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...jazz and ragtime than "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" is the equal of the mystery stories, of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe conceived and executed his work with artistic style and taste, while the modern pulp writers often are obviously writing for five cents a word. In the same vein, it is true that "Mairzy Doats" is typical of a certain group of Americans in the twentieth century, and as such it may some day find its melody or spirit embodied in the serious composition Mr. Copland was discussing...
Doctors now know in general which diseases penicillin helps, have worked out a tentative schedule of dosage. Present consensus is that 40,000 to 120,000 units daily, given gradually by vein or intramuscular injection for about a week, should cure the average case with a systemic infection. Treatment for gonorrhea is usually much shorter; treatment for subacute bacterial endocarditis, much longer. For application to wounds, about 50,000 units in salt solution is used, varying with the size of the wound...
Progressing to dramatic criticism, Hazlitt stirred up a histrionic storm by suggesting, in the modern vein, that what appealed to Shakespeare's Desdemona most was Othello's dark skin. Cried Critic Henry Crabb Robinson: "A gross attack on the pretensions to chastity in women." As political commentator, Hazlitt was even more savage. He once called the future Duke of Wellington "a weak mind and an able body," King Ferdinand of Spain "a royal marmoset." If he had not written so brilliantly, he might soon have found no editor to publish him. Hazlitt sometimes confused integrity with tactlessness...
...doctor in Mexico City who gives insulin for practically anything-typhoid fever, syphilis, peritonitis, malaria, rheumatic fever. Dr. (and Lieut. Colonel) Donate Perez Garcia gives enough insulin to bring a patient to shock stage (perspiration, high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...
Dramatic Relaxation. Two years ago, Dr. Griffith began using curare on patients (especially abdominal cases) whose muscles remained tense in spite of general anesthesia. He was delighted at the "dramatic and complete relaxation" produced by the contents of one 5-cc ampoule injected into a vein. The effects are at maximum in five minutes, usually last 20 minutes...