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Show blank pills, some 80 per cent developed one or more colds. Only 9 per cent of the group which received the drug developed devel-oped colds at all, and most of -I these were mild. i MEDICAL SCIENCE MAKES ADVANCES IN TREATMENT OF COLDS Medical science has taken another an-other important step forward, according to an article printed in the December Readers Digest. For the first time two doctors have conducted a controlled scientific test which yielded positive pos-itive results in the treatment of colds in early stages. Dr. C. O. Sweet and Dr. J. J. Arminio have published a paper describing describ-ing the outcome of tests on a group of 311 men at Sing Sing prison, Ossining, N. Y. The doctors administered the antihistaminic Neohetramine because be-cause it did not produce dangerous danger-ous side effects. One-third of the subjects were given blank tablets, one-third were treated with old-fashioned methods, and one-third with the new drug, Those who received the new drug within 24 hours averaged slightly more than one day's additional ad-ditional duration of cold, while the other groups averaged the customary five to six days sickness. sick-ness. A similar test conducted by the doctors at Maryknoll Convent Con-vent and Maryknoll Seminary, near Ossining, showed similar results. Of the group receiving |