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Show Health and Beauty By DR. SOPHIA DRUNSON Medical Wonders Saved United States General James S. Simmons has said that if it had not been for great medical progress, the United Unit-ed States would have lost World War II swiftly. The medical personnel per-sonnel has done wonderful work in life-saving. Many of them followed the troops closely, and while exposed to great dangers they toiled unremittingly day and night to save our fighting men. The doctors risked their lives with the rest of the soldiers. They jumped from planes and landed with parachutes in enemy territory, always fully equipped and ready to begin their work for the wounded. Medical research went forward at a rapid rate during the war. Undreamed of discoveries have been made that have put into the 1 hands of the medical profession remedies that are curing diseases more swiftly than could have been imagined five or ten years ago. Only a few years ago, medical students were taught that it took years of treatment to cure syphil-lis. syphil-lis. Very few who acquired it ever persisted until they were well and even then they could not be sure that they would not have syphilitic children or a return of the disease. Today, using penicillin, , the treatment lasts only two weeks and the results appear to be good. Syphillis is a latent disease, and it will take time to prove whether the cure is permanent or not. It is of vast importance that the military forces sponsored 50 broad" medical research projects, costing $17,000,000. Three examples ex-amples of the results are the Red Cross plasma, the develop- ment of penicillin and D. D. T., the insect powder. "It is my belief," Simons declared, de-clared, "that the D. D. T. gives promise of toeing one of the greatest great-est contributions ever made to world health." Typhus fever used to be the scourge of all armies and civilians. civil-ians. Fleas and lice carried the infection. These parasites fed upon up-on rats that . spread the disease wherever they went. Soldiers died from typhus by the thousands. The D. D..T. powder powd-er is white and odorless. It destroys de-stroys these insects and promises to prevent typhus, which, is one of the worst killers known in wars. We now have vaccines which practically prevent typhoid fever and cholera. |