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In 1937 Dr. L. B. Alford, Saint Louis, stated that brain operations indicated that a small section of the left side of the posterior brain in right-handed persons controlled the functioning of the mind.
Dr. C. W. Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic found disease of the gallbladder to be the most frequent cause of indigestion or abdominal distress in 1930.
Drs. Charles Armstrong and W. T. Harrison, National Institute of Health, reported in 1935, that a solution of alum used as a spray enabled 74 percent of the animals so treated to survive infantile paralysis. In 1936 the doctors announced their nasal spray of picric acid-sodium alum offered hope of a successful preventive for infantile paralysis; the drugs used in the spray could be purchased at any pharmacy
Working independently in 1937, Dr. Charles Armstrong, National Institute of Health, and Drs. E. W. Schultz and L. P....
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1930's Medicine and Health
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Birth Control
- The Blues Blue Cross And Blue Shield
- The Cost Of Being Sick
- The Dawn Of The Sulfa Drugs
- The Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act Of 1938
- The "Good Sleep"—A Ne W Era In Surgery
- "The Great White Plague"—Tuberculosis Before The Age Of Antibiotics
- Health And The New Deal
- The March Of Dimes And The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
- Maternal Mortality—Why Mothers Died
- The Nation'S Health
- The New Deal, Health Insurance, And The Ama
- Psychoanalysis In America And The Impact Of The European Intellectual Migration
- Sex, Disease, And The New Deal
- Specialization Versus General Practice
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1930–1939
