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medical, men trained to use them properly but most of the harmful side effects are temporary and can be largely avoided if the treatment is stopped promptly for those patients whom it does not suit. Dr. Shannon said it was believed that seventy-five percent of crippling arthritis cases can be prevented. when the new drug techniques are perfected.
Another witness, Dr. Pearce Bailey, Director of the National institute for N etrr o 1 o g rc al Diseases and Blindness, told us of discovery of a substance which may give the relief to an estimated million persons who have epilepsy that insulin has done for diabetic sufferers. Instead of merely suppressing convulsions, as earlier drugs have done, this drug—Glutamine-—provides_a substance which may give the relief to an estimated million persons who have epilepsy and thus removefHEhe^ cause of the disease so long as it is taken regularly.
The least encouraging report we had was that from Dr. Victor H. Haas, Director of the National Microbiological Institute, who said thljit in spite of continuing research efforts no one really knows what the common cold is, how to prevent colds or any specific treatment for colds.
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While heart disease and cancer are the two big killers, the microbiological diseases disable more people than either of the big killers. Money spent in that type of research is well invested.
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