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FILE NAME: Neighborhood Exposures (NE) DATE: 1950 DOC#: NE002 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newsweek Article - Small Studies [Pg. 53] MAY 15, 1950 20c Cold-Tablet War i government's fight against the tamine "cold cures" took a surprise this week. ^ preparing for "cold-cure" hearings ,*!and. May 15), the Federal Trade -.nission had lined up several power- witnesses to prove the advertising of yst ( Nepera Chemical Company) Resistab (Bristol-Myers) "false and ding." Resistab claimed to "kill in one day . . . stop colds fast." t declared that "in a clinical ex- >nt by the U. S. Navy Medical , results were amazing . . . many were literally nipped in the bud." Cleveland, the FTC will listen to jrs, rounded up by Nepera and _:ol-Myers, who will extol the benefits the products. Anahist, for instance, that it has records of 12,000,000 prescribed in twenty months by irs. and hundreds of medical wit T'jesses to prove its claims. - . / In rebuttal, later in Washington, the '`' FTC will piesent Dr. Norman Topping, , fcmous cold expert of the United States Poblic Health Service, to say tljat colds a* caused by viruses. Since dntihista- ines do not touch a virus, they cannot possibly prevent, check, or cure cold. The FTC's prize witness will be a.rep~ entativ of the office of therN avv lorgeoti General, who will discern any aval connection with tests on Anahist. The Navy will assert that Capt. John M. Breustei of the Great Lakes Naval .Training Center conducted Anahist tests oq his own, and the Navy in no way dorses his work. Small Studies Air-pollution problems, some serious, : ***ie minor nuisances, came up for disossion this week in Washington when 500 engineers gathered for a govemJ*5ot-sponsored conference. about one half of the country's offensive" industries practice odor conJjol, Carey P. McCord of Detroit's Conservancy Laboratory told the assem" y '^ rh e worst offenders are: plants 'P ressin g animal, fish, or vegetable l*odiicts, soap, paper, and chemical mills, no <>il refineries. . ^ mon the most effective deodorizavn methods, assisted by William H. itheridge, ventilating consultant of t^neral Motors, Detroit, are: vPmbustion. Burning refuse or gases atl -Tv to 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit, asking one smell with another. This sn t always work because part of the P"t)uc always thinks the cure is worse "wn the original smell. unmng offending base materials ugh carbon or some other chemical u ash out the smell. The odoriferous **week, May 15, 1950 disposal plant. Condensation. Boilir vats in sealed rooms, ( ing fluids, and then d sewage systems. Heat. Some industri he heat of their smelh .hoot up the smokesu higher into the atmos weather conditions at t gaseous smells back o Most people believe bad, it must be injuri Odors may warn of da tors told the engineers, which does not offeric te more harmful thar Damage to the tissi ind lungs may be so gri recognized.by the peop through f^ftreme outbn Donoral" Pa., disaster i when twenty persons 6.000 were made ill fro tion, is public attentic taass danger. Studies conducted States Public Health Si Jo airborne particles as i forms of cancer and res] Dr. W. C. Hueper of tl ter Institute, Bethesdc specifically to aiT pollufi selenium, beryllium, ar mites as the probable c im g and respiratory t Dr. Marion B. Sulzbi New York University vue), declared that repeated exposure to ce nants, such as benzene ethyl lead, DDT, ai naphtha, and turpentir pjrecancerous warty gro a a to ry ' skin diseases. ; refuse in huge mdensing offend .mping them into s have increased gases so they will :k faster and jisg >here. But tricky, nes toss the ntrtfy i the community. that if dr- smells us to the health. ger, visiting doc but polluted air sometimes may smellier fumes. ;s of the throat lual that it is not e affected. Only iks, such as the October 1948, died and some a air contamina i drawn to the ry the United rvice now point le cause of some iratory ailments. e National Can Md., referred in with asbestos, enic, and chro use of increased ict cancer. rger, director of hospital (Belle constant and :ain air contami chlorine, tetra- * .enic, mercury, may produce vths and inflam- He'Saved Women In the field of women's diseases, the nineteenth-century doctor literally worked in the dark. Woodcuts of the period show a female patient stretched . on the examining table, not only fullv clothed but wearing a hat and gloves. From waist to feet she is draped in a sheet under which the unseeing physi cian extends his groping hands to solve the mystery of her nearly always incur able ailment. In Europe and in the United States, a iew pioneer surgeons had already exper imented with awkward eighteenthcentury devices for treating the complex female tract. Then in 1845, from Mont gomery, Ala., came Dr. J. Marion Sims, with his extraordinary skill and cunningly devised instruments for repairing the rav ages of childbearing. Out of Sims's med ical triumphs, errors, and hospital squabbles, the modern specialty of surgi cal gynecology was bom. Sims's personal story, plus a colorful history of his times, is now told by the 80-year-old Alabama internist, Dr. Seale Harris in "Women's Surgeon,"* a book published last week. In 1845 Dr. Sims attended a 17-yearold Negro slave girl, Anarcha, who had lost control of her bladder and rectum after childbirth. In medical books and articles, Sims had read ot this hopeless condition, known as vesicovaginal fistula, or rupture of the bladder, but he had never seen it in his practice. A month later Dr. Sims was called to treat another Negro slave girl. Betsy, for the same incurable complaint. Then three m o n t h s later, he h a d his third case of ` W o m e n 's Su r g e o n , the Life Story of T. M arion Sims. By Seale Harris, M. D. 432 naaes. Macmillan. 95. 53