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...great majority of cases, tuberculosis attacks the lungs. Isoniazid* was first given to such patients a year ago, and enthusiastic reports of good results broke out during the winter. But TB of the lungs is an unpredictable disease; of two patients with chest X rays which look alike, one may die quickly while the other gets better for no apparent reason. It might take years, and thousands of cases, to prove the value of a drug in these circumstances...
Credit. Although the Federal Reserve Board had already removed its curbs on consumer credit, the law strips the FRB of power to reimpose them. Some of the bill's authors also thought that they had removed the FRB's Regulation X, which curbs housing credit, and many newspapers so reported. Later, Congressmen discovered that the bill actually preserves this regulation. However, it provides that the President must suspend the regulation after any quarter in which the annual rate of housing starts falls below 1,200,000. Since this is the second highest rate in history, and starts...
...X. Thou shalt not covet thy lay sister's, or fellow minister's house, furniture, car, or whatsoever thy sister may have...
Nowadays Miss X's illness would be called schizophrenia and an effort would be made to treat it. Her "acute mania" went untreated and got worse. From her record for Sept. 6, 1892: "Very disorderly and untidy. Nervous and tears her clothing. She has to be fed." For Dec. 29, 1893 (when she was 24): "Unchanged. Received a rubber doll for Christmas and seemed quite pleased with...
...Patient X remained seriously disturbed until about 1927. Since then she has fed herself and given no trouble, but has hardly spoken. Never rational enough to do any chores, she has spent most of her time rocking in a chair...