Calif, to Hannah Milhous and Francis Anthony Nixon. When Dick was 13, his older brother Harold contracted TB. Hannah Nixon took him to Arizona where, on visits, Dick earned money as barker for a wheel of fortune carnival booth. In Whittier, Calif., where the Nixons had moved after their Yorba Linda lemon grove failed, Frank and the boys kept the home, grocery store and filling station going. After five years in Arizona. Harold died* and Hannah returned to Whittier, where she worked...
...greases. Since acne yields slowly, Wheeler also warns that the treatment must be persistent and the patients patient. ¶The Kentucky Health Department has asked the state assembly to enact drastic anti-tuberculosis legislation. The proposed bill would: 1) require a medical examination of people suspected of having infectious TB, 2) set up locked sections in state TB sanatoriums for victims of infectious TB who refuse voluntary isolation, 3) give health officers authority to confine violators of the act in a state TB hospital for from 30 days to six months.* Said Health Commissioner Bruce Underwood: "This legislation makes...
...health officers are efficient, the legislature will soon have to appropriate funds for more TB beds in state hospitals. The 750 beds available at present are far short of the number of estimated cases...
...Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that's the way you have to treat a man." Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills, he talks like Babbitt and acts like Mussolini...