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America 1930-1939: Medicine and Health

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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. Gebhardt, Stanford University, found.....

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