Medicine Contends with Death

Every day medicine takes a new and mighty step, in which it tries to conquer aches and pains, and to let man enjoy the greatest possible share of comfort and happiness. Scientists keep making great attempts — they have not even shrunk from attempting to bring the dead back to life. The first to prove this possibility were the Russian scientists, who in the last war succeeded in restoring four of the dead to life.

The news has reported that the scientist Nikovsky was able to restore life to six children who had been born dead, for as long as 24 hours.

His method is to inject the arteries with blood containing sugar together with the substance adrenaline, along with artificial respiration. This operation of revival must not be delayed more than 5 minutes, before the cells of the brain begin to perish.

Headache:

Headache, or head pain, is among the ailments most widely spread in all parts of the world... Aspirin and its derivatives serve to blot out this pain, but they remove neither the disease nor its causes; and the cause of a headache may lie in any part of the body, from foot to head.

There is no harm in easing this pain with the familiar sedatives; but the danger, in persistent pains, is that one should treat them with these sedatives without measure. The sounder course is to treat the cause of the disease at its roots.

Headache is of three kinds: a headache of trivial causes, affecting the head itself — of this kind is the headache produced by straining the eye beyond what it can bear. The second kind of headache is that caused by poisons coming to the body from outside, among them what reaches the body by way of alcoholic drinks and much tobacco. And the third is the headache [...].

Infantile paralysis:

Medical research still suffers shock after shock where the treatment of infantile paralysis is concerned, and this dreadful disease is still far from being conquered. That is why the news of the discovery of the drug "phenosulfazole" as the final answer to this disease was not received with much confidence

or credence! — so long as the results of this drug upon human beings remain unknown and unverified. All our hope of the success of "phenosulfazole" hangs on its success with mice and their recovery from the diseases directly connected with the nervous system.

Chemical researchers have failed so far to track down the poisons that cause not only infantile paralysis, but many others besides, such as influenza and the ordinary cold. And it appears that this "phenosulfazole" may open new doors to new victories in the world of medicine.

Whenever an irritating cold strikes you and you call your handkerchief to your aid to be rid of it, does it ever cross your mind how far this little handkerchief goes in spreading and distributing the germs of the cold? Here is an experiment, that you may be more careful in the future.

211 handkerchiefs were distributed to a group of volunteers suffering from colds, and they were allowed to use the handkerchiefs for two consecutive days. Then the handkerchiefs were collected and shaken violently inside a special room, and the germs were counted: in each handkerchief there were 136,000 germs!

The mere touching of a used handkerchief distributes 15,000 germs, and at times the figure reaches 50,000. And these are soaked into every part of the fabric! Will madam kindly remember these facts, and teach them to her children and to all who are in her care?!

...children... is for them to ride in an airplane that carries them up into the layers of the atmosphere to a height ranging between nine thousand and twelve thousand feet.

This treatment has spread in Switzerland, where its rate of success has reached eighty percent.

And the doctors of Paris took this treatment over from the doctors of Switzerland; but instead of climbing into the upper layers of the atmosphere, they place the sick child in a chamber whose air — in temperature, dryness, and density — is like the air found at a height of nine thousand feet.