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...medical hero replaces another this week as head of the National Cancer Institute: Virginia-born Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer, 54, succeeds Swiss-born Dr. Carl Voegtlin...
Dark, shy Dr. Voegtlin has headed the Institute (in Bethesda, Md.) since 1938. Since he joined the Public Health Service in 1913 he has headed research which compared the acidity and oxygen consumption of cancerous and normal cells, calculated the amount of vitamin C in tumors, discovered chemicals which produce cancer, studied the effect of radio waves on cancer...
...made to vomit every time he takes a drink, he has a better than even chance of curing himself −at least for a long time −of drunkenness. This nauseous conclusion was published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences last week, by Drs. Walter Lyle Voegtlin, Frederick Lemere, and colleagues of Seattle's Shadel Sanitarium, who carried out conditioning experiments with 827 alcoholics during the last five years...
Result: 532 (58.6%) of the patients have remained abstinent for at least six months; of 142 whose behavior has been watched for more than four years, 44.7% have remained teetotalers. Drs. Voegtlin and Lemere say patients should return occasionally for reconditioning...
This week newspapers announced a "cure" for drunkenness by Drs. Walter Lyle Voegtlin and Frederick Lemere of Seattle. Four to seven times a week, a patient is given first a drink of good liquor, then an injection of a nauseating drug, until he develops a "conditioned" aversion to liquor. Number of total abstainers for four years: over...