Medicine: Capsules, Aug. 22, 1955

¶ New England, and especially Massachusetts, stood out as exceptions to this year's overall U.S. pattern of moderate polio outbreaks (averaging 25% fewer cases than last year). Massachusetts had 1,200, more than ten times as many as at this time in 1954, and 36 deaths, in what state officials conceded to be a "mild epidemic." Other New England states had only moderate increases.

¶ Communist brainwashing in Korea may have delayed-action effects even among G.I. ex-prisoners who remained loyal, said Psychiatrists Peter S. Santucci and George Winokur of Washington University. The suggestions that the prisoners received during indoctrination by the enemy,...

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