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...doctors removed her baby by Caesarean section three weeks before its time, set to work giving it a complete new blood supply. With infinite delicacy they inserted a transfusion needle in the baby's tiny vein, while at another spot they drained off the child's own toxic blood. Three weeks later they handed the mother a healthy, rosy baby, purring like a well-lubricated Cadillac...
...drug has some toxic effects on man (vomiting, a skin rash), but Dr. Brown thinks they are not so bad as mumu...
...extraordinary new insecticide DDT is not without drawbacks. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service issued a warning (confirming some previous reports-TIME, June 12) that DDT may be toxic to people and animals as well as insects...
...World War II a Geigy chemist, Paul Muller, rediscovered the formula and found that it killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...
...Samples of a captured Nazi drug, which is supposed to rival penicillin, were analyzed by British Army doctors, turned out to be marfanil, a sulfa drug. According to the New York Times, marfanil's "curative properties are second only to penicillin" and it is "no more toxic than sulfanilamide." The British Army has already tried...