Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chloromycetin), though one of the most dangerous drugs in wide use, is by far the best for typhoid fever. In the Philippines, among 408 charity patients suffering from typhoid, chloramphenicol was deliberately withheld from 157, of whom 36 died. Only 20 died among the 251 who got the standard treatment. By statistical deduction, 23 patients died needlessly for the sake of the study...
...piece of a melanoma (a highly malignant cancer) was transplanted from a desperately ill young woman to her mother "in the hope of gaining a little better understanding of cancer immunity, and in the hope that the mother's production of tumor antibodies might be helpful in the treatment of the cancer patient." The patient died the day after the transplant, the mother died of melanoma 15 months later...
...penicillin for strep throats, for example, were at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. When Western Reserve University's Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp Jr. began studying them in early 1949, no one knew whether penicillin was indeed the indispensable or even the best treatment. Rammelkamp had to continue his tests through 1953 to disprove another investigators claim that penicillin was not the answer. Dr. Rammelkamp's team published its definitive results in 1954. Only then, and not before, could Dr. Beecher have said "it is known" that penicillin is unquestionably the drug...
...ideal Vatican diplomat: he speaks half a dozen languages, has both a vast fund of patience and a passion for anonymity. Casaroli approaches negotiations by picking and probing for small areas of agreement, hoping to expand them later. If a Red government insists that its constitution prohibits granting preferential treatment to any one religious group, Casaroli suggests that Catholics simply be allowed the spiritual rights available to anyone. If an issue seems certain to lead to dissension, Casaroli will suggest that it be put aside while the negotiators move on to things they can agree upon. Pragmatic in dealing with...
Divorced. William O. Douglas, 67, Supreme Court Justice for 25 years; by Joan Martin Douglas, 26, his third wife; on uncontested grounds of cruel treatment and personal indignities; after less than three years of marriage (she won the right to resume her maiden name); in Yakima, Wash...