Capsules

CJ For heart patients on a low-sodium diet who have been denied milk, the Los Angeles County Heart Association has helped a local dairy to process milk so that 97% of the salt (and therefore, soldium) is removed. Delivered at home it costs 45-c-, to a hospital 39-c-.

P: The professional courtesy whereby doctors treat each other and their families free has boomeranged and hurt the health of all concerned, Seattle's Dr. Merrill Shaw told the American Academy of General Practice. Physicians try not to bother their colleagues for minor ills or regular examinations, and often wait until it is too late. "If I had had a doctor who kept regular watch of me . . . my illness would have been detected long before I found it myself," he said. Dr. Shaw's plea had to be read in his absence: he is dying of cancer.

P: West Virginia authorities were so well pleased with results of wholesale lobotomies on mental patients (TIME, June 22) that Surgeon Walter Freeman began a new series of 140. Of 510 previously operated on, 185 have gone home, saving the purse-conscious state $118,748; most are still hospitalized but "less destructive" ; five died of brain hemorrhages.

P: The best time to vaccinate youngsters against smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough is in the first few hours of life, Country Doctor Herbert D. Chamberlain told general practitioners. Among 741 babies so treated in Ohio's Vinton County, he reported no bad reactions, and so far full protection against the diseases.

P: An Illinois legislative committee, after a year probing the foofaraw over krebiozen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951), concluded that none of the embattled and embittered parties has done wrong. It urged a further, impartial trial of the mysterious horse serum for cancer cases.

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