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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only since February 1935 has the drug sulfanilamide been known. In the past three years it has proven so useful as a treatment for "coccus" infections (streptococcus, gonococcus, meningococcus) and there has been so much to learn about its effects that practically every issue of every medical journal has referred to it. Several months ago, following the deaths of two score Southerners who had taken an "elixir" of sulfanilamide & diethylene glycol (TIME, Dec. 20, et ante), the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred...
...except sodium bicarbonate. . . . Any preparation which produces a watery stool such as magnesium sulfate [Epsom salts] and other cathartics may aggravate the deleterious effects of sulfanilamide. Hydrochloric acid and coal tar derivatives may act similarly. . . . The colon should be kept free from food residues by a cleansing enema before treatment is started, and a low-residue diet . . . containing few eggs should be given...
...There now are 240 cancer diagnostic clinics throughout the country in which patients may be reasonably assured of complete examination, accurate diagnosis and "the best treatment that can be offered." If a local doctor or hospital does not know the address of the nearest clinic, "write to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Rockefeller Center, New York City...
...their treatment of personality, contemporary artists usually fall into the extremes of well-meaning portraiture, ill-meaning caricature or deep-meaning fantasy. For a highly unusual glimpse of the middle ground, the ground plowed up by psychoanalysts and cultivated more subtly by writers from Flaubert to Thomas Mann, Manhattanites last week repaired to the Pierre Matisse Gallery to see 15 paintings by a 30-year-old Parisian known as Balthus...
Labor trouble caused by student "supers" at the Boston Opera House became a threat to the harmony of the Metropolitan Opera Association yesterday, when the students protested against their treatment at the performance of "La Boheme" on Tuesday night...