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Thank God you could let Dan Beard die easily and naturally (TIME, June 23) instead of subjecting him to your TIME-honored cliche: "As it must to all men. . . ."
I'll bet my name is legion.
TED MALCOLM San Francisco, Calif.
> As it must to all cliches, Death will come eventually to that one.—ED.
Reader Nolan's Opinion
Sirs:
In your issue of June 30 is an article, "Exit Verne Marshall."
In my opinion this is one of the dirtiest, cowardly and most dastardly articles that any magazine, or purported magazine, could publish. This is what I term stabbing a man in the back, and I will venture a guess that the dastardly coward who wrote it together with the unprincipled publisher who published it would not for one minute stand up in front of Verne Marshall and make the statements he has written and published in this rag. . . . I am only a friend of Verne Marshall, and I am 66 years old, but I would like to meet the dirty cur who wrote this article. . . .
CHAS. D. NOLAN Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Vaccines for Cattle
Sirs:
Your May 26 issue carried ... a review on the book Brucellosis written by Dr. Harold Harris.
He states that one of the best specific treatments for undulant fever is "injections of a specially prepared vaccine made from dead Brucellae." Vaccine made from a killed organism is termed a "bacterin" and I heartily agree with his method of treatment because I cured myself of undulant fever by this vaccination and have seen others also recover. . . .
I have been successfully treating Bang's Disease in cattle (known as undulant fever in people) for 20 years by the use of a specially prepared bacterin. Why then should we kill these animals and tax the people when the disease can be so easily controlled by simply using the same methods which are employed to treat human beings? . . .
J. E. VAN SANT, D.V.M.
Fresno, Calif.
> Veterinary and scientific opinion is not in agreement on the effectiveness of brucellosis vaccines for cattle. A new book by Dr. Thomas Gordon Hull on diseases of animals transmitted to man says that "results so far are disappointing." But certainly vaccines for cattle is a line of attack worth further investigation.
Since TIME'S May 26 story was published, Dr. Harris has asked TIME to clarify an important point: that while 10% of the U.S. population may harbor the brucellosis germs, only one-tenth of i % of the population are actually ill of the disease at any given time.—ED.
Mad World
Sirs:
My attention has been called to an article appearing in your issue of June 23, entitled "Mad World."
In this article you refer to the "impassioned speeches at the American Neurological Association." You then go on to quote various individuals, none of whom is a member of the American Neurological Association except Dr. Douglas A. Thorn of Boston. . . .
HENRY ALSOP RILEY, M.D. Secretary-Treasurer The American Neurological Association New York City
> TIME erred; the meeting, at which several speakers stated Hitler was getting a psychological and eugenic edge on the democracies, was not that of the A.N.A. but of the American Psychopathological Association, held in Atlantic City the same week.—ED.
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