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FILE NAME State of the Art Literature SAL DATE 1950 DOC SAL049 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Magazine Article at ALJPA OL ay ThThee Tablet War Women . fluids then may be drained into a sewage disposal plant we government's "CondensationBoiling refuse in huge He Saved fight against the vats in sealed diseases antihistamine cold cures took a surprise rooms condensing offend . ing fluids and then In the field of women's his week sewage systems dumping them into the nineteenth doctor literally Jeparing for cold hearings Heat Some 7 increased worked in the dark Woodcuts of the Aveland May 15 the Federal Trade the heat of industries have increased period show a female patient stretched Commission had lined several shoot their smelly gases so they will on the examining table not only fully up power- ful witnesses to prove the advertising of up the smokestack faster and rise higher into the clothed but wearing a hat and gloves Anahist Nepera Chemical Company atmosphere But tricky weather conditions From waist to feet she is draped in a and Resistab Bristol false and gaseous smells at times toss the nasty sheet under which the unseeing physi- misleading Resistab claimed to ill Most back on the community cian extends his groping hands to solve colds in one day ... stop colds fast people believe that if air smells bad it must be the mystery of her nearly always incur- Analist declared that in a clinical ex- injurious to the health Odors may warn of danger visiting doc- able ailment a In Europe and in the United States a periment by the U. Navy Medical Corps results were amazing ... many colds were literally nipped in the hud In Cleveland the FTC will listen to doctors rounded up by Nepera and Myers who will extol the benefits of the products Anahist for instance says that it has records of 12,000,000 4: tablets prescribed in twenty months by ou doctors and hundreds of medical wit .. nesses to prove its claims In rebuttal later in Washington the FTC will present Dr. Norman Topping famous cold expert of the United States Public Health Service to say that onlds are caused by viruses S^>nce-untihista- mines do not touch a virus they cannot possibly prevent check or cure a cold The FTC's prize witness will be a rep- resentative of the office of the Navy (= General who will disclaim any Jonnection with tests on Anahist Kavy will assert that Capt John M. Brewster of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center conducted Anahist tests Lae StS ae EE ft I ralines ee an ST ag Donora postmortem A technician technician prepares a test for pollution eat Aca on his own and the Navy in no way endorses his work Small Studies pollution problems some serious some minor nuisances came up for dis- cussion this week in Washington when 500 engincers gathered for a govern- sponsored conference Only about one half of the country's offensive industries practice odor control Carey P. McCord of Detroit's Conservancy Laboratory told the assem- bly The worst offenders are plants processing animal fish or vegetable products soap paper and chemical mills and oil refineries Among the most effective dendoriza- tion methods as listed by William H. Witheridge ventilating consultant of General Motors Detroit are Combustion Burning refuse or gases at 1.200 to 1.400 degrees Fahrenheit Masking one smell with another This ' always work because part of the iff always thinks the cure is worse \ Be original smell Kunning offending base materials + through carbon carbon or some other chemical to wash out the smell The odoriferous t Newsweek May 15 1950 tors told the engineers but polluted air which does not offend be more harmful than sometimes may smellier fumes Damage to the tissues of the throat and lungs may be so gradual that it is not recognized by the people affected Only through extreme outbreaks such as the Dunora Pa disaster in October 1948 when twenty persons died and some 6.000 were made ill from air contamina- tion is public attention drawn to the mass danger . Studies conducted by the United States Public Health Service now point to airborne particles as the enuse of some forms of cancer and respiratory ailments Dr. W. C. Hueper of the National Can- cer Institute Bethesda Md referred specifically to air pollution with asbestos selenium beryllium arsenic and chro nates as the probable cause of increased king and respiratory tract cancer Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger director of New York University Hospital Belle- vue declared that constant and repeated exposure to certain air contami- nants such as benzene chlorine tetra- ethyl lead DDT arsenic mercury naphtha and turpentine may produce precancerous warty growths and inflammatory skin diseases few 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 ravages of childbearing Out of Siins's med- ical triumphs errors and hospital squabbles the modern specialty of surgi- surgical gynecology was born Sims's personal story ph^>s a colorful history of his times is now told by the year Alabama internist Dr. Seale Harris in Women's Surgeon a book published last week In 1845 Dr. Sims attended a yearold Negro slave girl Anarcha who had Jost control of her bladder and rectum after childbirth In medical books and articles Sims had read of this hopeless condition known as vesicovaginal fistula or rupture of the bladder but he had never seen it in his practice month later Dr. Sinus was called to treat another Negro slave girl Betsy for the same incurable complaint Then three months later he had his third case of Woven's Surckor the Life Story Sims By Seak Starris M Macmillan 5 of . cnn 442 F4pm on oa . - wae 33 as ces ne ae sa 2.0 arth ae a tected 2 of.=- tes SRAcon be : etbu erons tock - estate adiate Aiwee cri. 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