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...action, thought, and expression. It is unnecessary to elaborate the point that never in the history of this country has the individual had less freedom. The C.P.A. tells him he cannot buy a vest with his suit; Wagner Act-sponsored labor agreements tell him he cannot work for the X, Y or Z company unless he joins a certain union local; he must often strike whether or not he wants to; the W.S.B. may tell him he can't have a wage increase although his employer has agreed to it. Liberalism possibly; freedom certainly...
...early stages, arthritis can often be relieved, sometimes cured, by X rays, injections of gold salts, fever treatment, vaccines, heat applications. But treatments are still hit or miss; too little is known of the disease and its cause. Most doctors believe that worry, infection or poor diet may make a person susceptible. But they are betting that the actual culprit will prove to be a germ...
When & if a cancer cure ever develops, present indications are that it will be found among the more virulent poisons. Reason: only the deadliest artillery (e.g., poisonous radioactive materials, X rays) can kill a cancer cell. Out last week was the news that during World War II, U.S. cancer specialists had launched an uncommonly interesting study of the cancer-killing possibilities of mustard...
Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the University of Chicago group reported that of 54 patients, most got some relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned...
Frederic F. X. Lastner '48, 19, New York City, Economics...