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...Lilly & Co.'s director of pharmacological research, last week celebrated a new triumph. In the past he showed that the Chinese shrub Ma Huang was good, ancient medicine because the ephedrine which it contains relieves congestion in cold-ridden noses and stimulates poky hearts. He showed that toad venom was good, ancient medicine because it contains unusual concentrations of cholesterol, ergosterol, bufagin, bufotoxin and bufotenine...
Died, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, 79, surgeon-in-chief of the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, later researcher in the therapeutic effects of snake venom in cancer and nerve ailments;* of chronic leucemia, possibly the result of inhaling particles of powdered cobra venom in 1930; in Manhattan...
...Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Drs. Samuel Peck and Nathan Rosenthal of Manhattan reported success in controlling various types of hemorrhage with injections of venom...
...leave that to the justice of history and to the judgment of God. ... I rejoice that never once have I sold Jesus Christ nor did I ever betray the brothers of Jesus Christ. Can you say as much, General Johnson?" Chiding his accuser for ''vomiting your venom on me," he declared that he disdained to use a report on the General's private life which had been presented to him by some of the onetime NRAdministrator's "fair weather friends...
TIME congratulates Professor D'Amour on the progress he has made with his antiserum for black widow venom, hopes his future experiments on human beings will be as effective as he expects...